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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
I woke up around 11 this morning after approximately 5 hours of sleep. Unfortunately Baby was having trouble breathing through his nose so it made it difficult for me to get any sleep with him honking away. My stomach is cramped up like no tomorrow and the only thing that the Midol is doing for me is putting me to sleep. This makes it very difficult for me to get any work done consider my eyes continue to close on me.
Bella is being extra clingy today for some reason and I honestly have no idea why. She won’t get off my lap and it’s making it difficult for me to getting things done as well. My arm is close to falling asleep because of the pressure she’s putting on it, part of me wonders if taking a nap would really be worth it. My entire body wants to go to sleep anyway, maybe I should listen to it?
I made lunch a little while ago, home made pizza. It turned out pretty good. I didn’t eat much of it because of how my stomach has been feeling but I enjoyed my portion. Food Lion has a 10 for $10 deal going on right now and I picked up some of those “Take & Bake” loafs of bread. You throw them in the oven at 400?Ǭ?F for about 12 minutes and they cook up almost as good as regular fresh baked French bread.
I haven’t gotten much work done today. I did get quite a bit of emails processed though it’s just the sake of actually working on the important things that’s got me on edge. I can’t keep my eyes open either so that certainly doesn’t help. There’s got to be something I can do that doesn’t require taking a nap.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
I’ve gotten quite a bit done today. I’m ahead as far as my time frame for getting some work done is concerned. I’ve got the gardening done, Bella’s taken care of as well. She needed some trimming around her face because she was just over heated so I trimmed some hair out and got rid of a little bit of matting on her legs before I schedule another appointment for her for the groomer. Considering it’s going to be in the mid 80’s for a few days, I figured every little bit helps so hopefully the trim makes her a bit more comfortable.
I’ve gotten some work done, setup some accounts and I know I have a few more things to get done but I also know that I’m about two hours ahead instead of the 3 hours behind I was previously. That’s always a good thing, right?
Dieting today is fairly simple. I’ve only taken in about 300 calories so far so that’s good as far as sticking to my guns. My hip is bothering the hell out of me, so much so that it hurts to stand at this point let alone sit down. My stomach is killing me due to Aunt Flo and on top of that my ankle keeps popping when I walk, more so now than it ever has before considering how much damage I’ve done to it over the years. Maybe I’m just getting old and my body is telling me there’s a storm coming this way – I don’t know. It is all joint pain when it comes down to it so who knows what’s going on.
Guess I should get dinner started, I just finished cleaning up the kitchen and have a few little things to do here and there to prepare for the weekend. We’re working on getting Kay’s sister down here for a Memorial Day BBQ but who knows if that’s actually going to happen. Her sister is hard to get a hold of sometimes. Hopefully we’ll be able to get in touch with her before it’s too late.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
It’s a little after 4am and I honestly have no reason as to why I’m still up this late. I woke up around 10:30 this morning which seems to be a consistent time, no matter what time I happened to get to sleep the night before. I’m sure there’s something I could be doing right now to keep me entertained but while I’m finding it hard to get to sleep, my eye lids are growing to be very heavy and I can’t seem to concentrate on anything.
My back was bothering me for the bulk of the day, I can’t wait until all of the birthdays are taken care of so I can start putting money towards my next big purchase – a new bed. Baby and I plan on moving the rooms around soon. We’ll hold off on the bed purchase but I do still need to get about $100 together. It’s going to cost me around $25 to get the closet taken care of because there’s no shelving in there. Another $25 should cover a few baskets. I won’t have a real ‘dresser’ so I’m going to take three baskets and divide my things reasonably. One basket for underwear, one for socks, one for bras. It’ll make life a little easier in the end, at least I won’t have to dig through a single drawer to try to find what I’m looking for. I’m sick of picking up underwear thinking I finally found the bra I was just digging for. There’s very limited space at the moment, this is why I only have one drawer. The rest of the money is for some shelving around the room. Since there’s limited floor space, we’re going to utilize the wall space. Since I’m lucky enough to have an LCD TV, it’s easier to mount that on the wall than it would be to find a thin book case to throw in the corner of the room.
I’m sure everything will figure itself out though, I’m probably just letting off some kind of steam because there’s no one awake to talk to. Princess is crying to get out of the bedroom but I think that’s because I just finished heating up some food for Bella. She’s asleep but I know she randomly wakes up during the night to pick at things. She doesn’t really eat much during the day so that’s really the only way to get food in her stomach. Walmart has been out of chicken all week so I don’t know what else to feed her. I’ve started on some sliced turkey, hopefully they’ll last long enough for me to figure something else out.
Baby’s been asleep for the last few hours, maybe I’ll go in there to curl up with him and hopefully knock out for the night. UHT, Bella’s scratching at the door – guess I should get in there ASAP before she wakes everyone up!
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
I woke up about 10:30 this morning feeling much better than I have in the past week. My cold is close to gone but now I’ve given it back to Baby so he’s not feeling too well :heh:
I didn’t get to sleep until rather late last night, there was a spill in the fridge that required immediate attention. A bottle of chocolate sauce kind of exploded in the back of the fridge and basically everything in there needed to be thrown out. I then spent about an hour scraping all the chocolate off the shelf. Now the fridge looks close to brand new, but it also looks empty. I’d rather it be empty than full of bacteria though. I also made it a point to throw out a lot of food that I’ve been putting off for a while. I need to get the door cleaned off too, that’s starting to build up a little bit of gunk. There’s opened bottles of stuff that no one is ever going to use so there’s no real need for it to be in there anyway.
While I’m no longer dealing with a cold, my stomach doesn’t seem to be agreeing with me very much today either. I don’t know if it’s something I ate yesterday or just a reaction to stress but I’m really nauseous and even crackers aren’t subsiding the feeling. I should probably be laying down right now but there’s a cool breeze coming in from outside that I won’t be able to get in the bedroom. There’s only one big window in there and with the placement of windows across the hall it just wouldn’t do much for a cross breeze.
I’ve got Princess snoring on the left of me and Bella snoring at my feet – at least my toes are warm…heh.
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Going into my vacation this weekend, there was a preexisting feeling of sadness. This past week I found out that my grandfather has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He’s going through testing, procedures and many other things that one couldn’t imagine. It’s hard when things like this happen. I lost my grandmother to breast cancer about 12 years ago (fathers mother), my other grandmother (mothers mother) has gone through extensive surgeries on her legs, to the point that the doctor nicked a nerve and that’s a long going lawsuit fallen upon a woman who can barely walk. My mother has been through a triple bypass surgery, my father has come home with so many staples in his head from work-related accidents that it’s just unreal – even this past weekend he’d torn some shin muscle making it hard for him to walk around the casino. It’s just a whole series of events that I can’t seem to piece together.
I’ve been very sick for the last couple of days and part of me wonders if stress played a factor in this. I come home after losing money to find that Bella is hurt, I was already exhausted and depressed because of it so now it’s just a series of crap all piling up on top of each other. Tonight I hobbled myself into Wal-mart so I could buy some replacement shades for the ones Bella has damaged over the last couple of weeks. She likes sitting in the window and has proven (three times over) that she’ll do anything to get up there. I probably should take a picture of the damage she did to the rug while we were gone as well.
However, I realized today that wasn’t entirely her fault. A few weeks ago Baby seemed to be on a mission to find something and decided to cut a section of the rug to look underneath (I don’t know why, I also refused to ask). That strip happened to be right outside the bedroom door which made it easy for her to pull the rug back. Because of the she was able to easily destroy it. So right now the blame is basically on the two of them. Either way she’s no longer limping and he still won’t take any blame what-so-ever for the fact that I’m extremely ill.
I’m working on linking Thunderbird from my external hard drive, this way I can run the same email off both the desktop and the laptop. I’m sick of sitting in the office listening to Halo3 Beta gunshots and him yammering into the microphone with people he doesn’t even know…heh. I never understood the gaming world, oh well.
Off I go.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
The ‘massive storm’ hit around 8pm. I was rather disappointed to find out that everything good went far south of me to Southern Maryland and parts of Virginia, it’s really not fair. I was expecting something good and all it did was water the flowers for me.
Something tells me I’m going to have to give Bella a bath before I go to bed tonight. I really don’t want to but I know after her walk tonight she’s going to be covered in dirt. It only poured for about a half hour but that was long enough to drench everything to the point of mud building up everywhere. Since she seems to enjoy running through the grass more than just being on the street – naturally she’s going to get pretty dirty.
I had to cancel her grooming appointment, for obvious reasons. The vet recommended that if she was really in as much pain as she is that it’s a bad idea to have a groomer hold her down. I was also informed that the groomer chosen for her wasn’t anywhere near the vets personal recommendation list. She said it’s an unclean environment and I should consider another groomer in the area. The problem is, there’s only ONE other groomer and I refuse to drive way out of my way just to get Bella shaved before it gets too hot down here. It almost reached 90?Ǭ?F today so there’s no way in hell that I want her to wait any longer than she has to. The air conditioning in the house is typically turned off every few minutes because someone gets too cold but then you’ve got Bella and the three other dogs laying on the floor panting like all hell. This is why when the rooms get moved around I’m considering a window unit. This way I know it’s going to be cold in here at all times and Bella can get some relief from the heat.
I’m anticipating tomorrow, it’s supposed to be just as warm so it’ll be nice to sit outside and catch some rays while I’m reading. I haven’t relaxed with a book in a while so it’ll be nice to just sit outside and relax for a bit. I have to get some actual work done first though, there’s not much on my list at the moment so it should be an easy day.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
I’m sure I should have updated yesterday but I was a little big depressed after getting home from Atlantic City on Monday evening.
I wasn’t as lucky as I was the last time I went to A.C., I wound up losing about $700 which is fine because that money was specifically for the casino anyway. It just sucked that I couldn’t at least break even considering there are things to do around the house that the money could have been useful for. No worries, however, at the rate things are going I’ll have that back by the end of the week anyway.
I found myself falling asleep in the car, something I almost never do. I was knocked out for about an hour, then I came home to find out that Bella was hurt and she’d destroyed a few things. She tried to dig herself out of the bedroom, she managed to rip the rug to shreds and do some damage to the bottom of the door. I’m not sure if she got her paw caught or something but she was limping and $150 vet visit later, turns out there’s nothing they can really do for her. She’s on anti-inflammatory medication and that’s just about it. She does seem to be walking a little bit better now that they’ve cut her nails, but who knows if that was just a fluke or not. For all I know they could have gotten whatever may have been stuck in her paw, out, when they cut her nails.
I haven’t been feeling well on top of that. I feel a very nasty cold coming on so my time in front of the computer today was limited to getting clients setup and support emails taken care of. After that I did manage to get The Riches Fanlisting up and running and now I’m working on some paid posting that’s set to expire in a few days so I guess I need to get my butt in gear on that.
Hopefully I can have all of this done within the next hour, it’d be nice to get to bed early tonight. I’ll probably be up until 11 anyway, Lost is on tonight and there are only a few episodes left or something like that… I don’t know.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Top five reasons why today kind of, well…sucked.
- WordPress Fucked Up! – It was posting new entries as “Private” and I found about four entries over the last two days that were never published
- Paypal is EVIL – I applied for my Paypal debit card a few weeks ago and was wondering why it never showed up. They don’t accept forwarded mail and because of this, the card was sent back to them. So I logged into my account and changed around everything that needs to be changed. Maybe now it’ll be sent to the right place.
- Sick – I think baby gave me his cold, I’ve been hacking up a lung.
- BAD WEATHER BREWING! – All news reports seem to tell me that a big storm is heading our way. Because of this, the Cape May/Lewes Ferry is most likely NOT going to be up and running. This means that if we don’t get there early enough to find out for sure, we’re going to have to drive about 2 1/2 hours north to get to Atlantic City. I wouldn’t necessarily mind this, but there’s also the NOON check in that has to be factored in here. Even if the storm doesn’t actually HIT us, there was some tropical thing brewing off Virginia’s coast (or something) and that’s sending surf advisories for those along the coast. I would assume Lewes (being as the ferry does leave from here) would be included there. (More updates later after I sit my fat ass down and watch the news)
- Poor Dog! – Princess keeps eating Bella’s food. Now not only is Bella starving (and refusing to eat) but Princess has a few allergies and she wound up eating two of them. She’s allergic to eggs and chicken. I gave Bella a bowl of meat loaf which had egg whites in it. She’s not allergic to it so I really don’t care how bad some may think it is to feed a dog eggs, I’ve seen ladies share ice cream with their dogs – which is more disgusting? And, last night I gave Bella some chicken and she didn’t eat much of it so there was still a bit of the bowl down when I fell asleep last night. 8 hour old chicken means nothing to Princess, an always hungry dog. Now she’s beyond bloated and can barely walk on her little mini dachshund legs.
:: UGH! ::
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
It’s been a pretty busy night. I did a bit of cooking for the dogs. Only one of them actually eats dog food, Bella and Candy prefer something like meatloaf or chicken. The problem with this is, Candy was used to a simple meatloaf for many years. She had my meatballs once and now she absolutely refuses to eat any other kind, sauce included. It’s a trade off though, because thanks to Kay Bella now prefers to be hand-fed depending on what it is and she’ll only eat something with bottled sauce. She grew up on my home made sauce for the last 3 years. So basically Kay and I screwed each other on the deal…heh.
With the not-so-recent dog and cat food scare, knowing that Bella hasn’t eaten real wet dog food in quite some time I wasn’t too paniced when I heard about everything. She is a huge fan of Kibbles and Bits, but thankfully that wasn’t on the recall list. I came across a site not too long ago that was about 130 pages long and it had a full list of every single item of dog and cat food that was recalled. My heart went up in my chest while I was going through it because when I came across the cat food section I noticed a few familiar names, the same brands that pretty kitty had eaten for so many years. She was put down about two years ago but if she were still alive today I’d know for a fact that she wouldn’t have been for much longer. She was in the advanced stages of feline diabetes so she didn’t have much time left, as is. It sucked to put her down but she was also 16 years old so I guess there was really no choice in the matter. She had a happy life, lots of playing and plenty of lap-time with the ones she loved. She was never a run-and-hide kind of cat, she was a full-on lap cat which is why we loved her so much. I do still miss her but I know that over a period of time, you’ll lose everything you love, no matter what it may be.
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
I woke up a little too late today to call up the groomer but I think someone up there (points) is giving me signs about where to take her. The entire time I’ve been down here I can honestly say that I have not seen ONE commercial for a groomer, which there typically aren’t in most cases, but the one I was interested in bringing her down to had a commercial on television yesterday morning. Based on how the dogs in the place looked, it’s safe to say that I’ll be happy with my choice.
It’s going to run me about $50 to get her all groomed up. Considering I paid the same amount in NY it’s not going to be such a big deal. They’ll groom her up, cut her nails, ‘squeeze the poop shoot’ as the man on the phone so graciously put it and then she’ll be a happy, semi-hair free dog for the summer. I can’t wait for it either, the poor thing has been panting her little face off for the last few days considering how warm it’s getting down here. I didn’t factor in that it’s an average of 10 degrees hotter down here than it is up in New York so I think it’s important on keeping on top of her health (which grooming does play a roll in) on top of my own.
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
I told myself, countless times, that I was going to fall asleep by midnight – 2am at the absolute latest. It’s now a little after 3am and the exhaustion has just finally kicked in. I do believe it had a lot to do with the walk Baby and I just took though. We wound up going back and forth because Bella loves to explore and kept going back and forth like a drunk who can’t walk a straight line. She’s cute about it though. In a few days she’s going to the groomer and there will be no more fluffy-puppy, at least for a few months or so. It has to be done, however, summer is coming up and if she’s going to be outside as much as she usually is in the summer, she’s going to have to lose some hair or sweat to death – I wouldn’t want this to happen.
Tomorrow is a big cleaning day, I did a lot in the kitchen this afternoon but that fridge is screaming for me. The dining room table could use some cleaning as well. The damn thing is a glass-top table so even if no one sits there, one finger print just seems to keep re-smearing itself. I want to pick up some new place mats too, they’re only about $1.50 at the supermarket in their seasonal section – there were some pretty colors floating around as well. Maybe that’ll be a future purchase for me, who knows. All money from this point on is casino based anyway…heh.
Welp, guess it’s time for my head to hit the pillow…it’s already starting to droop down like my neck is about to give out. :ugh:
Night all!
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
I have to say that I kicked some major ass today. I completed projects for about three clients and I’m in the process of finishing up a fourth. I like when things go well like this, I really do. I’m set as far as A.C. goes so I’m not too concerned there. I also know that with a constant flow of work coming in, I’ll be a lot better off. I’ve been up since 8am and while I’m tired, I know there’s still a lot of work for me to get done so I need to finish that before my head hits the pillow tonight.
Unfortunately I fell asleep so early last night that I didn’t get the chance to bring Bella for her nightly walk. I’m going to make it up to her, however. She’s been eating very well today and before Baby and I go to bed, we’re probably going to do about two miles and she can crap wherever she pleases.
Tomorrow is going to be another busy day for me. While I didn’t get a chance to clean out the fridge this week, I did clean up the kitchen. Tomorrow I’m stripping everything out of the fridge and getting rid of all the crap in there. There’s food in there that can be thrown out. I know there’s a bottle of soda in there that probably went flat a few weeks ago. There’s nothing MOLDY in there because we’re all good on throwing out bad food. It’s just the spring and the fridge, of all places, really deserves to have a good scrub down every month just because of all the bacteria that can form in there. The same goes for the fridge in the office because I don’t know if Baby has EVER cleaned it out and since I’m keeping my water and yogurt in there – it has to be done. I may even drag it outside and power-wash it with the hose…heh.
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
I’m feeling a bit helpless at the moment (if you couldn’t tell by the title). Baby has a really bad ear infection that’s got him in a mood. I know he’s in a lot of pain but he’s not doing much to fix it. He’s had ear infections his entire life so this isn’t anything new to him. He has to tap on his ear to be able to even hear out of it and he’s done nothing to really medicate himself either. Antibiotics are a must when you have an infection, there’s also a pain killer or two in the house that does a lot more than regular aspirin does but he doesn’t seem to be taking anything. He says he has, but I haven’t seen him do it so I really don’t know.
Right now he’s across the hall sleeping. Bella’s been in the room with him sleeping by his feet and I’m sure that’s going to bother him at some point considering how warm it is in the house. He’s been sleeping on the floor because the bed has really been messing up his back – he hasn’t left the bed in HOURS though. I may wind up turning in early tonight just so I can be up tomorrow in case he needs anything.
I just wish that there was something I could do. You can’t get a stubborn man to go to the hospital if he absolutely refuses. No matter how convincing I can be with him, nothing seems to work. I’m kind of stuck here and don’t know what to do.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I have a whole list of things that I need to get done before my head hits the pillow tonight. I’m four hours away from doing my 24 hour run and while blogging has cut down because of the fact that the Tuesday prize has already been given away – I’m still working on everything I possibly can to get everything in order. I admit that I’ve been slacking on getting the template for Ranee coded, but I can say I’ll have that done tonight, I’m going to start coding everything over to WordPress as soon as I’m done posting.
I won a bid on GAF a few moments ago so that’s another thing I’m going to have to get started on afterwards. I’m converting a site over from PHP to HTML which to me makes no sense but it’s easier for the client to edit everything so that’s the route to take. I’m waiting on a write-up from another client and then hopefully after all has been said and done, I can get myself to sleep by midnight – 2am at the absolute latest.
Baby fell asleep a little while ago, he’s battling an ear infection at the moment so he’s hasn’t been in the most chipper of moods. This afternoon I took a break after I last posted to do some things around the house. I wound up taking a walk to the mailbox with Bella so she could get out and enjoy the sunlight.
It’s beautiful outside during the day here. There’s so many birds chirping and flowers blooming that sitting inside is starting to get to me. The problem is that Baby can only really concentrate at night when he’s working so it’s hard to get on a balanced schedule for him, he just winds up sleeping during the day. I’d like to be outside more during the day, it just sucks doing it alone when you want to spend time with him, you know? Maybe by the time things take off with him we’ll be able to sync up again. Something to look forward to.
Okay, so I’m going to get my ass in gear on everything I have to do. This way I can do my two-miles before I go to sleep. Bella seems to enjoy it, she marks her territory every 10 feet it seems, it’s kind of funny heh.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
We decided to hold off until about 6:30 before we ordered anything. The diner wasn’t an option that was going to benefit either one of us. The food is too greasy for me and Baby really didn’t want a burger from them considering how horrible the taste. We’re going to wait until this little mom and pop shop opens up and then call in an order from there. I figured I’d just get myself some breakfast. They’ve got some pretty decent omlets but I know there’s a whole muffin case so maybe I’ll load up on some whole-grains today instead of eggs. I haven’t quite decided yet.
I’m still getting some work done here and there on other things. I’m trying very hard to get Bella to eat but she just refuses to do it lately and I really wish I understood why. She’s only eating about once a day and at this point it’s been over 24 hours since she last ate anything. I really need to get her to the vet, that’s just more money going out than I’d like. I need to remind myself to call the groomer today too. I think a lot of her discomfort is based on the fact that her hair is starting to get a little matted and it’s bothering her. I want to assume that once I get that fixed, then everything else will slowly follow.
Back to work I go…
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I didn’t get to sleep until about 4:30 this afternoon. We were actually pretty busy today. We hung around the house for a while and got some things done outside. He pulled out the weed wacker to do the trim around the house because the landscapers for the community only do what they can get to. Instead of paying some stupid fee each month it’s just easier to do every thing yourself. The hose was tangled so we worked on that, there were two and both of them had gaping holes in them so it’s time to get a new one.
We showered/changed and then headed over to the deli up the block and got ourselves lunch. First we stopped by the groomer so I could ask a few questions but unfortunately they were closed so I think I’ll just have to call tomorrow. I forgot that a lot of places aren’t open on Monday’s. No biggie.
After we ate we were home for a little while and then Baby decided to go to bed, I wasn’t tired enough to follow. I wound up going outside to read and then I realized if I don’t plant something soon, there won’t be any flowers for the season. I know I’m already a bit late but I really don’t care, worse case scenario – if nothing pops up – I’ll just go get some pre-bloomed ones and plant them myself.
Around 4:30 it all caught up with me and I was knocked out. Now it’s a little after 12 and I’m most likely going to be up all night. There’s a big Tuesday thing going on over at PPP so I think I’m going to stick around for that. I think there’s going to be?Ǭ† A LOT of blog posts today because I’m probably going to be up for 24 hours again … heh.
In any event, I’m gonna get my ass in gear. Finish a few templates, get some things off my computer and then figure out what I’m going to do from there. I really, really need to turn the AC on because it’s so warm in here that I’m afraid I’m going to fall back asleep and that would totally screw me up.
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