Weekend review

Well - back to work for another work week! :( I often wish that we had tons of money and that I could stay at home, not that my job is hard. It's not very exciting at all, but I just enjoy being a homebody! ;) I'm sure after a while though the luxury would wear off and it would become just as tedious as coming to work everyday and at least I have adult contact here, at home I would just have my dog! he he

So as for my weekend, I felt I had to work a little harder to work off some extra pounds so I tried hard to keep myself busy. Friday was pretty relaxed though and I don't think we did much. Saturday was house cleaning day and then I went outside to rake up the leaves. We don't get too many leaves in our yard since we chopped down the four large trees but there was still two

garbage bags. The hubby started planning his "haunted garage" for Halloween and moved his car over to his parents. I also went shopping to Costco on Saturday and bought some stuff to put in our new upright freezer. Sunday I decided to clean the basement, the cob webs were starting to get to me and there was this musty smell that I hate! I bought some reed diffusers at Costco (three for $25) and put two of them downstairs. Last year we went through most of our boxes from moving in and sorted out stuff we want to keep and stuff for a garage sale that was suppose to happen this fall but didn't! So I had to move all our garage sale boxes back into one of the bedrooms in our basement so that hopefully the hubby will start demo on it!! Then I vacuumed the entire basement (top to bottom) and moved the treadmill into a corner so if I wanted to I could still use it. I think it looks really good now but would look even better if the drywall was taped and mudded so I could put a coat of primer on it! ;)

We have to go over to my MIL's tonight, as I am typing this she is getting surgery done to her jaw/ mouth. I think she is going to be hurtin' when we go see her after supper!? I guess she needs to be watched for the first 24 hours and my FIL needs to step out for a few hours so it's up to us to go watch her. I hope nothing major happens cause I don't really deal well in those situations! We were hoping to jump in their hot tub for a little while but now my hubby has plans to go met this guy for a job so I may be stuck by myself and probably won't go in.

Some pics of puppy!

I finally made time to upload a few pics of my puppy after her surgery. This first picture was taken when we finally got home from picking her up from the vet. She doesn't look too happy in this pic, maybe she is still doped up!? lol I bought her the little green frog in front of her as a "get well soon" gift, she seemed to like it but not as much as the stuffy my Mom bought her! :(

You can just barely see the cut they made on her knee, apparently there are no stitches there that need to be removed so they must all be inside stitches? You can also see another tiny little cut close to her tail where she had a skin tag and the vet removed free of charge for cosmetic reasons only! ;) There are stitches on that cut and they need to be removed in another week.

Her leg actually looked worse a couple days later, you could see some bruising on her knee that went from purple to brown and now it is a shade of yellow. And it was like she had razor burn on the inside of her leg? It looks much better now and I think it must feel better cause she is being playful again and wants us to throw the ball for her when we go outside. I think she even forgot herself cause she squatted down really fast and then started yelping, she just over did it a bit. She is starting to eat more now, which is good, but she still isn't eating quite as much as before the surgery!? She is also coughing more now too so we will have to let the vet know about that when we take her in to get the stitches removed.

Weigh in ..... Thursday ?! ? ;)

OK -- so I forgot! he he .... with all the things I had to do yesterday I completely forgot to weigh in until after I was already dressed and I wasn't about to get undressed just to weigh in. So I changed my weigh in day to today! ;) Yesterday morning I had to get the dog to the vets for her surgery and had to leave the house by 7:30am. Of course traffic was horrible and there were accidents everywhere so it took me extra time to get to St.Albert, a drive that usually takes me 30-45 minutes took me over an hour yesterday! After I dropped her off I planned on doing a little visiting since I was in the city but my girlfriend wasn't ready for me to come over till 11am, so I went shopping! I went to Michael's and spent my gift card on some new die cutter shapes for my new Cricut die cutter! Then I went to the local bookstore (Chapter's) and looked around to see what they had and get a coffee at Starbucks! Then it was almost time to go to my girlfriends so I headed back in that direction. I had a good visit with her and met her new baby boy, he sure is a cutie! Then I headed to my other girlfriends house and had a good visit with her too. I headed home around 3:30, oh - and the vet called at about 12:00 to let us know that she was out of surgery and that everything went well! :)

So this morning I weighed in and for:

Week 58 = 171.0lbs

(0lbs)

no loss.... no gain!

I'm OK with this, I thought I had over did it the other day when we went out for our anniversary/ birthday dinner at Red Lobster but I guess I did OK or maybe it was because I gave myself that extra day to burn it off!~? lol

Well I have four more days off from work, and we picked up the dog this morning. She seems to be doing OK, not as dopey as I thought she would be but she does seem more tired then usual. She is now on three different meds and one vitamin, she doesn't seem to have much of an appetite yet - hopefully that will improve a bit by tomorrow. I took pics of her shaved leg and I must say it looks good, you can barely even see where they cut her open -- no stitches to take out, all of them were internal. I should have asked how many stitches but didn't think of it. We have to do 12 weeks of physio!!! :o And he said as long as I take her for short walks and she is using her leg we shouldn't need to do too much physio. So hopefully I can download the pics I took and post a few here for you!

TGIF

We find out today if our dog is healthy enough to handle surgery! :( Yesterday my hubby took her back to the vet to have her leg looked at again. She is still limping and doesn't like to put any weight on her leg so she holds it off the ground just a little and then it starts to shake. I wish I could have went with him cause apparently our reg doctor gave the new doctor (the one we saw last time) sh*t cause she misdiagnosed a major problem! She told us that it was just inflamed and gave us some "doggie celibrex" and told us to take it easy for 2 weeks and now this vet is telling us that those 2 weeks were vital weeks and we could have done something about this a lot sooner had she not misdiagnosed our dog!? I'm no mad at her, but I definitely won't be scheduling any visits with her anymore!

So apparently (hopefully I get all this right), the vet says that there is a tendon in the knee that helps it bend/ twist (like our knee) and our dog has pulled this tendon. I keep telling everyone she needs a "knee replacement" cause the way my hubby was telling me about the surgery sure did sound like a knee replacement, he told me about how they replace some of the bone where the knee joint is and fix the tendon with what I described as elastic bands (and he agreed they are like elastic bands) -- sounds kinda like a knee replacement? So if we don't get the surgery done then eventually the joint will wear itself down and become very painful for her, to the point where she probably won't walk on it at all. She is only 10yrs old so she does have more years to her life and she is fairly active now so we agreed that surgery would be the best thing for her!

I'm on holidays the first week in October so this is probably when we will get the surgery done so that I can help my hubby out at home with her. I feel so bad for her, she is such a suck when she is sick and I'm sure she will milk it after the surgery. Just like a little kid! She is our baby and I worry about the surgery and how she will be after!? I have faith in this vet, he is the same one that spayed her and amputated her toe for a biopsy. I have never had any problems with this vet which is why I continue to drive the 45 minutes to see him. I just worry now cause she is older and like humans the older you get the harder surgery is on you. I also guess I have to kiss the siding for the garage good-bye this year cause that's about the same price as the estimate for the surgery ($1800)!! :o

Weekend Review

The weekend was fairly busy and yet I feel like I got nothing done! ? The weekend started Friday after work with the Street Legals, it was a good night with racing that lasted till about 11:30pm. A new Corvette hit the wall which caused a delay- we had to stop and clean it up but then it started raining so we just gave up and called the race. After racing we went out to BP's with some of the staff and didn't get home till 2am.



Then on Saturday my hubby started working in the garage early with his buddy and I headed off to St.Albert. I stopped in at my SIL's to pick up a bowl she had of mine and had a quick visit, then off to my Dad's for another quick visit and to drop off my camera for him to take on his trip. Then off to my scrapbook ladies house to pick up my prize and to purchase supplies for my winter projects. I spent a little more then I had expected but at least I shouldn't have to buy anything for a while! ? I was hoping to stop at the Farmers Market and make a few more visiting stops on my way but I started to feel like crap so I headed home. When I got home I started cleaning and got all my chores done before supper! The hubbies friend was still over and the were still working on his car so we had them (him and his girlfriend) over for supper and I decided to open a bottle of wine. I am now thinking that I should have left the wine alone! Another couple came over for a visit and so all three of us girls were sitting on the deck drinking wine while the boys were in the garage. We went through 7 bottles of wine!! We were up till 4am sitting around the fire talking and the next day I felt like total crap! My tummy was doing flip flops like crazy and I couldn't keep anything down! The only thing I had all day was a banana, half a pear, and some soup for supper. It was horrible! Needless to say I went to bed early!

On Monday I decided to put my fall/ Halloween stuff out and I washed my car. The hubbies friend helped him build a new shed for us cause he helped him on his car. We have to build this new shed to put all the stuff in it from the old shed, then tare down the old shed, side the garage and move the new shed back to where the old shed was. Pain in the butt if you ask me and I think the shed is going to be impossible to move after it is built!? My Mom also called yesterday to see if I had a passport but I told her that mine had expired a few years ago. She was going to buy tickets to Vegas for my b-day and take me with her but since I don't have a passport I can't go! ? :( Oh- well maybe next year!?

I was up again for most of last night with a gutt ache again!? It feels like heart burn, indigestion, and nausea all in one!? I feel like crap - I've got this gaggy feeling in my throat every time I stand up. I hate how on the days you feel like crap always seem to be the busiest!? The phone won't stop ringing which is making me get up to pick my orders!? grrr I hope I feel better tonight or it is going to be another long night?!

Follow up

The hubby took our dog to the vet yesterday, she has been limping around for about a week and a half and it hasn't been getting any better so we decided to take her in. She is an older dog (a Rottie) and has some lumps and bumps on her which the vet says are normal as a dog gets older. But one of these lumps is on her hind leg, right where the leg joint joins the hip bone, this lump is what we think is causing her to limp around. My biggest worry is that because she is walking funny and seems to be favoring her other leg that she may affect her hip joints and in a large breed dog that could mean hip dysplasia!? My other fear is that the vet is going to recommend to remove this lump and do a biopsy, I'm afraid they will find out it is cancer!?

So the vet recommends for our dog to "take it easy" for 10 days, this means NO WALKING!! :O For 10 days!! At first I thought this was an excellent idea - a 10 day vacation for me! ;) But then I forgot how she stares me down after supper and won't leave me alone until she gets to go outside! grrrr It's frustrating, having her stare at me with a slight whine! We also got some anti-inflammatory pills for her, they are like horse pills (huge), she needs to also take these for 10 days - with food, of course! Oh - and they weighed her .... she lost another 5lbs! Now she is 85lbs!! Right where she should be!

Weigh in Wednesday!~

Week 43 = 171.8lbs

(-0.6lbs)

For not thinking that I would loose anything at all or perhaps even gain - I'm quite happy with this loss! AND it's just enough to get me my 80lb bear!!

This is one of my favorite bears not just because it means I'm so close to goal but because it is different then any of the other bears (color wise). I find all the other bears to be shades of blue and red but this one is bright orange!! :) The next bear (90lb) is even better it's black! Hopefully I will be able to get that one too!

So last night I did end up going to the Jobbie meeting and I drug Denise with me! I mostly went to find/ pick up my scrapbooks but it was also nice to be back at a meeting. Not much has changed since the last time I was there, they are still struggling for members (they only have 8), and they still struggled with the memory work. I only knew about four people there and they were all adults, it kinda made me feel a little old! ;) I was surprised to see that my scrapbooks were no where too be found!! So now I am raking my brain trying to remember where the last place I had them was? I'm probably going to tare my house apart to find them now! And if I can't find them at my house I will move on to my Dads and tare his house apart! ;) It really bothers me that I can't find them! My hubby thinks that maybe they threw them away but I can not even fathom that they would do that! Who throws pictures away! ? However we did find about 8 scrapbooks that belong to one of the "moms" so we asked if we could borrow them, they are all from our era. I can't wait to go through them and find good pics too scan and put on Facebook! LOL

It was another long night last night, my dog kept waking us up coughing! I feel so sorry for her, sometimes she coughs so hard that I'm worried she will give herself a hernia! She seemed to be getting better yesterday but then last night and this morning she seemed to have a lot of flem again?! I sure hope she gets better soon!? I may have to take her to her vet in St.Albert to get looked at, we just took her to the one close to home but I don't really like them too much!?

update:

The vet figures our dog has Kennel cough!?!? But is unsure because she doesn't have any other symptoms of it!? We have never put our dog in a kennel or doggie day care? They say it is just an air born disease that dogs get from other dogs that is highly contagious and they usually get it when they are in a kennel, hence the name of the virus. But since our dog basically stays at home all the time and only gets out for her walks (which aren't at off leash areas, so there is little contact with other dogs) and the only dogs she is really around are the neighbor dogs but they haven't been coughing ...yet! ? The only other place she has been around lately is at the race track where there was one encounter with another dog that almost ended up as a fight and I had to break it up, and the in-laws had her for a weekend and there neighbor has a dog!? These are the only two places that I can think of where she could have gotten the virus from!? So now we have doggie cough drops (they are actually pills but help with the cough) and some antibiotics (just in case). She was a bit better yesterday and only woke us up twice, once at midnight so we gave her some "cough drops" and she was good till this morning. I read on the internet that sometimes it helps them if you put a humidifier by them to help them breathe better, so we did! LOL

On the diet front, I'm a little worried about weigh in tomorrow. I haven't been as good as I should have been, I missed out on taking the dog for her walk three times!! I have found that I feel extra hungry and might have snuck a few "bad" snacks in! ;) I was going to sneak a peak this morning on the scale but decided not too, I will wait and see tomorrow but I will be surprised if I loose anything!

I'm also a little angry with myself, when I was younger I used to be in a youth group (IOJD) and we made scrapbooks. Well lately I have had the desire to go through them and reflect on the past, maybe scan some old pics and post on Facebook BUT I can not find them anywhere! I think I let the Bethel keep them to look over or bring out when they had Installations and such, what an idiot I was! What the heck was I thinking!?! Those are my pictures and memories, I want them back!! So now I need to find out when there next meeting is, I'm pretty sure that there is only one meeting left till summer holidays so I better find out soon or I'll be waiting till Sept.!! I bet it's tonight!! I seem to remember that it was the 1st and 3rd Tuesday! Sh*t! I may have to go tonight and hopefully they still have my books! ;)

Wednesday Weigh in!

Week 36 = 178.6lbs

(-0.6lbs)

It feels like we ate out a lot this week, I don't think I have had a NS meal in a long time? So, I am quite happy with my little loss this week - it shows me that I did make good decisions when we did eat out and I never over did it but I still enjoyed myself and the meals I chose! It's not like every time I only let myself have soup and salad, I had full meals with a starter salad. I just made sure that I paid a little more attention to that 'full' feeling (forcing myself to put the fork down) and I substituted my fries for veggies. Today I started a food journal, I am hoping that I will be able to see how my choices affect the weight loss - see what works and what doesn't!? I will keep track of my calories on SparkPeople, it is a pretty handy website full of ideas and suggestions - if you haven't checked it out yet you should click on the link! I also noticed today that even though I have lost weight in pounds I noticed that according to my WW scale I have gained BF! I need to start doing my Pilate's again to strengthen my muscles and burn off some of this fat! I can only assume that the weight I did loose is probably water weight, with me being sick I have been incredibly thirsty and have been drinking a ton of water and tea! Hopefully I can get rid of this cold and get some of my energy back!

Yesterday was grocery shopping day (10% Tuesday and dollar days), it was really busy there and of course I got the defective buggy! It was so hard to get it to turn, plus I had little energy so it wasn't a very good combination. Needless to say that by the time I got home, unloaded the car and put everything away I was done for the day! No dog walking last night, instead I opted for a nice hot bath and relaxed before bed time! I didn't have a very good sleep though, I was woken up every couple hours due to a nasal issue!!! EWWW I hate colds and being sick, I watched a show on Slice called Newlywed Nearly Dead where the hubby was a germaphobic and his new wife had some nose condition where she had to keep blowing it all the time!? Anyway, she left all her snotty tissues all over the place, which grossed the hubby out so the show gave them one of those black lights like you see on CSI and he shinned it on her hands ..... it was discusting! That's all I'm gonna say! A real eye opener on why you need to wash your hands, especially when your sick!

my Kitty is sick again! :(

My Kitty is sick again, she was doing really good for awhile - eating lots and putting some weight back on!! But now I don't know what happened just one day she stopped eating! ?! She hasn't eaten for 4 days! She is back to looking like a bag of bones and has very little energy. I've tried everything to get her to eat, she is even having a hard time getting water down?! On the weekend I tried to cater to her a little and would bring the food/ water to her in hopes that she would eat/ drink something. After sipping on a little water I noticed that it looked like she had fallen asleep at the water dish and her little chin was dipped in the water!? Like she didn't even have the energy to pull her head out of the dish! I think it is time..... I'm not sure how long I can let her keep going without eating!? She doesn't look very good at all, I was so hoping that she could have one last summer - sitting in the sun relaxing, chasing butterflies but I don't think I can prolong the inevitable any longer. :(

On a happier note -- I went to Denise's son's 1st birthday party on the weekend! It was awesome, he got tons of gifts and he actually took part in unwrapping most of them (unlike my nephew who was much more interested in having people do the work for him)! Every time I see the little guy I'm amazed at how much more advanced he is from other kids I know. He walked younger then most kids I know and got teeth pretty young too!? I suppose all kids are different and you can't compare one to the other but as a parent and having a child that seems more advanced then most it must give you a huge sense of pride?!?

We also went over to our friends house for a BBQ (the friends that the hubby was helping put the floor in for) and she has a 16 month old that I haven't seen for a while and has turned into a vicious little girl!! I was amazed at both the parenting and the attitude of this little girl! She is such a bully, there was another little girl there that was 15 months old and a little smaller then her that she would pinch on the cheek (hard enough to make them go rosy red) and she bit her nose (I thought she was going to give the other little girl a kiss - but then she went for the nose!! ) She would grab toys from this other little girl and when my hubby said "oh-no no ... you need to share" the mother got a little excited telling us that you aren't suppose to say "share" !?! WTH ?? She works in a daycare and that's what they taught her! You're not suppose to tell them to share until they are over the age of 2? And when this little girl started pinching the other girl the mother handled it by pinching her back? Now I don't know much about raising kids but I would think that by doing it back it would teach the little girl that it was kinda OK to keep doing it and that it is a way of getting attention? The mother blames my hubbies friends dad cause he will innocently pinch her checks or rough her up a bit!? I don't know.... I do know however that this little girl is evil - she would get this evil look in her eye every time she was going to do something bad!

~~ UPDATE ~~

I just received a few pictures from my SIL - Kenzie at the hospital. The pic's don't really show exactly how pale she was but I'm sure you will understand how overwhelming it was to see her with all the cords coming out of her. I am so happy that she is much better now and happy at home! :)

My brother with Kenzie.

She has the little pink pig I bought her on her chest.

Weekend update...

Hopefully everyone had a good weekend, mine was busy and full of excitement!! After work on Friday I was surprised to see that my new kitchen sink tap was installed!! We bought a new tap when we moved into the house almost a year and a half ago - so it was nice to see it was finally installed !! :) I broke down and went shopping for new jeans Friday night, I decided to check out Old Navy. Highly recommended by almost everyone I know but unfortunately I didn't find anything there that fit right or that I liked!? I ended up going next door to them and finding two pairs of jeans that were on sale, I was surprised to find out that I fit into a 34W 32L (they are a little long)!! It has been a long time since I fit into a 34W!! That's only one size bigger then my hubby! Other then that Friday was a pretty typical day, after dinner I walked the dog and watched The Next Great Chef, this Friday is the finale and Alberta is in -- I hope we win!!

Saturday I went over to my mom's in the morning to give her some computer disc's and have a visit. We were suppose to go shopping for kitty stuff but she is still unsure about getting one so needless to say we never went shopping. After our visit I headed to Costco to pick up a few things and lucky for me everything I wanted was on sale! They have pretty good kitty liter there and it was $3 off so I bought two boxes for the same price as one! And their Splenda was also on sale $3 off!! I picked up some WW cereal (Honey almond) and was going to try it this morning but I slept in a bit and had to grab something to go instead. After dinner and walking the dog we got a phone call from my SIL to let us know that my 9 week old niece was admitted into the Stollery Hospital!! WTF ?? Apparently she has something they called RSV - which I understand is just like a common cold to an adult but to a child that doesn't have a immune system yet can be quite serious! I went to go visit them Sat night at the hospital which thankfully Edmonton has the second best child care hospital in Canada! So she is in good care, I was very over whelmed by all the sick babies - it was very upsetting! :( When I got to her room my brother was holding her trying to comfort her, she was as pale as a ghost and there were tubes and cords all over her. I get teary eyed just thinking about it. :( I guess it all started last Tuesday, Kenzie started getting a fever and had the runs so they took her to the doctors on Wed. By Friday they had to take her to the emerg cause she was pale and her lips were blue. They did blood tests and found out she had RSV and sent her to the U of A.

Sunday I re-arranged our spare bedroom and cleaned up a bit more. The whole time change thing had me feeling "off" for the day. My mom called after lunch and said she was headed to the hospital so I got dressed and met her there. Kenzie looked 100% better then from the day before except for she now has a feeding tube. But she was much more aware of her surroundings and almost even smiled a few times. Hopefully she will be able to go home by Wed this week! She has quite a bad cough and even gave herself a hernia from coughing so much! Her "inny" is now an "outy" but should go back to normal?! Part of me wonders if this may have been brought on by things that could have been preventable? Like the hot tub incident and the mashed potatoes!? I wonder if maybe her mom thought she was prepared for anything just because she is a nurse? Or instead of being one of those mom's that is worried about every little thing she was more laid back but maybe too laid back?

I also think my cat is sick now too, it's like it's TOM for her but she has been spayed so I'm not sure what that is all about? We have a vet appointment next week so I guess we will ask him about it then? I think it may be "time" for her now!? :(

Well hopefully tomorrow is better! It can't get much worse so ..... here's too tomorrow!