Also, I made a cake for Joe after he went to work, he got to teach today, and will some more too. I thought it'd be nice.. *laughs* he just called his best friend, Chris, up in Oregon , and he is apparently jealous of my cake-making-ability.
We're going up there so soon!! I'm so excited! Joe hasn't been able to get any vacation time in over 2 years now! :D We'll be around Oregon City. coming up on 5. I love that road.. We managed to go up on a long weekend last September. and it proved to be the easiest road trip I've ever been on..
I'm originally from the Chicago, IL area... and boy was it hard to not get lost going to southern Indiana to visit family.. My gosh.. so complicated..
But yea.. looks like we'll be heading out around the 23rd, and then heading back on the 4th of October..
We're taking Mika up with us, but Ashley & D. (a couple folks joe works with) are watching the other chins, as they can't handle the stress of traveling.. D's already used to taking care of chinnies, as he adopted a violet girl from us awhile back, and loves her to bits. (also a rescue.)
She's now known as Chinny-San Woo Tang .. he's such a goofball. here's a picture of her.. absolutley adorable little girl ^^ so soft, too! We got her at the Santa-Rosa MCBA state chinchilla show in January from a breeder who was selling out half of her breeding stock. She has a weird cow lick, thus giving her only a 2nd show/ & place best of breed... because of a tiny whirl pattern on her butt, and perhaps not the best confirmation in the world (thats thickness of fur)
not that bad, right? .. well ->
She was going to be made into part of a chinchilla-hide teddy bear to be auctioned off because of it... poor baby.. :(I stepped in and bought her instead, (very politely mind you) thus causing a large about of scowls and murmurs and finger pointing, general loathing, etc in my direction. Whatever, I saved her life. I'm never going back to that show locatuion. I don't know if I'll go to another chin show for awhile.. It was really an unpleasant experience.. Most everyone was really rude and full of crap, and well.. I won't go on about it anymore.. There are a couple nice breeders I've met so far out here.. I'll leave it at that. Ah, and you should hear the poor little creatures scream when they're groomed by the long razor-sharp nail brushes.. It's horribly sad.. being held upside-down by the end of your tail, or an ear perhaps, and having needles raked through your skin.. It was such a sad sound.. Mika still grumbles and chirps sometimes when I gently groom her with a dog grooming comb, --firmly grip base of tail while chin is sitting on your leg, push comb straight down, tilt till perpendicular with skin, and then bring comb up-repeat... loooong process, but it's not torturous.. She generally enjoys it ^^
Anyway, she's in an extremely loving home now with a huge hand-built cage with four fleece hammocks, a bunch of ledges to hop on, and lots of toys and chewies, and is always quite happy when we go over to say hi ^_^
*yawns* I've had this window open for a long time.. I wonder what time it will say when I post it.. It's about 4:26pm right now, and I'm really starting to get tired.. that's what I get for waking up at freaking midnight.. I really need to stop following Joseph's shifts. . it can't be good for me..
Speaking of JoJo, he got to teach a classroom today! He was so happy about it.. He's not getting the primary instructor position like he wanted to, unfortunately, but he will after awhile.. He and this other guy are the same rank, went to tech school at the same time, and have all the same qualifications.
Problem is, the other guy's not certified to teach, and joe is, but yet the other dude got the job instead. *shrugs* it seems things like that happen alot.. poor joe was so sad when he came home.. -_- had to cheer him up with some yummy dinner and a good rant.
We've been sitting out in the backyard for the past couple hours going over exams together, me acting as teacher.. He's got a ton of tests this week for his cdc's I think after this he'll be done for a while, but ya never know..
He's just really sick of the whole working 7 or 8 12/14 hour shifts in a row with one day off inbetween, I can't blame him... It also sucks for me because I'm home alone allll daaaay loooong..
I read alot.. a whole lot. I recently got brave and bought some Stephen King books *laughs* Ususally I try to avoid any kind of scary stories, as I live in a creaky old house smack dab in the middle of nowhere land, and I tend to get paranoid about things..
Part of the reason I'm wanting a doggy so badly.. I'm so lonely.. and I really miss having a doggy to love on and talk to...
I've had a dog for a good part of my life (well, my parents did I spose.. chuckie wasn't ever "my" dog..) but I miss him just the same.. he's a lazy old geezer now, and when I want home to visit in the spring, I saw him, he had terribly sad old doggy eyes.. kindof milky and far away looking, like he's not there anymore..
that's a big difference inbetween the time that I left home -october- still happy and somewhat energetic, dark alert eyes, ....... and then come springtime when I flew out there.. saw him after a big surgery to remove poodle cysts and tumors -some kindof poodle thing I'm told. they get these weird warts when they age) And the difference was astounding. So tired, does nothing but sleep.. he still got up when you came to the door though..
Mom, Dad and Chuck drove out to visit us in june, and... well, he just isn't the same dog.. Once happy to sit and waggle the tail like crazy and yap at joe, playfully pouncing around him, he just gently wagged his tail and pawed at his leg to climb up into his lap and fall asleep yet again..
His vet thinks he has some kind of disease now that's making him rapidly age, but the tests apparently cost too much, and not enough time, etc etc among other things, so they have to wait till they can afford it.. At least that's as far mom told me.. *sighs* I can't do anything to help my boy.... I don't know what to do. . -_-. *goes foraging for photos* ...4:50 now.
please click to get a better view..
man... now I'm all sad again. *heavy sighs*
that was a long journal..
5 now. I'm going to go watch a movie or something. .
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