BnB '13 Day 1

Today is the day--Tullybird made it here!  We picked her up at the airport and then we headed to our monthly pinball tournament.  We enjoyed good friends, good pizza, and fun pinball.  Tullybird played!  She even won one of her games!

Then we came home and enjoyed an adult beverage.  Tonight is Adult Cherry Limeades and they are good!  If you find that you have these ingredients, you've got to try this.

Adult Cherry Limeade:
3 parts dark cherry rum (or vodka)
1 part triple sec
Splash of grenadine
Lime juice from half a lime

BnB '13 Day 0

Friday was supposed to include a trip to the airport to pick up Tullybird.  But no.  It did not.  Through some sick twist of fate, her flight was cancelled.  Thanks Southwest.

So in order to console  myself, I went ahead with the drink menu.  Friday was Fresh Pineapple Margaritas.  It was very tasty.  But it would have been tastier with my side-kick.

We Will Not Go Thirsty

I am SOOOOOO excited!  3 more days and then Tullybird will be here!!!!  I think Todd and I are a little enthusiastic about her visit.

We haven't bought all the food yet, but we'll be well hydrated.



I could open my own liquor store...

And that's just the new booze we've bought.  I plan on draining the Patron on Friday night in celebration of her birthday.

I'm sure I'll have a little left over for when Mrs. Irritation and Mouse come to visit, but I might have to restock before Suzie & her gang come for the weekend!  We still need to schedule Ray & Becky.  What a fun May and June I am going to have.

CHEERS!

I May As Well Open Them All! CDP Week

I am very glad that I joined DoingMyBest's Crappy Day Package exchange because frankly, I've needed it this week.

I've opened two lovely gifts.

The first CDP opening was Tuesday evening.  Because I simply did not have time to open one when my day was bad.  I had woken up Tuesday morning, was almost ready for work and found myself ahead of schedule.  That NEVER happens.  I even made coffee and drank a cup.  I know, I know!  I haven't had coffee in over a year.  I've started drinking it again, very sparingly.  Anyway, I walked into our master bathroom to finish getting ready.  I went to take a step, but my foot didn't make it.  Somehow there was an obstacle...  Joey had darted through my legs and trapped my foot from making it's customary and expected migration forward.  I started going dooooowwwnnnnn.  I think, ooooooh no--I can't fall on the puppy.  I will hurt him...  so I grabbed for the wall.  Whew, my hand landed on something.  But it didn't help.  My hand kept going down the wall WITH THE TOWEL RACK STILL FIRMLY GRASPED IN MY HAND.  I realized I have to just try to roll away from where I think Joey is.  My neck and head landed kind of against the glass shower door.  It smarted a little.

The good thing was, the dog bed caught my fall.  The very, very furry dog bed. 

Todd heard the commotion and fortunately came and rescued the dogs, because I don't know if I was more upset at being covered in dog hair while wearing what I wanted to wear to work that day, the fact that my neck hurt, OR the fact that I RIPPED THE TOWEL RACK off the wall.

I went to rest on the bed (OUR bed) to stop bawling my head off because it hurt and I'm pissed.  Todd told me he can fix the towel rack.  That helped a little.  I pulled myself together with the promise that I will open a package later that evening.

I was 15 minutes later to work than I expected.  Ooops.  Later that evening as promised, I opened two cute notebooks with purple pens.  Very lovely, worth the wait, and cheered me up.

And Wednesday was an even worse day, but I'll save that story for later.  I just can't go into it right now.  That evening, I opened a cute single-cupcake carrier so I can take my baked good on-the-go.  With accompanying cute cupcake papers!  I will have to whip up some cupcakes soon.  Thank you Mommyfeather! 

So how about some puppies to lighten up this happy-fest.

Joey, Keystone & Jessie (4/30/13)
My babies are growing up!

Jessie and Joey (3/19/13)
They look SO YOUNG!

Have a happy Friday!  And make it a non-CDP-opening-day.

Balls

It's hard to believe this was only 2 years ago.  We had everything on the patio, because we were about to leave Nevada. 

If the video doesn't work for you, here is the link:  http://youtu.be/qpo6eUnCzGc

This is for Mrs. Irritation.  Enjoy! 

P.S.- we sold the GoDogGo... because believe it or not, the instructions call for CLEAN balls.  I want to know what tennis balls played with by dogs stay CLEAN????

Antibiotics, Anyone?

First, there was giardia.

 

Then, there was clostridium.

 

And then. There is...  SPORULATING RODS!

What won't my pups get?  Remember that poo rainbow I mentioned the other day... Yea, it's due to sporulating rods.  WHATEVER the heck that is.  It's some kind of bacteria.  Poor Jessie Bell.

In somewhat good news, depending how you look at it... my mom's dog, Bud, has diabetes.  He doesn't have cushings, which was feared for longer than it should have taken to run a dagblasted test.  They've got him on insulin, and now he's doing back-flips!  So glad they found the problem so he can feel better.  Poor fella felt bad for far too long.