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Training gone wild.

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I don’t know what exactly is going on with Princess but lately she’s decided that she no longer likes the wee-wee pads and feels as though the carpet is just good enough for her. I’ve literally been cleaning the rug for the last three days. She’s to a point now that even if I place a wee-wee pad in the spots where she prefers to go that she’ll decide to just go next to it. This is completely out of the norm for her, she’s typically been really good about going on the pads. I’m aware of the fact that she’s getting older and was sick last week but this is borderline absurd behavior for her and a complete annoyance for the one who has to clean it up (me).

Today I wound up crashing on the couch after my eyes crossed on me. I was woken up by Princess who decided she wanted some attention, a few moments later (probably less than a minute) she hops off the couch and waddles over to her new pee spot. She then looked up at me like “Okay, clean this” and I swear I was going to kick the wall. It’s like she finds amusement in it or something.

I’m glad that Bella does all of her business outside.

Silly puppy.

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Bella has been asleep for over 12 hours, this isn’t something to be alarmed about because she stayed in the room after I left and since Sean was in there for a few hours after me, naturally that’s where she wanted to be. If she could spend the whole day in the bedroom she’d be a very happy girl. I’d leave the door open but Princess likes to eat Bella’s food and Candy is easily confused with where she is and will think any patch of carpet is, in fact, a wee-wee pad. To avoid piss or bloating, no dogs are allowed in there unless there’s supervision.

So I bring her outside after she wakes up because it was over 12 hours since she was able to pee. She found a squirrel floating around her favorite tree and went to chase after it. The squirrel went up the tree almost instantly and Bella (not being too bright) ran around the tree three times before she thought to look up. She looked up, the squirrel was teasing her and Bella (again, not being too bright) then attempted to climb the tree. She fell over then looked up at me as though I’d done something wrong and basically just sat there for a good 30 seconds and didn’t move, I didn’t realize that she was actually peeing (you can’t really tell in grass, you know?) so now she’s unloaded and just a bit moody because she didn’t get to play with anyone. Oy!

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I’m gunna get you!

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

One of my servers is acting up and I’m not quite sure as to why. Whenever I ping the IP address, or even just a domain name in general, it tells me that everything is up and running fine. Loading said IP or domain in the browser, however, tells me something completely different. I wish I could figure out why it was doing this but I’ve got Tony working on it so this shouldn’t be much of an issue for very long.

I’m still awake, obviously, I wanted to be asleep about 3 hours ago so my still being awake now is taking it’s toll on me. There was a pretty huge water fight in the kitchen tonight. Karen went after Sean with a water gun and then the rest is basically history. He was soaked, went to change and then she stood right outside the door and managed to get him again. I was amused and then hid on the couch with Princess and Bella to stay out of the cross fire but that didn’t work out very well, Sean still got me. Karen was hosed down from head to toe and Sean was almost beaten because of it. Don’t mess with a womans hair, that’s all I have to say. She just showered too so she wasn’t a happy camper heh. Either way it was fun, we’ll have water balloons tomorrow, gotta love the dollar store! 100 for $1. SCORE!

Crash and Burn…

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

My sleep schedule is a little screwy, to the point that it’s kind of offsetting my entire day. I didn’t get much done yesterday when it came to any future ventures but that was evened out with the fact that I was getting things done for Dick and a new client. I have quite a bit of work to get done with another new person but considering it’s about 9:30am and I’m beat, I may call it a ‘night’ and just crash for a few hours to regain some of my strength. I did get quite a bit accomplished last night so at least I can go to bed feeling productive.

It’s Karen’s birthday today, we’re all going out to dinner tonight. She’s a sucker for The Roadhouse and her absolute favorite thing in the world is Fillet Mignon, so at least she’ll eat well for her birthday.

Since both Sean and my schedule is messed up, the ‘dinner’ we had last night (I barbecued) was kind of like breakfast so at 6am this morning I made us our real dinner, most of you would consider that breakfast. See, I’m about 12 hours ahead of myself, I should probably be living on the other side of the world, shouldn’t I?

Bella is knocked out next to me, snoring her little face off. Princess is fast asleep on the couch so at least we don’t have to listen to her barking at every little thing that goes past the house and Candy is being, well…Candy. She’s an older dog and kind of convinced that her tail isn’t actually hers so she tends to run away from it quite a bit. You can see the frustration in her face when no matter what she does it manages to catch up with her. It’s adorable watching her do ig but kind of sad all at the same time…heh.

Sean just installed Safari, they released it for Windows and it has quite a few nasty flaws to it. I think at this point it would just be easier to buy a mac, heh.

In any event, I’m going to get a few things taken care of and then head off to bed.

Ding Dong the Bitch be GONE!

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I’m a little behind on email but that’s based on the fact that it was kind of a ‘blah’ sort of day. I spent quite a bit of time working on blog-ideas.net, the basis of the site is close to done, I just need Sean to program the back end of it for me when work slows down for him after the launch. I also managed to get a few templates created as well, they’re going under the future freebies section. I have so many templates on my computer that were either rejected by clients, or just rejected by me, that completing the code for them and working most of them into the new wordpress formats should be somewhat beneficial to the content of the site.

The house guest will be leaving in approximately 4 hours, Sean and I are both happy about this. I’m to a point where I’m willing to stay awake long enough to see the woman off but with how heavy my eye lids are at the moment, I have no idea how much longer I’m going to be awake for. All I know is that the ‘dark’ feeling around the house will be gone once she gets out of here, and that’s absolutely fine for me. I’m unsure of what the weather is going to be like tomorrow but no matter how many clouds there could possibly be in the sky, there won’t be any in the house and I just love that!

I just checked the weather quick, I multitask with the best of ’em! It’s going to be about 80¬? tomorrow which isn’t too bad but in this office it’s rather uncomfortable. I’m sure all of the windows will remain open throughout the rest of the house while we’re airing things out but I know the office will be an ice box so that’s all that matters.

Once she leaves I’m going to have quite a bit of laundry to do. Any material that can make it into the washing machine will. All blankets, towels and anything that absorbed the smell is going to be piled up and cleaned out. I’m also thinking of unzipping the covers off the couch and doing those as well. The problem with the couch in the living room, however, is you can only wash the seats themselves you can’t take the covers off the back of the couch. Princess is on the couch all day and with her stinky booty, just washing the seat covers and not the back rest seems a bit absurd to me. Nothing a bottle of fabreeze can’t aid…right? :hrm: I do hope there’s enough to get the house covered too, fabreeze works wonders on smoke – trust me. The rugs and all seats are going to be done. I might even just rinse the walls down quick, she was only here for a few hours of actual smoke time but there’s a pretty bad long-lasting effect to it as well!

In any event, I’m going to get Bella and myself ready for bed. Lots to do tomorrow, plus a heap of work as well. Hopefully enough payments come through between now and Wednesday so I’ve got enough cash to cover Karen’s birthday dinner. I’m waiting rather patiently on an email back from someone in regards to some site work, I just hope that comes in soon; I could really use the money right now.

Spend a little … get a lot!

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Baby and I were on a mission today, to cool down the office. In my head I knew the more affordable method would be to get some fans and place them in the room at the proper angles. He had a completely different idea in his head and $90 later, there’s now a shiny new air conditioner in our window. It’s working rather nicely at the moment, neither of us is dying of heat exhaustion anymore – there’s always an upside to that. Not even Bella is panting because she’s nice and cool in here, it works out very well for everyone.

The bedroom has a few new fans. We do have central air conditioning, but even with the central air, computers do need some source of a heat break. The bedroom is a completely different story. It doesn’t get that hot in there at night because even the television is LCD so that doesn’t give off any kind of heat. Our resident space-heater is Bella so there’s no real control there. When the air conditioner is on with the fan above us, it’s still a little bit warmer than I’d like so we got a big 16″ oscillating fan to put at the foot of the bed and for those nights when the air conditioning isn’t on and the window is open, we have a small box fan so that Bella can still have her window seat and we can still get our much needed air.

The bitch is gone for the moment, her and Karen headed down to Ocean City to hang out for the evening. There’s the chance that Karen picked someone up last night and they’re more than likely going to see him tonight. I hope she’s safe and enjoys herself, but in the end I’m just happy the bitch is gone. She stinks to holy heaven, I don’t think she showers regularly she kind of bathes in perfume, the house reeks of that on top of the smoke. Poor princess is in the living room barely able to breath at this point, even Candy doesn’t look too pleased. It’s freaking bull shit.

I’m gonna get back to work. I’m finally throwing some free templates together for blog-ideas.net so I can get that up and running soon, I also have some things to do for curvy-chick.net as well. Should be a busy day. I’m waiting on emails back from clients so once those come in I’ll wind up switching my attention over to income, not personal stuff.

I now know the speed of STUPID!

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

The house guest arrived last night and now I fully understand Sean’s frustration with the woman. She was told not to smoke by the computer, granted everyone else (including the dogs I assume) would prefer that she went outside. Because of the amount of smoke the computer inhaled, the Wireless PCI card decided not to work anymore. They were having some noticeable internet issues before the mother board died a half hour later. I’m sure you’re sitting there thinking that this just isn’t possible. But there are intake fans on both sides of the case which sucked in smoke and ash and now the computer is dead. So much for the simple request of following direction.

When Sean brought up that it was because of the smoke, she turned it around as though it was HIS fault to say “You saw me smoking next to it, why didn’t you say anything?” Meanwhile, not even a few hours before she was given specific instruction NOT to smoke there and did it anyway. Sure, blame someone who isn’t at fault and just recently spent upwards of $500 on a brand new computer for his mother’s birthday! FUCKING BITCH!

Bella is having trouble breathing, this woman CHAIN SMOKES like no tomorrow. They went out and did some shopping yesterday, came home and were only back here for about a half hour and I think went through four or five cigs, she smokes the 100’s too so that’s literally one after another, probably avoiding using the lighter and just putting them tip to tip to light up.

So she’s been here for 24 hours and Bella can’t breath, Princess is wheezing, a computer is dead and even with all of the windows open the house REEKS like no tomorrow. And speaking of tomorrow, that’s when she’s decided to leave. She woke Sean up to have him move his car NOW and then followed it with “So I don’t have to wake you up tomorrow…” ::blinks:: Yep, that makes PERFECT sense. You couldn’t do it later this evening, nope it had to be done now. She’s now asleep on the couch. I officially hate this woman. There aren’t many people that I can say I down right DESPISE, she was added to the list rather quickly, probably faster than anyone has ever been before.

Still working on getting things in order…

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I’ve gotten a lot done today. I woke up and went through my morning routine and then got the rest of my laundry done. The last load is in the dryer now so hopefully it’ll be done in time for me to get out of here later. I believe Kay and I are going up to Milford to pick up a few things from Big Lots then I’m almost certain we’re going to Wal-mart afterwards to get some shopping done as well.

She’s got company coming this weekend, Baby personally hates this woman but I don’t know her yet so I can’t really have an opinion yet. I’m sure by Saturday you’ll hear something out of me in regards to this woman, no doubt about it. She’s a smoker and with Princess being sick, Candy being rather old and Bella just never having to breath in smoke (I make sure of that) Baby and I are on Kay’s case to get her to smoke outside. Hopefully that actually works out.

I’m having some major issues with WordPress at the moment. I’m trying to get the Visual Text Editor to work for a client and no matter what I do the damn thing won’t show up. I’m waiting on a response so that I can upgrade to the newest version in hopes that it resolves the issue but something tells me that it more than likely won’t be the case, this is why I submitted a support ticket on wordpress.org in hopes to get some answers. There has to be something that I’m overlooking I just have no idea where to even begin.

I received an email today that I’m working on responding to. Someone contacted me about site work that could potentially fill my schedule for a while depending on how well it goes. I’m also working on other things so as far as income goes, I’m set for quite some time.

Payday Loans

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I’m sure I’ve spoken about them before but it’s good to know that Payday cash advance loans are easy to come by when you’re in a jam for paying your bills and you don’t quite have enough in the bank at the moment to cover it. There’s always the chance that your paycheck may not clear in time for you to cover your bills. There’s also the chance that an emergency will show up out of no where, as one did last night for me with Princess, and you’re going to need money for vet bills or even a hospital visit because of an accident. Resources like secureloanconsolidation.com is always a great resource to keep in your bookmarks. They’re quick, easy and painless and more than likely the loan will be in your bank account within 24 hours of the submission, sometimes even sooner. Just because you’re in a jam doesn’t mean that you can’t get the resources you need to fix them.

She’s going to be fine.

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

We got to the vet around midnight last night, sat in the waiting room for a little while and then Princess headed in to see the vet. She was in a lot of pain for the entire car ride and lord knows how long before we actually had gotten home considering she was home by herself all day. The vet said that it was just a urinary tract infection and that she just needed the antibiotics. Now she also had a fever so that was another source of her being clingy last night. Everytime Kay went to get up she insisted on being right there. Bella typically does the same thing when she’s not feeling very well either. In the end, she’s on medication and hopefully there will be some signs of improvement.

I woke up this morning to find out that she’s not even bothering to look for wee-wee pads, she’s just going right on the floor and I assume that since she’s not feeling well that’s the source behind it. She’s still got her apetite so I assume she isn’t in a great deal of pain at the moment. She had round one of her medication this morning, she’s taking two pills twice a day for the next 10 days and that should hopefully resolve everything. I’m going to make sure she actually completes her medication for the full 10 days.

Most people don’t realize that antibiotics have set dosages for a reason. Taking only half or just not finishing them doesn’t mean you’re saving medication for the next time something flares up. It means that whatever infection you have can now fight off the medication and mutate into something completely different. Considering how expensive pets can be when it comes to the vet, I’m going to make sure she doesn’t have to go back.

She needs to be on a diet, she also needs to be a bit more mobile than she actually is. She’s supposed to be a mini dachshund but she’s 26lbs and can barely walk because of back issues. She’s never really walked around outside and this is primarily based on the fact that she was wee-wee pad trained and now she’s paying the price for it. So when the rain goes away I’m going to start walking her around the house. She likes being in the grass. Kay thinks that it’s a bad idea because she doesn’t have any flea/tick medication for her, but considering it’s low grass and she’ll be out there for maybe 3 minutes at most, just to get some cardio in of course, then I think she’ll be fine. I’ll take full responsibility if something does come up though, at least she’ll be getting the exercise that she desperately needs. Feeding her low-carb food isn’t going to do the trick, she needs to do more than jump off the couch to eat…that’s all she ever does.

Emergency

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

We were out for quite a bit of time today to come home and find out that one of the dogs is pissing blood. Kay is sure it’s a urinary tract infection because it’s spotty but the problem is that we didn’t know who it was, until Princess squatted. I was relieved to know it wasn’t Bella but at the same time it was bitter sweet because I adore Princess, it’s hard not to love a dog that’s too fat for her own good but so damn cute about everything she does. So now we’re on our way up to Dover to the 24 hour animal hospital in hopes to get a good response. Baby believes it’s internal bleeding because Princess isn’t acting like herself, Kay on the other hand knows that Princess has gotten these infections before and she just needs antibiotics. Either way I hope it’s nothing overly serious or this is really going to suck.

Very slow start…

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Kay is taking advantage of her extra days off and painting her bathroom. She’s got everything taped off and now she’s going through the utility room getting the rollers, brushes and paint ready. Baby hasn’t been much help because he’s in a bad mood today so asking him a question is kind of like pulling teeth.

Yesterday was bath day for the dogs. Princess and Candy both recieved much needed scrub downs. Candy hadn’t had a bath in a very long time so she was a little on the oily side, now she’s fluffy and adorable and it actually looks as though she’s got more hair. With Princess, since her hair is as short as it is, you can’t really tell that she’s gotten a bath other than the fact that she no longer stinks and her hair is actually a bit softer.

I was side-tracked yesterday. I knew I was supposed to give Bella a bath but I guess I just had other things in the way. I’m more than likely going to be cleaning out the kitchen today so I’m sure I can throw her in the sink quick during some down time, she’s pretty good about staying in there once you can actually GET her in there. I’m sure I’ll get around to that later, I don’t have much of a drive to do anything right now.

Getting Sleepy

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

It’s a little after 4am and I honestly have no reason as to why I’m still up this late. I woke up around 10:30 this morning which seems to be a consistent time, no matter what time I happened to get to sleep the night before. I’m sure there’s something I could be doing right now to keep me entertained but while I’m finding it hard to get to sleep, my eye lids are growing to be very heavy and I can’t seem to concentrate on anything.

My back was bothering me for the bulk of the day, I can’t wait until all of the birthdays are taken care of so I can start putting money towards my next big purchase – a new bed. Baby and I plan on moving the rooms around soon. We’ll hold off on the bed purchase but I do still need to get about $100 together. It’s going to cost me around $25 to get the closet taken care of because there’s no shelving in there. Another $25 should cover a few baskets. I won’t have a real ‘dresser’ so I’m going to take three baskets and divide my things reasonably. One basket for underwear, one for socks, one for bras. It’ll make life a little easier in the end, at least I won’t have to dig through a single drawer to try to find what I’m looking for. I’m sick of picking up underwear thinking I finally found the bra I was just digging for. There’s very limited space at the moment, this is why I only have one drawer. The rest of the money is for some shelving around the room. Since there’s limited floor space, we’re going to utilize the wall space. Since I’m lucky enough to have an LCD TV, it’s easier to mount that on the wall than it would be to find a thin book case to throw in the corner of the room.

I’m sure everything will figure itself out though, I’m probably just letting off some kind of steam because there’s no one awake to talk to. Princess is crying to get out of the bedroom but I think that’s because I just finished heating up some food for Bella. She’s asleep but I know she randomly wakes up during the night to pick at things. She doesn’t really eat much during the day so that’s really the only way to get food in her stomach. Walmart has been out of chicken all week so I don’t know what else to feed her. I’ve started on some sliced turkey, hopefully they’ll last long enough for me to figure something else out.

Baby’s been asleep for the last few hours, maybe I’ll go in there to curl up with him and hopefully knock out for the night. UHT, Bella’s scratching at the door – guess I should get in there ASAP before she wakes everyone up!

Lose one, gain one.

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I woke up about 10:30 this morning feeling much better than I have in the past week. My cold is close to gone but now I’ve given it back to Baby so he’s not feeling too well :heh:

I didn’t get to sleep until rather late last night, there was a spill in the fridge that required immediate attention. A bottle of chocolate sauce kind of exploded in the back of the fridge and basically everything in there needed to be thrown out. I then spent about an hour scraping all the chocolate off the shelf. Now the fridge looks close to brand new, but it also looks empty. I’d rather it be empty than full of bacteria though. I also made it a point to throw out a lot of food that I’ve been putting off for a while. I need to get the door cleaned off too, that’s starting to build up a little bit of gunk. There’s opened bottles of stuff that no one is ever going to use so there’s no real need for it to be in there anyway.

While I’m no longer dealing with a cold, my stomach doesn’t seem to be agreeing with me very much today either. I don’t know if it’s something I ate yesterday or just a reaction to stress but I’m really nauseous and even crackers aren’t subsiding the feeling. I should probably be laying down right now but there’s a cool breeze coming in from outside that I won’t be able to get in the bedroom. There’s only one big window in there and with the placement of windows across the hall it just wouldn’t do much for a cross breeze.

I’ve got Princess snoring on the left of me and Bella snoring at my feet – at least my toes are warm…heh.

Having a BAD day.

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Top five reasons why today kind of, well…sucked.

  1. WordPress Fucked Up! – It was posting new entries as “Private” and I found about four entries over the last two days that were never published
  2. Paypal is EVIL – I applied for my Paypal debit card a few weeks ago and was wondering why it never showed up. They don’t accept forwarded mail and because of this, the card was sent back to them. So I logged into my account and changed around everything that needs to be changed. Maybe now it’ll be sent to the right place.
  3. Sick – I think baby gave me his cold, I’ve been hacking up a lung.
  4. BAD WEATHER BREWING! – All news reports seem to tell me that a big storm is heading our way. Because of this, the Cape May/Lewes Ferry is most likely NOT going to be up and running. This means that if we don’t get there early enough to find out for sure, we’re going to have to drive about 2 1/2 hours north to get to Atlantic City. I wouldn’t necessarily mind this, but there’s also the NOON check in that has to be factored in here. Even if the storm doesn’t actually HIT us, there was some tropical thing brewing off Virginia’s coast (or something) and that’s sending surf advisories for those along the coast. I would assume Lewes (being as the ferry does leave from here) would be included there. (More updates later after I sit my fat ass down and watch the news)
  5. Poor Dog! – Princess keeps eating Bella’s food. Now not only is Bella starving (and refusing to eat) but Princess has a few allergies and she wound up eating two of them. She’s allergic to eggs and chicken. I gave Bella a bowl of meat loaf which had egg whites in it. She’s not allergic to it so I really don’t care how bad some may think it is to feed a dog eggs, I’ve seen ladies share ice cream with their dogs – which is more disgusting? And, last night I gave Bella some chicken and she didn’t eat much of it so there was still a bit of the bowl down when I fell asleep last night. 8 hour old chicken means nothing to Princess, an always hungry dog. Now she’s beyond bloated and can barely walk on her little mini dachshund legs.

:: UGH! ::

Not sleepy … this sucks!

Monday, April 30th, 2007

I’m having trouble sleeping, if you haven’t already noticed.

We took Bella for a nice long walk, did our two miles so we feel better now. All garbage was put out on the curb, I fed Bella and now I’m just sitting here listening to the TV in the background while I’m surfing the ‘net. I’m tired but not quite tired enough to actually get any sleep. I just turned the air conditioner off because it was starting to get chilly in here. That was probably a pretty dumb idea though. It’s supposed to get up to about 85?Ǭ? today so I think I’m going to wind up switching it back on before I go to bed. I know that the dogs were kind of cold so that’s why I turned it off. Princess is a little bloated because she over-ate today and Bella has a few…err…bald patches…so she was kind of chilly as well.

Maybe I’ll do some more surfing and then go force myself to sleep. It SHOULD work. Worse case scenario I get some work done that I was going to put off until this afternoon considering it would be too warm to really be outside. If I can get it done now, however, it’ll give me more time to plant some seeds.