Drowning in Puppies and more Chaos

I haven’t been on here in FOREVER, mainly due to a few things:

a) Working my butt off to pay bills. Thank GOD I am finally catching up from being behind for a month or two. Everyone knows the economy sucks, but it seems like work has been picking up…probably due to season being back in and all the “snowbirds” making their return to Arizona.

b) The puppies are getting huge! I would say they are about 3 or 4 lbs each now, about 4 times the size they were when they were born. Plus their eyes and ears are finally open,  and they are running, playing, and chewing everything in sight! A friend and I made a 5×8 playpen with an old rug as the floor and walls out of some scrap wood, high enough that they can’t get out…yet. Mommy dog has stopped feeding them as much and they have started to eat canned puppy food. They’re a little over a month old now so I’ll have them for about a month or two more. So far I have confirmed homes for both boys and one of the girls, but like I said before, I’ll keep them as long as I have to. I definitely only want to give them to people I know or their immediate friends or family. Some new pics…

I have to admit, they’re A LOT of work, especially as they get bigger. I wake up to their crying around 6 am everyday, which is usually a sign that they’re hungry. I also clean their little area twice a day, when I wake up and when I get home from work. I imagine that having kids is like this times 100! I actually went out and bought a carpet steam cleaner, mostly due to their shenanigans, but I had been wanting to get one for a while. I got a Bissell Quicksteamer, which is small but works pretty well. I spent the whole day yesterday cleaning the entire carpet and I am LOVING IT! The carpet looks like it did when I first moved in. l adore those little puppies  but I also can’t wait until they’re no longer my responsibility….I’m going to miss them though.

Halloween has come and gone. I dressed up as a nurse at work but didn’t do anything that night, sadly, since I had to attend traffic school at 7 am the next morning for the speeding ticket I got recently. What a lame experience that was!!! It was at the Comfort Inn, in a little conference room. About 60 people packed together for 5 hours staring at a projector and listening to an instructor tell us how life-threatening drving a car is! At least we got to see some gnarly crash videos and learned some scary facts. For example, about 120,000 red lights are ran daily in Phoenix and more than a third of Arizona drivers are without insurance! Apparently, Arizona is also one of the most dangerous states to drive in with more traffic fatalities than the national average. I guess the class did it’s job to scare the crap out of me and make me drive like a paranoid grandmother! But at least I’m not speeding anymore. Especially since they have installed traffic cameras on all the major freeways here recently that pop you for going 11 mph over or above. BOOOO!!!!

 I can’t believe I’m seeing Christmas stuff everywhere already! We haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving! Speaking of which, I cannot wait for!!! I would have to say that of all the holidays, Turkey Day is definitely my favorite since I LOVE LOVE LOVE to eat! Plus I guess it was a big deal when I was younger and the family got together. My favorite Thanksgiving food is probably homemade stuffing, with yams coming in a close second. I think this year, my friend Angie and I might get together and cook for whichever of our friends that want to celebrate and eat with us. My parents don’t do anything for the holidays anymore since the kids are old, which is why I’m not going back to Vegas.

Today, I’m hopefully catching up on everything online, maybe take the adult dogs to the dog park before sunset, then doing a cam show later tonight and getting on the private cams afterwards to make some money and maybe meet some online friends??

Oh yeah, in other random happenings and newsbits…

I was at SuperWalmart the other day, getting my nails done in the salon there. I had just finished up with my nails and was about to get a pedicure when an announcement came over the speaker for everyone to evacuate the store immediately at the nearest exit. All of us looked at each other in confusion, when a lady came in and said a robbery or something had happened in the parking lot and the guy had run into the store so the police were trying to flush him out. Thank goodness my nails were dry! So I paid the little Asian lady quickly and walked out to the parking lot with a swarm of over a hundred other shoppers. I was surprised to see about 30 cop cars surrounding the place as soon as you exited the store, and officers everywhere!!! The crime scene tape was even around the area, and the police helicopter was circling above! I just hopped  in my car and got my feet done at another salon down the street, after waiting a while to get out of the Walmart parking lot in the middle of all that chaos of course! Later on the news, I heard the real story of what happened. Apparently some crazy looking dude (they showed his old mug shot) was running from the police, ran into a house near Walmart and stole their car, then drove to Walmart where he got out and ran into the store! I don’t know if he was armed or not, probably though since he had stolen a car! LOL, crazy shit! Oh, and get this…..the guy got AWAY!!!!!!!! Which raises that age old question….how many Phoenix cops does it take to catch one squirrelly asshole?????

GOAL: Write my blog everyday in the AM before I head to work!

xoxo