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Putting aside my hopes of travel

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I was hoping now that I got Chris to go on a trip, and since he did ok with flying this time, that we’d be able to start traveling more.

Then we got a puppy.

I can’t seem to get much of anything done now that we have this energetic ball of fur running around!

I’m so tired and my Crohns is starting to act up bad – probably from the lack of sleep and increased activity.

Well, I guess we can still go on trips to places that we can drive to at least.

I had been hoping to get out to Vancouver sometime in the New Year – perhaps in the Spring or early Summer, but driving there takes four or five days so we’d have to take at least three weeks to make a proper trip of it. Might as well plan on going to one of those Hawaii bed and breakfast. It’s just not going to happen right now.

The puppy won’t even be a year old until the end of August and that seems like forever to me right now. The way she chews things and goes into what I call parana mode (all mouth!) I don’t think we’d even bother to ask any of our friends to look after her until she calms down some.

Do I sound like a new mom or what?





What to get a 10 year old for Christmas?

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I’ve been trying to think of what to get my youngest niece for Christmas. She’s almost 10 years old and she’s a real girly girl.

It can sometimes be hard to buy gifts for kids when you don’t have any of your own. There are so many trendy items that are hot one month and dead the next. It’s hard to keep up.

I’m pretty sure that she’d love it if I could get her High School Musical tickets. It looks like the Ice Tour is here in Toronto all through the week of Christmas. Surprisingly they even have a show on Christmas day!

Do you think that that’s something a 10 year old girl would really like to get for Christmas? Any other ideas?

In a fog

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I think I’ve got a cold.

When we first got our dog, like almost immediately, my nose stuffed up and I started having a lot of sneezing fits. I don’t know how many tissues I’ve gone through over the last five days but it must be close to a box full by now.

At first I thought it was because our pup smelled like the pine shavings she’d been kept on in the barn where she was raised, but I gave her a bath on Saturday and my nose continued to be irritated and well runny.

Then I worried that it was allergies. I am allergic to animals with fur, but I usually get a little wheezy. So far no wheezing, but there’s the troubling sniffles.

I’ve now come to think that it might be a cold because my sniffles were a lot better yesterday. As I’ve mentioned a few times in my recent posts I’ve been really tired this week. I’ve been blaming it on the puppy, but I think it might be because I’ve also been fighting a virus.

Speaking of tired – I’ve been walking around like I’m in a fog. I think Chris is over tired too. We’ll go into a store and just mill around instead of heading directly to whatever we went to the store to get. We’re also forgetting what we went to the store in the first place for too. I mean, we’ve needed a cordless phone battery for a while now and each time we go to the store we totally forget to even look for one!

I’ve been so tired that I’ve even been forgetting to take my Crohn’s meds and pain meds!

Do you ever get that way when you’re tired? You have to do things – work, go shopping, care for children or whatever – but you’re so tired that you can’t really think straight? That’s the way I’ve been all week.

Learning about puppy care is becoming addictive!

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I bet some of you might have thought my blog was becoming a dog blog over the last week or so. I’ve certainly written enough posts about getting our new puppy and how she’s been doing during her first few days in our home!

Midnight has certainly taken up a lot of our time. I’ve barely had time to blog and that’s very unusual for me. We are starting to get into a routine now though. I think I’ve figured out how to have a little me time by putting her in her crate for naps while trying to make sure she also gets enough play time and little walks outside for potty training.

I knew having a puppy would be a big change and that it would be time consuming, but there’s been a few times that I’ve felt that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. I think I’ll manage though … I mean, I managed to train my lizards to potty in certain places and even at certain times so if I can do that I can train a dog. I know I can. Well … I hope I can!

I do think I’ve become addicted to all things dog though. I’ve been reading sites about puppies and we’ve been to the pet store 3 times in the last 5 days! If this keeps up I’ll have to find out if they have something like a drug rehabilitation clinic for canine addicts. LOL

I do want to thank everyone that’s stopped by to give me some advice on raising and training a puppy. Your tips have been very helpful and as always, if you have more tips feel free to leave a comment. I haven’t been replying to everyone because I simply haven’t had the time, but I do appreciate your thoughts. I will reply to all of you shortly.

I expect that this blog will be getting back to it’s normal type of posts now. Of course there will be some puppy updates or even pleas for help every now and then, but now that we’re starting to have a routine I should be able to blog more often about a variety of topics again.

I miss my job

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When Chris came home from work the other day he told me about all the changes to the ER.

I’m an ER nurse and I’ve been off sick from the department for close to two years. Obviously it’s been some time since I even went in to visit my old co-workers. When I was hospitalized two weeks ago it was in one of our downtown hospitals … maybe I should have gone to our ER instead.

They’ve been renovating the space and expanding! It looks like emerg is going to double in size and that’s a good thing. Our ER is said to be the second busiest in Canada. Hopefully they hire an adequate amount of staff to manage the new areas. Even though the ER probably always had the most staff on during a shift out of any other hospital department with the amount of patients coming through the doors it almost always felt like we were understaffed.

What they really need there is better time and employee management – starting with the admins! Maybe a business performance management system needs to be installed as well along with all the other upgrades.

I really missed being there as Chris told me about all the changes. I truly loved being an ER nurse and I miss my job. If this darn Crohn’s would just settle down I could go back.

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