Glad to be lonesome no more ...

Dear hubby came home finally on the 20th. Good news! No underway until next year! Yea!! That could be bad news also. Our wonderful president cut back monies for the military so much they cannot afford the fuel to do those underway which is why they are not going. That man is going to ruin our country yet! But anyway, to stay off my political soapbox, I will move onto a new subject!!

We have decided to check out the possibility of having a couple of dairy goats. I have been told by my "mil" that their milk is pretty good. Apparently it is creamier than cow's and is already pasteurized after you have milked the does. And to homogenize it doesn't take much. You can make ice cream, cheese, yogurt and even soap out of the milk!! So we will do some looking into that. It is about $50 -$150 a goat. A couple of goats is enough milk for a small family. So we would have enough extra for mom and Grandpa. Then could sell off the rest. Or freeze some of it for future use like for yogurt, ice cream, etc. As expensive as milk is, that would be a nice chunk of our money because we go through a lot of milk. And if we buy a side of beef when we first get there, gosh, our grocery bill would be pretty low. And that would be totally awesome!! So who knows, we may possibly have a nice get up one day!! That would be nice. I would love to have a place to dig in the dirt and raise some critters! Get back to basics and a simple life.

In the mean time, we have a lot of stuff to go through and throw away. We are moving to a much smaller house. It will be hard for me to get rid of a lot of stuff. Every so often I go through it and weed out a lot of stuff and throw it away. But I am REALLY going to have to throw stuff out! And I am not looking forward to it!! LOL

Singing the blues ... I wish

Ok, my voice is not much better. And I am tired of it being this way. I almost wish I hadn't gone to work all week ... as much as I am not suppose to use my voice, I still end up using it which isn't helping things. My throat doesn't hurt. That is the funny thing. But it is dry and with use, gets even drier and becomes irritated. Then that in turn irritates me!! If I could sit there and slowly drink ice cold tea all day so my throat remains numb, I think I would be ok. I have been eating the heck out of popsicles to try and keep it cold while I am at home. Eating stuff sometimes makes it more irritated. Not the popsicles of course. But warm foods. Bread sometimes too. This is really sucking bad!!

On a good note, not long now before the hubby gets home. Thank goodness!! I miss his company and even his frustrating antics. I cannot wait to hug him and hold him! Yea!! And I can't wait to have him around to help around the house!! LOL I miss him. He is my best friend.

Signing off for now since it is late.

To speak or not to speak ... that is not the question ...!!

Ok, went to the doctor's today. Found out I have one of two things .... either Laryngitis, which I do not have the typical symptoms (no barking cough, etc ... other than the loss of voice part) or paralysis of my vocal cords. The doctor gave me some antibiotics (Azithromycin) to take for 5 days. But it is suppose to remain in my body for 10 more days after taking the last dose. So if I am not better within the next 15 days, I am suppose to go back and be referred to a specialist to see what is going on. For a person that likes to talk, this is a death sentence!! LOL I have a doctor's note that I left at work that told them I could not talk or whisper for a whole week. That is going to be fun!! LOL

Ahhhh ... this is going to be so hard!! I am constantly yelling at the dogs for something or another! Good thing hubby comes home next week! He can take over the pleasure!! LOL

Not much else has happened today! I know I know ... you can't handle the excitement!! LOL

I did get the chance to do some reading on one of the hobby farm books and it kind of excited me about going to the country. I will be glad when I have an idea of what the house looks like so I can start planning. I hate the unknown.

Checking out for now. Gotta start cleaning the house a little!! :)

Swimming in tubs with dogs ...

Ahhh I survived another day at work with no voice. Tomorrow I have an appointment with the doctor to see why I have lost my voice. I have no obvious reasons as to why I have lost it. But because I could not talk, I got to wash dogs today at work. Which wasn't so bad but my back is killing me!! I washed 13 dogs ... 3 of which were large dogs. I was SOAKED to the skin with my first dog ... literally. Was a lab/shepard mix. Very sweet dog ... but soaked me to the skin!! And I just stayed wet the remainder of the day. I had a couple dogs growl at me but no bites. I am pretty much no nonsense with dogs and I think they feel that. I did have one poodle that did not want me to dry him. I ended up just putting a box dryer on him which typically you don't do with poodles (or any dogs that have a curly coat) but that was all we could do with him. When I talked to the groomer who was doing him, she had told the other bather that Cody needed to be done because he is on ACE (acepromazine ... a relaxant for dogs) so he needed to be done. Well, the other bather never did him. Just said oh ok and went onto another dog. Well, I noticed that he hadn't been done yet and I knew he was on ACE but I had already did two large dogs and there were just two other large dogs to be done including this standard poodle. I was going to let the other bather do those since I had already done two large dogs. Well I ended up doing this poodle. I really think this poodle is inbred too much. He just is not right. He is not a bad poodle. Just a little off!! Needless to say, his cut wasn't as good as it could have been because his coat had to dry under a box dryer (one of those dryers they hang on the front of the kennel). I tried to use the high forced air dryer on him and he went literally nuts! So between me not feeling good and him going nuts, I said Nuts to it!! Luckily the groomer was cool about it. Just ticks me off about the other bather. The groomer had told her to do the dog and she ignored her. That bather is known by the other bathers not to like to do big dogs. Now I have witnessed it myself. Oh well, in a couple months, it will not matter to me. I have told all the bathers that if they have issues to go to Alysia. If they do not want to handle it themselves then it must not bother them that much. I cannot wait to go to the doctor's to see what is causing my laryngitis.
Ok, other than that, not much going on here! Boring life, I know ... I LOVE IT!! Excitement around here is hardly ever good so I would much rather have it this way!!

Toodles for tonight!!

Tickle the tonsils ... I think not!!

I managed to make it through tonight at work. With hardly a voice at all. I had to use it when required and so I will be surprised if I have any voice at all tomorrow! And I get to work all day tomorrow in grooming ... I know my voice won't last that long if I have one tomorrow. And I get to return on Friday to do it all over again. Eye yi yi!!
I then came home and ate MANY popsicles after eating my supper. My throat is so irritated. But I survived. They let me off the hook as much as they could. I found time to do a lot of other things that actually helped them out in the end. We are so totally short staffed right now. Amanda Sermons has the Swine Flu (per her doctor's note), Tina is sick with something and on holiday for the next week. Then me with no voice. So we are hurting for people.
Scott bought us some books. Two hobby farm books and a beekeeping book. He wants to do beekeeping now on top of a large garden. I will look into it to see what is involved and think about it. It would be neat to make our own honey. Make it and send it out to family. Would make a great Christmas gift!! LOL But sounds like a lot of work from one website I found. But of course if all goes well, I will remain home and that will be my job. So we shall see. Scott will be going to school so it will be mainly me doing a lot of these things we are looking at doing. But I think it could be very satisfying to be successful at it. Being more self sufficient. Couldn't imagine myself looking at trying to do the things we are thinking about doing several years ago. I was very dependent upon things given to us, being dependent on grocery stores, etc. I have a tendency to try and do things more on my own. Have even gotten to the point where eating out just doesn't cut it for me taste wise. Not very self satisfying. It is a good thing as we will not have much money once Scott retires. That is scary but not really. I will be totally scared once we get to IL and see the shape his mom's house is and see how much work needs to be done on it!! LOL I will probably panic at first but then roll up my sleeves and do what needs to be done. I will be glad to see the house and have the wondering over. And I will be jobless after then too ... that is kind of scary!! LOL
Well, I am going to shut it down for the evening. At least I am doing better with the blogging thing! I know I don't write much to entertain but then again, it is more for me than anything I guess. I haven't really told anyone but my sister about it. I think it will be a good avenue for me to keep my adventures in IL documented!! LOL Good night to all!! Smiles!

Pretty quiet day

Not much happened today. A little more voice has re-appeared. I actually got one yell out at one of the dogs tonight!! But after that, I didn't have anything left. So maybe tomorrow I will wake up with even more voice. If not, I will just go into work and do what I can. Pull charts, etc. I went to the Apple Store at MacArthur Center to find out why my Mac was not working on the wireless internet ... they couldn't help me at all. They gave me a card for an Apple IT specialist but upon looking stuff up on my PC and setting up the Mac to try those things on it (set them both up in the living room), the Mac is picking up the signal and keeping it. Hmmmm ... currently on battery and back in the bedroom and it is keeping it's signal again. I don't know ... I don't get it. I guess as long as it is receiving it that is all that matters. Maybe the signal from the router was weak for the past few days ... who knows!! I just hope it continues to receive it!! :) That is all that matters!!
Other than that, that is all that has happened today. It was a pretty slack day. I wanted to do some cleaning but didn't get any of that done when I discovered my Mac was working!! LOL
That is it!! Boring stuff again!!! LOL

PC and puppies .. and the cat has my tongue!

Been having computer issues. As we speak, I am on my PC, not my mac, because it will not stay connected to the internet ... will not remember my WEP key. And I have no voice!! Of course Scott thot that was great. His response was "And I am not home to enjoy that bliss!" LOL Leave it to him to lighten the mood.


I also have been enjoying some time with our new Pit Bull puppy, Panda. We found out about her through one of Scott's shipmates, Matthew Clare. He is purchasing a pup from Missy Robert's litter named Faro. This is Faro. Well Matt had a picture of Faro with this adorable puppy with two patches over the eyes ... it was sooooo cute!! So I tagged Scott with the pictures and told him about the dog and how cute it was. Well wouldn't you know he goes to the website and emails me back, that puppy is available. He plots his evilness well. He knows I want another pit bull but we had agreed to start with a puppy next time with what happened with Penny and Sadie Kate in the past. He knew if he planted the seed, I would water and feed the plant until it comes to fruitition ... he is purely evil!! LOL



So of course I email Missy and ask if the puppy is still available. I hoped she wouldn't be so that I could walk away with a clear concious. Of course, Scott would have pushed for the sister that was left also. Frankly, if we didn't already have so many dogs and had the money, she (Luna) would have come home with me too!! LOL She was a real sweetheart and cute too. But anyway, plans were made to go pick her up on Friday, my day off. So off I drove to Lynchburg, new kennel in the back and a collar ready for her (real cute ... salmon colored with ribbon on it that is little dots of yellow, blue, green, orange and other colors. Really cute for her. I even bought the bigger version of it so when she grows out of that one, I have the same collar ready for her in the larger size. Planning ahead you know!). This is Panda ... the breeder was calling her Panda Boo. I liked the Panda name because she does look like a Panda Bear. So we are going with that name ... Panda Bear. She is a real sweet heart and smart also. She does the typical puppy stuff. She already chewed up part of my new Mac cord. Luckily I had kept the old one and with the combo of the new accessories and the old cord, I still have a working cord! She was soooo lucky!! Replacing that cord is $90!! Plus she has a thing with my shoes so I have to watch her with those too. And she loves to walk under your feet!! She puts Maya to shame!! LOL She is doing well with the cats too. She is confident about herself but a little wary of people. She has discovered the cat tunnels in our bedroom so the cats no longer have a place to hide in here .. unless it is on a dresser top or the bathroom sink/window sill. Fuzzy of course is not bothered by her. I mean he has his moments when her exuburence is a tad bit too much. And he lets her know with his paw. But for the most part, he likes the attention!! LOL I could do without all the puppy stuff but I do have to admit she is cute!! LOL And she loves being with you ... she goes into panic if you go outside her vision. So we will have to work on that. Build her confidence. But anyway .. that is what has been going on with my quiet life. Boring I know .... but I am a-okay with that!! LOL