I guess blogging just isn't my thing anymore. Sorry. I'll keep this blog open though, just in case.
You can always reach me by clicking 'email' on my profile.
I hope life is treating you as well as possible during a lengthy global pandemic lockdown because the fucknuts won't get vaccinated.
And on that note....au revoir
FINALLY, both girls are back to normal/healthy. It was a full week of various stages of gastro-enteritis for them. The older one needed an overnight hospitalization for dehydration and to make sure there were no obstructions. Two days after she got sick, just when we were thinking it was a bad reaction to pain meds, the younger one got the same thing, so we learned it wasn't a meds reaction. Without getting into TMI territory, the vet determined that the older one had been ingesting (too many?) mesquite tree pods/seeds. We don't own one, but they are everywhere on their daily walks. It got so bad last week that I literally had to sit with them on the sofa, to make sure I was keeping an eye on vomit, or diarrhea. Potty pads were of only limited help. It was a mess. Literally and figuratively.
Sorry I was gone; I can't get my phone to hold my login for here, so blogging just wasn't happening. Now I have to start prepping for my football pools, and the Olympics start the end of the week too, so my blogging looks like it will be only 1-2 times a month. Better than nothing, I guess...?
Thanks for your kinds words for my fur babies last week. :)
9 yo Chihuahua got sick Wednesday; in pain, mostly. Saw vet. Got anti-inflammatory and pain meds. Friday night, she started having diarrhea. Then Sat am, vomiting too. Both meds had diarrhea and vomiting as possible side effects, so we stopped both meds. It continued all weekend. Called Vet and got emergency appointment this morning.
1.5 year old mini schnauzer has started now with the diarrhea, too. They can't get her in until tomorrow, but I'm taking fecal samples of both when they see the older dog this morning.
I've been babysitting the chihuahua since Wed., now both. Won't see me here again until this resolves.
Thanks for your kind comments on the last post.
It was soooo good to see my side of the family, especially my mom! She turns 95 next month, but is in an assisted living setting now because she has a permanent urinary catheter and can't handle that on her own.
His younger brother, my third (youngest) grandson is on the far right in that photo. He's much more reserved.
Anyhow, it was amazing to see family for the first time since October/November 2019!!!
Now, off to visit your blogs a bit, but mostly to worry about our chihuahua. :(
Hope my American blogging friends had a wonderful holiday weekend!
Hi guys!
I'm putting the date there, because I seemed to have messed up my blog a bit. (thanks-not, Blogger 'upgrade' while I was gone...) As I am wont to do (LOL), I changed my background image here yesterday evening. (and trust me, finding the 'save' icon took me over half an hour.) But in the process, it screwed up my post date header. See the dark gray background on it? Practically unreadable. (well, if you are using a regular computer to view. It's fine in mobile version.)
I tried everything to fix it. I HATE the 'new' (to me) Blogger design interface. You have so, so fewer options now to customize, unless you go into html. Which I even tried that. I make a point not to mess with html on blogs very often; it's so easy for you to destroy your blog. But I have blogged and customized my blogs (and in the olden days, message boards) enough to know my way around html customizing for fonts, colors, etc. I found the spot on the html for the date header. I confirmed the color that I was seeing. I put in the correct color (the hex code for white), but when I hit 'save', Blogger gave me an error code that was no where near what I had touched/edited. So it wouldn't hold my change.
I even tried just re-setting the background image to what it was before. Nope, that didn't fix the problem either. So I put in a ticket at the Blogger Community Board, but over 13 hours later, ZERO response. Wonderful. 👹 Sooooo, unless someone here can help, I will continue to just manually add the date at the top of my post. And there will continue to be a gray blob at the top of all my posts. LOL
EDITED: I FIGURED IT OUT. I went back to 'advanced' on customize the design. Then the first drop-down arrow section, I changed it to Date Header. Then, I selected 'transparent.' VOILA!!!
I think I recall hearing here months ago that adding photos to a post (or formatting them to look the way you want them to) is also a bear. Anyone want to fill me in on that, or any other helpful Blogger hacks?
Meanwhile, getting ready for our trip. Going to see all my family in Southern Cal. It's been 1.5-2 years since I've seen any of them. Much tears will happen, but tears of joy, love, and gratitude.
Love ya!
June 29, 2021
Hola, interspace! Anyone still listening? LOL
I think I'm going to give blogging a go again. I'm fully vaccinated, starting to live life outside of this home, even going to visit family for the holiday weekend! Time to start re-connecting! Although, with getting ready for the trip, I might not fully acclimate here until sometime next week when we've returned. We will see...
Not much to tell since March when I lasted posted here! Did get fully vaccinated, have been to a few restaurants, both with hubby and a small select girlfriends that are also vaccinated. Slowly getting back into shopping for fun. That's about it. I got into decorative planning, meaning I got addicted to putting gorgeous floral stickers in a Happy Planner that I use to plot housecleaning. My house has never, ever, been cleaner. LOL Other than that, reading (got myself a Kindle Oasis because I hear they are better for eyes than the Fire was), watched a fair amount of TV, putzed on the smart phone too much, spoiled the dogs rotten, and am still working on dropping the pandemic weight gain. LOL
That's what it's been. I can't wait to start visiting you guys again, and see what you are up to. Anyone still following me, you are a saint. :)
Not sure if I'll post again before we leave, but if not, have a glorious holiday (my American friends.)
Thanks to Kay and others who have reached out to check and make sure I'm still alive. :)
I'm fine. I'm just not blogging now...at least, certainly not until Covid's threat is over. I mean, not going anywhere, not doing much...what's to post about?
I got my first Covid vaccine shot yesterday. Arm hurt a little last night and this morning, but is negligible now; not much different in that regard than a regular flu shot.
I've learned through all this that I am MUCH more introverted than I thought. I'm really handling it all pretty well.
That said, during an ulcerative colitis flare last fall (pre-election jitters, I think), I was discovered to have a MASSIVE kidney stone. So big, it filled about 40% of my left kidney. I had to have a tube put in to my kidney through the back, and a draining bag attached, for two weeks BEFORE the through-the-back surgery to remove the stone. That was all done 2nd half of November. But I'm fully recovered now. The urologist felt he got all of the stone. The bag was attached to me with that tube in my back for about 3.5 weeks total; not fun let me tell you. I need follow up testing to make sure the stone was 100% removed, and if my ph level is the type to keep building stones, but I'm drinking water like it's going out of style now (at least 65-80 oz. per day), and I'll never touch alcohol again. I've cut way back on meat, per the urologist's recommendations too. But until I'm fully vaccinated, I'm not getting those elective tests done. It can wait.
That's all I've got. I'm fine, the dogs are fine (we did lose our oldest in the fall too; we are down to just two dogs), family is fine.
Thanks for checking on me! I'm keeping the blog website, because if we ever get past Covid, I might rethink blogging. I'm just not seeing the point, for myself, now.
Love to anyone still reading. Hope you are well!
