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A better night

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Well everyone slept last night. Bubba slept in our room on the floor on my side of the bed so I could pet him/comfort him with ease and with out having to get out of bed to do so. We had three accidents and 1 kinda accident that I stopped to take him out in freezing cold weather lol.

It was a much better night, he didn’t even follow me out when I had to go put Kathleen down.

Monday I hope to have our pen back. I’m still hoping to be able to put it at least temporarily in our room and let him stay there, but we’ll see. But I think we may just put it in the living room as planned. We’ll see.

We’ve had a few accidents today. I need to get the timer out of the van and set it for half an hour for both the girls and the dog lol. Maybe Sammi will start now? we’ll see. It would be good to get all diapers out of this house and pull ups too!

New Family Member

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Yesterday we went to the Animal Shelter. There was two sets of lab puppies – 2 black and 3 golden. All mixes. The 2 black were strays and the other 3 we didn’t actually read much about them on their card.

One of the black ones took instantly to us, came up to the fence, Kathleen petted him. We tried to coax the other one over as we thought it was the male, but it didn’t work. We went to visit with the friendly one in a closed room. The girls loved him. We thought he was a she so we had named him Isabella, but when we got to the counter to say we wanted this one, it was a boy so we had to find a new name on the way home. We agreed on Bubba. Even Sammi could say that one.

But we were not prepared. Their website (and the paper in the shelter) said that they are fixed before they leave. But at approximately 8 weeks that’s a no go. We’ll go back in January to get that taken care of.

The adoption fee was $50. We get a free vet examination with in three business days. They are fixed and their first set of shots are covered. This will include his rabies at 3 months.

So home we came with Bubba. We ate dinner and then me and the girls had to go to the store to get Bubba food, water bowl and toys. We have to go back today I definitely need more paper towels before next grocery trip and some carpet cleaner for those lovely accidents. I will probably just buy a gallon of vinegar and a spray bottle. I’ve been meaning to do that anyway.

The biggest adjustment I think is going to be with the girls. He gets over playful and starts nipping (cause he doesn’t know any better) and then they start to run and he chases and nips some more and then it’s scream at the top of our lungs. Sammi doesn’t listen when you tell her not to run, so it’s a big ordeal. They both need to settle down when he’s nipping and scratching. He doesn’t understand, they don’t understand and it’s all a big mess lol. But everyone will adjust.

Now if we can just find suitable sleeping arrangements. Bubba in the kitchen and us in the back of the house just did not work no one slept at all. Well until 4am when Shea decided he wasn’t going to work OT today, the girls and Bubba came to our bed. Only Bubba stayed, the others went back to their own bed willingly. Kathleen wanted to go she couldn’t get comfortable and Sammi went with her so it was just 3 in bed instead of 5. We all needed that two hours of sleep tho.

Not a niche and ramblings

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I don’t know how people come here, or who subscribes to my feeds, all I know is my blog stats show a bit of activity so I just want to clarify a few things. I am not a niche blog. I talk about everything I’m interested in.

My sub heading is “My Family, My Life, My Journal” for that reason. I will talk design and programming, I will talk about my family, I will bore you to death with my girls and their growing up. I will write about my writing adventures about role playing and cooking. These are all things I like, all things I do. I am not a niche blog, unless I’m a niche lol.

I have a lot to say today lol, and it’s only almost 5am. *sighs*

I’m excited about getting a puppy. I really hope we can find one we all agree on. I’d really like to have a puppy sooner rather than later. Provided the weather holds out today we will try to go to the closest one, but we are under a winter weather advisory. What does that mean? WELL that means if it even starts to snow, doesn’t even have to stick to the ground, things will start to close. First and foremost being the high rise bridges over the various rivers around here. So guess what that means for us – we either stay home, or we go the very long way to get to things lol. The last time it snowed here it was my very first Christmas here. We were at Shea’s parents house and the bridge we needed to take was closed. We were like 5 to 10 miles from home and had to go 30 miles out of our way to get there. It probably would have been closer to go back to Shea’s parents house, but we didn’t, we went the long way home on Christmas night lol.

I would like it to snow, but I’m not counting on it. If it does it’ll be late, and dark and the girls won’t really be able to go out and play in it. But hopefully they’ll be awake to see it snow. It’s a late TV night for us so it’s possible they might see snow.

Today we go sign paper work for the girls ER trip for their overdose of children’s tylenol. I’ve been meaning to get that paperwork set up so the payments come out of Shea’s pay check, but it’s just one of those things that went by the way side. But tomorrow after Shea gets home from his over time we’ll go sign the paperwork and then hopefully go look at puppies. I really don’t care what we get, I just don’t want a yipper. I can’t stand little dogs or over hyper ones.

It passed

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Well the union’s passed the not so great contract extension. Shea did his part and voted against it, lol, mostly so he could complain about it’s crappiness.

On the 17th we will get the bonus, while it’s much appreciated it’s not the best end result. One plus, no strike in March for Shea to have to cross the picket lines to get to work. No rise in health insurance premiums for the next two years. So those are the pluses, I just hope that we can survive the next two years on this extension.

With the news that it passed, we will probably be going to the Gautier Human Society (30 mins away) to see about getting a puppy. If we find one we like it’ll be fixed the following Wednesday and we’ll be able to take it home on Thursday. Shea wants to know if we can pick it up on Friday, it doesn’t matter too much to me. I can put the puppy in the back of the van on a sheet with a baby gate keeping it out from under my feet.

That will give us time to get the crate from Mam and Pawpaw’s house, clean it up and buy all the necessary items. Thankfully we have a dog dish that is nice and tip proof, water on the other hand is not so neat and easy. I think we’ll deal with either a rabbit water bottle or get one of those water dishes with a bottle on top to house the water. The latter is much more dangerous with my twin tornadoes. I’m sure I’d find water all over the house.

I’m excited to get a new puppy and a bit scared. I really want a furry kid, even if it means more work and frustration for me lol, but I’m hoping that the puppy will help add some responsibility to the girls if they want their toys to survive lol. But we’ll see.

If we don’t find one in Gautier we may have to go to Gulfport or Mobile. Hopefully not because that is a bit far away for us to go run and pick the pup up after fixing it.

Christmas

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Shea’s company is trying to push for a contract extension for the crafts. Basically it boils down to $1000 bonus if the extension is accepted, two $0.55 raises and no raising health care over the next two years. While this is not great for the long run it’s good in the short term. Shea beleives that it will get pushed through because of the lack of foresight. While we won’t mind the extra cash and the steady premium for our health care, I hope that a dollar ten pay increase over the next two years will let us survive. They vote on the first to pass it through or not. So we wait on that.

Now that I’m posting this I’m sure to jinx it, but Shea said he wasn’t going to tell me about the contract extension. (I read it online before he told me lol.) But he said he was thinking about getting a puppy for me with that money. So now I’ve pretty much jinxed it I’m sure, but I hope we can get a puppy soon. I’ve a little bit of research to do on the where we get the puppy from but that shouldn’t take too long, we’ve a pretty good idea just need to check on the process and all that.

We are thinking of it as a family Christmas present for me and the girls. I know Kathleen will absolutely love a puppy. Maybe they’ll stop being the puppies and let the puppy be a puppy and play with it. I think they will both enjoy it to death.

The girls are at their Mam and Pawpaw’s. I get a night to myself. And what did I do with it? I cleaned. The kitchen and their toy room. We will be fogging the house again tomorrow so their room had to be picked up so the toys don’t get all yucky from the fogger. While the bug problem is less, it’s still here so we figure another go at it won’t hurt any. So we fog on Thanksgiving.

So I hope that I don’t jinx the puppy but hopefully things will all go well.