Crazy Little Thing Called Life

new week

And hopefully, a better week.

We are still waiting to hear from the radiologist for confirmation on Rocket's x-rays.
But it seems he tore a tendon away from his shoulder blade, taking some bone pieces with it.
Remarkably, for a limping, owie dog...he is in good spirits (pain meds help) and is a total sweetheart.
He lost his mind the other night at 1am and started barking like a crazy dog.  Which is weird, as he is
not a barker unless someone is at the door.  
So bark bark bark...like he's a big guard dog or something.  We come running out of bed...
turn the lights on outside.  Expecting a burgler, a moose, or something equally big and scary.
Nope.  Big fat raccoon.  Sitting there like 'what?'

So in the last few days there have been the 4 deer that are always close by, 2 coyotes,
and 1 big fat raccoon.

We still have stuff to move out of the other house...still the no fun stuff.
We had an offer on our house, but that fell through last week as well.
I told you it was a crappy week.

My Fantasy Football team got crushed.  
Real life football was better.  Ian and the 8th grade boys won their first game against Blaine last week.

I tried to get him in his uniform, but the bugger got in to the locker room and changed too quick.
This week I'll get him.
I like this one better anyhow:

Oh Ian, you are such an 8th grade boy.
Good thing you're handsome.

Happy Monday...

when it rains it pours...

Let's just say it's been a long week.
A really, really, really long week.

And now Rocket is at the vet. :(  He did something yesterday morning (no one saw what happened...
it was between 5:30 and 6am) and he can't bear weight on his right leg.  
It was much worse this morning.  He couldn't get up and was yelping. :(
So he's being sedated for X-rays.  The vet thinks it's his elbow.
He's such a good boy...it's hard to see him hurting.

I'll update when we know more.

adjusting...

I guess now is the time where you realize you should have gone for the bigger bathroom sink.
Or that the handle thingy for the kitchen sink is on the wrong side.
We've moved probably 70% of everything over...so there's still some stuff at the other house.
Not fun stuff either.  Closet junk...basement junk...storage room junk.  There is a theme here.

We brought the cats over yesterday.  They had been living in town with Luke.
But evidently the food ran out, so Luke moved out here with us last night.
Lola is doing great...but one of the sisters (sister cats just sounds weird) meowed all night.
I can't decide if Ziva really likes the bridge upstairs or if it freaks her out.
She keeps going back up there, either way.  And Kate just hides.

Rocket is king of his castle.  We got his allergy tests back...

And he is allergic to......

Dust and Cats.  Seriously.  He had been doing so much better at the new house.
We'll see how things go.  He's way more allergic to dust than cats...so that's good I guess.
They can concoct a medicine specific to his allergies that he has to take for the rest of his life.
Poor guy.
Why couldn't he be allergic to hamsters?  Or kale?

Speaking of allergies...

I forgot about Belle's 8am allergy doctor appointment this morning.
The reminder call was a week ago, and I just forgot about it with the move, I guess.
Anyhow, when I called to let them know...the answering service informed me her doctor wasn't
with the clinic anymore.  She's only seen him/her (I can't even remember) once...a year ago...
so it's no huge loss.  But I feel less bad about forgetting about her appointment, if they can't even tell me
her doctor's not there anymore.

And last...

Keeping her close in my heart and prayers (always)...she's had a tough couple of weeks.
Tests, projects, and another cadet died...car accident. :(

I wish I could say I was off to Starbucks...instead I'm off to tackle more boxes.
And hopefully find some stuff I cannot for the life of me, figure out where I put.
Happy Wednesday...

blogging from the new house :)

We are slowly getting used to things...so far so good!
Sleeping here was so weird!  New sounds.  New smells.  Poor Rocket didn't know what to do
the first night.  It took him a long time to settle down.  (Now...no problem.  He jumps right up into MY spot
on the bed. lol)  He is loving it here.  
There were three deer just off the back patio the other night, and once he saw them he went nuts
thinking he was a guard dog.  The little deer bounced away, but the bigger two were like, "Dude.  Chill.
We WILL be back."
Speaking of them, Belle just yelled "Deer in the driveway!"  Sure enough, the 3 of them were back.
I'm sure they will become no big deal after awhile...but they are fun for now.

Today I am working in my scrap room.  I'm buried in boxes. :(
My super cute chair from Ikea is too low, so that's going to have to go somewhere else. :(
There's just a ton to do.

Happy Monday!

first meal in the new house...

And it was very exotic...meatballs and rice. :)
It tasted good though, after all the convenience take out food we'd been eating with the move.

See the moon?
Loving this view.

The sunsets aren't bad either. :)

Happy Thursday!  Hoping to sleep in the house tonight!

the joy of packing.

No pictures.  I was too embarrassed.

I cleaned out my pantry yesterday.
In my defense, the house we're moving from has quite a bit of storage.
And evidently I don't check what's been living in the back of my shelves.
Nor do I keep track of what I already have.
And I have a fetish for syrup and utensils.

I posted on Facebook, and I'm not alone in buying certain things over and over.
We ran out of ketchup once (gasp!) and I had to vow like Scarlet O'Hara clutching a nasty
turnip in Gone With the Wind that we'd "nevah go without ketchup agin!"
Hence the 5 big things of ketchup.

I can't really explain the 6 gigantic things of syrup.
Or the 6 boxes of plastic knives, forks and spoons from Costco.
As my friend Sara pointed out, that's over 2,000 utensils.
I could not only feed the soccer team breakfast...I could feed two regiments at West Point.
There's also the 10 boxes of spaghetti...
which only goes with the syrup if you are a die hard Elf fan.
Ian's favorite meal is tacos (if it can't be Panda Express).  Which works great with the 5 boxes
of taco shells I found.  Unexpired even.

Don't even get me started on the expired stuff.
Let's just say it became a game to see what was the oldest thing I could find.

Ok...off to Starbucks for fortification.  And a puppaccino for the big guy.
He loves Starbucks.  Who wouldn't love whip cream in a cup?
He looks a little rabid for a few seconds, but then he licks off every drop.

Happy Wednesday!

Moving!

We started moving in over the weekend!  Woohoo!!

The stair railing still has to go in.  You can see he was drilling the holes by the sawdust on the floor.
Rocket has mastered the stairs...but still can't figure out where Iz is at when he calls him from up above.
Totally confused.  It's pretty cute.

The corbels for under the island are sitting on top.  Still a few things to do.
Now for the fun job of deciding where to put everything. 

Hello, washer & dryer!  Hope I can figure them out...you know how you get used to what you have.

Heeeeeey!  A bathtub!  

And a very good dog waiting in the truck bed while we unloaded boxes.
We should have named him Visa...he's everywhere we want to be. :)

Luke & Ian slept out there Saturday night (camped in the living room)...but I don't think we'll all
be out there until this weekend.

We did manage to get a few essentials set up. ha ha
This was a temporary set up so the boys could watch the Miami game on Saturday.

Ok...off to work on packing up the kitchen.

4 boxes of Tupperware and 3 boxes of mixing bowls and Pyrex.  
And that was AFTER sorting and finding lids for everything. 
Evidently I have a problem.

Happy Monday...off to find homes for everything....

happy friday!

The cleaners were busy at work at the house yesterday...and we are going to start to move some
things in today!  Woohoo!!
There are still things left to do...the painter guy is there today touching up.
Contractor stuff, cement being poured.  But I'm so excited! :)

Today Rocket has his allergy testing.  SOMEthing is driving him nuts.
We are hoping to find out what it is so he will stop chewing/scratching.

And the soccer game yesterday...we won 3-2!

And this girl:

Had the game winning goal! :)
Huge shout out to Mark Fullner for all the pictures that he takes and posts...for every game.
My camera is down...I have a broken pin in the card reader thingy.  
Anyone know a good camera repair place, so I don't have to send it in to Canon?

Belle and Sierra have been playing soccer together for YEARS. <3
I absolutely love to watch them.
Great job Lions!!

Happy Friday :)