Me Myself & I

I went to see Stepford Wives by myself today. This was the first time I've ever gone to a movie by myself. It was a pretty good version. I felt a little weird by myself but what the hell.

New Mexico ???

When I was talking to my dad tonight, he asked me if I would move out to New Mexico with him one day after both my grandmothers are no longer here, he wouldn't leave until then and I couldn't while they are. But I can't see myself moving, I've never really entertained the idea. He always wanted to retire out there, and he says he doesn't want me to live out here alone with no family because who knows what and where Lisa has in her future. Lisa's out in CA this weekend visiting her boyfriend who moved out there maybe a month ago. So he says think about it, I don't know its weird ?

Scooby Gear

I'm really enjoying my new Santa Fe. I put all my Scooby Doo stuff in it. I bought a pair of Scooby Doo cargo floor mats (the small ones for the rear seats) at Target last week. Target used to have the large Scooby Doo floor mats for the front but I went back every day for I think the 2 weeks looking to see if they came in on a shipment. Target doesn't know what they're going to get, they couldn't tell me if it was discontuined or what. DeAnna tol dme she saw them at a car wash down in Trenton on S. Broad so I took a trip down there on Friday and found them :)

A few years ago I found in Target of Walmart Scooby Doo decals for car windows so I bought a bunch :D so I'd always have them to put on my car. I'm a Scooby Doo Fan what can I say ?

A Day out ...

I did some shopping today, always makes me smile. :) Had to buy a dress for my cousions wedding next month, and shoes and purse and scarf/shawl to go with it :D

Then I got some casual clothes for work and summer. I went down the the Hamilton Marketplace they built it maybe last year ? Theres all different types of shops there and I see now they're building a Barnes & Noble there which I'm glad about so now I don't have to shlep out to Rt. 1 or Rt 9. to go buy a book.

I stopped in Kohls while I was down there also. While I was floating around the store, in the hosewares section I saw some of the dishes I bought when I was in Germany last Aug. in Wactherbach (sp?). I have all of the different colors they only had the red/orange set. I was surprised because this was the first time I've seen them in the US. I've never seen them in JC Penny's or MAcy's or any of the bigger dept. stores.

I GOT A NEW CAR !!!!

Santa Fe 2004 GLS 3.5ltr 6cyl Black
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT !!!!

I'm going out tonight, get to show off my new toy to my friends.

OK!

I recently bought the Lord of the Rings trilogy DVD set and about a year ago I had bought The Hobbit, so I technically have the 4 story set. I remember watching Hobbit when I was younger and loved it, of course when I watched it after I bought it, I was a little bored from it. James and I watched the 2nd and 3rd movies back to back and they were really good, James liked all the monsters and I told him that if he didn't brush his teeth when mommy told him too he will end up with the monster teeth we saw close ups of in the movies.

This past Sunday we had a lazy day, we walked to the diner nearby for brunch. We both really enjoy walking to it, its kind of an adventure for James and he loves to get his pancakes and sit at the counter on the stools and spin :) When it's nice out we'll spend most of the day walking to all the different parks in the area so he can play, climb and explore or we take the dogs on long walks.


Saturday Lisa and I have to drive 4 hrs north to Bighmaton (sp?) upstate NY for my cousins bridal shower she's getting married next month.

Bob has James this weekend so I'll have to figure something out to do outside of the above.

If it's not one, it's the other

Every once in a while the dogs get a little limpy to them. Sometimes its from laying the wrong way for too and becoming stiff, somtimes its a little arthritis.

On Thursday I noticed Jawsy with a little limp, it didn't look to bad so I didn't think much of it. She still had it the next day but still not bad. When I got home from work on friday she didn't come to greet me and when I went to see here she didn't get up she barely moved and barely moved from that spot the rest of the night I think she moved only once. When I woke up this morning I found her in a different spot by lying in her own pee because shw couldn't get up. I tried to prompt her up, she sat and took a few steps but I could see she was really wobbly in her hind legs.

My vet's office was closed, so I called a vet nearby where Bob's daughter Sarah and neice Kim happen to work they were able to sqeeze her in today. I had to carry her to and from the car, I was hoping it wasn't hip dysplasia because there's nothing you can do for it. Turns out she has really bad arthritis in her knees and hip joints but its not hip dysplasia. So they gave her a shot of pain med, and some pain meds for home as well as antibiotic. Hopefully she'll get better otherwise she may have to have some xrays done to check out whats going on. SIGH!

10 YEARS ????

Last night I went out with Lisa and DeAnna. First we went to a resturant/bar that Lisa wanted to go to. It was pretty empty only a few people in there Lisa knew them but we were bored, so we made Lisa leave and go to CitiStreets with us because they had a band playing. I am so glad we went, the band was good, but the best was that I ran into a bunch of friends from high school. My friend Mark who I do see every once in a while was there with his fiancee, another friend Dustin - he's engaged also and dropped a lot of weight since HS, and another friend Rich who's now a doctor/chriporactor, I barely recoginzed him, he's pumped up a lot. I saw a few other people, but they're around a lot. But Richie was diggin DeAnna and vice/versa so I gotta hook my friends up now :) hehehe

WHERES MY HOOK UP!?!?!?!?!?!

This reminded me, I've been out of high school nearly 10 years now, 1995, I guess I have a reunion coming up soon - yikes!

Correction

The normal healthy weight of the dogs uterus should me 2-3 OUNCES! not pounds and Chopper's was 3 - 3 1/2 POUNDS!!

And you Jimmy has told me every days since Chopper's been home how happy he is she's home and he wants his puppy with him. He's so gentle and easy with her always giving her light hungs and kisses saying awwww choppy get better. And Jaws did her happy bounce when Choppy came home on Saturday.

It already looks like shes gained some weight back : )

Oh and did I mention I had to shell out some bucks lately?? Yeah well on top of all that I find out today the my PAYCHECK bounced - I'm just thrilled to see what kind of bank fees I get form that, my boss IS going to cover any fees that are incurred that the bank won't waive.

Choppys Home !!

Chopper came home today. The vet's office was supposed to call me this morning to let me know that status if she could come home or not. I expected to get a call between 9-10, but I didn't. Around 11 I called them, they said yeah shes ready to go, so I ran to pick up my baby. I may complain about the dogs sometimes about the messes they make or because they're always underfoot, but they're my babies just like Jimmy is.

It cost $724 about $100 less then they quoted me - still like I have that kind of money lying around? They took a picture of what they took out, can we say GROSS! A dogs uterus resembles intestines (long & round) because they hold litters; it was much thicker in diameter then it was supposed to be, and was rounded or U shaped - I'm not sure if that's normal or not. On top of the extra thickness the cyst filled the entire center of the circle. I feel so bad for Chopper, that must have been causing her so much pain and for how long???

She hasn't eaten much yet, a little but not a lot, but she is drinking her water and of course sleeping a lot with the anesthia still in her system. I got her outside today to get some fresh air, and it actually gave her a jolt of wind/friskiness so a little of a faster step. She'll have to go back to the vet on Tuesday for a post-op check since her incision was so large. Now, Chopper and Jaws both actually love their vet, but I'm sure she will be none too happy about stepping foot back into that office after this, we'll see : )

Chopper

Chopper is doing fine. She went into surgery 6:30 this morning it was 2 1/2 hours, they removed her 3 1/2 lbs infected uterus/mass, a healthy uterus should weigh about 1 1/2 lbs. She'll be staying over night again on IV and Heavy Sedation, she should be able to come home tomorrow morning. I was so nervous she wouldn't make it through the surgery since she was so skinny and dehydrated and 10 1/2 yrs old but she's doing well.

I didn't sleep well last night, and neither did Jaws. Jaws was restless all night and crying, she missed her sister.

Choppers sick

I have two boxers, Chopper who is 10 1/2 and Jaws who is 9 (around 9 is the end of a boxers life span typically). The past week and a half Chopper has dropped too much weight. She has been eating barely anything at all and for the past few days nothing. She drinks like a camel as if there will never be any water ever again and then throws it right back up. I have tried putting chicken and beef broth on her food which only works a little, in the past she would have devoured the entire bowl of food that was soaked with people food. So shes not eating, dropped a ton of weight, drinking and eating her pee and poop and had the shivers. All this while Jaws is fine. I got her in the the vet today, she has a huge cyst in her uterus.

If female dogs are not spayed before their first menstruation there is a risk of them developing cysts in their uterus and this risk gets higher with every passing menstruation. My vet has given me this info and told me about this possibility in the past, I have some guilt over this situation as it could have been prevented-somewhat, she would have had to still have surgery to spay her, but she wouldn't have gotten so sick first. I couldn't afford it then, and now, I still can't afford it. I don't know how I'm going to pay for this, I'm maxed out on credit cards and there's no extra cash right now. What are my options, put her to sleep or give her the surgery and hope they will let me pay in payments??

I opted for surgery of course, how could I possible put a dog to sleep on purpose when something is curable, shes my baby a part of my family. I cried so much today I have a migraine and my eyes hurt. She's at the vet's over night on an IV and will have surgery in the morning. I have an excellent vet and I have very high hopes that Chopper will come through this ok. There is of course the chance of problems, but the cyst has not burst so that alone increases the chances of a good outcome. Surgery starts around 7:30-8 tomorrow and they'll call me around 10am. I'm a nervous wreck, I feel like I'm going to throw up.

Luv my Grams!

I ran around like a crazy person today. I've been needing to buy a ottoman from my Grandma and have been forgetting. I checked online at a store I've purchased from before to see if they had a nice comfey one, neutral and on casters for easy moving (Gram's 92yrs old), I found it, called the store to see if they had it in the showroom and if I could buy & take it home today without having to wait on a delivery. I couldn't buy the floor model but they checked their warehouse to see if they had it in stock so I could just pick it up, they had it so I had to drive to E. Brunswick to order and pay for it then had to drive all the way back to Robbinsville where the warehouse is to pick it up. What a pain in the ass, the warehouse was poorly labeled I passed it 4 times by the time I pulled in it was 2:30 and they close at 3pm so I was happy I was actually able to get it before they closed :)

Gram was surprised when I strolled up to her house lugging this big bag, I should've pushed it on its wheels but I didn't want it to get dirty and then go in her house. Now, I called Grandma on Thursday asked her how she was doing and if she needed me to go food shopping for her, she says "Oh no, I'm fine, I have enough", I get there today open the fridge to get some water, the fridge is empty. So I check out the rest of her cabinets and theres pretty much nothing. So I went food shopping for her, its easier for me to just go by myself then with her because she'll only buy $60 in groceries, where I bought $160 so she doesn't run out of food in 3 days LOL! But I HATE food shopping over there, too many senior citizens in the store and parking lot! Crazy - some people should just give up driving at a certain point!!!! :))

Jimmy's doing AWESOME in swimming class!! and his class won the pizza party - thanks to my last donation of $45! : ) I'm not sure if the center raised over $700 or not, we'll see if they get ice cream too ???

At James' school this week they're celebrating the week of the young child, whatever that is I've never heard of it before maybe its something they made up. This month they've also been raising money for the March of Dimes which ever classes raises the most gets a pizza party and if the whole center raises $700 everybody gets a pizza party and the class with the most $$ also gets ice cream - we'll see who wins. But the kids did all kinds of fun stuff, activities, crafts, movie day, and PJ day. Today they had a family picnic/bbq from 6-7:30 for everybody to attend. It was nice, James thought it was great to have mommy there eating w/him and all his friends and to play afterwards.

I feel a bit out of place at these things probably because I'm younger then most parents. I still feel like a kid and I look around and I see all these "older" people, not like they're that much older some are in their late 30's and up. So I chatted casually for a few minutes with some parents and then just stood around and followed Jimmy while he played - what the hell else am I gonna do ??

Senior Moment

Oh my God old age must be hitting me early! I have been looking for a very important piece of paper, that I just picked up today, for over an hour already. I came in with a ton of stuff and put it all down in one spot. After we ate I went to get it to review and freaked out when it wasn't there. I've been searching over and over the only places I've been since I've been in the house, looked inbetween James' new books we got at the book fair at his school today, I even went out and searched my car 4 times. I took a break and got on the computer to cool down before my head exploded and read email, when James asked me for a drink, so I went to the fridge and low and behold the damn paper was sitting on the shelf in the fridge!!!!! I must've put it there when I was pulling out our dinner.

Well I guess when your distracted by the phone ringing, 2 dogs underfoot and a 4 year old who's always talking, stupid things happen. But then again, forgetfulness runs in my family : )

Soccer

Jimmy's starting a soccer class today 10:30-11:30 it's on Wed.'s 4/21-5/26 so it works out great for me cause that's my day off so I was actually able to sign him up and take him. Its not a team where they play games, it teaches the skills of soccer but of course they'll play games w/each other. I'm probably gonna sign him up for soccer in the fall so I figured I'd put him in this to give him a chance to learn some stuff and see if he actually likes it. I'm sure he'll love hes constantly kicking the ball around.

Jimmy's Hulk Party

Whew! I'm exhausted from his Birthday party yesterday.

Easter was the 11th this year and Jimmy's Birthday is the 12th so we had his party this weekend. I rented the clubhouse behind my condo and was in there at 9am bringing stuff over and setting up. I was supposed to have a few helpers but nobody showed up- nice, so I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for 2 hrs trying to set up the room. Lisa and her boyfriend did help me by picking up the food and baloons I ordered, thank God because I never would have gotten everything set up if I had to do that.

Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. Baked Ziti, Meatballs & Sausage, Italian subs. I got his cake from ShopRite and they decorated it in green and purple and did mounds of whipcream to look like rocks and had Hulk stuff all over it was really cute. Lisa dressed up as a clown names Smiley and had the kids play a little game then painted faces. and we had a Hulk pinata. Stuipd Lisa-Smiley the Clown broke it, doesn't she know the brithday kid is supposed to break it if all the kids gets through without breaking it.

It was a nice party though. Some of his cousins came, and school kids and other friends so he had a blast. And it was a nice day yesterday so they played outside for a while and got some energy out, not like they weren't running around crazy inside or anything like that ;)

I was very grateful for some help after the Party Bob and wife stayed to help clean up a bit. Thank you Lisa and boyfriend Danny and friend Eric, I was wiped out!

Happy 4th Birthday James!

My baby turned 4 today I can't beleive hes 4 !!!!
I brought cupcakes into school for him today so they had a mini party for him there, he though that was great :)

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone! :)
I cooked dinner at my dads house today, we do dinner at 1pm so I was up at 8am preparing. Nothing fancy though, Ham, Carrots and Mashed Potatoes. Me, Lisa, Jimmy, Dad and both the Grandma's. We had cake for Jimmy's birthday which is tommorow, hes gonna be 4
Jimmy's now at Bob's for their Easter.
I'm wiped out-think I'm gonna take a nap or somthing. Back to the grind tommorow.