Now time for the life update.

Things have been busy, and I’ve been a lazy blogger. We took a trip to Merlin as you can see from my last photoblog. It was great. We needed a little mini vacation like that. It was Molly’s first time rafting. Surprisingly, we wasn’t scared at all. Jade didn’t have as much fun at my Mom’s as she normally does. She skinned her paw pads again playing fetch. I brought her to work on Friday before we left, and my manger threw her ball on the sidewalk. Jade doesn’t slow down to pick up the ball until its in her mouth, and then she some to a sliding stop. OUCH! She could barely walk all weekend. The only thing we could do was try to limit her movement, and keep her paws clean. She’s back to her ball crazy normal self now.

Wait loss? What do you mean “wait loss”? Oh yea… My diet. Well… umm… yea. To be continued at a later date. I just haven’t been motivated. I’ll be back on the wagon soon though. Until then… Who wants a cheese burger?

Work is going well. I got my first pay check as a trainer today. Uncle Sam rapped me. Of course I’m single and claim zero, so what do you expect?

That’s what up with me. Hope you are all well.

Peace out!

She’s looking fine now, and seems back to normal. We’re still not sure if it was the new bed or not. We’ll wash it and try it again in a week or so.

Itchy Jade

We woke up to find hives all over Jade. The only thing different in the last 24 hours is a new bed for the living room. She laid in it for a couple hours last night, Its your typical  polyester/cotton blend. Not sure if that caused the problem. We gave her Benadryl, but that hasn’t seamed to work. I gave her a bath using oatmeal shampoo per the Vet Tech’s orders, and still no relief. Jade has a vet appointment at 8:40 this morning. I hope they can figure out what’s caused this

A sink, stove top, and mini refrigerator all in one!

I didn't know they made chocolate dollar bills!

Dinner time dino battle at some restaurant I don't really like.

Ironic?

An awesome ice cube that Patrica bought me for Christmas.

I assisted in the repair of this iPod. (Saved a Co-worker $200)

First let my say that I hate clothing on dogs unless it has a purpose. I bought Jade a new hoodie. She gets cold and shivers when I take her on walks outside with out one.

It's PANCAKE TIME!!! Someone in the building invited everyone for pancakes from 10am-12pm on Saturday.

Couldn't help but think about Kirk when I saw this. If it wasn't $30 I would have bought it.

Video shoot about email ethics.

No more photos for you!

The disorder cuts the connection from the inner ear to the brain causing a loss of balance. Is worst cases dogs will just lay down and not walk. After a while (days sometimes) they get use to it, and try walking again. The body adapts and they become functional again.

The problem is my Dad seams to think Shera has progressively gotten worse over the course of the last week. The Vet said she has an ear infection which could be causing this. Because of the itchy ears Shera shakes her head, losses her balance and falls down.

The Vet gave my Dad some antibiotics for the ear infection, and said it could be 3-4 weeks before seeing an improvement. If she doesn’t improve it could be something worse like a brain tumor. Only a MRI could show that, but that unfortunately, financially, is not an option.

So now we wait, and hope for the best.

He wants to take her to the vet but can’t afford it. That’s why he called. His vet was booked solid for the day and can’t see Shera until the morning. He doesn’t want to take her anywhere else, so I booked the appointment.  I’ll know more tomorrow.

It breaks my heart to hear my Dad like this. Shera is his world, now that my Grandmather has passed away and I moved to Portland. Shera is all he has. She’s been a great dog. I’m not sure there is anything the vet can do for her. The only thing I/we can do is plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Jade thinks she's cool in my Christmas slippers.

Portland's bus stop sign. Kinda cool that they show you were to go.

I've never seen ice on a car like this in real life.

The smoking pot outside my office's break room. Oh I think I'm gonna puke!

Peacock Lane is a big thing in Portland. Every house on the street MUST put up holiday lights.

Some people aren't so fired up about hanging lights on Peacock Lane.

What a glorious sight! Over flowing mashed taters!!!

World, meet Sara Beara. You can call her Sara for short. Molly says so.

I think a few toads pissed on this pumpkin-thingy.

That’s it for now. Maybe the next photoblog will be even better.

This resent storm has broken the record for most snow fall in the month of December in Portland, OR. Crazy! We’re on track to break the record for most snowfall in one winter season.

Thanks to this lovely storm… I’ll be at work for a 12 hour shift. There are 60,000 customer’s with out power and I am helping train employees from other departments to take calls from customers, and I’m taking calls in between trainings. I came in yesterday to train some meter readers to take calls yesterday too. I’ll have some crazy overtime on my pay check. I guess that’s nice.

Here are some photos.

My work’s parking lot with a little snow a few days ago.

This is the parking lot this morning

Snow piled up on the tables outside.

Patricia emailed me some photos of Molly and Jade playing in the snow this morning. I’m glad someone is enjoying the snow.