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A proud grandma who thinks her grandson is the best!I work at the most *EVIL PLACE* in the world.

Experience of my life

WOW!! It has been 5 weeks since these lil precious bostons came into my life and I can say that it has been one experience that I've never had before...
The anticipation of whether Sissy would be ok and then as she got nearer to the due date whether or not the puppies would be ok and what they would look like and if they would be healthy. Then to actually see them born and be so tiny and helpless and to see how it is just nature for the momma dog to know exactly what to do without any help from us. It has been a experience I'm glad I was able to have but it is about to come to an end. They are 5 weeks old now and very active and healthy. They are eating canned dog food, drinking water out of bowl and nibbling on dry food. They eat, sleep. poop and play in that order. Today they all got their 1st baths. They loved the warm water and one actually was floating on his back but Dude wouldn't take a picture for me...

Next week I will run an ad in paper and they will soon be just a memory and a very wonderful one at that. I am wore out trying to care for them because at about 3 weeks their momma decided she had done all she was going to do!! Old Dude has helped me with them as far as keeping there playpen clean and helping me feed them but it's been up to me to keep them clean...
As it stands now we are keeping one of the boys because he is just to cute to let go he is like our older dog Molly in that he has one blue eye and one brown eye and he is a fat lil lazy thing that lets you do anything you want to with him. He loves to sleep on his back in your arms or hand in Old Dude's case!!!!
I'm working on a slide show from when they were born to the pictures I took today at 5 weeks.....

Ethan has been here all weekend and he is less trouble than the puppies if you can believe that!!! Give him a good movie and he is quite for at least an hour!!

For the next 2 weeks I'll be working in the Invoice office and I'll love that cause it is a sit down job and doesn't make my bones and muscles hurt as bad. Joyce will be gone on vacation. I really like it now that I know almost(notice I said almost) all there is to know about working in that office...

I will be back later with a slide show .....
Tootles......................................

Sunday April 6, 2008 - 11:11am (CDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Up Date on Puppies

Oh my the weather here today was beautiful and it is now 70 degrees at 9:45 pm.. OldDude BBQ'ed a Boston Butt today and it was very tasty.He also made potato salad and macaroni salad.

I bought an Easter basket today cause I thought it would be cute to get pictures of the fur babies in it. The lil rascals have grown so much in two weeks I can't believe it. They each weight around 1 pound 6 oz. Guess I should have gotten a bigger basket!!! They opened their eyes on the 8th and now they are really adorable. I take turns with each one at least once a day giving them loveys and getting a healthy dose of "PUPPY LOVE "in return!!! The people who gets these dogs will have a bunch of spoiled babies on their hands!!!

Here is a link to the new slide show I made of them tonight....

slideshow

Monday March 17, 2008 - 09:57pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

WE GOT SNOW!!!!!

I love it I am HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!!!!! Ok I know some of you northerners think I have lost my ever
loving mind but we

are finally getting snow so far it's about 3 inches with more expected.. Like the weather man said just now.. this white stuff to us southerners is like aliens from outer space!!!

Puppies are gaining about 2 oz a day.. They sleep and eat, poop and pee.. They are so precious I wish I could keep them all but when I think of house breaking 5 pups I talk myself out of it...

Gotta go turn my heated mattress pad on and I'm gonna lay in a warm bed and watch the snow come down outside my window.Now is when I really wish I had french doors in my bedroom!!!!

Friday March 7, 2008 - 05:25pm (CST) Permanent Link | 1 Comment

Sad News and Good News

We lost one of the babies early this morning.The lil pup born first the one I named Zoom Zoom cause he came out so fast was in distress last night. I tried to feed him with some replacement milk and he just wouldn't suckle the nipple . I tried putting the milk on my fingertip, then a dropper then a Q-tip dripping with the milk. He just was too weak to do much of anything and he was so cold I had him wrapped in a washcloth and I was blowing my warm breath on his lil head but when I kissed the top of his head it was so cold.... I finally just put him back with his momma and she knew he was in trouble cause she put her chin over the top of him and looked up at me so pitiful.. It broke my heart I told her I knew how she felt cause I had lost one of my babies too.
When I went in to check on them this morning I could tell he was gone but I didn't touch him cause I knew I would start crying so I fixed a box with paper towels in it and kleenex and left a note for OldDude to put him in there and I'd bury him when I got home. When I came home at lunch he had him in the morgue (butter compartment of fridge). He had made a cross out of Q-tip sticks and taped a piece of paper at the bottom that says Zoom Zoom March 1st 2008 -March 4th 2008.. OldDude has a heart in case anyone has ever wondered....
Tonight we took their pictures and weighed them each. 4 of them weighs 8 oz and one weighs 6 oz.. I hope they continue to grow and gain weight... I can only imagine how attached I'm going to be to them by the time they are old enough to send off to new homes!!!!

The GOOD NEWS is that OldDude has been approved for his disability!!! Praise the Lord because I was about to break under the stress of trying to keep the bills up and be sick myself... Now some of the pressure is off of me.... I wish they would approve me but I know I would really have a fight on my hands since to look at me it appears I'm in good health but if they only knew the pain I'm constantly in and what it does to my emotions....

Need to go take care of the laundry. It's taking two bath towels a day to keep the puppies nursery clean.. They are worth it though....
Tootles......................

Tuesday March 4, 2008 - 07:47pm (CST) Permanent Link | 2 Comments

God put me thru a test this past week.. I think I passed....

I guess I should probably start telling this story from the beginning which would be last Saturday morning...

OldDude came home after drinking coffee to inform me I had a flat tire. No surprise because I had noticed a nail in it about two weeks ago.I used his car to run errands over the weekend and Sunday night we went out and aired it up with a bicycle pump. I was hoping that it would stay up till I could drive to work Monday morning and get two new tires and have them rotate them.

I get up Monday morning and walk out the door holding the flashlight and my breath hoping the tire was still up..It was so I get in the car at about 6:30 am and turn the key......nothing.....I turn the key again....nothing but a strange whining noise.... Motor wasn't even trying to turn over. Battery wasn't even clicking nothing but a whining noise and I swear I though I saw some smoke drifting in front of head lights... I called OldDude to tell him my car wouldn't start and I thought smoke was coming from under hood... I get out and sit on porch in rocker wishing I had a gun.It's a 2003 Focus wagon that I still have 30 payments on. I have just used all my income tax refund to get bills caught back up because OldDude hasn't worked since June and Social Security is dragging their sorry asses approving his disability and now this!! Yes where is a gun when you need it!!!!I would have shot that damn car right there on the spot!!!

Olddude gets here and I try to start it and he says "it's the starter" OH DAMN!!!!! I get in his car that is a 1994 ford escort wagon that I make fun of it cause everything is falling off of it on the inside. Well it rescued my ass many a time so I guess I need to keep my mouth shut about it... I drive it to work and come home at lunch to tell him that his brake light is on and brakes are not so good.. He takes a can of break fluid out to fill it up and he gets in to test drive it to see if it's better. He pulls in the drive with a funny look and says there are NO BRAKES at all now and then we see a puddle of break fluid on drive way.. OH SHIT AND OH DAMN!!!!!!
Laura was here so she took me back to work and came after me Monday when I got off. I had to pick up a few things after I got off and she was out in the car on her phone rushing me to hurry up.. She brings me home and I head straight to bed. I am just laying there with all sorts of thoughts going thru my head and Dude comes down to check on me "asks how I'm doing" I reply as good as I can!!

I'm laying there in bed and realize I didn't get my 20 dollar bill out of the self check thing after I requested cash back.. OH FUC*!!!!! What else is gonna happen to me. I called Laura and asked if anyone ever turns in the money others leave behind and she says"if they are honest". Well heck the way my luck is going I had a thief in line behind me!!! So I didn't even bother to call up to the store and tell them to be on the lookout for a twenty dollar bill...

I get up Tuesday morning and Laura comes to take me to work. I have to stay there for lunch and miss my noon nap I take every day instead of eating lunch when I come home. I call around and find the cheapest starter and Dude finds a place to put it on so Tuesday he calls the tow truck to come after it and take it to the starter place. Tuesday afternoon he calls and tells me it's not the starter that it checked out fine...The Starter guy tells him it's probably the timing chain and recommends a place. He calls that place and he says if it's a certain kind of motor and it was engaged it could have bent the rods.Says he will look it up and get back with him...Dude calls me at work and starts to tell me then says wait I'll tell you when you get home.. OH DAMN, FUC* and SHIT!!!!!! it's bad news for sure... I get home and he tells me to sit down. It is the kind of motor the guy thought it was and he says he doesn't want to mess with it that our best bet would be to take it to the Ford place... Now anyone and everyone knows that a dealership will rip a person a new poop hole if the car is out of warranty so I'm fit to be tied by now.

Wednesday I get to work and I call the Ford place and talk to the salesman that I've bought like 4 cars from and tell him my sad pitiful story and ask what kind of trade in he will give me on a new 2008 Focus.. He told me I would be better off to have it repaired because I owe so much on this car. OUCH!!! so he puts me thru to the girl in the service department. I tell her what is going on and she is quick to tell me that they are far far behind and it will be this Tuesday before they can even get to it.. I tell her it's not doing me any good at the battery shop so I'm going to have it towed over there. I also told her if it cost a whole lot to fix it if they couldn't work a payment plan out for me for the repair bill then they would just have to keep it till I got the repair bill paid out in installments.. Car on layaway for repair charge!!! hahahahahha She said that was fine. So I called Dude and told him to have it towed to the Ford place.. Two towing fees in 2 days 65 dollars each time.. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday night the tornado's were all around us and headed our way.. Sirens were going off and I'm outside saying "Tornado's take me away" I wouldn't have to worry about paying anybody anything.. Well as you can see the plea to the Tornado didn't work any better than the plea to Calgon!!!! I'm still here....

Thursday night and Wednesday night someone had to pick up Ethan at daycare at 5:30 and Laura works till 8 on those two nights so at 4 when she came back to lunch she gave me her keys to her car and I used it to pick lil man up and then at 8 I went back out to get her and then she dropped me off here at the house. Thursday night I was talking to her on my cell phone while waiting in the car asking her where the heck she was at cause it was 8:15 and I was tired and stressed. She came walking out the door and I got out of car and walked around to passenger side to let her drive.. I get home and start getting ready for bed. I go to get my cell phone out of my jacket pocket and it's not there!!! OH HELL NO , SHIT, DAMN, FUC* it all I've dropped my phone out of my pocket on the parking lot... Randy calls my number just in case it's in the house here and we don't hear it.. I go outside and listen for it while he calls it.. Then I called Laura to see if it fell out in her car.. A call comes in on Dude phone and it's my number but I can't figure out how to answer his phone and it stops ringing. I take it to him and tell him I think Laura found it so he calls my number back and some man answers and Dude is asking what he is doing with my phone and the man tells him he is talking on it cause it's his phone not mine. Randy looses his temper and tells the man we are going to have it deactivated and hangs up. He tells me to get my A** on the phone and call ATT and deactivate the phone cause some thief has it... His phone rings and it's Laura laughing her ass off.. Seems like her *man* was playing a trick on who he thought would be me not her dad. She is the one that put him up to doing it.Mean lil shit!!!!!
Well at least my phone wasn't lost... Friday morning the girl in the office said that her boyfriend said it could be something as simple as a blown fuse. So I call over at the Ford place and ask the girl in the service department if maybe she could get a mechanic to just go out and try to start it and listen and see if it was something simple. She said she had tried to start it and it seemed to her that it wasn't getting any gas.I said"you mean it actually tried to start?" and she said yes engine turned over but wouldn't stay running. Well that was a lot more than it did for me. Then the LIGHT went off in my head....... uhhhhhh once again I had ran the car after the gas light came on and I think this time I may have gotten less than 54.4 miles before it ran out of gas. I tell her my suspicions and asked if after work if I could come by and bring gas to put in the car, She said that would be fine. So after work Laura drove me out to the place where OldDude car was. The brake lines had rusted into.They gave us an estimate of 150 dollars for that repair fee.. While driving out there Laura told me when balanced the cash office before leaving it was twenty dollars over and then she found a note that someone had found a twenty dollar bill on register 44 at a little after 4 and that it was probably mine and as soon as loss prevention could view the tape they would give it to me. Then she proceeded to tell me that all week I had been on the verge of another breakdown and was talking crazy talk again about not wanting to live and that it was all turning out OK because my phone was not lost, my twenty had shown up and it just might be all that was wrong with my car was that I had let it run out of gas again.. 3rd time if anyone is keeping up!!!. I get to the brake place and the charge is only 98 dollars.. Thank you God!!!

I drive OldDude car home and he's waiting with empty gas can we go get gas for his car and the can than head to Ford place. Tire is flat again. I get in but not before "laying hands" on the car and praying that all that is wrong with it is that it's out of gas!! I get in and turn key on but I don't try to start it yet and I turn my Gospel music CD on to the song "Blessed Assurance" and I'm steadily praying. Randy tell me to try to start it and guess what?? IT STARTED!!!!!!!!!! Praise Jesus!!!

Talk about someone that was crying tears of joy. OldDude was really letting me have it for running out of gas again.. Hey you gotta hand it to me Once was on parking ,lot once at home in driveway and once at stop sign.

YES FOLKS I went a whole week with out my car , paid out 130 dollars for tow fees because I can't remember to put gas in my car when the light comes on...Feeling real stupid here!!!!!!!!

I think God was testing me by letting all this stuff happen to me in the same week. I held on and tried to keep my faith . I prayed each night that nothing bad would be wrong with the car. I never once got mad at God for all my troubles. So I think I passed his test of my endurance....

Sunday February 10, 2008 - 06:46pm (CST) Permanent Link | 4 Comments

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