long time no see...... part 2

since i haven't post in such a long time, i need to catch you all up on what's been going on. 
let's start with my favorite subject, my lucky puppy. 


lucky has been going well. she is healthy and happy. this past january she turned 9 years old. she had a little birthday party that left her in some kind of coma or from our stand point, hangover land. her best bud's helped celebrate and from what i could read on her fb wall it was a smash. yes i looked. don't judge either because you know you would look too. 
she got some nice gifts from her auntie shawnda too. now we have another ball in the house that if we touch you need to take cover. she will jump on you and fight for it. it seems anything auntie shawnda gives her is not touchable by anyone else. it makes her happy so that makes me happy too. 
as each day goes by, i do worry about my baby. her face it getting whiter, her eyelashes are grayer, some days she moves slowly, some very fast. i have also noticed that she may be getting a little arthritis in her back legs. when she goes to jump up on the bed, her couch or chair she may miss it.  i understand that this does happen to dogs her age but it's hard for me to watch. we have this big deck in the yard that she leaps off of. she has no problems doing that but when it's time to come back in, she sometimes misses a step. 
it scares me when this happens. 
lately i have noticed my baby has gotten a little lumpier too. i know they are just fatty deposits and they come and go but i worry about them turning into something more. 
ace has noticed them too and like me, not sure if we should have them removed or not. we know that they don't hurt her. i hate the idea of putting her through something she doesn't have to. i would do anything for her but am i being selfish not doing anything or doing something because i want her to be around forever?

glamour girl

pinky ball. do not touch.

i have also noticed some days she sleeps more. that scares me too. she has always been highly active and some days not so much. people tell me this is normal but when you are a dog mom, you can't help but worry. she has someone home with her during the day but since this person decided to have some kind of life (another story and maybe next blog) i don't feel like she is getting the care she needs. 

lucky has the smallest bladder on earth. lucky if you ever read this, i am sorry but you do. 

she does have a problem and will let that bladder loose, mostly on my back rug. just recently she was on a snow eating marathon since we got 24 inches dumped on us this winter. to make matters worse, since it's been raining for 40 days and nights she has been licking everything in site so that bladder fills as fast as she let's it loose. 

her new thing is to hold her bowels until she has no choice to let it go too. funny thing that is on the beige part of the carpet. some days i think she does it out of spite others for the lack of day time care. is this normal? does other dogs do this or do i just have the strangest one in the world??

long time no see......

ok friends, i am back. long time no blog i know. i hope you can forgive me for being very laxed in this area of life but i have reasons for not being on here for a LONG LONG TIME. 

part of the problem was what i like to call the great laptop crash of 2011. one saturday night ace was doing his normal let's annoy me thing. as some of you know it is a weekend ritual. i like peace and quiet and he is loud and a pain in my ass. don't get me wrong, i do love the man but sometimes i feel like i am taking care of a 35 year old child. anyway he came downstairs after watching some war movie on tv. now for him watching a war movie is never good, he gets way too caught up in it. why? beats me. i don't ask and to be honest, don't give a crap either. so he comes down and starts playing tug of war with lucky who is sitting next to me and the laptop. i said a dozen times not to play near me and the laptop. i asked, i pleaded, i even threatened his life and i was still ignored. well one thing led to another and between both of them they knocked the power cord out of the wall. you can guess what happened. 

i should have rebooted the damn thing and closed it out like a normal person. however, i didn't. instead i screamed at ace and world war 2011 broke out. we tossed out lots of verbal abuse, i tossed anything i could find at his head and well the fight soon ended with me sending him to another part of the house. 

the next day he knew i was mad but wasn't sure why so he treaded very carefully around me. i never went near the laptop all day because i knew deep in my gut there was a problem. finally ace asked me if i could check something on line and i said sure not a problem. at that point he knew something was up but still did not say anything. i, on the other had, with the fake smile started to power up the laptop. 

i powered it on and proceeded to wait for the opening screen.... 2 minutes... 5 minutes... 8 minutes.... 10 minutes.... finally i get my opening screen. now for someone of you friends reading this, you know where this is going. yes houston we have a problem. 

ace looks at me, then the screen, the back at me looking like he is not sure if he should talk to me or not. i will give him credit, he kept his trap shut and asked no questions. 

with that i shut it down. 

the next day i spoke with some tech geeks i know. i told them what happen and all said, i was in big trouble. i was given tips how to fix this but let's face it i am  no tech geek and needed a quick fix. after trying their ideas i gave up and called the nice people at dell. 

dell was great. they discovered my laptop was virused out (if that is a real term) and the only solution was to wipe it clean. 

had i known that, i would have written down my bookmarks and passwords. but a lass, i had no time nor the dinero for this either. i had to make a choice and fast so i agreed to a wipe out. i lost all my pictures of lucky, my family, my nephew, bookmarks and passwords. 

i did manage to burn most of the pictures to a disk a few weeks before this, so all was not totally gone but it was heartbreaking. so was the $250 i had to shell out (could not really afford). i made not have made bill gates richer but i sure made dell happy that night. 

so in the end, i got my laptop back but lost my blogging password and of course my blog for a while. ok a long while. shout out to one of my best friends on earth and the best blogger i know, dingo, savannah and lily bean's mommy!!! with out her, i am not sure i would have ever found my blog!!!!!

now when i am asked my ace to look something up, i can say, "i can't. the site was lost in the laptop crash of 2011." funny thing he is still  not sure how it happen but knows it is all his fault. i take comfort in that! 

until next time......

it's all about her part one million

again i have to say i hate devoting a blog to someone whom i can not stand but it's my blog and if writing about what bitch this woman is going to make me feel better, then so be it. 
i am also doing this because this woman is a snoopy little bitch and i know she will pop in here sooner or later. 
as i said, i met this woman on another website and let's face it we all know which one i am talking about here. the ''witch bitch" as i call her or wb for short, has become highly jealous of the things i do or even someone else. if someone else is getting more attention than she, g_d help us all. now if you go back to january 2010 and read the "all about her" blog, or whatever i called it, you can get some back ground on this woman. however, i have to admit, i sugar coated it to be nice at the time. well nice time is over, so let's get to the nitty gritty here. she is older than me. WAY OLDER!! she has been divorced many times, her boyfriend left her, he used her for money she thought she was getting, she lies about everything, she thinks facebook is real, she thinks that everyone loves her (NOT!!!), 
she has experienced everything in life (she never leaves her house so how can that be?), she has every single diesase known to man ( can we say hypo here?), she makes friends with others on fb whom she doesn't even know or have talked to but since they commented on my wall she feels compelled to friend then and then talk shit about my to them in her "little friend thread in box", i know this for a fact because one sent ME THE FREAKING COPY!!! 
am i being a bitch here? YES!!! am i being as petty? YES!!!! there is only so much bullshit i will take until i blow, and yup i reached it. 
it started out with someone else who was in a car accident. this person was not hurt but their car was a bit damaged. so i commented on it and offered words of advise since i am in the car business and this person's car is one of the models we service. so it only seemed right. not even 24hrs later wb was also in an accident. of course it was not her fault even though she slammed into the back of the car. according to her this person was parked. 
anyway for the last few days all i have seen is post of car being totaled, i know where that woman lives, i am going to get her, i was hurt so bad, my airbags went off etc etc etc. 
fine whatever!!!! did i comment or ask how she was? no. why bother because that would feed the fire. well i guess she must have noticed my absence because she felt the need to comment on something of mine and of course insert her 2 cents. 
which btw, bitch, you might want to hang on to the 2 cents you own since you will need it for when THAT WOMAN YOU HIT SUES THE PANTS OFF YOU!!!!! SHE WILL BECAUSE YOU HIT HER BY DRIVING TOO FAST AND NOT PAYING ATTENTION!!!! 
ok, sorry but i really needed to do that one. 
anyway, she commented and i said my response was directed at someone else not her. 
next thing i see is wb friends my friend. let's face some facts here, she has never talked to this person, she is not mutual friend with anyone else except me, so why send a request to someone whom you have nothing in common with?
to piss me the f**k off!!! 
they say karma comes back at you, well by me blogging and her posting (something that never happen) it will come back WB, trust me it will come back. or did it hit you already? 

my mom

about a month ago my mom asked for my help to paint her kitchen. this request came soon after i had just finished my living room. i said i would help. of course true to form, bribery was involved. let's face it, i am a lazy person these days and do not live up my free time with out something. so when mom asked i quickly demanded her famous homemade chocolate chip cookie. she not only said yes but threw in some bagels and lox. 
yes, i can be bribed and that was my price. 
my mom does not ask for a lot in life. a card on her birthday and mother's day, daily emails, and a visit once a month. i know you are saying, " once a month? that's rude.".
well since i do live 80 miles from her (one way peeps!) i do have to plan these things out and when you have ms and chrons, your life becomes one long thought out schedule.
i have to say my mom is good about it. she rather me be healthy than anything else. 
my mom has always been great. sure we had our arguements over the years, but hey haven't we all? my mom is a tough cookie herself. she has been through a lot and never gives up. 
she took care of my dad when he was sick, she always made sure my sister had what we needed and never failed to say "i love you".  i would love to say my parents were jerks, just to beef this up but i can't. i have/had a wonderful mom and dad. i am lucky. 
so where was i going with this? oh yea, painting the kitchen. 
well we finally picked a day to paint. mom had done most of the work and i just had the ceiling to do. now normally this would be an easy thing but since the kitchen table and everything else was still in the room, it was not an easy thing. plus the ceiling fan was still up. as i am trying to paint, i am getting paint every where. as i am painting, i am picturing a million different versions about to happen when my mom came home. she was working at the time. i had paint on the floor, the cabniets, the fan blades and everything else. 
i am picturing her yelling at me for getting paint everywhere, missing places etc. 
funny thing, she walks in the door and tells me what a great job i have done. now personally, i am not thrilled with it but she it. that is one thing i did not get from my parents, OCD!!! i look at it and i cringe. when i hit the fan blades again, all my mom can say, "it's the top of the blade, who is going to see it?" now this statement is something we do share because i tried to use that same logic when we had to move everything out of the living room when we painted. 
when all was done i helped her clean up and then we sat and talked. i have to admit going home at times kind of creeps me out because i still expect after almost 6 years my dad to walk in to the room. a lot has changed in that house. now when you walk in, dad is not sitting at the kitchen table watching tv, the living room is neater since my junk is not there, my bedroom is now a den/computer room and when you walk in you are staring straight at my nephew's face. 
how long does it take before i can walk in to mom's and not miss my dad being there? how my mom does it, is amazing. i know at times she thinks she can still hear him shout something across the room, i do too when i am there. 
my mom is not only brave but the best mom and grandma. my only wish is for my mom to stick around a long, long, long, long while. not for just me but for my nephew. i want her to be there for all the milestone's in his life like my grandparents were there for me and my sister. <3 mom!!!

you might not be excited...

I just found out my phone has an app for the blog!
ok this may not be excited by this but I am. so I thought some testing was in order here.

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this is too funny

yesterday in the course of putting life as i know it back together, thumper came home and i decided to make him help us. 
now as i said, thumper lives upstairs. he was ace's best friend and when he lost his job and apartment, i said he could move in. so he did and found a job. he watches lucky so she is not alone all day. he used to be a raging boozer. then one day he found god and gave it all up. cold turkey. he became someone we don't even know. he thinks he knows everything and has this "holier than thou" attitude. he rarely talks to us, hangs out or has anything to do with us. 
which at this point is fine by me. so long as he takes care of lucky, keeps his mouth shut and gives me money, i don't care what he does. 


now i don't like the idea of devoting a blog to him but what he did yesterday is worth it. 
about 6 months ago he had come home and i was on facebook, of course, and i was sharing something funny with ace. i started telling him about it and thumper looks at me and says 
" you know these people are not real. this is all a scam. it's just stupid. why do you waste your time with people you  don't know?" 
well, you know me, i saw red and had to let him have it. i said to him, " some of these people i do know, they are family, friends i have had for years, friends i lost touch with, and people i share something in common with. some i have met because of diseases we share and can help each other. you on the other hand asshole, hang out with a couple who are in their 70's. so before you open your mouth, look at your own pathic life." 
well with that he said nothing and went to his room. 


to get him to help he needed something from me. he wanted to use my laptop to check his email since the library's computers were full. i said ok since it was just his email. or so i thought. i turned around and saw he was logging into facebook!!!! for a second i thought it was MY page he was trying to log into. he asked me why it wasn't working and i looked and saw his email there. so in a very surprised voice i asked, " you have a facebook page??!?!?!"
he said yes. so i loaded his page and i could not help but asked why. he said he wanted to keep in touch with some girl he met in mexico and when he asked her how he could she said facebook! of course!! silly me!!! 
now i wasn't as mad as i was surprised since this was the ass who gave me shit about it but me being me i could not help myself and start giving him shit about it. smart ass he is he replied, " well i know these people and i talk to them and i have famous friends. very famous. but you would not know them since you do not know any of them." 
huh? are you kidding me? seriously? i could not believe it. ace then said  "so you want to be our facebook friend?" to which thumper said, "no. why would i when i live here."
now trust me i would not add him, nor would ace, but that was rude to say and it was a joke. 
with that he signed off and went upstairs. later on i could not help it, i checked his page. 
famous friends, huh. my ass. mommy, daddy, sister, brother in law, chick from mexico, and some rock stars. 
yeah, that's famous friends alright. 
speaking of which i need to get back to my own page and talk with my friends who are famous for being awesome.

what's up in life

well folks it's been a while. i know i have been very lazy coming back and updating. 
i would come up with some good excuse, but let's face it, i am lazy. 
the last two months have take their toll on me. where do i begin???

i guess i can just start where i left off with the ceiling. we finally found a contractor who not only knows what he is doing but also had the personality of a dead fish. he was not a dog person, something i did not know at the time. anyhow's ace and i had our weeks vacation. the first 2 days were great. the 3rd... well... i was stir crazy and he was making me nuts. 
we fought of course. i woke in a bad mood and he thought it was all about him. 
i seem to get that a lot in life. ace always thinks everything is all about him. 
this mood was just because i am used to a routine and it was broken. when the routine breaks, i freak and have no clue what to do or how to handle it. after a while i calmed down and ace finally picked up the clue. so after that all was well. 
lucky on the other hand did not take it well that  mommy and daddy were still home. i guess we broke her routine too and of course our "wonderful boarder" thumper, (he's another story that really does not need a blog mention. ) made sure not to be home or awake when we were around. 
we spent the days hanging out doing nothing. ace did have his birthday that week and thought turning 35 that day was the end of the world. personally i think some drama king was going on here. i mean, it's 35, i turned 40. did you see me freak? nope! i loved it and yes, i plan on turning 40 again this year. 
well ace had his melt down which included some drunking texting. to our boss!!!! 
yup you read correctly. the text was nothing bad, mean, or actually stupid. all it read was " i am 35 today. we should sit down and talk when i get back from vacation." 
now, i know i went a little overboard but really was that text needed? no. trust me when i say, our boss could care less. i do believe that all text messages should come with a  warning before you hit the send button. "are you sure you want to send this text? seriously? think about that long and hard buddy before you push that send button."
all the apps in the world now and no one has made it. 
in the course of all this, we had to pack up the living room and move everything out. the contractor was coming! let me just say 2 people and a dog should not be confinded to one room. need i say more? lucky was having a tough time with this. she wanted to say hi to mr. dead fish and his helper and could not. she wanted to go to her window was could not. she wanted her life. i don't blame her either. i wanted mine back too. 
so we spent 8 hrs in the kitchen that day. finally we were let out to roam our own house. 
the next night dead fish came back to mud. this went on until thursday when he finally finished that part. by now i had realized that never once did he acknowledge lucky. 
i think she noticed it too since every night since he layed down that tarp, she would pee on it. no joke. now we all know she has a weak bladder, but she never really does this at night. so you know she was pissed. it also did not help that it was light a 100 degrees out and i have no a/c in the living room. i have it in the bedroom but for some reason lucky does not like being in there if the door is closed. she likes to be able to come and go. 
so that did not help matters. 
i think she finally lost it on friday night. we all painted the living room. lucky had to hang out in her room with the door locked. i didn't want her to be able to jump over something and go from a black and white dog to a all white one or worse, lick paint. when we were done for the night, we let her out and gave her back her window. we hung out together for a while and then i told her goodnight. well i guess she was so pissed from being in her room that she peed on the tarp and pooped on it. she also dug out some of the stuffing of the tarp and put it on her poop to hide the evidence. well, lucky me ( no pun intended) i found it. your smart, you can figure out how. 
now it's sunday night and we all have our rooms back. i will admit the result is great but no something i want to do again. lucky is still out of sorts. the past 2 weeks her life was interuppted. here is to hopping we can all get our normal every day lives back and i can have some much needed downtime. 
here is how it came out.