Can you believe it's another year already? My magic 8 ball tells me that 2009 will bring some HUGE changes to our lives... hmm... but before that, let's do a brief recap of some up's and down's this holiday season:
Holiday Up's:
(1) Had fun with the boys, aka Bryson, Chorizo and Picasso at our friend's super-duper doggy-friendly X'mas party! Including us there were 7 doggies there :) And amazingly, everyone behaved, well, except that Chorizo invited himself to open a present under the tree, which turned out to be a bar of chocolate that he almost sunk his little hot doggie teeth in... thank goodness he's saved from this near-death experience! (2) On Dec 28, we celebrated Bryson's 2-year anniversay with us! Yay!! It's hard to believe that we met Bryson for the first time just 2 years ago. I really can't remember what life was like before having him... (3) Spent some quiet time at home, not doing much, which was relaxing. Holiday Down's: (1) Spent a little too much quiet time at home, because I caught a stupid cold :( It wasn't super severe, but combined with the cold and wet weather, rendered me debilitated and useless for days. Ugh. (2) Bryson developed this strange flaky, crusty skin issue. We noticed since he got sick a couple weeks ago, that his hair started coming out in clumps. No, not the normal corgi shedsabalooza, which of course we're all familiar with, this is tufts of hair coming out with dead skin and scabs attached to it, ewwww.... This is just one little example, the other day I furminated him literally hundreds of these came out... *shudder* He didn't seem bothered by it at all, but we took him to the vet anyway, since you can start seeing "bald spots" on him and I'm afraid it's some weird infection. The vet examined him and did a skin-scraping, and said it's not mites/fleas (whew!), but probably a bacterial infection on top of some allergy issues. Who knows what he's allergic to (we haven't changed anything except that his groomer moved to a new store). She prescribed oatmeal baths, an antibiotic and some antihistamine. We'll see how these work. In the meantime, I think we're gonna stop taking him to the groomer for now since we'll be giving him regular oatmeal baths anyway. We'll see if that helps. (3) Hubby got laid off from work yesterday *sigggghhhh*. No notice, no nothing. At the end of his shift, the HR manager (not even his own manager) came to him, and said "Today's your last day. Goodbye." When he came home and told me (while I was busy blowing my Rudolph nose), my mind just went blank... I hate to whine on the blog. This is supposed to be the sanctuary away from the woes of our daily lives. Which is why I didn't mention that this is actually the SECOND time he got laid off this year. But at these hard economic times, like it or not, this is our new reality. We still have each others, nobody died. I'm sure we'll pull through. Enough downers already!! OK, back to my magic 8 ball... It's telling us that something exciting will be happening in 2009... We can't wait to tell you about it, but since we're not officially in 2009 yet, that'll have to wait, for now. If you already know, don't spill the beans! A short announcement will follow shortly, promise!
