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I wanted to make sure I wished you the Merriest Christmas. Believe in the magic of Christmas!
It won't be as hectic this Christmas as long as I get our presents all wrapped. I still have the weekend!!! I will not have the family over on Christmas Eve just go to their house for Christmas Dinner.:):)
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS!!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Happy New Year!!
I'll be wrapping this weekend too! Hoping for a quiet, productive weekend in fact.
Hugs!!!
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years!!!!!!!
May all of your Christmas wishes come true...
May we all stay away from any and all cliffs,
Peace and Joy to all!
-Susan
Hi Sus,
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are not at the mall returning things;););) Did Bailey enjoy her presents from Santa? Did her sweater finally arrive?
I keep seeing bad weather out East and hope it is not in your neck of the woods. It seems it may be further north. We are to have snow tomorrow. I wont complain though, it is only the second storm we have had this winter. How has your winter been so far?
I was hoping to take in a movie today. I so wanted to see Anna Karenina but it is no longer playing at the nearby theaters. I guess I waited too long and will end up seeing it on cable.
Count down for 2013 now begins.........................
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Ryan and I are going to see the Dallas/Washington football game Sunday night. I am going over tomorrow.....if you remember that was a big part of my Christmas present to him. The tickets are the hottest ever for an NFL regular season game and the highest priced ones. Fortunately I got ours in very early September (much less $$) before those other fools were willing to risk whether the 'skins would be good enough to be interesting this late in the year. HOWEVER...I could sell these tickets and make about a 400% profit. Worth thinking about. Make a bunch of money and watch the game at home in front of the fireplace with no line for "rest rooms," or go to the game, sit in 20 degree weather for 5 hours and not see nearly as well nor be able to see the many replays they put on tv. Hmmmmm.Quote:
Originally Posted by addy
No-we'll go. We should BE there.....we are really large Redskin fans...loyal to the core! We must support these guys.
I come back on Monday, turn around and go back on Wednesday for Kennedy Center shows......my Christmas present to Bob. We come back on Friday and I turn around on Monday to go to Wilmington for a doc appt. Once I get home from there we both go to take Bailey to Annapolis for her surgery. :(:( We'll alll (hopefully) come back home on Wednesday. Then I get to puppy sit for 6 weeks, keeping her little paws from reaching the floor. YIKES!!!!!!!!!
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and did not need to make returns! Best wishes for a happy, very healthy New Year to you and yours.
Love,
Hugs,
More hugs,
Sus :D
I need a nap!! Just reading your schedule sounds both exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time.
Have safe trips and a good time at the game and Kennedy Center. I'm sure Bailey will be fine, but boy, no paws down! Yikes indeed.
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Awww the beauty of the East Coast, proximety to all good things:D:D:D
Have a wonderful time and soak it all in so the glow lasts throught Bailey's recuperation. I am sure she will do just fine.
I think I will hide in your suitcase!!!!!!!!!!
I think I will be too tired to hide in the suitcase with Sister Addy, that's too much for me!!! :D
It does sound like fun!!!! I know that is what makes me jealous of the east coast everything is pretty close where as California doesn't have that kind of excitement. Maybe it has its own kind but I am use to it so doesn't seem as exciting.
Have a Happy New Year!!!! Enjoy yourself before you have keep Miss Bailey off her legs for a while--just not fair she has to go through this again.
(((((HUGS!!!!!)))))
happy, happy, happy 2013
Happy New Year!
Hoping for a happy, safe, healthy new year
Cheers,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
R U BAAAACK?:):)
How was the Kennedy Center show? Tell me all the details cause I did not get to see or hear much from the suitcase:p:p:p:p:p:p
I AM back!
We went to see White Christmas and also to see Shear Madness. For WC we were too close, if you can believe that...........plus there was this dude sitting right in front of me whose head was as wide as his shoulders!!! So at intermission, we moved back, only 1/2 the theater was filled-this was a matinee. The show was great, the singing was great and the production was fabulous. What was NOT great was the $22 fee for parking at the Kennedy Center PLUS a $20 fee for parking at the hotel. YIKES! Bethany Beach living has spoiled me/us!!!!
Shear Madness was fun as well. This was our 3rd time to see it. It is starting its 25th year and it's a murder mystery that depends on audience participation. It is always changing in that they include current events (usually politics) and the outcome is based on audience vote. They finish out the play based on the actor most voted for by the audience as the murderer.
We had a nice dinner on day 1 with out son and his girlfriend. She has been in his life for 6 months or so and this was the first time we met her. We both liked her very much. It was a relaxed dinner and everyone seemed to have a good time. Ryan is not sure where this will go. Ellen is studying to become a speech therapist and finishes up her masters in May. Her family wants her to move back to CO. She has been in DC for 3 years now. He has lived here all his life and is not interested in moving so far away. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. She just hadn't better hurt him, my baby!!!!:mad::mad:
Tomorrow is the day for Bailey's knee surgeries. :(:eek: (Or would that be knees surgery?) I so hate for her to have to go through this again:eek:...if ever there was someone who could empathize with her, it's me!!:(
My pt is still ongoing and seems to be so very slow. I'm hanging in there, though. It's just taking so long to get strength back.
Ryan and I thoroughly enjoyed the Redskins game last week. As usual, they had to take it down to the last 15 seconds to win it, but it was sure fun. I returned home the next day and Bob & I had a quiet, happy New Year. Unfortunately, I did not so enjoy yesterday's Redskins loss. It started out great with two quick touchdowns, but then it fell apart. Still, they had a great season, finishing top of their division. It's a HUGE improvement from how it has been for the last ten years.
Well-as usual, I should be in bed. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my Cush friends.
Love,
Sus, Susan, Bailey's mom
Your trip sounds very exciting! Well, except for the dratted pay parking. Ugh. I hate how expensive that is.
Good luck tomorrow with Bailey! 5am! Rise and shine! bright eyed, bushy tailed
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
It's 5 am, wheres the car? I have my coffee, do you have Miss Basiley?
Ok off we go:)
Everything will be just fine, Sus. Bailey will come through her knee surgery just fine.
Dang, it is cold this morning!!!!!!! Wait, let me grab the newspaper and my iphone. Okay, we are OOOOOFFFFFFFFFF:D:D:D:D:D
Can we stop for muffins?
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Can we stop for muffins?[/QUOTE]
Well, we DID stop for doughnuts. Did you get yours or has Marie Irene eaten all the rest? I had TWO twists! MMMMMMMMnnnnnnnnnnummy!
Where the vet surgeon is is right around the corner from where we got Bob's car, so we went by there after leaving Miss. B, and exchanged our car for a loaner (nice service that they have.) So, it's the same model car, but newer.........and I think a bit more basic........I'm not sure. It took FOREVER to warm my seat and thus my butt!!! That was a 5 hour round trip and my knees were NOT happy.
Silly Bailey was playing with her rubber doggie bone that is the size of her head, at 4AM! :eek: She thought this was great fun. Bob chose not to give her 1/2 a Dramamine and had I realized that earlier, that would have changed. BUT!!!! She did NOT get car sick. :D Her little nose was wet and cold all the way there. For about 1/2 the ride, she dozed on my chest. ;);) I started humming to a song that was on the radio at one point and she raised her head, as my throat was next to her ear, and she looked at me like....".do you think you could stop doing that??! I'm trying to sleep here.":rolleyes:
I am still waiting to hear how it went. I think it was going to start around 10:30..........and you are right Addy............it was indeed very cold this AM. BUT!!! ......... We are supposed to have two days this weekend of sunny and mid 60's. I LOVE IT!!!!!
Keep thinking positive thoughts!
Love,
Sus
Hi Sharlene.....thanks for stopping by!
-S
thinking positive thoughts as i peek while at work to see if all is okay
The surgeon called around 12:30. The surgery went well, Bailey is doing fine and we can probably take her home tomorrow afternoon. He said one of the pins he put in last time, in one leg, had started to move around and it was starting to collect fluid. He removed it as she no longer needs it. The other pin in the other leg was left alone because it is behaving itself. He explained how the scar tissue had caused the knee cap to go to the outside now. Originally it was sliding to the inside. He thinks as the scar tissue settled in that it became tighter and thus the problem developed. He is expecting a positive outcome. What he had told us he was going to do was to tighten the ligaments up basically by stitching in a figure eight. That would prevent the knee cap from slipping either way. He did not reference this in the phone call, but I am sure we will get more details when we go get her.
So-relief that it is over. Sorrow that I am not there. Sorrow for her pain. She in no way understood why she could not have bedtime treats last night (no food after 8). She was very perplexed and insistent.:mad: By 4AM, when I got up, she had cuddled up closer than close to me and then put her head on my neck and gave me kisses. She then played with her rubber bone while we got dressed to go, tail wagging all the time. On the way over, the two hour trip, she watched outside for a good while, then as I put my seat way back (Hope I didn't crowd you Addy)-she stretched out and played at napping. ;) Her face was about two inches from my face and every time I opened my eye(s) to look, she was looking back at me! :D
Her trainer just called to see how she was doing. She said she is sending Bailey a little "something."
Are people great, or what?
Love,
Sus
awwww Sus, what a lover and sweetie Little Miss is:D:D:D:D
I know it is so hard when we cant explain things to them. I even read the book "How To Speak Dog" but it didnt help:D:D:D Though I did learn how to ask Koko and Zoe to play with me in dogese;):rolleyes: and it worked too:D:D:D
I know you are anxious to have her back home and she will soon be snuggling around your neck.
Wow, that was a long drive today!!!! YIKES!!! Good thing I had a window seat and those doughnuts:D:D:D:D:D:D
love ya very much girlfriend
Yay, so glad that the surgery went well and the prognosis is good. Bet you can't wait to have little miss back home with you!
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Hi-
I just called and spoke with Bailey's technician. They have had her outside and (really?) she does not like standing on those legs, but they did get her to pee. She had not eaten-she is a very light eater anyway-but they did recently get her to eat some turkey sandwich meat. They tell me she is propped up with pillows and they have her covered, because "she seems to like it." (really?")
So-looks good so far. Yes, Sharlene, I can hardly wait to have her back. The house is so very quiet. The doorbell was rung and there was no resulting noise. So strange.
I'm trying to take care of desk/paper chores so I can just veg out with her once she's back home. It's amazing how much I miss her. People say she's spoiled. I think I am the one that is spoiled!:D
-Susan/Sus
When can you go get her? I am so glad things went well, you must be so relieved. I have not been away overnight from Zoe in six years. I cant imagine sleeping without hearing her breathe. Your house must feel empty and quiet indeed.
It was 42 degrees today. Beautiful Day but snow is heading our way this weekend. I hope you enjoy your warm weather too. Just think Sus, in 2 more weeks, it will be light out at 5pm:D:D:D:D:D:D
hugs
Hi Addy-I only have a second---I got a one hour reprieve from Bailey sitting from Bob...and my time is up!
She is back home. She would not give me a kiss for five hours. I assured her that was okay and it was okay if she was really mad at me. Finally got a kiss!
She is pretty much of a zombie. She wants to be left alone.....but don't leave her!!:D I have a Dr appt @11 tomorrow so I'll be gone for maybe two hours. Bob will be here. I will give her ladyship my undivided attention the rest of the day.
Good thing is she came home, Bob took her right out back and she pooped. She won't need to do that again probably before Friday now. What a trooper!:):)
Love,
Sus
Hi Sus,
How is Little Miss and how did your doctor appointment go?
Everything ok?
Our snow melted and I have day lilies peaking through the ground;)
Of course tomorrow the temps will drop and snow is on its way for Sunday but hey, it was a great day today!!! Hope this nice weather is enroute to your house.
Hi Addy-
The weather is supposed to reach in the high sixties this weekend. :) Next week we are in for a big drop in temps. I think any living plant is going to be seriously confused come spring.:confused::confused:
My doc appt went well....except my BP was high when I got there.:( I have to monitor it myself for two weeks and go back and have it rechecked and an Echocardiogram. He did an EKG yesterday which turned out "perfect." I expect my BP was high because I had a couple of scary incidents of closing my eyes too long while driving. For 3 days I got very little sleep. I made up for that last night.
The first night when Bailey got home was rough....she kept wanting to lick the incisions. I put the collar on her and she got that off. Then I found myself with about 1 foot of bed space. I was about to take her and move elsewhere when Bob finally moved himself and Bailey giving me more space. After that she slept well and I slept pretty well.
Her incisions look great. One has no redness at all. :D The other one I've not really had an opportunity to see.........or I have and they both look the same. :confused: She's been very good about licking less and this evening, after she ate a big bowl of chicken/turkey meat, she sneaked off and made it all by herself over to her water bowl without my knowing about it until I heard the slurping! That's a good twenty feet. Just now, without my knowing it, she made it half way down the steps to the first floor....needing to get out to pee. She is soooooooo quiet. Ten seconds earlier I had reprimanded her about licking...........and then she's off and GONE!!
Did you know when dogs drink water, they lap it up by curling their tongues under? I saw a slo-mo of that one day. While I watched her slurp this evening I could see that indeed that is the case. Whodathunkit?
I only need to get more strengthening in PT. The rest is fine. I am getting the idea this is just going to be one slow process back. I think PT will probably have to end soon. I'll just need to make it better on my own.:( I think I am officially off pain medication.:) That stuff is a two edged sword. (now there's a strange phrase.)
Happy weekend.
Love,
Sus
:) ATTENTION!!!!!! A new picture of Bailey's new sweaters.........not exactly in time for Christmas, but worth the wait..........:)
Very cute sweaters! quite spiffy!
That Bailey is a scamp isn't she. Off as soon as you aren't paying attention. You'll have to get a bell to put on her. (oh That would drive you nuts I'm sure! ding, ding, ding, ding) never mind, I take it back, no bell.
Really glad that she seems to be in a good recovery mode.
Now, you just have to remember to take it easy and do those exercises and then maybe even if not doing PT full time, sneak a session in every once in awhile. You'll do awesome too. You and Bailey, a Team! (and Bob too of course!!) LOL
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
sweaters, new sweaters from Etsy? I have to go look, one of my favorite things.
Okay-need some suggestions here. First.....I HAVE TO have a dog. That's all there is to that. Second, Bob tolerates dogs. Bob does not spend a lot of time building a relationship with a pet. The pets have always been "mine." He helps out and all that but he just............well I suggested he..............
Back up here........the problem is that Bailey is growling very seriously if Bob goes to pick her up. He thinks it is because she is "my dog" and that anyone coming near me is responded to that way. That''s not entirely accurate. It has gotten much worse since her surgery, which is understandable. Her legs hurt. She isn't real keen on being picked up right now. Sometimes I get a little low growl but I have found if I talk to her, tell her I'm picking her up and everything is okay. I suggested he try some of that. He again came back about her being "my dog." So I said-and how do you think that happened? And he said he didn't know. I explained it happened because I play with her, I give her treats, we play fetch with the balls and I've even begun taking her on short errands. She does very well. He poo-pooed that saying he was not the Dog Whisperer. She has always growled a bit but now it is getting to be a very angry growl when he goes to pick her up. And for the time being, she is supposed to be carried everywhere. The trainer was just told about this right when we had to stop due to Bailey's surgery and the trainer had to have some surgery as well. We won't resume for another 5-6 weeks. I have started picking her up myself and then transferring her over to his arms. He usually takes her out, what with me and my knees.
Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.
Susan
Hey Susan: That is funny about Palmer's duckie. I have seen CoCo hump his dog for 10 years and then bite it and throw it to me and I put it back in his bed and cover him up. It is a game he plays. CoCo growls if he is picked up also, very disconcerting and makes me mad sometimes, but we just go ahead and pick him up, he never offers to bite, just telling us he does not like to be picked up I guess. We just call CoCo the Alpha dog and we are his subjects and if he was a shepherd he would be herding us around I guess. I guess Bailey is the same, just telling you "don't pick up". They used to put a muzzle on him at the vet's office and call him the biter, but I don't think he ever bit anyone, just a 10 pound growler. Hope you and Bailey improve quickly. Hugs, JoAnne
Hey Sus,
crazy day today, not much time but a couple thoughts:
does Bob pick Bailey up the same way you do or does he approach from a different anlge, side, etc?
We taught Zoe to like being picked up with a clicker and lots of, you know, what else right, chicken of course.
fast action treats (think jackpot) to prime her up and to short circuit her brain while she is on the floor, Bob picks her up the same way you do and you click and shove more chicken in her mouth while loudly praising, he holds her only for a few seconds then puts her down, watch her body language and only practice a few pick ups at a time then wait until later. Try to increase the amount of time he holds her bit by bit.
Not sure if I explained all correctly but it did work for us, but we had to reinforece it often.
talk to you tonight:):)
Thanks JoAnne & Addy. Addy he picks her up as I do. I try to get him to talk to her as he starts and continues, but I am only mildly successful.
I'll keep you updated.
Ss
Hi Susan,
Well, Bailey is being very alpha towards Bob. I hope that others have some ideas on how to get that behavior to stop.
Treats is a biggee of course, dogs usually are good with the ones who give them treats, take care of them, etc.
Also, you can't let her continue that behavior, but you need positive reinforcement. I think your ideas are really good.
I'd probably do something like, talk to her, rub her belly or something, pick up, give a treat. Maybe Bob should take her on some walkies when she is back to able to do that. Have him feed her too. Sort of the scenario of "look me big alpha, go kill game, give you food" ROFL
What a pain in the keister though.
hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin
I think they must have something in the water in Canada, dont you Sus? Yup for sure it they must, Carrol was from Canada too, of course she later moved but she grew up drinking the stuff:D:D:D:D:DQuote:
look me big alpha, go kill game, give you food"
LOL, Sharlene
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
keyboard alert!!!!!!
water all over the desk and keyboard when I read that Addy!!!! ROFL!
My husband thumped his chest a couple times at Molly while saying he was Alpha dog in the house. I was literally on the floor rolling around laughing while ticking Molly (she's ticklish under her front leg pits) while he was doing it too. We both decided he only Thought he was alpha but everyone knew us girls ruled the world!!!
Course that is Not going to help Bailey, who already Knows she rules the world! (shhhhh, we're trying to convince her that it is bob who is king kabob!)
hahahaha,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
I dont think she's buying that Bob is King Kabob:D:D:D;);)
Wait, are we talking about Sus or Bailey??:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Hey Sus, where the heck are ya?
Oh Addy-----and the others........I'm here. I'm just not feeling good. :( PT is rough. The guy keeps telling me I've aged since the last time I went through this....so it's going to take longer. Boy, if I hadn't been already depressed when I got there, he sure put the cherry on the top! :mad:
I stopped the Rx pain meds and it has messed up my sleeping. Go to bed and I find myself wide awake. Get up and do stuff. Body clock must think springs have sprung!! :eek::confused::(:mad:
Bob does 99% of the Bailey walking already. But...you know....attitude? Giving back what you send out? That's the problem. Today she even growled just a little at me when I went to take her. I think some days she doesn't feel too hot either. She has been on 3 meds and is now down to 2. Another day or so and she'll be down to one. Staples come out on Monday. She looks like a poorly groomed poodle with her little cold butt hanging out all shaved and her tiny little tail with a tiny little ball at the end.
We like to let Bob think he's the King Kabob. Keeps him happy.
Okay....show of hands..........how many are with me to go away for 4 days and nights to someplace sunny and warm where they speak English with an accent..........you know, some place in the Caribbean...?????
I'm achy tonight. Hopefully I sleep. Hugs and more hugs to all.
Little Sus, Susan, woe is me................
*waving hand madly, me, me, me!! Lets go! Warm, sunshine, water, drinks on the beach, brought to us by wonderful people who smile and ask if there is anything else you'd like! Absolutely!
No PT for awhile, you can get in the pool and call it PT. Everyone will comment on how well you are looking and so youthful and full of energy!
Okay, who is now checking out the all inclusive vacation web sites? No not yet?!! Shocking! Lets try again, Sunshine, warm, beach, surf, drinks, beach, warm, repeat endlessly.
Ugh, I just turned to look at the tv to see what that cool music was about. It was some skinny woman in a bathing suit looking about 18 years old and all tanned and toned. grrrrrrrr
Well yes of course, that is the key, that he Thinks him be King Kabob!
Maybe Bailey is having sympathy pains with you and you with her. You can both growl at bob and feel better about the whole situation.
Hugs Susan, I hope you are feeling better soon.
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Thanks Sharlene...you gave me a giggle. I'm up again tonight. Fortunately I have nothing scheduled for tomorrow which involves the outside world. We were supposed to have 6" of snow and Bob says not looking like that so much anymore.
I took pain meds. I'm beginning to think I'm stopping too early. I think I need to skip a pt on Friday. Give the ol body a little break.
YES!! All inclusive! For sure!! How come I don't see more hands????
-Susan
My hand is up, Me! me ! me!
We're to get BELOW ZERO next week:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
anything but that:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
I'm in the food for a little salsa, Margareta, mariachi band, sun, surf, wind in my hair, grilled fish, yummy good:D:D:D:D:D
shoot, have to run to work, no time because of my nursing duties:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: