Yesterday morning, I awoke to discover that Jinx's face was swollen. Her muzzle, particularly the right side, and the area around her right eye were quite bad. She was rubbing at it with her paws. She ate breakfast enthusiastically, took a big drink of water and went potty, but we were still worried. So Dan rearranged his schedule to take her to ( Read more... )

I have a husband whom I love and who loves me, dogs I love and who love me, a job I love at a great company, a house, a car, and fantastic friends. I'm pregnant; I'm at the end of my first trimester and I'm healthy and the baby looks healthy *knock wood*. And on top of all this, I have little things that make me very happy, like a zoo membership ( Read more... )

I had to stop by Home Depot on my way home from work to pick up some silicone caulk. I have no idea where such a thing is kept in a store that size. So I had to ask an employee, carefully enunciating that I was in search of "caulking". It occurred to me after I left the store that, it being April Fool's Day and all, I should've just asked him to " ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I swear I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning, Jinx is bigger. She went to the vet Saturday for a little check-up and vaccine boosters. She's 19.9 pounds now! That's 6 pounds up from when she came home 3 weeks ago. Mischa has finally decided that she enjoys having a playmate, they're getting along really well most of ( Read more... )

Baby Jinx got spayed yesterday! She can come home this weekend!!!

Last week, Dan and I sent in an application. Friday, I took half a day off work so that Dan, Mischa and I could drive to Auburn to visit. We had a home visit earlier tonight.

We're getting a puppy!


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I just ran across the street to Bag n Save to pick up a few things: milk, peanut butter, etc. I was wearing my totally awesome new knitted tomato hat and over the speakers, on the radio, the song "The One that I Want" from Grease was playing. So I was bopping along, and I glance over my shoulder and there's this guy. He says "Very cute." in a ( Read more... )

It's October, which for Tomato Nation readers means Ramen Noodles...because it's time for the Donor's Choose Challenge. In 2007, 1,099 donors gave $102,036 and helped 15,953 students. Our reward was Sarah Bunting aka Sars --the author of the Tomato Nation blog-- in a Tomato costume, dancing in Rockfeller Plaza. Tomato Nation also beat out the likes ( Read more... )

So today is the penultimate day of training and test day. We have two tests, a written one and a practical one. In order to continue employment a score of 85% is required on the former and 92% on the latter. We took the written this morning and they've been graded. Now, on to the systems exam.

New job. Starts tomorrow. Very excited.