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Of all the things I should be doing….

Of all the things I should be doing right now, I am writing in my blog. I need to do this though. I need to take two seconds to slow my mind and write about the stuff going on.  Not that what is going on is anything big but this is about the only way that people who know me will know that the reason I haven’t been in touch is because I am really busy and when I get home I fall asleep.

So, for the past couple of days my little girl Ally has been limping around the house like a cripple.  At first Issa noticed it and I wasn’t too sure that she really was limping, I thought it was more of a “cool girl” swagger…Sunday, however, it was an obvious limp and yesterday it seemed she could barely get around which was pretty upsetting to me for a number of reasons but moslty because these things should be getting better, not worse…you know, if it was a simple injury.

Anyways, I decided to take her to the vet and so I leashed her up and she hobbled to the car. She hopped in and we drove to the emergency vet.  The second we get there her hobble improves and she is running around just fine. Hopping up on the door, trying to escape and squeeking her little shrill squeek….

I jokingly commented to Issa on the phone that I thought that she was faking her injury to get attention from him because he has been too busy to notice her with all of his studying.  So we see the vet and he concludes she jumped off the bed and probably landed wrong thus spraining her ankle or shoulder and that she should be fine in no time but he would give her some pain medicine to take the edge off if she was, in fact, in pain.

So, she is just fine and she is happy and relieved to get out of there and she runs to the car and hops in and she is so worn out from her experience that she falls asleep on the way home.  We get to the house and she runs up the path and right when she gets to the threshold of the door what do you think she does? She starts limping.  Drama queen.

Anyways, in other news. I recently acquired a Dyson courtesy of my mother and I cannot tell you how excited I am. Between the vaccum cleaner and the Beetle, I am one happy soul.  Let me tell you. If you do not yet have a dyson, buy one. Save change, sell your liver, sell your kids…and buy one. The trick is to vaccum with your old vac first then go over it with the Dyson. You would be amazed!  It not only makes your carpets look fresh and alive once again, it makes the air cleaner because you are not kicking around soo much dust when you walk. I am excited about carpeting next moth! Woohoo!

Other than that I am working on my website for the business that I think very well might be viable.  The reason I think this might actually work is because it can start small with little to no overhead except for a little storage room and I already pay rent for that and if I run a business out of my home then I can use some portion of my rent for a tax write off and it’s just so exciting.  I am already acting as a consultant to people, writing ads on craigslist….and that’s going well shaving a little off the top for commission….

Anyways, off I go to do some real work. Thanks for reading. Leave me a comment on myspace to make me feel special. Love ya’ll!

 

Back by popular demand…

Well, Kate mentioned to me that she is missing my blog and frankly I know I should get back into the swing of things here. I have been having a hard time posting about my life moving forward after Jess passed away. Losing someone my own age, a friend…has made the little everyday things that make blogging what it is…it has made it seem so insignifcant…so not worth discussion….So, there. I said it. 

Knowing that it is out there though, knowing that you–reading this–know that just because I post about the new, the good…doesn’t mean that I don’t remember her everyday and don’t think about and pray for her husband who is trying to figure out his life after losing his young wife…or her parents who lost a daughter…

But, now I have some “life news” worth posting. Today, I was able to pry my dear sweet husband away from the sofa and his studies (spatula was required) and take a trip up to Orange County to view the narrowed down list of rentals that I found.  I didn’t anticipate signing anything today, I thought that I would just show Issa some things and we would talk about it over the week but after looking at our three options, the choice was clear.  One was too expense and too far, one was too expensive and too small…and the last one was juuust right.  We will be renting here in one of their lovely townhomes…

So, we move in on August 18th and that give us about two and a half weeks to be free to travel a bit when we leave here. Then, it will give us about a month to get settled before Issa starts work.  I am excited because I think we have a wonderful opportunity to finally be settled a bit and what’s more it give me a bit of a framework for the enxt couple of months–where we are going, where we will be…

Well, that’s about it…small triumphs…small, but it’s what keeps us going…  

High-heeled Sneakers….

So this may change the opinion that some of you have for me but I am going to have to risk it because it’s a part of who I am…

Sometimes, when I am driving in my little green bug, I turn my radio to jazz and imagine I am a character in a tv show from the 70’s or late 60’s…Tonight, I was a Mary Tyler Mooresqe character in a comedic detective series driving the car for my opening credits to the tune of “High-Heeled Sneakers”…the name, of course, I only found out after I had made the scenario up in my head.

Ok, that’s enough self-disclosure for one night. I am going to bed.