Spent Friday night recouping from long first week of training temp. On top of normal pregnancy tiredness, add to it training someone who doesn't get things quickly and you have one exhausted pickle on your hands.

Saturday, we lounged around in bed enjoying cuddles with furkids and each other. Didn't sleep well Friday night so I was pretty drained as well on Saturday. Jamers made yummy breakfast of crepes that we filled with bananas, peaches, blackberries and strawberries which we drizzled with homemade whipped cream. They were delightful. I can't seem to get enough of fruit lately. I've been craving it quite a bit which is fine expect for when I'm craving fruit and I want to eat tangerines, but my heartburn doesn't allow for the extra citric acid in my tum-tum. Anyways, we, well James primed two of the walls downstairs for sample painting. I wanted to do it myself, but my body has switched from I can do manual work to try it and I'll give you such a pain in your mid section you will have to lay down for an hour just to make the pain stop. Seriously, this is the worst part - I physically just can't do much of anything right now.

So Jamers primed the walls why the hormonal wife back seat painted and we had nachos and Babylon 5 for lunch. Well we watched BB5 and ate nachos which was just loverly. Xine and Kurt came over later in the afternoon and we hung out watched an episode of Cowboy Bebop (which I fear at the rate we are going we'll never finish), played Chez Geek (it has been so long since I played I totally forgot how!) watched the last real Indiana Jones movie the one with, as James literally pointed out by throwing his thumb back at the wall behind him and saying "that guy" in regards to Sean Connery. By the end of the evening it was like 10:30 when they left and I was ready for bed.

The great stupendous miraculous thing was that I slept well last night! I started without pillows, but about mid-way through the night I pulled them into bed. It was the most restful sleep I have achieved in I think weeks. We got up this morning and Jamers said, I'm in the mood for Dim Sum. So we called B-rye (hmmmmm, rye Wild Turkey - must purchase for when Xander has arrived and breast pump can relieve me for an evening of indulgence) and we meet him out at a place on 82nd and Division. Bryan had never had Dim Sum before, which is funny because I've only had it twice prior - once with James and Risa up in SF, and the other time was with Betsey and Noe (Bryan's wife). Anyhow it was a tad overwhelming at first with all the carts, but in the end I think we all enjoyed our lunch out. I love Dim Sum, as I'm sure most people do. I love little appetizery foods and being able to eat the variety of foods at one sitting makes me feel all special. I know I have a weird sense of self.

We got home this afternoon and just piddled around - oh how I loves the piddling around. I haven't been to excited about doing things, again, so Jamers made me some warm almond milk and we went down and watched some BB5 again. Now he is in the kitchen making yummy din-dins and I'm sure we will watch yet more BB5 whilst nibbling on pasta, salad, and garlic bread.

We've moved the cradle into our room so the furkids get used to it. I almost wish I had a life like baby doll to put in there and see how they react. So far the only one that has shown interest in climbing in has been Baz, which is to be expected. Other than that, life has been going on pretty much the same as it has been. Jamers has good days and bad as do I. We are down to less than 5 weeks left before Xander is scheduled to arrive. I'm alternately having feelings of anxiety over the delivery and calm over the fact that these will be our last few days of "us" time for quite awhile.

I'm told din-dins is almost ready so off a toodling I shall go.

One of my lj friends, one who I feel very close to even though we never met, had to put down her dear kitty today. This has hit me incredibly hard and I'm still crying over it. Her furkid was to her, as Velvet was or Bazzykins is to me. At the end here, she had to make the same difficult decision for her precious as we did for Velvet, although for slightly different reasons. As soon as I read her post, I started thinking about Velvet and the last week of her life and how torturous it was for me and how alone I felt. How helpless I was not being able to do anything for her and how I watched her slowly let go of life.

I don't know how my lj friend feels and I don't presume to know. I can say that reading it has brought back the flood of feelings I had about Vel and if her feelings are anything like mine, I know how much pain she must be in right now.

As her post was locked, I'm not going to name my lj friend's user name, but I want you to know Liana that I really do feel your loss and I'm so very sorry that your little one is now gone. If there is anything at all I can possibly do to help you during this time, please just let me know.

Not here to complain about it although I am worried about getting to and from work tomorrow. I wasn't raised in the snow, never went to the snow as a kid, so I can't drive in it. I readily admit that. Luckily we have chains for Forlori if is comes down to it, but having to stop and take them off (if necessary) is not something this pregnant lady is going to do by herself. So I worry.

Anyways the point of this post is how much the fricken dogs loves the snow! Earlier I let them out and Honey was bouncing around the yard and having a grand time of it. I was surprised given her tendency to be afraid of just about everything. But Shelby is utterly entertaining. Now we did have her last year at this time, but I think we hardly had any snow last year. In any case, she is enjoying going out and snuffling the deck and eating the snow. Seriously looks like she is sniffing up cocaine or something. But she loves it! She has gone out there twice in the last two hours and has slurped up the snow both times with an enthusiasm matched only by her love to chase the squirrels.

It is hilarious and cute to watch. I told James we should record it (on the digital camera) so I could post the funny on the lj. However, that would require me actually knowing techy things and I'm in the mood to sit back, relax, be warm and eat today. Maybe he'll do the honors later.

However, EVERYONE should spread this story out! Why? Because it is finally some good fricken press about Pitbulls and how even some that have been trained to be killers can be rehabilitated.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25214356

It's about time people started realizing how amazing and awesome these doggies can be. Truly the story brought tears to my eyes.

as in I made an appointment this evening to take the girlies in for an evaluation for training. It will be a one on one training for each of them and as they both have completely separate issues that will be great.

We take them in at 8pm on Wednesday (how nice that is to not have to miss work!) I'm semi-worried about the cost. Not because we won't pay it, but because the place doesn't take credit cards, only checks. I understand why, but it scares me to cough the cash up out of the checking and/or potentially savings. However this is much needed and long overdue. The amount of collateral damage Shelbo and Honey have done to our house in such a short time is incredible.

If all goes well, we may one day be able to have furniture without rips and tears. Of course, we still have to figure out why Scully Wooloos pees and poops wherever she wants. We have done everything the vet recommended - changed the litter to the clumping type (it's softer I guess), added an extra litter box, and taken the lids off the litter boxes. Jamers cleans up her messes every time with the enzymatic cleaner so there is no "trace" that she has gone there. We tried feeding her meals on the spots she most frequents. That worked for a couple of weeks, but then one day she just went ahead a pissed right in her food dish. The last resort, which hasn't worked either, is the purchase of the ever so expensive Feliaway DAP plug in diffuser. It has calming kitty hormones that should prevent her from wanting to make the potties in the vicinity.

The are some theories out there that perhaps she can't smell? Her sense may be messed up from when the OHS had to remove the tumor on her eye. Who knows? We will be taking her back to the vet soon to see if there is some medical explanation as to why she does that and hopefully we can find a way to correct it.

Believe it or not, Bazzykins is the least bothersome pet now. Which is weird considering how he hates everybody but me. I picked up doggie & kitty foods on the way home and I had to look at the Petsmart kitties. Every time I go in there I have to look at them. I know we really shouldn't have any more pets, especially not anymore doggies, but I could have taken them all home right then and there. Instead I took home a flyer about volunteering and fostering. After we get the girlies trained, perhaps we can look into fostering pets instead of accumulating more.

the sun was gone again, pooplins. Tonight we shall finish what we didn't get done last night, mainly the house cleaning and stuff to storage. I will feel infinitely happier when the house doesn't look like a junk yard.

Forlori is in at the shop today getting regular maintenance work. The shop I took her to by recommendation seems real honest and nice. They called to tell me that she needs a tune up in addition to the extended servicing, the total estimated price is like $340, which compared to the last place I took it, is infinitely cheaper. Plus they got 'er done today, well, we'll see, but she should be done today for afternoon pick up. Which is good, I don't like not having her around.

Tomorrow we takes Pretty Lady, aka: Velvet to the vets to get her caught up on her shots. Next Saturday Bazzy goes in for his catch up. We got taxes, Jamer's resume blast, and the pics/statements to the AAA lawyer mailed off today.

When the house gets clean today, and with the above all done, we are in pretty good shape for the move I think. We'll look into getting a PO Box later tonight/tomorrow, so that we can give a forwarding address to the bill peeps in the coming month or so. It is all beginning to come together!

Ohhhhhh! Matt let me borrow the Star Trek movies DVD box set for the weekend in exchange for me letting him borrow Firefly. Last night we special ordered Babylon 5 Season 2, it should arrive in a month or so. It costs just as much as Season 1, which made me almost choke. However I have $70 in replay certificates, which will cover most of it thankfully. We were debating whether or not to start collecting Red Dwarf with the certificates, but I think poor Jamers is now addicted to Babylon 5, so we really should get it now.

Anyhoo, hopes everyones' weekend.

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