Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

Happy New Year, folks. I do not have new year resolutions. I had them before, but never got them done. So, this year I thought I should stick to one – I want to complete at least 3 courses from my degree plan – no matter how much it will suck up from my personal time, I’m going to git-r-done. By the way, Larry the Cable Guy is coming to Duluth next year – January 28. I really want to see one of his standups. He is so freaking hilarious. So, it’s another one thing I want to GIT-R-DONE!

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The rain quit and it quickly changed to snow. It’s been snowing since 12:30 noon and looking at the radar, it’s going to snow the whole day and night till tomorrow. Will be definitely shovelling the drive tomorrow. Yes, that means I can go to the trails and run on trails with snow….YES!!!

Above picture taken at 2:15pm

The above 3 pictures were taken at 4:15 pm

The flakes are now smaller but it’s coming down pretty good. So, will see how it goes tomorrow, road conditions and will go grocery shopping and to Macy’s.

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Ranger is now without his Prednisone for a week plus. His itching came back. The vet said it’s because of the warm weather we are experiencing. Plus he has dandruff, too. So, we are upping his biotin and fish oil. Hopefully that will stop his itching. With his itching, I need to bathe him more often with an anti-bacterial shampoo. That poor boy has so much problems. At least the acidophilus I mixed with his food helps with his bloatiness. Since his stomach surgery 3 years, he bloats each time he eats. I gather with him eating all these junk while we are out on our walks and runs on the trails and sidewalks, it does not help either. He is a real chow-hound. With the prong collar on him, it does not matter. No matter how much I snapped the collar, he ignores it. A real Lab – stubborn and loves to eat. Cooper on the hand has no problem, health wise. We still give fish oil and glucosamine twice a day. He is still the fetching freak. Loves to fetch since he was a little pup. I don’t think he will quit fetching till the day he goes to doggie heaven.

It’s so soggy, wet, and foggy out. Whatever snow we had in the Twin Cities melted few days ago and it had made the ground saturated, now the rain. I think the ground is frozen, so the rain can’t soak in. Every where I ran with the boys this morning were soaking wet. The boys seems to not mind it, but I hated it. My tennis got wet and whatever the boys found while out on our walks were soaking, then they eat it. One of their favorite is geese crap. For some reason they love that greenie looking crap. When they done eating that crap, they come lick DB and I later in the day. Plus, when it’s wet, their paws (since Labs has web-paws) they catch all kinds of mud and sand. I rather have super cold weather then all the wetness. This is December? All my 9 plus years in Minnesota I have not expericenced a mild, rainy December.

I took Friday as a vacation day so I can burn more vacation hours. Thought I would be goofing around and just chill. Low and behold, I need to work at home. Boss called and wanted me to work on the spreadsheets like ASAP. Crap, didn’t expect Boss to call me at home to check my email and work on the spreadsheets. After my breakfast of oatmeal with cranberries, raisins and walnuts off I went to my home office and cracked my brains with the spreadsheets. I had to create a pivot table on the earnings data and did a VLookup on the Roster spreadsheet. There were 1060 rows, so the VLookup worked really slick with the copy and paste of the formulas. When I was done with that, did a totals for the rows….all the f-ing-hymers were flying everywhere. I forgot to add the ‘$’ for Absolute Referencing on my fomulas. Son of a bitch…gotta work on the fomulas for all the 84 columns. At last after 3 hours dinking with the 5MB file, I was done. Took up half my day. Emailed the files to Boss and the rest of the team and told them don’t bug me for 2 hours coz I need to go to the trails for my run. Erg…wasted half my day which I had plans to go for lunch with Mrs R at Great Moon. Boss said she owes me vacation time….you bet you do.

My homeoffice which was used to be a nursery.

Ranger, the fart monster under my desk.

The living room where my piano is. Ranger wanted to be the center of attraction.

Here is our fiber optic Christmas tree which is coming down tomorrow.


The fireplace in the living room.

So, came back from my run, hit the piano for about an hour pounding away on the Chopin’s piece – Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop), Schubert’s Ave Maria and brought out the Sonatinas and pounded on them. Then I thought, crap my nephew wanted me to put more pictures on the blog. Took the camera out, the freebie POS (piece of shit) camera and took some pictures of the house since my sister has not seen the house before. So, sis, you gotta excuse the mess in the house. I’m a real clutterer. I hate picking up and cleaning.

My messy office – didn’t bother to clear up the printed material I’d used for my class.

Another shot of the former nursery. The vacuum cleaner is sitting there reminding me that the house needs a good vacuuming.

And, finally the messy kitchen. The packet sitting on the stove are dry “hor fun” and the 2 small yellow packets are seasoning (from you, sis) for tonight’s dinner.

Here I am blogging and DB is waiting for his dinner. He can start munching on chips and nuts at the time being.