Again yesterday, more snow. Thursday it was 67 sunny degrees here. Overnight Thursday night, snow, drizzle, wind.. winter weather conditions. It’s done that all dang day. The ground is again white and the sidewalks and streets are rather slickery now that it’s dropped down to a bone-chilling 23 degrees. I’m so wintered out. The first part of the week was wet, but warmer. Wednesday was much better, dryer. I did manage to get nearly a winters worth of dog-made tootsie rolls picked up from the yard. 4 dogs made alot of rolls. Having them disappear into that frozen tundra was about the ONLY advantage of having it around all this time. Underneath all the snow the grass has turned green, or stayed green from last year. Where o where is spring?
You remember my kids had a miscarriage on Christmas eve. DIL still is yet to have a period. They scheduled her for a DNC this morning. The gestational sack and ’tissue’ are still in the uterus. They’re pretty irritated about it. Doc put her on some meds that should have started her period, but nothing. They have to have 2 full cycles before they can try again. They’ll be glad to get it done and just be able to move on.
In my journey to get this fat off, I’ve found a couple new favorite snacks. Ok, more than a couple, but… Special K Fruit Crisps, both strawberry and blueberry. VERY yummy treat. Slimfast Double Dutch Chocolate bars. They’re like a big fat chewy chocolately brownie melting in your mouth. Quaker True Delights – nearly anything from that line; blue berry rice cake snacks are like a blue berry muffin, the breakfast bars are all fantastic and filling. Yoplait smoothies!!! OMG I’m an junkie! I have at least 2 a day of those little gems. I wish I could buy them by the case. The Biggest Loser breakfast sausage. You make it yourself from lean ground pork. WOW, I use that all the time. In tacos, casseroles, sub it for hamburger all the time. I eat it for breakfast with an Eggo lowfat waffle and spray butter. 141 calories. Makes my mouth water just to think about it!
Hubby and I bought a set of stainless steel, waterless cookware. It was VERY expensive but I have to say I’m completely, pleasantly surprised by it. Food tastes completely different and the clean up is incredibly easy. It was definately worth the investment although I was skeptical. I wasn’t concerned about the taste, but about the clean up. I refused to stand and scrub my brains out to get them clean, but there’s no need. A couple minutes of soaking and they clean right up.
I think I poste back in January? that Sadie had gotten a big abcess on her butt and they thought her tail would fall off. She’s fine as frong hair, tail and all. BUT, Tess got her again on Sunday last weekend. Bit her, little bitch. I have her about healed up again but I sure wish I knew what to do about it, except separating them. I was gone for less than 20 minutes and didn’t put the gate up. I knew better too. I felt so bad. No more chances, the gate HAS TO HAS TO HAS TO be up. Last Monday night, Sam decided to go bonkers. I was going to take them outside for their little stroll to the corner but he couldn’t stand up straight and fell over. WTH?? When I got him upright again, his eyes were darting uncontrollibly back and forth, left to right. I got him near the front door for some fresh air, due to lack of knowing what else to do with him, but I couldn’t get him snapped out of it. As he laid on the floor, eyes daring, he tried to follow my voice or my hand but just couldn’t find it. I called the answering service for the vet and they’d have her call me back. In the mean time, he projectile vomits all over from being very dizzy. He looked like a ship at sea laying on the floor, waving back and forth. Poor dog. I rushed him to the vet to get him ‘fixed.’ Vestibular Disease. HUH? Tammy said it was serious, but since it had happened less than an hour before he got treatment, he would be fine, and he is. She said there is no known cause or event that necessarily brings it on, but its common in older dogs and they treated him with Dex and Pred. I’m weaning him off the pred, 3 more days of it. He may or may not ever have another episode of it. They liken it to Vertigo in a person. I thought he’d had a stroke and I’d made up my mind on the way to the vet that if she could’t fix this, I was going to put him to sleep. I couldn’t leave him trying to live like that. Much to my happy heart, she fixed him up and was nearly able to walk all the way across the yard when I got him home 30 minutes later and was fine by morning, not even a twitch in those pretty brown eyes. BUT, the pred is making him a little aggressive and he’s bitten me TWICE! Last night he drew blood. Both times it’s been me giving him his damn meds that are fixing the little bastard. F’er F’er F’er! After he bites, he looks at me like wow, I don’t know why I did that. F’er. And I’m fixing you WHY??? **sigh** If it’s not one damn thing with these dogs, it’s another.
Vinny… we think that someone had Vinny before we did and wasn’t very nice to him. I emailed the breeder and asked if we were the original owners of Vinny or if someone had him before and brought him back. That’s always been their policy, if it doesn’t work out, they’ll take him back. So when I asked, I immediately got a ‘why do you ask.’ So, trying to be non-accusing, I just said that he is incredibly scared and acts as though something has happened to him and I want to help him but wondered what might have happened to him. “well, remember we’ve had alot of guys (dogs) in and out of our house. We did have a lady that took a black puggle but her daughter was scared of ‘HIM’ so they brought him back, but I don’t think it was your puggle.” Really?? You told us you had 1 black puggle out of each litter and we have them both. So which one was it??? They know full well something happened to him and that pisses me off. Not at them specifically, I don’t think they hurt him, but because they won’t just tell me. His body language says he’s been abused somehow. Cowers alot, scared, shakes, hides, slinks.. Something happened that was ‘leash’ related, or collar related, and crate related. They told me they have one just like him and to socialize him. train train train… That’s all well and good, but something happened to him that I don’t know how to fix. He’s a GOOD dog and such a lover, wakes up waggin his tail and goes to bed waggin it. He minds really well and he and Tess have gone truckin for a few weeks now and has had a blast. I took them to the dog park on Thursday and they ran and played and had a BALL. Just makes me sad that someone was mean to him. 
Like I said, it’s always something around here.
Because I’m dilly-dallying around getting my degree finished, I now have to have an extra class. Damn it. So, I’ve squeezed in another 3 credits this sememster. SQUEEZED I tell you… I only take 3 credits a sememster, 6 is a SQUEEZE! LOL An EASY Human Relations class. Read a 20 page chapter, write a 2 page double spaced paper, take a test. Repeat. 9 of those little ditties in all, and I’ve done 5 so far. This summer will be another compute class, then Economics – gag gag gag – I’m dreading this and sure it will be my worst subject. Then Intro to Business and Principles of Management. Then I’m done. (I think) Thank God the end is in sight and I plan to graduate in May 2011. A lady I work with is working on the same degree, so we’ve been swapping books and papers and files and all that jazz. She has all but 1 of her core business classes done, you see I’ve saved mine for last here. Well, I started out in a different direction so most of my gen eds and electives were done already. She has to do the whole enchillada. I plan to do the rest of these little classes online if I can so I can use my book when needed. I’m TIRED of beating my head against a wall in the reading and studying category to barely feel like I get enough of it to get by. Take it online and use the damn book already.
I weigh every morning because I’m a freak, moreso right now than usual. I started this whole thing at 260lbs. I tipped in today at 214. My official weigh in days are Tuesdays, which helps me stay on track over the weekend. I’m mucho excited at the prospect of getting out of the 200 club. Been in it for years. I need to try on clothes from my closet and sort them out because Christopher/CJ Banks is having a 40% off sale this weekend and I need to get a few things, but need to know really what I have that I can wear and what I don’t. So, with that being said, I’d better get a move on. Need to get the trying on and sorting done and get in the shower to meet the kids at the hospital by 10.
Have a super-duper weekend ladies!
I better get in the shower and switch the laundry.
