Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I am trying to sew some pillow covers for the boys.  I know, I can but a new one, but the boys’ bed are just fine, except for the covers.  They are frayed and plenty of holes.  I think from all the weekly washing since 2004.  I tried to sew the covers last night and encountered some problems.  The bottom stitches are loose.  Been checking it the whole night, same thing, it was loose.  I’m really a loser when it comes to crafts.

The boys are now bed-less which is actually doing Ranger good.  We think he is allergic to cedar since the veterinary dermatologist tested him that he is allergic to all sorts of woods, leaves, grass, weeds and a lot more.  The pred we gave him turned him into a different dog, personality wise.  I can just imagine the athletes using legal steroids will that change their personalities, their moods, and appetites?

I am going over to Corrine tomorrow hopefully she will be able to fix the stitch tension for me.  I want to try sewing some lounge pants.  It looks easy to sew, so will see how the machine works by tomorrow.

I’m so tempted to go back for CNY next year.  Corrine and her family plus Tammy, the lady who went to Las Vegas with us, are going back to Malaysia for CNY.  When Corrine told me they finally bought their tickets, I want to go too.  It will be two years next November since I went home.  The tickets were cheap too, $1075 by NWA.  Should I go, or should I stay now?  My only problem is I have to throw the question of vacation time at my boss, the queen of advantage taker.  My boss will freak out when she hears my request for 13 days of vacation.  The days of travel will be 1/21 and returning 2/6/2009.  During this time period is where Ms E will be going on her maternity leave and is also the time to write one of our company’s bigger affirmative action plans.  My boss will never allow me to go.  So much for her to get the winter months booked up with all these affirmative plans and to leave the summer months lighter so she could enjoy her days at Wisconsin Dells.  Damn, I’m still so mad each time I think of that!!!  Anyways, I am still debating if I should go back to M’sia for CNY or not.

DB is still on a hunt for a job, really bad.  He needs one like now.  Darn unemployment rate is going up.  It does not help to hear that Chrysler-Daimler is possibly cutting jobs.  Leong, Corrine’s hubs, said his company laid off 1K employees last week.  I have not heard anything around my company yet, but I think there were some lay offs couple of months ago.

I asked DB if he send an email to the head hunter in  regards to the job out in NC. He said he did not.  It’s driving me nuts.  I so want to find out more about that job opportunity.  DB thinks moving cross country is not the right thing to do.  I even looked up the townhomes in Thomasville.  They are cheap out htere.  I mean compare to what we are paying here in MN, it is expensive in MN.  A three-bedroom, 2-bath townhome is only selling at $130K and it was built in 2002.  Holy cow!

DB applied for jobs months now.  I told him he might need to think about a change in career.  Since he is so into upgrading computers or laptops, he should consider doing that as a side job.  He has been busy working on the laptop I am currently using: memory upgrade, partitioning the hard drive and don’t know what else he did.  It is running a little fast but it can do for now.  I am hoping he can get a job, any job soon.

Yes, it is much quieter now.  He has gone back home, home means his owners’ home.  That’s right.  I am talking about Chase, the cute little fella, well, not that little, but he is only 10 months old you know.  DB told me SD and BF will be here this evening to take him back to their place for good.  I know DB is glad to have Chase back to his owners coz he said Chase was driving him nuts with his constant whining and his ever ending energy.

I am kinda glad that he is gone coz I will have an extra hour to myself.  That hour was to walk him separately from the other boys.  Actually I walk him with Cooper since both are fast walkers.  I guess since now I have to walk the two older ones together I might need some alli diet pills to loose  pounds.  Walking the two boys together will be slower since Ranger walks like he is 90 years old.  I hardly work up any sweat unless it out on the trails.  So, I think some diet pills might help me from now on.

This is not the best picture.  The person sitting in the cube is Ms E.  That cube is my cube and I took this picture from the big boss’ office.  Yes, he is the big brother, staring out of his office right into my cube.  And the big boss even asked me to get privacy screens since there are quite a few wanderers to our area since our area is located next to the windows.

The privacy screens do not work at all.  They are suppose to block whatever is on our monitor which kinda look blackish.  As you can see, the big boss can just see what I have on my monitor.   I usually have Gmail and Yahoo Messenger on throughout the day, so it’s really sucks to have him see what I am doing the whole day.  Can’t goof off much at all.