Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

A lady who walks her dog every day stopped me one day asking me if I have seen the German Shepard that lives in the corner house on 130th Street.  I know which house she was referring to and she continued to tell me that her dog was attacked by the shepard.  Her dog is slightly smaller than my two older ones, well, probably her dog is about 60+ pounds.  She and her dog were walking passed the house and the shepard was in his outside kennel, scooted right out, grabbed a hold of her dog’s neck and not letting go.  She said she was screaming for the shepard’s owners and eventually they came out.  The shepard is a big dog too, I think that shepard is about 10 years old, always barks each time someone with a dog walks passed its house.  The lady said she called the cops with her cell right away.  The cops came and wrote a ticket to the shepard’s owners for not securing their dog from the public.  Since the dog is an outside dog and withno fence, owners need to supervise their dogs when the dogs are unleashed.  The lady’s dog is traumatized by that incident.  Each time they are near that house, the dog will stop short and will not move.  She is carrying a bear spray with her at all times.

Then, she told me a Pit Bull ran across the street and was about to attack her dog couple of days ago.  What bad luck and the owner of the pit bull needs to be shot or hung.  The owner was out on the driveway fiddling with the car and his dog was not leashed.  The lady used her bear spray, sprayed the pittbull in the eyes.  She said the pittbull was ready to charge her dog, bearing its teeth and has a very eerie growl.  Damn, that’s really scary.  The cops came and gave a warning to the owner, only a warning because it was the first offence.

All these routes she takes are the routes I take every day or every other.  Where else is safe for the public to walk?   I walked passed the shepard’s home every other day lately and I have not seen the dog anywhere.  I am wondering did the owners put him down because even if the dog is in the house, he will bark at me and the boys.  I still do not carry any pepper or bear spray, just my cellphone.  Maybe I should get one since my boys are always too friendly with strangers.  They are not guard dogs like shepards, rotweillers, pitbulls or dobermans.  Definitely no walks for me in the crack of dawn since DB told me he don’t feel safe with me walking the boys at 3:30  or 4 am.   I have yet to see the pittbull the lady was telling me, but I am keeping my eyes open each time I am out on my walks.

July 4 holiday is day after tomorrow, Friday.  Majority of the folks in the office are gone - vacationing somewhere up north in their cabins, and one lady I know drove from Wisconsin to Montana/Wyoming to the Yellowstone National Park. 

Today is quieter than  yesterday.  There were about 13 of us in the office yesterday, but today, there are only 7 of us.  It’s so quiet I can hear a pin drop.   I should enjoy it but I’m getting so bored.  The workload has gone down since I started working on the assignments for third quarter reporting a month ago.  Everything is done.  I’m waiting for two more weeks to run the final reports to complete the rest of the assignments.  For now, I’m blog hopping since last week.  Plus boss is on vacation from last Friday and the whole of this week.  I’m all by myself with the big boss, but big boss never talks to me  unless he needs something done - looking up employees’ data in the HRIS system, faxing, scanning or some mailing.

I cannot wait to get outta here right now, another 1 hour 10 minutes to go.  The best thing for tomorrow is there is early closing, 2 p.m. for all employees reporting to the corporate site (Connecticut) and that’s me, even though I’m located in MN.  So, instead of coming in at 6 a.m. I’m coming in at 8 a.m. and leave at 2 to utilize this nice benefit.  I can stay up later tonight, that’s if my eyes allow that, and wake up at 6 and still sneak in a walk with the boys.  

Once Thursday comes and goes, I will have 6 days off (Fri-Weds).  Doing anything exciting?  Probably go window shopping and watch fireworks from our backyard and hear the dogs bark their heads off.  I know I will spend a lot of time watching the movies we have recorded on the PVR.  They are rotting away, screaming to be deleted from the memory card.  I have to make the most of this month since I will be starting school again this fall. :(  I might persuade DB to drive to Vermillion River to let the boys do some swimming.  Will see what that man says.

I took this picture on Saturday on my walk with Chase. 

This afternoon at 2:50 p.m., it’s this ungodly price….

Let’s say goodbye to $3.09/gallon from now on.  I pumped 1/2 a tank of gas yesterday at $3.89 and it cost me $27+ which is usually the total I pay for a full tank.  Time to think of car pooling which mean no flex hours of 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.!!

My company has this fitness challenge which started today.  I registered as a team to compete with 184 other teams within the company.  How this works is you score 1 point for every 10 minutes of physical activity you do.  Sex included, I wonder?? :)  Anyways, I am glad I signed up coz I’m slacking in the exercise department.  Yesterday was the hardest I have ever worked out for a long, long time. 

I brushed the boys 20 minutes each because of them shedding their winter coat.  They must be several inches shorter now!!  There were fur all over the yard!  Great stuff for the birds to build their nests.  Next, I bathe them and cleaned their ears.  So far so good.  Thought I would vacuum the house upstairs and downstairs.  That did it!!  After doing the stairs to the basement, I was walking like this “?”.  My back was about to break to half.   A back breaker, alright.  I didn’t wanna do much after cooking for the week.   Sat on my butt and placed orders on Photobucket.  Online shopping to stimulate the economy!

So far, today, I have complete a 15 minute walk: walked the floors in the building and took 25 minutes to walk the walking path during lunch.  We are getting really crappy weather lately.  It has been raining very frequent, seems like every other day.  I don’t mind the cool weather but the darn rain can go away for a while.  When it rains, no walks for us.  Spring storms, you gotta love it.

Thanks again for all of your comments.  Last night I went to bed with extra pillows to prop myself up instead of lying flat on the bed.  I was propped at 45 degrees, slept quite alright.  I was awake a few times reason being I was so conscious of not laying on my right side since each time I lay on my right side, the pressure in my head get really bad.  So, this morning I woke up feeling much, much better.  Not sure is it because of how I propped myself up or just the vertigo thing is going away.  DB still drove me to  work even I felt better.  He wants to drive me just to make sure in case the dizziness strikes me hard while I was driving. 

Work was fine provided that I was not looking down too much and not swing myself around the chair too fast. 

I even took the boys for their walk when I got home.  I told DB I was getting better.  The boys were one happy puppies.  Bouncing off the driveway all the way and back.  The only problem I had when i got home was cleaning them where I had to bend down to clean them.  At least they are well behaved that they allowed me hold on to them - more like putting my weight of my left hand on them.

If I’m not getting better, than I would be dog gone lying.  I had to cook dinner coz DB had to take a nap.  When I told him what we would be having noodles for dinner, he said “Noodles again?”  Yep, unless you cook dinner.  I cooked the wanton mee with the left over pork chops we grilled on Sunday with steamed broccolli.  I told myself I just feel glad that I’m not feeling whoozy  anymore.  Went up and down the basement with no problems. 

Tonight I will still sleep propped up.  Oh, that damn dentist case, I called them yesterday to cancel the appointment telling there is no one to take me there since I can’t drive.  They can charge me that $50 they want coz I won’t be calling them again for another appointment.  I even asked her where on the reminder card they sent me was there the $50 cancellation fee if not call withing 24 hours written for their customers to know.  She said it should be on the card they sent, and I told her I was holding the card and tell me where it is.  She didn’t even know where it is and put me on hold.  Is she blond you think?  She came back about 5 minutes later telling me the cancellation fee policy is actually written on the little appointment card given by the hyginiest.  J.C. sister, that card was long gone after I put the appointment on my Outlook calendar.  That stupid policy on a small little appointment card, the size of a business card.  They should have put that policy on the reminder email and card they sent out.  What idiots.   I told the receptionist her dental office will not hear from me again.  She quickly said she will not charge me this time but take it as a warning.  Well, thanks, but you still will not see me again. 

I have to say they are trying to get the money from their customers as much as they can to pay for the big ass building they bought and all the brand spanking new furniture and renovation they did.  They are losing one very loyal customer, had been with this dentist the year I arrived in MN.  I should write them a note to put mine and hubby’s accounts to the inactive pile.

Thanks for all the kinds wishes you guys left for me….they are quite hilarious which did crack a smile on my face.  You guys think I’m pregnant, huh?  Haha, not a chance, coz it won’t happen.

I actually just got back from urgent care.  The doc said I have labyrinthitis or what they call Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.  I feel really dizzy especially changing positions from left, right, up, down or looking up.  No treatment for this problem.  This will last for a few days, weeks or months.  When I heard it will take a few days or weeks let alone months, it totally bummed me out - you know how active I am!  The doc told me to wait it out unless I take motion sickness medication which is a NO for me.  I don’t want to feel like a “space cadet” all the time.  The doc told me if the symptoms of BPPV persist for more than 3 weeks, I have to see my reg doc where she will refer me to a physical therapist who specializes with BPPV. I will come in to work tomorrow and not move around too much - sit at my desk the best thing, no stairs or quick turns of my head, that’s what the doc told me, plus no driving at all till I have no signs of dizziness.  I feel so helpless.  The boys are dang bugging me for their walks.  Sorry guys.

I called the stupid dentist to cancel my appointment for this afternoon, the receptionist told me there will be a $50 cancellation fee.  How absurd is that?  I will call again and tell them to shove it up their butt coz I’m not going to lay on that whatever you call that “bed” where they will tilt you where I will feel like I’m sorta turned upside down.  I rather suck it up, pay that $50 than feel nauseaus and dizzy.  I’m now officially a “ditz”!

The weekend always flys by for me.  Maybe it’s just me.  These days I tend to sleep in during the weekend till7 or 7:30 am.  DB will be awake and up and about at 6.  He will take care of the boys and when it’s 7 am, he will come wake my butt up.  With him not finding a job yet, he is helping around with the house work, but yet I still find that I need more time during the weekends.  WTF??  I do putzed a lot in front of the cranky laptop and P.O.S. computer, alternating between them two POS’s especially when I’m having my morning coffee.  Doing what you wonder?  Log on to Facebook and make my next move on Scrabulous and at the same time sipping on my hot cuppa coffee.  And when the Rifleman is on, my attention diverts to the TV.  No wonder I’m so running out of time in the weekend.  I am a putzo.  Ok, I think I have beat up myself enough.

It took me 2 hours and 15 minute to get the CNY post up last night.  KNN!!!  The darn wireless internet on my PC kept disconnecting every 10 minutes, sometimes less and if I’m lucky, I will get continuous internet connection for about 15+  minutes.  Even after I rebooted the PC or shut her down for about an hour, the same problem which drove me up the frigging wall.  DB even had to re-enter all the information for the network thingy twice and the same problem, and I’m not sure what the hell he was dinking around either. 

I thought of using DB’s old laptop that’s hooked up wireless too, but that ancient Dell is super slow.  Maybe I need to be more patient, but when I want to get some thing done and out of the way, I want it done presto, not largo.  I used the laptop during the weekend and on Monday and Tuesday for Facebook purposes, it was slow enough to almost send my blood pressure sky rocketing.  

Now I’m at work, it helps to get this out which I started typing out last night before the connection died. 

Anyway, that’s all for my ramblings.  Just want to get it off me.