Get ready boys and girls because this might be the last time you get to say that! According to the movies, the Mayan calendar and some random kooks - the world is supposed to end this year... now to balance that bit of nonsense - see the link below why you might not want to run up your Visa card toward the end of the year thinking they won't find you after the world ends. Think again pumpkin, the creditors will find you - them and the mutant bugs are the only people that will still be around when it all ends... trust me. Oh yeah and Bubba complaining about the amount of money I spend - even while I'm dead.
But I digress - this long weekend was full of ups and downs. Serious up was dinner out with friends, games, and fun ringing in the new year with same! Then the wine, food, and hour hit and we all faded fast.... Crashed dead in bed at 2 AM!! Yeesh - late for old people and me! Thankfully the dogs let us sleep in later -- New Years Day! Up, dogs, hang out, took down all of Christmas including tree, and all other fun pretty decorations.. but Bubba "helped" i.e. he took down the tree and the lights after I took down 99% of the ornaments - he started to help when I told him he couldn't do lights until I got the extras down.
We did watch the Steelers stumble into the playoffs... Cleveland? Seriously - 1 freaking touchdown... and stupid Cin Bungles - couldn't beat the darn Baltimore Birdies... That is why you are the bungles... of course if we had beat the 49er's a couple of weeks back we would not have have had to rely in the Bungles... And enough football talk...
Moving on New Year's Day nice, dinner OK, bed later, up on January 2nd, another day off, can't complain. Oh sure Bubba found something to grumble about - then our day plans hit the shredder... I as usual was up with the girls, up, out, empty, fed, now down for a post breakfast nap. Post breakfast nap was interrupted, Violet got up then fell down, I pulled away the blanket she wrapped herself up in, and it wasn't the blanket... oh carp. We've seen this before - October of 2010 it wasn't pretty. I wait she's stumbling and I call our Vet - who frankly is going to start answering the phone with "Hi Aunt Ing!" They can see us... and let the bitching begin... Bubba starts that he's tired of ME calling the vet every time this dog shakes. Let me rewind a bit and remind folks that 2 days after Christmas as we were headed home he told he I didn't make the issue urgent enough to the Vet - i.e. Violet's Christmas Day "episode". *sigh*
So I get dressed and brush my teeth and bundle Violet up to go see Dr. Vet again. Bubba actually comes with me, Violet is still walking like a drunk. But not as bad as it was a year ago... we wait and wait finally our brilliant Vet comes up with... I could be this handful of stuff.... its neurological. For a Dog... yikes. So we go home, $200 poorer - again, with antibiotics again, and referral to a neurologist. We are going to wait a few days see how she's feeling then make some decisions.
The rest of the day off pretty muck sucked. Bubba decided to purge the files and made me the human paper shredder, I made dinner and then I fell into bed.
Tuesday morning the alarm went off at 0-dark-30... needless to say there wasn't much happiness in anyone - pups included, well Shelby saw it as a food opportunity, I watched as Violet struggled with the stairs..
Went to work, had my annual physical, got the name of a surgeon as I am working hard to get that shrink your tummy - then the rest of you surgery.... came home dinner in crock pot..ahhh
Violet looks better, not bouncy but not wobbly either. Died on the couch - I think about 9:30.... 4:30 AM in an inhuman hour of the day...
Now we are into Wednesday the fourth day of a new year.... and I'm tired. Of course instead of hitting snooze I hit OFF and had 20 minutes to shower, dress, tend to pups and meet carpool... I made it. Barely.
Bubba said he found Violet in the closet after I left - that is new, she usually stays downstairs after I leave....
something to think about...
Work is quiet, office mate is out, and things are just getting restarted again after the holidays...
Tonight - is left overs, tomorrow I have a conference with the surgery people, who I discovered are not considered "in-network" ANYWHERE.... Bubba is going to stroke out. That is covered.
Stay tuned for more as the Vet turns and how to squeeze a dollar until green goo comes out - sponsored by Bubba and Major General Tightwad.
End of the world? Or not...
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