the saturday blues

i think koko needs to go to the vet.
my black cat.
the one who just entered his gentleman years - finally.
he's turned out to be such a sweet cat.
he's limping.

he came in the other day favoring his front right paw.
i've been keeping him inside the last 2 days. yesterday he seemed better.
he was putting weight on it. still hobbling around mostly but he was attempting to use it.
today i all by pushed him out of bed trying to get to the baby in a hurry this morning. then he scurried ahead of me and stopped right in my path and got all but trampled.(i was still so asleep and teege had a bottle in his bed that sounded as if it still had formula in it. formula that would have been sitting in his bed for the last 4 or 5 hours - the stuff spoils at a rapid rate so i've heard. i was trying to get there to get it away from him and all but ran the cat over)
and now he limps worse than ever.
he won't use his paw at all!
i think i should take him in to be seen.

i wish TJ would call so i could ask him what he wanted me to do.
i don't really want a vet bill.
but i was mulling over the idea and they all need their shots. all 4 of them. though i don't want to spend the money he needs to go in regardless.
and if it is broken i can't very well just leav it like it is.
i was thinking of going to moms but can't leav poor koko alone if he's really hurt. the neighbors don't need to worry about not letting him get outside. then i figured i'd just bring him, but then i'd have to bring shelby - the other cat. she'd be so lonley. then i figured i may as well just take us all to moms b/c they all need to get seen by the vet.
i may as well just do it.
i don't want to drag them all.
i'd have to take so much stuff!
i don't know what to do.
it'd be easier if i could just call tj and say "what would you prefer i do? please tell me so i don't have to make a decision"
then there's the ever lurking question of what i do if it's going to cost a ton to fix koko's foot.
tj would tell me just to put him to sleep if it's going to cost alot.
this is what i get for marrying a guy in the military. i have to think and do for myself more than i'd like to! (i know that sounds dumb! sometimes it's just easier when he makes the decisions-even if i have to act out the plan alone.)

i guess come tomorrow if koko is not any better the best place to start is at the vet with shots and an x ray.

i'll just go from there.

so i guess this means i'm going to pack us all up-both dogs, both cats, me and the child of mine.

it's going to be a car load!

look at me!

this is teege in the pool with baby eric.(my mom's neighbors little boy)








check out my new swim trunks!




happy water boy!!

you can't see them here. and i'm not sure when it happened, but there are 2 teeth!
they are just barely above the surface. and those suckers are sharp!! i'm almost positive both of his bottom front teeth are in. if it's not both of them the other one is not far from breaking the surface.
now i know why he was having such a bad week! poor guy! his mouth was really hurting!
he decided to chew on my finger today when we were in the pool and sure enough, i felt alittle pricking under my finger. not just hard baby gum.

my little boy is growing up.

friday night

i don't know what to do with myself.
the baby went to bed early.
leaving me to twiddle my thumbs starting at 6 30. i cleaned up dinner. changed the flood lights on the front of the house. drained the swimming pool -well, helped dry out the puddles is more like it. scrubbed the stove. washed and dried a load of laundry.
sigh.
friday nights around here aren't what they usually are.
i was going to rent a movie off the tv. settle down with some popcorn and the rest of my pepsi(i wish it was coke. i couldn't get to the coke. in order to get to the coke i would have had to a) leave my baby sitting in the buggy while i hopped over to the next checkout stand and dug one out of the cooler or b) lost my place in line by dragging the whole buggy over there so as not to leave my kid unattended in a public place. so i settled for pepsi. it's just not the same.
but watching a movie alone is never any fun. it just makes me feel more alone than i really am.
tj has called 3 times this week.
we only managed to talk one of them.
monday the gave everybody 3 minutes to use the phones.


yes that's right..... i said 3 minutes.


they handed out random cell phones to groups and made them all share. by the time tj got his turn there was next to no battery left so our 3 minutes phone call was really more like a 45 second "i love you and i'm good and i can't talk b/c there's no battery but i didn't have long anyway. are you doing good? yeah i'm fine too. i gotta go babe. i love you!"

it sucked.

wednesday night they gave everyone 15 minutes of phone time AND gave them their personal cells back to use! but TJ was in the middle of doing his leadership training(i'm still not sure what all that entails) so when he actually was able to call he managed to get out a few words and then i hear someone yelling in the background "1 minute! 1 minute left!" and it was another rushed "i have to go but i'll try and get some more time and call again.i love you!"

finally thursday night he calls and he has a full 15 minutes to talk! and he has a bad signal!
GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK WILL YA!!!!!!
we only lost eachother once though. i just couldn't hardly understand him most of the time. but he was there. living and breathing on the other end of the phone. and it was enough.

we are half way done. as of yesterday he will be home in exactly one month. i can do this.

the solution to the problem

i called my in laws back. i just went ahead and told them that i wasn't coming today b/c my girlfriend was indeed going to be coming over for a play date(though i didn't know that for sure when i called them back. i just went ahead and fudged it a little.)
i asked my pop what time he was leaving tomorrow b/c i was going to be over thataway and was coming by anyway, even if he missed us.
"oh, no! i'll be here til at least noon! you just don't worry about it and come in the morning if you get a chance"
well that was easy. he's so much easier to deal with and make plans with than my other mother in law.
the women on "that" side of the family always make everything so urgent. everything has to be done right then and there! and here i find out that i have til noon tomorrow to see all 3 of them and no one has to miss out.
so here's the plan:
crystal is coming by around 4 30 -5ish so the boys can "visit". i figure depending on what time she leaves i will just pack us all up and both dogs and go to mom's tonight. that way i don't have to leave earlier in the morning to run the dogs by moms, then go see the inlaws, then go back to moms, where she will be making fried chicken for lunch. (the chicken was what started this whole unexpected trip down there! i don't pass up fried chicken. sometimes i even call and tell her"i'll come and visit if you'll make me some fried chicken.")
oh, the dogs. i have to bring them.
my neighbors are just coming back from vacation today. i'm not going to leave my animals in their care when they are post-vacation ragged out! my great neighbors - well, she's just to pregnant! and i don't want to add any more work to their load. they don't need to have to babysit my pets unexpectedly.
so i will put down extra food and water and clean litter for the cats. and the dogs and baby and me will just go see all the grandfolks.
i
t worked out after all.
i just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!

annoyed annoyed annoyed!

i have had next to no sleep!
i called me in laws this morning. my fil works out of town. he's rarely home on the weekends these days. the live on some property with 3 houses.
i need to take teege out to see his great grama (she lives on their property). almost every time in the past that we have gone out there to see them my fil's wife (TJ's step mom. my other mil) has had to work and hasn't gotten to see teege.
i called this morning to talk to her and see if she had a few days off next week that i could bring out the baby to see her and great grama. mil2 is normally off on weekdays.
well my fil(Pop) is home this weekend. today but not tomorrow.
and they have their other 2 grand kids this weekend too.
so they wanted me to come out today. but they are going to the rode tonight around 7ish and won't be home this evening.
i hadn't planned on going anywhere!
AND a friend of mine was wanting to bring her 5 month old little boy by to play this afternoon.
this woudln't be a problem normally. it's just not plans that i had planned on making.
i tried to call my friend to see if she was still coming by - she didn't answer.
i guess i'll just have to play it by ear.
i was hoping to just go out their on a leisurley week day and visit with the 2 gramas. but now pop is home and the have other kids over.
this just irritates me!
i know, it's nothing to be bothered by really.
if crystal comes by i could probably still make it there by like 4 or 5. it's just not something i was planning on doing.
GGGRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
but if crystal does come by then i can just call them and tell them i still have afternoon plans and can't make it today.
problem solved..........
hopefully.

the weekly randomness.....

did i tell you i got to talk to tj this weekend?
yes, they gave them back their phones for nearly 24 hours. we talked several times.
he's doing well. said things aren't as tough as he expected them to be.
it was good to hear from him. he sounded happy. funny how things like that help you sleep better. i get next to no sleep when he's away. especially if i go several days in a row without hearing from him.

i'm waiting for teege to go to sleep. it's nap time.
then i am going to try and mow i guess. it needs to be done. i don't want to do it. but someone has to.

i went with my mom and dad yesterday to see my meme and papaw. it was our visit to them for papaw's father's day. we drank coffe and ate dirt pudding(YUMM!) and played with the baby. it was fun. it's hard to believe that i'm actually sitting around the table with them now and actually have grown up stuff to talk about.
used to we'd go visit and the grownups would sit in the kitchen and us kids would go watch tv or play in the other room. or read.

teege did not take one nap yesterday!
wait, i take that back. i put him down for his morning nap at 9 30 so he'd get some kind of nap. i had to wake him up at 11 so we could get ready to go. he didn't sleep anymore til bed time. not even in the car on the way there or back! he was fed, bathed, and in bed by 6 45. he woke up at 4 45 and i snuck in and gave him a new diaper and handed him a bottle. he can hold it by himslef so i went back to be. of course i went back in when he was finally quiet and took the bottle away. it's not good to leave it with them. if they sleep with it in their mouth it gives them bad teeth later supposedly.
and then he slept until 9 15! YEA! that hasn't happened in forever!
i actually got to sleep in today!

i have a box i have to get to the post office to send to TJ. it's all wrapped and ready to go. but i don't think we'll make it today.
around here, if you don't get to the post office before 11 you will wait in line for an hour. seriously.it's that busy.
so i guess we'll go after breakfast tomorrow.
i figure one more day won't delay it getting to him that much.

i guess if i am going to mow i better go do it. these nap times have been short as of late. i guess it's a good thing i don't have to get things done in a timely manner.

annoyed!!

maybe i am sleep deprived!
i feel unreasonably cranky this morning!
i have had company all weekend. not the bad kind of company, the kind of company you would like to have. the fun kind.
my girlfrined bekah has been here since friday.we haven't done much but cook and drink wine and talk and play with teege. oh, and we watched some movies yesterday.
she's going home sometime today i think.
it's been nice to have someone in the house that stays up later than 7pm and can talk back to me.

teege is supposed to be taking a nap. he's been wailing off and on for the past 15 minutes. i got him up once b/c he was carrying on so! we read a little bit out of a Mrs.piggle-wiggle book. then i laid him back down. he's finally being quiet.

oh.my neighbor.
i'm watching their pets while they are at the coast this weekend.
normally this would be an easy task. it's always been pretty simple before. but this time i have to drag the baby with me next door, and it takes longer to square things away at their hous than it used to.
they have always had 3 dogs and 3 cats. feed them, water them, let them out to potty......that sort of thing.
now, on top of that they hage a gerbil!!! and 2 gardens that they would like watered twice a day.
gimmie a break! you're not paying me!
she promised she'd clean the gerbil cage before they left. she didn't. and when i went in to check on him last night he had no water! the bottle was completely dry!!
i called her right away. "is the water bottle for the gerbil this plastic blue thing?"
"yea,just squeeze the old water out and fill it up with fresh."
"it's empty. that's why i called.i wasn't sure what it was for b/c there's nothining in it.it's bone dry."
"is it leaking?i filled it up the other day"
"no, it doesn't appear to be. i'll keep an eye on it."
i filled up the water, made sure it WASN'T leaking, thought to myslef "screw the friggin gardens tonight!" and came home after i tucked the dogs and cats in for the night.
i checked the gerbil's water again this morning. still full to the top!
this explains why most of the time when she watches my animals i come home and THEY don't have any water.
oops! i forgot to feed her fish. i'll get them tonight i guess.
and on top of all of that there isn't enough dog food to get us thru to next weekend. i've looked around for a new bag in their garage.i don't see any. i hope she bought some more and it's just not out in an obvious place b/c i really don't feel like going out to buy her any.
they've been planning this for a while, it just seems like they left in a hurry and left things at home for me to deal with.
that's ok.
the last time i was gone - for 5 DAY! - i asked her to scoop the cat box atleats twice. i even left her a note! she didn't do it. oh, and she only left clean water outside. hello,the spend time inside too! and it's hot. the bowl is right there. you can't miss it. fill it up!
AND, she mentioned the other day when i told her how chewy woke me up at 6 30 b/c he had to go potty she said "oh. that's funny he had to go out that early b/c i never come over before 11 when to let them out when you're gone."
"well if you let them go potty before bed it's not so bad but he didn't go the night before. and they can't go all night and til 11 the next morning without being uncomfortable. they won't go in the house. but the need to go out before then?"
i wanted to shake her and say "what's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? don't you go pee? how'd you like it if i locked you in a cage and didn't let you out to pee til 11 am?"
but i kept my mouth shut.
she's getting out of hand with her kid and how irresponsible she is when she watches my dogs. i'm going to have to say something before too long. i have put up with years of this and i am done!

on a lighter note:
i got to talk to TJ this weekend!
he sounded GREAT!
he said things aren't near as bad as he thought they would be. and i was so relievedto hear that. i knew he was prepairing for the worst so that it would be a nice surprise if it wasn't that bad.
i'm so glad he's doing good!
he had to hand his phone back over at the end of the day saturday, and he said it might be next weekend before he got to call again.
but the important thing is that his doing so well and he's past the hardest part!
there's only 6 more weeks and then he'll be home!! YAY!

well i guess that's all i know for now!
my company is still in bed. it's 11 am. how nice is that??!!!!! i am almost jealous! though i would have a very hard time sleeping in that late. oh how i miss my days of sleeping in! but having teege around makes it worth it! and he sleeps til atleast 8, that's pretty good i think!