why can’t i just live a quiet, peaceful life??
sooo much to tell. i’ll just break it out by day…..
light’s up friday jon out up our ikea light over the bistro table in the kitchen. it looks so nice. now if we can just replace the hideous copper saloon light hanging in the den. my mom came over to borrow my computer. she has dial up aol & we have roadrunner so it makes a huuuge difference.
not enough hours in the day
saturday was supposed to be the day to prepare for my sister’s bridal shower held at my house on sunday. instead my day just disappeared with not much getting done because i was hanging out with husband. my mom and i eventually went to the dollar store and party city for supplies & harris teeter for groceries. we didn’t get back to my house until 9. just in time to watch trading spaces. it was shot in raleigh. just 3 hours away. so that was cool. i ended up staying up too late getting stuff ready for the shower so i caught the re-run of the 8pm trading spaces show too. i found it odd that they paired frank up with sorority girls. where was genevieve or doug or somebody?? didn’t get to bed until 2. but i was successful in turning a 3 tiered tool turn about from pampered chef into a ‘wedding cake’ centerpiece with some beads, flowers and a hot glue gun. man i’m good. =)
here’s where the trouble starts…
sunday i got up at 8 to get the house in shape for this shower. husband was at work already so nelson puppy and i headed outside to the fenced in back yard to fill up the pond, get the water wheel going and sweep the patio. i’ve still got bed head and i’m in my house cleaning t-shirt & shorts. not a pretty site. (this is important later). i opened the gate to get the broom apparently it didn’t latch shut and nelson shot out. i chased after him calling him but nelson ran straight into the street and got hit by a car . i’m having trouble writing this right now without tearing up. the evil car driver & passenger didn’t slam on breaks, they barely slowed down and they didn’t stop to see if he was ok! i mean, it’s not their fault they hit him, but come on! you can’t stop and check?? and they saw me running out there. evil. so he tumbled into the yard across the street then shot back over to my house and into the back yard. as he’s streaking by i notice his tail’s all bloody. i run into the back yard and close the gate and call for him. by now i’m sobbing like a mad woman. i don’t know if he’s got broken bones or what. he’s shaking and won’t come to me. finally he does and i see his scraped up face and that his tail is 75% gone. i run into the house and call my mom. sidenote: we’ve only lived in our house since february so i don’t know where an emergency vet is on this side of town. the one we knew about is on the other side of town, a half hour away. so that’s why i called my mom. she lives a mile away and is a dog owner too. back to the story. mom, hale, and morgan show up like 6 minutes later all with bed head too and mom and morgan are in a panic crying. when they pull up i’m out in the street looking for my boy’s tail. i found the tip, but not the missing middle section. we wrap nelson up in towels while hale’s on the phone trying to find an emergency vet that will take him on a sunday. we all jump in the car and speed over there. nelson’s being so good. he’s really shaky but he’s not crying at all. they take him and send us to an exam room to wait. a little while later the vet comes in. nothing is broken thank the lord. his face is all scraped from hitting the pavement and she says “he seems to have some sort of tail wound”. i explain that the wound is that it’s missing. they had to stitch him up so they sent us all home telling us to call back in a couple of hours to check his progress.
shower time
so we head home and i still have to clean the house, cook food, organize games, and get ready for my house to be filled with ladies for a shower!! the whole time i’m worried about nelson. plus i’ve just lost 3 hours at the vet that would have been prep time (not to mention the vet bill that’s not going to be pretty). the shower prep was hectic to say the least. i’m running around like a chicken trying to get things done. thankfully my mom, grandma and little-ist sister came early to help. the shower went well, i think sara was pleased. she certainly got a lot of great pampered chef stuff.
nelson comes home
finally nelson came home. hale went to get him during the shower. he looks so pitiful with his little bandages. his whole tail is wrapped up with this squishy cast like thing from base to new shorter tip. sara brought him flowers with a “sorry for the loss of your tail card”. i think he’s going to be ok. i feel sooo badly. and guilty. this poor little dog was all excited 2 weeks ago to go home to a real house with a family and a big yard. now he’s all wrecked up and probably on the phone right now trying to get back to the shelter!! poor husband was so frustrated the whole time because he was stuck at work powerless to help me. he couldn’t leave because he was the only manager there. he’s taking nelson on thursday for his follow up visit so hopefully that will go well. keep your fingers crossed for my banged up pooch!
suicidal pets
so the shower’s over and my friend amy walks into the dining room and calls me in there. seems kenichi heard about nelson and was so distraught he jumped out of the bowl! what’s with my animals??? i’m good to them! luckily he was still alive. i picked him up and he flipped around so i dropped him back in his bowl and he’s still alive. yay!
Bless Your Heart 