My Dog Almost Died

No Srsly.

It ruined my whole day.

I took my chis to the vet Friday afternoon (after running around paying bills, getting my taxes done, washing my car, and otherwise having an amazingly productive day) and had their tests and shots done. I scheduled Buster to have plastic surgery (getting that three year old sore from his face removed... and a dental) and Cinnamon to have her own surgery (getting spayed xP) next Friday.

So it all got done.

Then I went over to this doggy day care place to enroll Cinnamon. I'm so neglectful. I work ten hours a day, six days a week, and then she barely gets to run around an hour before I go to bed. So she's going to go to day care two days a week. Buster is fine just sleeping all day and night. He's an old fart.

Where was I going with this story?

Oh yeah. So I'm in the middle of a tour of the daycare when Cinnamon starts crying... or whimpering. Whatever. I thought maybe all the other dogs were making her nervous. Then she starts drooling. I'm like, this isn't normal. But some guy there was just like, oh, she'll be fine. She's just stressed out.

Then yadda yadda yadda, I go out to my car and call the vet, and they're like, no, that's not normal. Bring her in RIGHT NOW. She's having a reaction to the drugs. So I rush back to the vet's and Cin is just drooling away and kinda' passing out. They gave her shot of Benadryl. I worried. They kept her for the rest of the afternoon. Went back at 6:30 to pick her up before closing.

Long story short, she fine. Like nuttin' happened.

We all went home and hung out on my bed playing with toys. I wuv' my puppies.

Currently: Procrastinating

Mah Pets on Halloween

My first halloween on my own... except I wasn't exactly alone.

I have *counts* four pets now. And I thought they all should celebrate halloween with me.

A side note... trick or treaters don't, apparently, climb stairs for candy. :( I'll have to buy less candy next year... like only some for myself. What in the world am I going to do with all of this? Yikes.

Above you will find my red Siamese Fighting Fish, Article, and his bowl mate, Oliver, a Black Kuhli Loach. They ate only orange and black food today, and shared their area with ghosts and delicious halloween M&Ms.

Cinnamon and Buster were dressed up tonight seen here sitting on the couch by the witch I failed to hang up. The ghost and tombstones were enough out there. She would have been overkill... so she hung out on the couch.

Buster is sporting a Ghost Buster costume. Haha. This boy is getting scary skinny and if I don't find their nail clippers soon, I'm going to have to buy a new one. Look how long those nails are! Yeesh.

Here is my best girl in a dressy, spooky spider costume. I very regrettably had to cut Cinnamon's ears the other day. The hair just kept on growing and growing... and then I didn't brush it for couple of weeks. Oops. When I got done cutting the mats out, it was so mangled, I had to go on and do the whole thing.

Currently: Listening to some random person's myspace page. I don't even know how I found her, but her music collection is terrif!

I Killed My Plants

Didn't take them in the first night it was cold. They were so pretty. I tried to save them, but they don't look like they want to be saved.

I've officially been living here for a month. It's home. Still don't have my furniture. I need to kick my brother around a bit.

Today the power keeps going out for a second or two at a time. Like twice an hour. It's really windy today, but yeesh. I've given up reprogramming my clocks. I'll wait until this weather settles down.

It took me three weeks to complete my desk, and then I moved my computer in. It was so pretty for a day. Then I ordered cable and only one cable outlet in my apartment works. I bought a wireless thing, but it refuses to work for me. *cry* So now my desk is lonely and my computer sits on the floor of the living room.

I love this place, but I'm disliking more and more a few things about apartment living. I decided to move into an apartment because I didn't think I could handle the little things, like maintaining things that want to break and dealing with a septic tank and taxes and stuff. Not alone. But it seems I'm dealing with more and more issues here, and the management just brushes off my concerns. *kick* If I can't get some basic things fixed here this year, I'll just go buy a friggin' house. Whatever.

But besides that. It's beautiful here. I have a great view. It's quiet. And I absolutely love living with just my dogs... and I don't even need them, but you know, they're my babies. :P I miss my cat. :(

Oooh, and I'm about to get my concealed handgun license! Weeee.

Currently: Shopping for plants.

Choices Made and Received

Howwww Dayyyyy

Don't ask me what that means, every time I hear howdy, it echos in my brain and hours later it sounds like howww dayyyy howww dayyy. And if you've seen the movie, The 13th Warrior, it takes on the voice of that guy yelling 'ooo day' calling from the ship in that foggy land place. *starts thinking about the 'fire vwerm'*.

Well... guess I just explained it then. o_O Moving on.

I think I've decided what apartment I'm going to move to. But they, like every other freaking apartment around here, only accept 2 pets. That's it. I have two chihuahuas and a cat. They are my kids. My babys. I have to have all three. My brother hates my animals. He's not going to feed or look after my cat. Garrrrr...

Only thing I can do is sneak the cat in later. Buster is 10 years old. Garfy is 9. Cinnamon is almost 2.

Ugh. I'd willingly sign a contract saying I will pay for cleaning and repair of anything my animals mess up if they'd willing accept all my pets. Hey, I even want some fish to add to the equation. I don't think they like fish either. -.-

But anyways, I believe the apartment decision is made. I also finally got in the money for insurance. They gave my brother way more than me, cuz' they decided to pay the funeral home out of my half. Both were checked for funeral home properly. I made sure of that. Idiots, but my bro is cool. He'll pay me back.

I went to the Dallas Aquarium after doing some paperwork in downtown Dallas yesterday. I lurved the cats, the hammerhead shark, the penguins, and uh... those cute little monkeys... and the manatees. Yeah. I loved lots of stuff. But it was more of a zoo than an aquarium. A very wet zoo. I thought the whole thing would be like the couple of tunnels they had. But it was more of a rain forest set up with bats and birds and reptilian creatures.

OOooooooh, the huge gigantian cat fish were the neatoest things. When we were above the manatee tank looking down we were seeing the cat fish. But we were also seeing something weird under the water fall. (We had no idea the tank was so deep.) I could have sworn I was seeing some white ghosty things down there and we were waiting forever for them to come up. We were staring and staring, and then I could have sworn I saw a person down there. Maybe someone was cleaning the bottom of the tank. Then when we were several floors down, we ran into the tank, saw the cat fish hanging out up by the surface, and saw the diver feeding the manatees and someone talking about them on a microphone. It was a scheduled show. So we stayed down there a long time watching them after the show too.

Check out the manatee cam at that site. You may not see them, but the fish and turtles will swim by. That's awesome. Haha. Those really weird hook nosed fish are cat fish and one's a bass if it has scales. They're weird. The video is fine for dialup, I'm having no problems. But watch!

You know, one of the funnest things, actually, was watching that diver cleaning the tank up a bit after feeding the manatees. Oooh, watch him kick his legs... watch him swing his net thing... watch him dump the debris by the surface. Lol.

I did lots of stuff this week. Hrm. But that's my news. Ciao.

Currently: Barely paying attention to the geneology videos I just got at the library... apparently.

Job Search, Take Two

I didn't go job searching at all last week or, uh, so far this week.

That's pretty bad considering the only thing I have to do is pick up the phone and call the temp agency. Haha. But behold! My excuse! I am sick. I was sick, I mean. Still got the cough, but that phase lasts months, sometimes. No, I was really sick. It came with a headache so bad I felt like throwing things at people, but there was no one around to throw things at. My dogs were around, but I don't want to be that person that throws things at their dogs. o_O Not unless I'm asleep and have the excuse.

I spent Sunday night (whilst sick and frequently washing my hands so as not to spread the germs *halo*) painting on kids faces for Fall Festival. All sorts of choices they could pick, but the three most popular designs were the pumpkins, flowers, and jedi light sabers. One kid dressed as Nacho Libre had me paint a big light saber on his chest. Haha.

I've been spending alot of time in Paint Shop Pro. You should check out my latest pics on DeviantART. Lots of photomanipulation and I especially like my icons. I think I should start making some Christmassy icons. Hrmmm...

Salut

Currently: Uploading more userpics to livejournal cuz' I can. :P

Steamyness Pshhhhh

It is SO HOT!!!!

It's like 105 outside and probably 99 inside... we have no insulation in this house and the temperature gauge doesn't go past 90, so I don't know.

What's really funny is the dogs. Buster has his mouth wide open, tongue hanging out, and keeps going back and forth to the fan and the water not quite deciding where he'd like to be. Cinnamon, the ever playful puppy, is rolling around on her back in front of the fan, legs all spread out like she's making and x, and taking nibbles at my toes.

I made a mermaid today. Go check it out at deviantart. XD

Mom's in the hospital again. Turns out she has diabetes. A normal range of blood sugar levels is like 90 to 160. 500 causes you to go into a diabetic coma. Mom was at 480. The last few days have been really hard taking care of her and we attributed her symptoms to her new drugs and chemo which she started last week. All that weakness, endless thirst, and uh.. other things was the diabetes. I think those symptoms actually started, though, a month ago. This is really not going to be fun. :/

Currently: Chatting

Update On Me Life

I have nothing entertaining to tell at the moment. A little busy lately so a little neglectful. Haven't updated my blog or turned on AIM in days and days. *turns on AIM as she writes this*

I need to update my AIM name on here. It's NOT cinnamonlover anymore... I had that name all of two seconds. haha.

Mom has been going to radiation every week day morning. I stay up late at night and then I have to wake up to drive her there. My new hair cut is a mess. I don't have time to do anything with it before I leave and ALL of my headbands that I like are BROKEN! Don't they make any headbands for adults? Getting off track here. :P Radiation is no big deal. They put her mask on, bolt her down, and then point puple lights at her head for ten minutes. Then she's done. At the moment, she's doing thirteen treatments of whole brain radiation. Then they will make a new mask for her, blend some new scans together, and pin point the bigger lesions. She's on steroids for her swollen brain, and those make her act irrationally. Cursing and breaking glass have occured. Since she found out it was the steroids causing it, she's more aware of herself and isn't acting so mean anymore. Also, she has a spot of cancer on her lung and a spot on her liver. After the radiation they will do biopsies of these and make sure its still collon cancer before treating it with chemo. They flushed her metaport out and it still works fine although they can't draw any blood from it.

Cinnamon has always slept in a cage but now I've got Buster doing it too. He used to sleep with me but I don't want to deal with all his fur anymore or cause mites to invade my new mattress quickly. Neither are allowed in my room. We used to call my room Buster's room since he spent more time in there than I did. Hehe. He's getting older and doesn't have as much control over his business as he used to. The good thing is, he's more excited at night to enter his cage than Cinnamon. All I have to do is tap the cage and say 'bedtime' and he jumps up and runs in. I'm surprised. Hehe. Cinnamon just kinds of hangs back and looks away like, 'hmmm? I didn't hear anything'. She's so silly. I'm also thinking about getting a fifty dollar high pitch noise, dog bark control machine... thing. Life would be much more pleasant if they wouldn't freak out every time someone comes over. Grrr...

If you ever have the opportunity to get Net Zero, don't. You get less than what you pay for. Connection hangs of up to ten minutes happen at the very least, once an hour. Also, they hang up on you four hours on the dot, and if you step away from the computer for fifteen minutes, you'll come back to find it disconnected for 'security' purposes. They always launch IE when you sign on... to their home page. No option to turn that off. (I use Firefox, stupid!). And you have to watch a thirty second commercial that stays on top of everything every time you sign on. Let me tell you, when you are having trouble signing on and have to do so three or so times, those stupid commercials make me want to punch someone. Grrrrrr...

I've got all my inherited red glass collection out. We are going to be spending two hundred dollars to pack it all up good. There are twenty seven dessert dishes, twenty one dinner plates, tons of goblets of all shapes and sizes, pitcher, wine glasses, canisters, bowls, decorative things... just tons of lovely stuff. I'll have to decorate my dining room in red for the rest of my life. Haha!

I think that's it. Nah, but whatever. Zawzy.

Currently: Slaving over massive online projects... cuz' it is oh so fun!

Sigh

I'm bored. I'm sick.

Nothing new is going on. No reason to update. Cinnamon is cute. The cat gets sick off and on. Mother's been so dizzy that her hand keeps going about five inches left than where she's trying to go... kinda funny watching her try open the fridge door. And that's about it. Yep. What a nice February were having.

Currently: Sighing

So Much To Gossip About

But you know I never hear and tell, so that's out.

There really isn't that much to talk about (besides the juicy gossip). My life is at a stand still. I spend much of my time chatting with my friends on Neopets and Gaia and a few other great forums. I now have Firefox 1.5. I love that you can reorder tabs. I don't love that Curacao is not compatible and I've had to switch to Red Cats Blue Flavor. I couldn't handle a color switch. Must always be blue.

I bought a Prima Strategy Guide to Pharaoh... and I've never seen such a badly written, disgustingly unorganized guide. I'm half way through with it, and I've learned exactly three things which is nice. You know I had gotten the Chronicles of Narnia for Christmas. I read all but the last book in only two weeks. Now I can't seem to get back into it. I absolutely love every book I've read, but the first few chapters of The Last Battle has really turned me off. I can't stand that ape. Someone please tell me it gets better than that! Maybe I'll be able to finish reading it if I knew it got better.

Did I mention that Cinnamon's website has been updated? Yeah. And I'll have to take some more pictures next month and update it. The cat is sick... again... worse than ever. We bought some antibiotics for him... same as we used last time. He really is a mess. He's sneezing all over the place, his eyes are draining, and when he sleeps, he snores. I keep thinking my brother is sleeping on the couch behind me. Who knew my brother and a sick cat have the same exact snore?

I've recently got into a new comic. Well, it's not new, but I'm new to it. Sam and Fuzzy. Check it out. Be sure to read up on the archives, cuz' the ninja stuff is priceless.

I'll have to add links to the things I've mentioned in this entry later, as this posting thing refuses to completely load... the whole top bar is missing. No spell check either, so sorry for all the wrong spellingzes. Also, I won't be able to enlarge my first paragraph and shrink the last, either. Where is my top bar!!!???!!!

EDIT: Top bar finally back and I went link crazy. :D Please note that some of these links are just stupid... but funny.

You know that background music I used to have? Well, the site said it would come back online soon, but that was a few months ago. I don't think it's coming back. *cry* I'll probably upload some midis I made to a free file host. Don't expect it too soon, though. I'm going to procrastinate on that for awhile. Who knew you could plan procrastination?

Currently: Er... Organizing.

So Christmaseeeee!

Alright! Today was the day! Now it feels like the holidays!

So I went shopping today. I bought a helicopter set for my baby brother. He's like, uh, six or something. Then I got my baby sister (5? 4?) two horse sets. She'll love those! I got Louis (12?) a globey light thing that dances when you touch the glass. Groovy, eh? Got my mother Heaven. That's a book. Didn't get anything for the Hot Sauce King... or my dad. Got loads of stuff for Missy Melissy. Not going to tell ya' dear!

Now what am I getting? The tape to Xmen broke, so I know I'm getting the DVD... I'm also getting the Bourne Identity and the Bourne Supremacy DVDs. I still can't believe they killed off his wife! What the heck!?! Guess there will be no Bourne Ultimatum. Also got the Matrix DVD because our tape is MIA. I think Dad is getting me Batman Begins. Mom bought me The Chronicles of Narnia. Also got a New Testament magazine thing. That's all I know about... I'll also be getting, um, at least two surprises.

In other news, Garfield S. is really sick and we've already spent a hundred and fifty bucks on him this weekend. Still don't know what's causing the problem. He's dehydrated and a bit anemic.

Currently: Drawing a comic.

So, Um...

Been trying to post stupid stuff here for a couple of days, but something would always happen and it wouldn't go through.

That can be annoying as when I feel like saying something stupid, well, let's just move on.



Here is something cute to liven up this dreadful (my new favorite word) post. Where is the inspiration? Please! Someone give me a word, a phrase, anything. I'll take it and run.

Er, maybe I should just go to bed.

Weight: 185lbs

Cinnamon Gets Her Own Site

Between my friends, my mother's friends, and Cinnamon's previous owners asking for pictures, I decided to make her a website.

This will really save on the emailing.

Go to Cinnamon's Website!

Weight: 185lbs

Cinnamon

Here are some pics to be enjoyed while I try to come up with something interesting to say.

Cin can be SO evil, but Buster doesn't mind a bit.

And she can be cute or incredibly ugly after a bath... depending on who you ask.

Awwwww... Cin kissing Jo. What could be cuter?

Weight: 185lbs

The Bull Dog Obsession

Bull Mastiffs are the latest thing going on over here.

Everyone in my neighborhood suddenly has one. Even my brother is trying to get one. I love bully breeds. I really do. But all these bull dogs keep getting out of their yards.... and they're all female! Buster is going nuts. He smells them in the air and as soon as the front door is cracked... he's out and trying to jump on a bull dog!

I really hope all these new bull dog owners know what they're doing. Socialization and "off switch" commands are a must. There is a real sweetie down the street, but I doubt she's being trained correctly. She gets out the most, too.

I wish I could pop my brother and his friends upside the head. Hehe. They are constantly going in and out all day and they never pay attention to Buster. Do they have to go get him when he gets out? No! I do. Then, there he is... trying to play with another loose Mastiff.

Weight: 185lbs

Would You Like Some Cinnamon On That Toast?

Puppy talk is boring, especially to the listener, but when you have a puppy, that's all you want to talk about.

I will do my absolute hardest best to restrain myself to just the following comment. Buster has discovered that knocking over Cinnamon causes her to roll all the way accross the room. He's been doing it non-stop. We should not have shown him that.

Well, I'm almost done with the whole Thousand Year Door thing. I don't know what happened to that promise of finishing the games I have first. I saw it. I bought it. What can I say?

Speaking of great games... I suggest EVERYONE hop over to Vertigo Games and download a free copy of Ore No Ryomi 2. Make sure your start-money goes to beer and a waste disposal system. A buffet is a nice addition, too. I hear they are coming out with an Ore No Ryomi 3. I can't wait!

Weight: 185lbs

Taking A Breath

Everything is almost done. Life can get back to normal.

... Sure

We just picked up the last few items from my uncle's house and handed over the key to the new owner. Tommorow, we'll be having dinner with his girlfriend. (That is, the uncle's girlfriend) We've got all her stuff in the trunk of our car. She can get all that stuff, and then on Wednesday we'll be off to the title company to finish the process. That's it.

Besides our house being a wreck from all the boxes we've got over here, life will be mundane again. Joy!

So there's this rumor going around that I'll be starting college in the fall. It hasn't been absolutely confirmed, but maybe maybe. Too much crap to go through in so small a time. Can't see it happening but the rumors persist.

The little pup is ALMOST house trained. She certainly knows what going outside means but she hasn't learned to ask for it yet. I'll be starting her on leash training next week. Buster was SO jealous when we first got her, and then he got SO concerned about her when she cried in her cage at night. Now he's in love with her. He's constantly whining at me to go play with her. I have to keep them seperated when I can't watch them. They take turns being confined in my room and running around the house. She's so cute. You push her over and she just keeps on rolling all the way accross the room.

Weight: 183lbs

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

So...

Did ya' miss me... any?

So, anyways... Phone companies are *snip* (paste) idiots! Particularly AT&T long distance. We had to call Germany because, you know, the uncle was getting sicker and his gal lives over there. Not on our plan... so a couple of hours cost six hundred bucks. Completely up-the-wall re*dic*u*loso!!!! No reduced charges with them, no paying it out over time, no nothing... so... no phone... and no more AT&T. Goodbye suckas! Hello Verizon. Be nice.

So we gots our phone turned on this morning (YAAAYYYYY!!!!!) and sign on to AOL. It says we need to pay its bill first. Understandable. Really. We had it and the phone on the same bill. So we call up trying to pay a check over the phone. They wouldn't do that... weirdos. They want our visa debit over the phone. We do. We give authorization to pay the 57 dollars we owed. They said sign on to aol and type in agree on a popup box and that would authorize the 57 dollars to be sent. We're not stupid. We read the "agreement" first. Nothing about what we discussed was on that "agreement". It basically said we were authorizing thirty bucks to be automatically withdrawn from our checking account each month. Huh? And it also said that it could think up any freaking fees they wanted and have that withdrawn too. *Bleepers* Calling them back didn't help and then they automatically withdrew one dollar from our checking without our permission. To make an already long story short... we're getting a new card number and pass code, blah blah blah, and I'm using Net Zero right now.

Oh, well. Lot's and lot's of junk has happened during this long and unfair absence from a home phone and with it, my only access to the net. Sanity was held only by a little-known, but very addictive game, called Pharaoh Cleopatra. It's a Sim City-esque escapade involving the entire history of Egypt. I've spent countless hours with this game and have led my family, Wepwawet, through 23 generations and still haven't gotten half way through the game.

I'll spare you the boring details of the many goings-ons these past couple of months but will leave you with this. A nifty little list full of mystery and intrigue.

1. a funeral
2. a wedding
3. a lovely new garden
4. a cleaning out of a cave
5. the discovory of the Whitmans
6. a selling of a cave
7. an Independence Day disaster
8. a dabilitating back injury
9. an awesome new tatoo on the Hot Sauce King

Oh... and a new family member!

Meet Cinnamon

Weight: 185lbs (cake was involved)

My Cat Has A Cold

I have never seen a cat caugh like a person. It's hilarious.

He's looking at me now like he knows what I've just typed. Hahaha!

Weight: 177lbs

Bla Bla Bla And Kittens

I'm so excited about the Christ's Ambassadors class. I'll get to go in just a few hours. Yay!

I get way too excited about learning. I really need to go to college or something. ::Nerd!:: Okay.

Um, I've had a busy couple of days. We've had endless doctors appointments for my uncle. No more this week, I think. They're now saying he only has about three months left. We went today to the radiation place to make a final decision on what he'll do. They said that all that radiation will do now is make him sick before he dies and he doesn't want that. So this is it.

The momma cat at his house just had her new litter of kittens. I'll take pictures if she doesn't move them before we go back there. I'm not sure when that will be. Two kittens were dead and three were living. One looked sickly, though. We'll see. She has two black ones and one that is black and white. They are so cute and tiny. Awwww...

Met a new cousin through my genealogical quests. Yay! Can't wait to compare info.

What else? Oh, yeah. I was blog of the day at some site called "M Rated". That's nice. What did I do to deserve that? (Can you hear the hint of sarcasm here?)

Well then. Guess I'll go do some more research. Chow.

Weight: 178lbs

Reptiles

I, again, have nothing but pictures to talk about. Woo hoo.

These guys are my brother's reptiles. He has more, but the others were camera shy. I'd love to show ya'll the red tail boa cuz' that snake is just so beautiful. I love him. He was shedding, though. Yuk!

This guy is a ball python. He's a good starter snake if you ever want to get one. We've had him since he was a baby, less than a foot.


These babies are, um, red eared snappers, I think. I forget. They've grown quite a bit. There are five in all.


Awwwww... He's my favorite. He's a dragon something or other. I've got tons of pictures of him. He loves to pose. His favorite snacks are pears and meal worms.


And that, hopefully, is all the pictures I will force on ya'll for a while. Yeppers. Mm hmmm.

Weight: 176lbs