blogs

It's 8 am and I'm ready to go for the day, except I don't have anywhere to go just yet. I had an 8 am. appointment scheduled, but they cancelled. So much for getting up at 6. Anywho.
I'm always on the lookout for interesting blogs. I have two that I would like to mention here. The first is the blog of a husband who's wife has Cystic Fibrosis. I actualy just found out about this blog, thanks to a post from one of the members of the Pittsburgh board on the nest. It's interesting to me because they are around the same age as us. I wonder how my husband would deal with a situation like theirs?
The other blog I read is more for entertainment purposes. If you live in Pittsburgh or grew up near Pittsburgh, you will enjoy this blog, unless you have absolutely no sense of humor, then I suggest not even viewing it.
As for me, I ate a bowl of Lucky Charms and am currently surfin' the 'net until I must leave.

cleaning vs. sleep

Life has been recently uneventful. Now that we are back the 3 member family that we envisioned when we adopted Maya. We've really just been trying to keep up with the mutilated dog toys and the tumbleweeds of dog hair that roll around our hardwood floors.

Ah...hardwoods. When we bought this house I was very excited about the hardwoods. They are defintely more work than carpet! I'm constantly worried about Maya destroying them with her nails. What we really need are some area rugs. Believe me, it's on the top of the list of things to get. I also feel like the floor is always dirty. Now, I grew up in a very clean house. Don't get me wrong, I was the child of two full-time working parents, so it wasn't "obsessive clean" but still very clean. I want my house to be clean, really I do. But if it's a choice between sleeping or cleaning, sleep wins, every time. Maybe I'm too hard on myself. I probably am. But if you ever come to my house, please don't wear white socks and please ignore the tumbleweeds.

I did see a video on the Post Gazette website about a family with 10 dogs. I believe five of them are Huskies, like Maya. I couldn't even imagine the amount of hair!! But we love our puppy and we can deal. I even ate a tater tot with dog hair on it tonight. That's love.

one more

can I add one more thing to my list for 2007?

*we found good homes for all of Maya's puppies!

Happy New Year!

2007

I'm going to try to sum up 2007.

*I finally cut my hair as short as I wanted it
*I took my navel ring out
*We bought a house
*We got a dog
*Our dog had puppies
*The hubby got a new job
*I learned how hard it is to paint a ceiling
*We turned down two invitations to go on cruises with our friends (grr...no $$)
*I made a blog (yay!)
*We have decided to wait a little longer before having kids
*I learned a lot about myself

I think that's about it. The last one is probably the best thing I did all year.

only us

So as you know from a previous post, my hubby and I adopted a very sweet and cute Siberian husky approximately 2 months ago. What you don't know is that our pup was pregnant when we adopted her. Don't feel bad, we didn't know either. We figured it out and took her to the vet who verified that she was, in fact, already preggers when we brought her home. Four days later, puppies were born. Now, I have no children of my own, but I have to say that I was hoping to never have to be on that end of the delivery process. Some people feel that's it special and beautiful. That's nice. I am not one of those people. It was stressful and long. It began at 4:30 a.m. enough said.

So now, three weeks later, we have 6 dogs. I just wanted one. Really. But we are in the process of finding homes for these pups, once they're ready. They really are sweet and very humorous. There were actually 6 puppies born that morning, but one little guy didn't make it. Another little puppy needed stitches in his back leg because his momma attempted to pull him out a bit and in doing so, ripped the skin on his leg. We had to keep him seperated from her while the stitches were still in so that she wouldn't try to pull them out. Because he was kept seperate, we had to make sure he got to eat every 2 hours. Meaning, we were up in the middle of the night sitting with all the doggies so "stitch" could eat. The stitches are out now, so he's back with everyone.

It's been quite the experience. I guess we actually saved 6 lives that day we drove to W.V.

4 things about me

FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD IN MY LIFE:
Cook/Waitress
JCPenney Sales Associate
Graduate Assistant
Student worker in Residence Life Office

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
Vandergrift, PA
Clarion, PA
South Park, PA
That's it!

FOUR TV SHOWS I LIKE TO WATCH:
Moving Up
Grey's Anatomy
Family Guy
Chuck

FOUR PLACES I'VE BEEN ON VACATION:
Florida-DisneyWorld, Daytona Beach, Ft. Lauderdale
Niagara Falls
Las Vegas
Europe-Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, England, Holland

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
Pizza
Kabobs
Clementines
Wedding Soup

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
Shopping
On a cruise somewhere tropical
Europe
Sleeping

FOUR PLACES I LIKE TO SHOP:
Barnes & Noble
Target
Kohls
JCPenney



Feel free to copy this and post it in your own blog with new answers!

oh, yeah..

So I haven't posted in a while. It's been a busy few weeks. J and I are busy getting our house ready for a party next weekend, and he hasn't been feeling well. Oh, and we got a dog.

Her name is Maya and we got her from a shelter in W.V. She was going to be put to sleep and once we saw her on petfinder, we just couldn't let that happen. She's approximately 1 y.o. and she is really very well behaved. She's still a pup and she's still learning the rules. However, my dear hubby started getting what we diagnosed as anxiety attacks once she came home. He's doing much better, but the only reason we have come up with for these anxiety attacks is that he had a Siberian Husky for 12 years and she had to be put to sleep a few years ago. It was a very difficult experience for him and we figured that Maya was bringing back memories of his dog.

But, we've all been healthy for a few days now and we're confident that will continue. Maya has brought us closer together. We take her for walks together and have something else besides ourselves to talk about now. The new responsiblility can be daunting, especially when we start discussing going on a trip or such, but we're excited to have a new member to our little family.

Ok, have I talked about my dog enough?

Other than that, I've just been busy with work and taking care of Maya and J. Looking forward to the upcoming holidays. We are hosting Thanksgiving this year, there will be more posts about that, I'm sure. I'm also behind on few projects that I had planned as Christmas gifts. Grrr...I just need a few extra hours in the day....