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Bison is only 6 1/2 months old. We have had him for 3 months. And in that time, he has managed to make me cry, scream, gag, laugh, and every other end of the spectrum. First it was eating all the wedding pictures our friend gave us.


Then it was coming home to find that he had eaten almost an entire bottle of heart medication and giving him 2 turkey baster's of hydrogen peroxide.

Today, we went to the Bark Park for some fun. We did indeed have fun. Everything was great. Well, Bison was fine. My friend P's dog Roxy got bit on the nose by another little feisty dog. But it was okay...

So I walked in the door to my feisty dog, hubs already in the kitchen. I'm talking about our day, and then I hear B starting to cry in the kitchen and he had peed a little. Odd....So I took him outside...where he tried to squat to pee and started crying and was just walking and peeing. Something.Is.TOTALLY.Wrong.

We walk in the house, I take his leash off, and he starts heaving. Of course. More vomit. And then me getting down and saying "what the hell is that?!?!" Looked like he must have eaten part of a rubber ball at the dog park. Ay dios!


If this is god's way of saying "prepare yourself for motherhood," then it's putting all that baby fever in check!!

When did this happen?!

October and Halloween are over. Christmas is in the air. But why? This has been the warmest November ever. I usually am more excited about Thanksgiving.I generally don't want to see Christmas things until November is over. But I'm craving Christmas. I want a tree and family and a special stocking for Bison. I want twinkly lights and the smell of cranberries and pine trees. I want to see perfectly wrapped gifts with neat little bows and my niece giggling over toys. I want to stuff myself with food and dessert and lay on the couch. It's not really a surprise to anyone that I think my desire to "nest" is in full force. Maybe that's the tie to Christmas this year. I don't care if I can't explain it, I'm just ready to start decorating!

Wedding Photos Have Arrived!

Reminiscing

It started with Josh and I laying in bed last night talking about the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and our favorite things about it as a kid. This progressed in to a 2 hour conversation about other kid shows, then pre-teen shows, game shows....anything on the air before 2000. Here are some recaps because I knew when I went to bed that today I would be researching all of these "for old times sake."
**NOTE: I started making this list so I could go back and fill in stuff about the shows...I got carried away...and then the wedding pictures came...So, here's the plan: leave a comment about a show I've forgotten, and this blog will be a work in progress!!***

Sesame Street(had to start here of course!):

Fraggle Rock

Doug

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Are you Afraid of the Dark?

Clarissa Explains It All

Full House

Cosby Show

CatDog

Double Dare

Hey Dude

Kenan and Kel

Ren and Stimpy

Rocco's Modern Life

Power Rangers

Saved By The Bell

Rugrats

Mickey Mouse Club

Dumbo's Circus

Dinosaurs

The Magic School Bus

Family Matters

Wonder Years

Kids Incorporated

Reading Rainbow

Growing Pains

Pound Puppies

Rainbow Brite

Jem and the Holograms

Pee Wee's Playhouse

Inspector Gadget

Duck Tales

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Eureka's Castle

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

Care Bears

Bearenstein Bears

Heathcliff

Animaniacs

Boy Meets World

Home Improvement

RoseAnne

French Prince of Bel-Air

Blossom

Step By Step

Who's The Boss?

Dawson's Creek.

Hello November!!

November 1st. Daylight Savings. Extra Hour of Sleep. Gun Show. Dog Poisoning. And it's only 3:3pm.

This has been my day. The first one is great. The second one, eh, not a fan of falling back because the sun is going to set in 2 hours. That's no fun. :( Sleeping was great because I actually got up in time to watch CBS Sunday Morning. Great story on Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's friendship by the way.

Now for the part when we left the house at 11am. Hubs and I had just been sitting on the couch reading the paper and watching tv when our roommate came downstairs asking "what are you doing today? wanna go to the gun show?" to which I replied "HELL YES."

If you don't remember....I've got of been obsessed with the idea of becoming a cop. I've never really even held a gun in my life. But I want a hand gun. I want to feel awesome like that. So we went to the gun show. First guy I saw in the parking lot looked like Yosemitie Sam. His name was actually Lucky Levi, but he was a walking cartoon character. Then we're paying admission and getting told we can get in free if we join the NRA for $25. And you get to take your picture next to a cut out of Sarah Palin. Yep.

The first gun I touched, I pretty much felt amazing. After 2 hours of touching something, then putting on hand sanitizer, then touching the "women's safety it-looks-like-a-cell-phone-but-its-a-TASER," my mind was blown. Most amazing cultural experience of my life. And a complete 180 from every hippie show I've been raised going to for 26 years. My mom was probably screaming from the heavens. But I still felt patriotic. Talking to the vietnam vet who had lost both legs from the knees down and had awesome battle axes and spartan swords that it took me to hands to hold up. Oh, and don't forget the guy who had an entire exhibit that had a poster above every case that said "No Cell Phone Usage" and "Only English can be spoken here or no purchases allowed." And he had a pint size pomeranian prancing around. Holy.Shit.

Then we went to pick up another friend and have lunch. Stopped by the computer store and headed home to get the dog. It's nice out, so we were going to take him to the dog park and play. Until we walked around the corner and saw the living room floor. A giant black stain on the floor with 2 pill bottles in a CVS bag shredded to pieces. Ohmyfuckinggod what did Bison do? As we get on hands and knees and start counting pills...1, 2, 14 out of 30....crushed through the plastic bottle. Thank god the bottle of Josh's Ambien had rolled under the coffee table. The 16 pills he did eat were super low dose beta blockers. And then the entire black ink pen.

So I called the vet freaking out. Here's what he prescribed. 2 turkey basters full of peroxide. Then wait 3 to 5 minutes until he throws up. Then do it again if he hasn't thrown up in 5 minutes. And call him after that. So we get 2 turkey basters of peroxide down him and waited outside til he started throwing up. This is when I started crying my eyes out. So now he has to take Pepcid AC every 4 hours for 3 days. Unless his behavior changes, and we have to take him in. Once he was calmed back down then I tackled the carpet.

We've been talking about having the carpet cleaned for a few weeks since we've been here a year and with the dog. Now I'm definitely calling about it. But rubbing alcohol, aersol hairspray, and the Nature's Miracle pet stain stuff pretty much got it out.

Now the dog is snoring on the floor. The 3 guys are lined up on the couch drinking beer and watching South Park. And I am watching the clock for when we get to give Bison the pepcid for the first time and see how that goes...

And I thought October sucked. This better not set the precedent for November!!

Time hasn't healed this wound...

It's been 3 years since I said goodbye to my mom. One....Two.....Three. It seems impossible. The first year was ridiculously hard. The second year got better. This year...not so much. I think with the wedding it was really on my mind. Then losing my job with the baby, being unemployed and depressed and having panic attack again. This month of October specifically has been tough, and the past week has just be misery. She's everywhere but she's NOT HERE. My feeling this year is anger. I'm angry that the night before she died I went out to a Halloween party and had to be woken up the next morning to have my sister call and tell me to come because it was happening. I should have BEEN THERE. I never should have left her. So I'm angry.

Today is "fall festival" at work, and I worked my ass off on our team poster. Most of my co-workers know that I'd rather have a mental health day today, but hopefully today will be "fun" and I'll at least write Pumpkin Grams to everyone I can think of. Hopefully no more crying, but between last night's cry fest and my still cold/allergy...I think I'll finally wear my glasses to work.

I also just want to say that I'm pretty freaking frustrated that I don't have wedding pictures back yet either. 2 and a half weeks ago they were supposedly done. So where the hell are they?!?!?

Such a couch potato

My good buddy wrote a tv blog and it made me think about it. This fall has brought some fantastic additions to encourage our couch time. First of all, I have a confession. After being the 2nd generation of only watch Dave Letterman, I've been recording the "new" Jay Leno show at 10. Living on east coast time zone totally sucks when it comes to tv by the way. If it wasn't for DVR I wouldn't get to watch any of my shows at all. So the "new" Jay is pretty hilarious. It's good over dinner tv.

Now for series shows. Oldies but Goodies! Season 9 of Smallville. Pretty ridiculous that they have managed to completely stray from the comic book for the show(says husband). But Clark Kent and Lois Lane are starting to fall for each other. Cute.And happy they moved it to Friday since Thursday is dominating.

Private Practice. I started to like this more than Grey's.The medical topics are pretty interesting and always have an ethical battle. I'm interested to see where it heads this season.

So Grey's Anatomy....Glad Izzie is living with cancer, even though she has disappeared...Happy that Mer and Der haven't had a post-it divorce yet, but who knows. Pretty sure the "merger" will hopefully be a bust. I do not like any of the new kids.

Comedies.
The Office. All I have to say is yay wedding! Perfection. 30 Rock is only one episode in but I love Liz Lemon! I'm still hanging on to Park and Recreation because it's so silly and bad it cracks me up.


Only reality show we're still watching is Top Chef. Jennifer is a bitch and I love her. Kevin is fun, and I see the brothers duking it out pretty soon.


And the new arrivals!!
Modern Family is THE BEST SHOW ON TV. It's so damn funny!! The writing is amazing and I've watched each episode at least twice.Wednesday nights or watch on abc.com. It will make your week.

Community is kinda there with Park and Rec. I was excited to see Chevy Chase back on tv. The highlights are the crazy chinese guy from all the movies who plays the spanish teacher Senor Chang. And the Indian guy Abat it ridiculous.
And for new drama, I'm hooked on Mercy. Veronica is a great character and there are some fantastic one liners. For a medical show, it's actually probably better than both Grey's and Private Practice. And it reminds me of my best friend. :)

Wishes:
Haven't watched Glee at all. Wish I would have started from the beginning. I wish we had HBO so I could see the new show with Zach Galifinikas AND Jason Schwarzman. Saweet!! One episode in to Dexter thanks to our roommate downloading all of them. Seems like this season will be crazy as ever. Aaaaaaaaaaand now that they announced Jake the Texas Pilot as the new Bachelor, I'll be sucked in to that as soon as it starts(I've heard January).

So what am I missing? :)