NEW HOUSE

As if I don't have enough coming up with my wedding, me and the fiance just bought a NEW house!!!!!

I can't believe it, I am still in shock! We just found out our offer was accepted :)

We totally sold out, and bought a house north of Richmond in Mechanicsville (yes, the 'burbs) in a really cute little community. It's an association so it has a community pool, club house, tennis courts, gym and all that fancy stuff! I am so excited, I can't stand it!

We close on the 14th of December WHICH means, we get married on the 5th of December, leave for our honeymoon on the 7th, return on the 11th and move in on the 14th!!!! Who's stressed???

I wonder if I could manage to fit anything else into my life right now, just for shits and giggles!

Deep breath....I know it will all work out, I will just have to get incredibly organized (damnit). I can't wait to upload pics, the house is gorgeous and the back yard is insanely big....my furry babies will be so happy :)

Need some suggestions

I need some suggestions for any good "first dance" songs for my wedding. Any father/daughter songs would be great too!

Getting down to the wire! I'm picking up my dress Thursday from the seamstress (it had to be let out :( ) Let's hope it could be let out ENOUGH!!!

I'll keep you posted!

Who else wants to kill that kid???

The boy in the balloon....really?

I watched yesterday, horrified to think that a 6 year old was trapped in that jiffy popcorn bag that was flying thousands of feet in the air...and then when it finally landed...no kid! I thought for sure the poor boy had fallen out and it was only a matter of time before someone found his body in a tree or something. Hours later, it turns out that little shit was hiding in the attic the whole time!!!??

I know his parents were so grateful he was ok and at the same time were probably like "I'm gonna kill this kid"! Craziness! Now people are saying it could have been a stunt or a hoax. I don't think so, I'm trying to have more faith in my fellow american and praying that these idiots did not "plan" this whole thing. If nothing else, though it was entertaining.

I was watching Fox news when the news broke. First off, Martha Mccallum (the anchor) broke in saying "Check out this amazing video we have coming in from Colorado" and they cut to the picture of the silver aluminum foil looking flying contraption.

I of course immediately thought the world was under attack and that I was looking at a live feed of a UFO.

Don't laugh...I mean, what is the more logical conclusion- flying saucer or 6 year old boy trapped in a balloon?

Part of me was disappointed when I found out it wasn't a UFO, and part of me was pretty impressed about the 6 year old boy that was allegedly inside having one hell of a ride. Now, though I feel retarded for even believing that a kid was actually in there! Oh well, 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.

On a different note, the stupid music director at the church where I'm getting married has yet to return any of my 274747 phone calls. Hello? I need to set up a meeting and pick out my ceremony music and I can't print up my programs until I talk to this D-bag. If he doesn't call me back today, I swear I'm busting into mass on Sunday and halting the whole service until that jerk acknowledges that I exist! Probably not the most "christian" thing to do, but I'm desperate!

I have been MIA for so long :(

Computer problems, sick dogs, growing baby's and wedding planning have taken over my life. Happy to report though, we have a NEW computer, dogs are well, baby is amazing and we are getting closer and closer to the big day!!!!

I hope to be blogging again regularly now, I really have missed it....and missed all my readers!!

So, keep checking back...I promise I'll be writing!

Is it possible for a Round 4???

Sorry it's been so long, my laptop has decided to stop working AGAIN...thrills.

So much to tell you, the baby is rolling over now, like a pro! Believe it or not she's teething too! She has been "chomping" on her hands recently and I felt a little something on her upper gum, so I think the process has begun...which means total meltdowns and intense screaming on my part, and her part are about to begin.

Oscar, ohhhhh Oscar! My poor puppy has been through it! You read about his cherry eye surgery, and hotspots, and the "strawberry"incident...I'm here to report last week, was round 4! 5 days after his surgery, his cherry eye popped BACK out!!! I couldn't believe it, he just had surgery and he was still on his antibiotics and the effing thing came back!

So, needless to say, the poor guy had to have surgery AGAIN last Monday. This time they completely removed the gland. Why couldn't they have done that in the first place???!

Happy to report though, that the lampshade is off, and he is doing better than ever :) Although he IS going through an intense chewing phase, I can not even count how many flip flops I have "lost" in the past week! Hopefully I will only have good things to report on him from now on! Keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

Oscar Round 3

So I thought I posted my last post Saturday but apparently saved it as a draft....naturally. Well it's up now, so you should read "Oscar Round 2" and then come back to this post!

So, you've read the previous post, you know what I'm dealing with at my house. Oscar came home and was still really drugged, to the point where he didn't know when he had to go to the bathroom. Yes, my weekend was great, with a baby in diapers and a puppy who was pissing and shitting all over himself. He was still really tired, so he slept most of Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday was the first day he seemed "himself". The poor baby, has 5 different meds he has to take...2 oral pills twice a day, ear drops once a day, antibiotic eye cream three times a day, and powder for his hotspots 2 times a day. On top of it, he has an effing 25 in. e-collar (the lampshade) on his head.

He is so miserable, it's heartbreaking. He looks at me like, "Seriously? What did I do to deserve this?"

He can't fit out the doggy door, and he has ONLY known a doggy door, so he doesn't really understand how to "let me know" he needs to go outside, which means LOTS of indoor accidents. He also is having a really hard time maneuvering his e-collar so that he can eat and drink. He's gotten a little better with the water bowl, but I'm having to feed him by hand because he won't even attempt to eat out of his food bowl! Ahhhhhh.

So, you are probably asking what is the round 3 part? Well, yesterday around 3:30 I was feeding the baby (who was awful, and screaming her head off literally ALL day). I let Oscar out to go to the bathroom. I stand outside and watch him because I don't want him getting into any trouble with that stupid lampshade on his head. He pees, and comes in ....good boy! I put the baby in her swing so that I can start cleaning the stack of bottles that has piled up throughout the day, I turn to check on Oscar and, ummm, he's excited? Let's just say the lipstick is out. about 15 mins. later I noticed, the lipstick is still out, and it's huge and swollen. I also notice that he keeps trying to sit down and can't...it looks painful. SHIT. I call my fiancee, who says that it's probably just some sort of reaction from all of his meds. 15 mins. later it's still out and the size of a strawberry!

So I do, what I normally do...I google it. It's called a prolapsed penis, and if it doesn't go back in on it's own it can cause major damage, and it may even need surgery to correct it. OF COURSE IT DOES!!! When does it stop??? I am freaking out at this point and call the vet. The vet tells me I should be able to get it to go back in on my own, but if I have any trouble I need to bring him in.

Excuse me? He wants me to shove the strawberry back into the sheath???!!!! This is hands down the worst day EVER! I consider myself a good mom though, so yes, I tried to put the strawberry back in. I can not even explain how hard of a process this is...I don't know what I am doing at all. Needless to say, the fiance had to take him to the vet because I couldn't do it. Happily she was able to put it all back to normal in about 10 mins. She says it's normal for "not-fixed" dogs to have this happen, and of course it could happen again!

I think we WILL be getting him fixed...I can't deal with another strawberry fiasco!

Oscar, Round 2

So, I mentioned before that Oscar had a "cherry-eye". I can't believe I actually thought that was the ONLY thing I would be dealing with this summer regarding my sweet puppy.



I woke up Wednesday morning, fed the baby put her back down and headed for the kitchen for my morning coffee. That's when I noticed Oscar. There was blood and he was scratching the shit out of the left side of his face! OH MY GOD!!!!



We have a doggy door, so the dogs can come and go as they please. I immediately start checking Oscar out, and hair and flesh has completely come off of his body, it's bleeding, there's puss, and it smells like a nasty battle wound. I immediately figure some sort of wild animal has attacked him in our back yard!



I call the Vet, frantic and they tell me to bring him straight in. I can't lift my huge 60lb. 9 mo. old furry baby into my car anymore, so I call the fiance and explain the situation...he comes straight home and takes Oscar to the vet. I have to stay home with the baby, and I am totally freaking out! Finally the fiancee comes home.....without Oscar.



I'm hysterical...what happened? Where is he? God forbid, they didn't have to put him down....did they??? My stomach is starting to turn when I hear my fiance tell me everything is fine.



Oscar didn't get attacked by a wild animal at all (Thank you God)! He has something called Hot Spots...which of course, is apparently very common in bulldogs. It's from the heat, and him scratching his skin. Basically Oscar had to stay at the Vet for a few days so that they could properly clean him up and allow the hotspots to dry out with antibiotics. Since he had to stay, we went ahead and scheduled his surgery for his cherry eye as well.



Happy to report, Oscar is totally fine, and I'm picking him up from the Vet today, in about 30 mins!!! I can't wait to see him, and snuggle him. He has to wear an E-collar (the big lampshade for 2 weeks) so we will see how that goes!