Well - today was eventful - and not in a good way. Everything was going along like any regular Sunday. Chores - hanging with the pup - watching Law & Order. A little bit before 2:00 I took Chrissy out for a bathroom break. We were walking along the walkway in front of our building - heading out towards the road. We got to the end of the walk - I glanced up and saw a brown dog on a leash but with no one holding the other end - I went to pull Chrissy back towards me but this dog was fast and it jumped on Chrissy - grabbed her by the behind and pinned her to the ground. A second dog then came running at us and started attacking Chrissy - the owner was trying to grab the leashes but these dogs were big and she had no control over them. I screamed at the top of my lungs and tried to get in there to pull Chrissy away from them. They both had her pinned to the ground and I could hear Chrissy crying out in pain. It seemed to go on forever but I finally got her away from them - she was shaking so bad and I was trying to make sure she wasn't broken anywhere. I honestly was expecting to see her torn in half with how they were tugging on her.
This owner had no control over her dogs and she kept telling me - oh your dog is fine. They weren't trying to hurt her!! WTH!! They went after her like she was a chew toy!! The lady then took off with her dogs before I got my wits about me and could ask her for her name, number, and which building she lived in. I do know that she lives in the same Condo Complex and I think she is in a building close to mine. I took Chrissy up to our house and started looking her over. I came across discoloration and what looked like puncture wounds. I wrapped her up and took her to the vet. I got there and the Tech said the Dr had left about 5 minutes ago but he would try to call him. The vet didn't answer but when the tech was talking to me about going to Alpine Hospital the phone rang and it was him. The Tech gave him my name, Chrissy's name, and said she was attacked by 2 dogs. Dr Brar said he was turning around and he would be right back at the office soon. This vet is wonderful! He is so loving and caring for all his patients. He came and looked her over - we found some scrapes and wounds on her belly - he then took her to the back room and they had to shave off her fur on her behind so they could see all of the wounds and make sure she didn't need stitches. When they brought her back in you could see the bruising in the shapes of the dogs mouths!! It looks so bad. She was lucky though - Dr Brar said when little dogs are attacked by such big dogs they worry about fractured hips, nerve damage, and internal organ damage. It looked like she wasn't hurt to that extent. They gave her shots of pain meds and antibiotics and sent me home with more to give her over the next week. We have to go back in on Saturday for a recheck to make sure she is healing.
Next on the agenda is filing a report with animal control, calling the onsite manager for the Condo's to see if he knows where this gal lives, calling the Home Owners Assoc to file a report, and then try to find this lady so I can get her to reimburse me for the vet bills.
I am just so glad Chrissy is alive!!
De
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Best Laid Plans . . . . . Yada Yada Yada
I should just not make plans at all . . . . . . . plan was to run a couple errands Saturday morning, do laundry, dishes, rearrange bedroom furniture. Those plans went right out the window when my cell phone rang at 330 Saturday morning - any guesses as to who it was . . .ahh forget it - y'all know who would call me at 330 - L! She was at a party up here on the plateau - things were getting full of drama and she wanted to know if she could come crash here - what was I going to say "Uh, No - you can't" I asked if she had her key - she said yup and that she would either get someone to drive her over here or she would walk. Which - that part I would have laughed at if I wasn't half asleep - she will walk miles for a place to crash but won't walk a mile to get food. Guess we know what's important to her. A couch to crash on or alcohol/cigarettes.
Interrupted sleep is not good for me - neither is having someone asleep on my couch - the condo isn't that big. So I started cleaning up the kitchen a little bit - I started one load of laundry. Then L woke up - started talking really loud on her phone! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I asked her what her plans were for the day - where did she need to be - so on and so forth. Yeah - she had no plans. So I ate breakfast and then said I needed to run a couple errands. She went with me and grabbed her stuff in case we decided she needed to go home. Home Depot for Coaxial Cable so I could move things around in my room. Then I looked at lights - I need a new one by my front door. We find one, L is good at changing out lights so I brought her back up to the house. She changed it out - I drove her to Kelley's place - got back home at 800 - which was actually 900 because of the time change. My whole Saturday out the window!
Sunday I got up early to head down to Kent to go to church with Jason and his family for his new daughter Sydney's Baby Blessing. Had to leave here at 800 - which was really 700! Way too early. It was nice though - Sydney is really cute and a really good baby. When I got home I was tired so I spent time on the couch - the day just flew by - next thing I knew it was 800 and time for Amazing Race.
Guess my plans for this past weekend will have to wait until this coming weekend - I am taking a couple days off so it will be a nice 4-Day weekend for me!
Funny story from L changing out the light - I flipped the circuit breaker so she would zap herself. After she got it all wired we flipped the switch and it didn't work. So we flipped off the breaker again and she made a quick change - this time it worked! Funny thing was that all the lights that are on that circuit came back on except for the hall lights. I turning switches on and off wondering WTH is going on - L comes down the hall and turns the dimmer switch - Let there be light!! I laughed so hard! I had been punching the dimmer switch on and off - not knowing that L had turned it down during the night instead of actually clicking it off!! Sucks getting old!
De
Interrupted sleep is not good for me - neither is having someone asleep on my couch - the condo isn't that big. So I started cleaning up the kitchen a little bit - I started one load of laundry. Then L woke up - started talking really loud on her phone! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I asked her what her plans were for the day - where did she need to be - so on and so forth. Yeah - she had no plans. So I ate breakfast and then said I needed to run a couple errands. She went with me and grabbed her stuff in case we decided she needed to go home. Home Depot for Coaxial Cable so I could move things around in my room. Then I looked at lights - I need a new one by my front door. We find one, L is good at changing out lights so I brought her back up to the house. She changed it out - I drove her to Kelley's place - got back home at 800 - which was actually 900 because of the time change. My whole Saturday out the window!
Sunday I got up early to head down to Kent to go to church with Jason and his family for his new daughter Sydney's Baby Blessing. Had to leave here at 800 - which was really 700! Way too early. It was nice though - Sydney is really cute and a really good baby. When I got home I was tired so I spent time on the couch - the day just flew by - next thing I knew it was 800 and time for Amazing Race.
Guess my plans for this past weekend will have to wait until this coming weekend - I am taking a couple days off so it will be a nice 4-Day weekend for me!
Funny story from L changing out the light - I flipped the circuit breaker so she would zap herself. After she got it all wired we flipped the switch and it didn't work. So we flipped off the breaker again and she made a quick change - this time it worked! Funny thing was that all the lights that are on that circuit came back on except for the hall lights. I turning switches on and off wondering WTH is going on - L comes down the hall and turns the dimmer switch - Let there be light!! I laughed so hard! I had been punching the dimmer switch on and off - not knowing that L had turned it down during the night instead of actually clicking it off!! Sucks getting old!
De
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Reality Bites
Boy am I glad I had to work late tonight . . . . . . . No, I haven't finally lost it! It was just perfect timing.
Tuesday is the day L's Unemployment Check comes in the mail and I usually end up picking her up from work, running up to my place to get the mail, back down the hill to cash the check, then to her place and then back to my house - makes for a long evening. Well - today she called me around 4 - she had gotten off work early and was wondering if I knew when I would be getting off work. Told her probably around 530 or 600. She said she would see if someone could come get her to go up to get her check and would call me back. Got a call at 515 and was told her friend Chris could come get her in 30 min - would I be off before then - Nope, she should have her friend take her. This isn't what made me happy to work late - although it did contribute to it. The happiness came when I got a call at 630 that went like this:
L - "Mom, my check was only for $46"
D - "Maybe you ran out of Unemployment"
L - she reads me some of the tags at the bottom of her check
D - "L, what does it say your balance is"
L - reads more off her check
D - "L, what is your balance"
L - "It says my balance is $0"
D - "Unemployment is over"
L - "Aww . . . %$#&%"
Y'all would be so proud of me, I didn't say what was going through my head because I knew it would piss her off and I didn't want to deal with the histrionics.
Here's what I was thinking:
De
Tuesday is the day L's Unemployment Check comes in the mail and I usually end up picking her up from work, running up to my place to get the mail, back down the hill to cash the check, then to her place and then back to my house - makes for a long evening. Well - today she called me around 4 - she had gotten off work early and was wondering if I knew when I would be getting off work. Told her probably around 530 or 600. She said she would see if someone could come get her to go up to get her check and would call me back. Got a call at 515 and was told her friend Chris could come get her in 30 min - would I be off before then - Nope, she should have her friend take her. This isn't what made me happy to work late - although it did contribute to it. The happiness came when I got a call at 630 that went like this:
L - "Mom, my check was only for $46"
D - "Maybe you ran out of Unemployment"
L - she reads me some of the tags at the bottom of her check
D - "L, what does it say your balance is"
L - reads more off her check
D - "L, what is your balance"
L - "It says my balance is $0"
D - "Unemployment is over"
L - "Aww . . . %$#&%"
Y'all would be so proud of me, I didn't say what was going through my head because I knew it would piss her off and I didn't want to deal with the histrionics.
Here's what I was thinking:
- I told you to keep an eye on the balance because you were going to run out soon and you needed to figure out what you were going to do when that money stopped coming in. Basically an "I Told You So"
- I am so glad I'm not with her right now because there would be tears, hysterics, and lots of yelling at Mom.
- L meet Reality - Reality meet L
- Unemployment Checks are done - last apron string is cut - No more driving her up here to get her check or trying to figure out how to drop it off to her.
- Ooohhh - I hope I don't get any late night calls full of tears, what am I going to do, and/or can I come live with you.
De
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