i'm up noooowwwww - part two

well well well -  for bein only part two of a post for today - y'all sure have a lot of reading to do :))  i think there's four or five posts up just from this morning.  so - don't miss any. 

anyhow -- where do i begin?  where did i leave off?  i don't even know.  yup -- that much hasn't changed :))  i still can't remember nuthin. 

i guess i have posted enough 'background info' though for the day that i can just go ahead and give ya a 'quick' - if that's possible - rundown , of the recent past. 

whaddaya want first? 
the good?  bad? or ugly?

there has of course been all of the above.  how bout some GOOD first? 

i got a dog.  most of you know that , but for those who don't?  i did !  i got a service dog. i got her in March, when she was just a puppy.  she is a Cane Corso.  I have done 90 + percent of her training. i have had help at some classes with her obedience, but I have done ALL of her socialization by myself.  she has flown in the cabin of an airplane at my feet, she goes to the movies with me, she goes to restaurants almost daily, she goes 'shopping' ,  anywhere, and everywhere i go - she goes. 
and she is not a small dog. she is pushin over 90 pounds right now. and is getting bigger. :))  she will grow to somewhere between 110-125  -- just no one knows how big she will get.  her heart is just as big as her body.  her birthday is 12-26-12.  she just turned 10 months old , so is still a puppy. 
i call her hunny alot -- she is my hunny badger :))  crazy little thing.
she makes me smile , and laugh, and get out of bed - and leave the house... and everyone , when we are out just has to talk and ask questions, so i am forced to speak to people.  agoraphobia?  what agoraphobia?  social anxiety?  what is that?   i still get nervous - don't get me wrong.  but this dog has changed my LIFE/ and my WORLD.

 

the family got pups too.  Malenois pups.  a male and a female. the female is Aza , the male is Tuco. yes, from Breaking Bad  :))  they both came from Holland , but from different breeders. so no, they aren't related.  they are the same breed of dog that our dog Eevie 'was'.  and they are both insane.  very high strung . it's the breed.  and why i chose the corso.  my dog is sooo chill.  she loves to play with the other pups,  but when it's time to be quiet, have coffee, or be in puplic .. you don't even know there's a dog there.  unless of course ya want to.

 tuco

Aza


some of ya know i quit smoking -- finally.  yup - still quit. mothers day - will, hopefully, be 2 years.  i use an electronic cig -- so yep - i admit , still hooked on the nicotine .  but not smoking.  i haven't had bronchitis or strep throat since i quit. and y'all know that was a chronic thing for me when i was smokin three packs a day.  i really do like the e-cig.  and i was one of the lucky ones -- i was able to quit real cigs in 24 hours ! with it.

oh and what else ?  you will laugh at this -- i am now a proud member of the red hat ladies !!!technically i am what they call a pink hat - cuz i am under 50.  but it is so fun. and the ladies are wonderful. 

ok - i am runnin out of time -- cuz believe it or not -- i have to go somewhere :))

so -- i have some bad news to leave you with .. but it's been a week , as of tomorrow. a lot of you know - some may not -- but we lost two of our babies last monday. yes , on the same day.  what a nightmare.  hubby and i weren't even here to help with soulkid to handle the two trips to different vets.  but we were about between an hour - hour and a half away , when soulkid called to say Sushi, our min pin, was very sick.  we headed home, she took her to the vet. (sushi died on the exam table, she had a breathing attack and asperated). 
by the time she got home - Jitterbug  , our oldest cat, the fat torty, was lying on the floor , not moving.  she took her to the emergency vet. 
we had to see and pay for sushi first, then went to where danielle-soulkid was with jitty.  once we got the rundown, and saw her -- the decision... a word i HATE - was made that she be let go. 
neither of them had a chance.

both are being cremated, and we will take them to Arkansas where my sons are.. we will bury them there. 

on that note -- i have to go. 

i hope life has been good to you all.  it may not sound like it in some of the things i have said .. but overall... life is good today.  i have a life.  and as you know, there have been times that i couldn't have said that.