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Take a Memo Monday: Spammers, Trash, and Bathroom Fairies
To: The bathroom fairiesFrom: The woman with food stuck in her teethRe: Dental floss kidnappingPlease leave a note on the bathroom cabinet telling me how much the ransom is. I'll pay whatever you want. I just want my dental floss back in one piece ...
Tofurkey and Gravy Soda to Go with the PB&J
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.Friday I received a free turkey hat and bottle of Tofurky and Gravy Jones Soda to try from Izea. I don't know why, but I was excited about the hat. I was eve...
RegWork and the Work I Have to Come
If you read yesterday's post, you know that I've been having to deal with the after effects of a sick dog. The sun finally came out today (in the literal sense, not figurative), and it made me realize a couple of things. (1) The carpet is still wet...
Coping When Your Dog Has the Big D 101
Towards the end of last week, I had to deal with a sick dog. Every time Bailey ate, his food ran through him about 15 minutes later. For three days, all it seemed like I could do was clean up liquefied doggy poo. When I wasn't cleaning, I was trying...
What a Way to Start the Week
"I know you probably think I'm nuts, but I swear there was something hanging out of her butt last night."That's how I started off my week yesterday. I told you when my car battery died again the week before last that it was only a matter of time bef...
It's Not as Easy as the Dog Whisperer Makes It Look
A word of advice for anyone thinking of putting their overweight dog on a treadmill: don't. Cesar Milan may make it look like a piece of cake, but it's not.After exercising for the first time in months last night, I got the brilliant idea to put Bell...
Here, Kitty, Kitty. Now Can I Have Some Caffeine?
This morning I got an unexpected wake up call--kittens in my backyard. It seems that overnight two stray tabbies had thought that my backyard of all places was a safe place to move their four-week-old kittens to. Apparently, the strays had forgotten ...
My Poor Baby
My two dogs got their teeth cleaned today. Poor Bailey had to have three of his front teeth pulled. Here are two pictures of him drugged up and somewhat toothless:For new readers, here is what Bailey looks like when he's not drugged up and when he ...
The Chihuahua, the Squirrels, and the Big Red Truck
Speaking of dogs and my other dog in particular, I kept waking up Saturday night because I was having this reoccurring dream in which my sister ran over Bailey with my grandfather's old Ford pickup truck. That red and white monstrosity--the truck wa...
An Only Half-Groovy Dog
I have never had a broken bone so I have no idea of Bella's behavior is the norm or if the norm for a dog would even be the same as the norm for a human. She is still limping this morning. Supposedly the x-ray Friday showed that her foot had fully ...
How Bella Got Her Groove Back
Bella finally got her cast off today! I think I'm happier about that fact than she is. After six weeks of what seemed like non-stop rain, taping her leg into a plastic IV bag ten times a day so that it wouldn't get wet, giving her pep talks as she h...
I Would Hate to Be the Lizard
This is what happens when your house gets shown nearly every day for a week, and you don't pick up your dogs' toys before you vacuum. In case you were wondering, rubber lizards can fit inside a Kirby vacuum.Too bad I wasn't that dumb yesterday. I c...
The Nest of Baby Birds in My Fish Tank
If you're looking to save money during this recession, here is one way not to do it. Do not try to clean the air bubbler in your fish tank. If it is so covered in algae that it is hardly producing bubbles, just throw it away. A new one only costs ...
Poor Bella and My Even Poorer Nose
As my dogs sit at my feet, staring each other down over a bone--I bought two, but they don't seem to care--I have started to think about what another three or more weeks with a cast actually means. The answer that I came up with is, "Pughy!" I have ...
There Must Be Something in the Water
I just got back from another vet visit, and I've finally decided that there is something in the water in this town that causes its residents to change their story every time you speak to them. Do you remember how when Bella first got the cast I was ...
What a Wonder-Poo Night
If there was ever any doubt that I'm the most uncoordinated person on Earth, it's dispelled every time I clean the fish tank. I just got through doing it, and once again the end of the gravel vacuum managed to worm it's way out of the trash can and ...
Animals and Their Toys
Do you know how they say that kids will more likely play with the box that an expensive toy comes in than the toy itself? Well, apparently, that kind of toy logic applies to animals as well. Take my dog Bella, for instance. She and Bailey both hav...
I Think My Dog Has IBS
I don't know if it's possible for dogs to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, but if it is, I'm pretty sure Bella has it. The reason behind my belief: this morning's thunderstorm. It literally scared the crap out of her. A loud clap of thunder wo...
Not My Week for Dog Food
Last Friday, I told you about how I had gotten a moth-eaten bag of dog food from Petsmart. Well, as it turns out, it is just not my week for dog food of any sort. While I was at Kroger Tuesday, I decided to get my dogs a box of dental biscuits. Ba...
While I'm on the Subject of Houses
One of these days, I'm going to have a house with several wall fountains that are strategically located throughout the house and directly connected to a water line, the way my ice maker is in the kitchen. That way, I don't have to spend half of my d...
I Will Never Buy Another Bag of Harvest Baked Dog Food
Have you ever been shopping and something happened that made you want to come home and shower? That happened to me yesterday. I'm still searching for a dog food that reduces my cocker spaniel's constant itching. Like I said in previous posts, I'm ...
