Husky Love

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Oh my, we picked Tiffany up at the airport and took Maddox and he got so much attention and pets he was overwhelmed and fell asleep on Tiff while we waited for her baggage. Poor little guy!!!



In the Happy News department, Nick has a new home, YES! Well, papers to be signed Monday, but he won't be homeless and the new flat is absolutely beautiful. And, he got his internship, so that definitely means that come February, Nick will be hopping on that big beautiful Lufthansa plane and zooming his way here for his first visit to the U.S. I cannot WAIT to show him how life is here, as I so enjoy exploring the German culture there. The only bad thing is I will have to work every day, except for the week I take off for our road trip to my sister's and hopefully humming_along's new digs. I am so worried he will get bored, stuck here with three dogs, the house, and waiting on me.

It will be SO nice to come home to a good German meal every night... whee! LOL. (Nick is a really good cook and I can't wait to load him up in the car and go to the German Deli and buy all the proper mixes and ingredients he'll need).

I was bored and lonely at home tonight, even the puppy was asleep, so I put him in the crate and went to B&N for an hour or so. I haven't been in there in quite awhile and it was quite nice and fun. Got a vanilla latte (S/F F/F) and browsed and chatted to people and the guy who made my coffee for me sang The Snicker's Song (???) to me. LOL. Flirty much? Too funny. I looked at the non-fiction table, and the calendars as we don't have a 2007 and it has been driving me nuts--got an August 07 to December 08 Butterfly calendar. Absolutely gorgeous. Now *I* can start marking off the days to Nick's visit. Whee!!!!

How odd, I had a thought and it disappeared out of my head.

So, that means, I must of course now go to bed!

Nite all!


Carolyn

Comments

[humming-along.livejournal.com]

Woot! I can't wait to meet you and Nick.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

We can't wait to meet you too! I told Nick about your EB film and I froze pics of you and the kids and sent them to him (his computer is acting up, grrr). I love those pictures! I watched it again and cried again. Such an amazing, hopeful film.

When I got the Butterfly calendar, I thought of Cassie. I forgot to mention that!

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Since I'll get a car for the time I am there I won't be quite as bored. LoL. Yeah, see me zooming around those road.things in FW (SCARY!).

Nah - I'll be fine.

And yay - new place (keeping fingers crossed there won't be last minute problems, wah) and internship that everyone is envious of, admittedly. Life seems to have decided to go right for once.

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on both, Nick. :)

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

You are up early, woman! How you feeling, better? Saw the note you are hearing from Bob so that is good.

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

lol. Just *on* early. I'm feeling a bit better, yeah. :)

I would as how you are, but you are hyper over Nick. ;)

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

LOL well, I am up thanks to Sir Puppy. Kelly gets him out of the crate, takes him outside, then dumps him in my room and goes back to bed. LOL. That is fine, I know he stayed up with the other kids last night and I have lots of laundry to do, ugh.

Keeping an eye on a puppy is a real trip. I just took him outside again, and we went into the kitchen and next thing I know, he is peeing!!! He has the tiniest bladder, so it isn't much but DAMN! LOL. He's such an infant still, I know he will get it eventually. I'm trying to monitor his eating and drinking more closely to see if that doesn't help. The breeder said to let him free-eat but dang it, that means he poops all day. I don't like that! So twice a day now. He is not a big eater at once so hopefully this works.

He keeps finding socks!

Glad you feel better!

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

lol. Maybe he can help you find your odd socks when you lose them, then. :)

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

and then you will discover all these cool places on your own and I will wail not to be with you!!!!

I think I will get sick alot. (Will have 6 days sick time). Shhhh... LOL. I will take it in today but I doubt it can be fixed. It was only 300, relatively inexpensive, so if they have another I can get him a replacement, but he wants THIS one, you know? It is bad. The neck is cracked up where the key turny thingies are, just past the bridge part. Oh gosh he is upset and says he won't go with me.

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

I have either forgotten or missed something.
Where will Kelly be?
And since you picked Tiff up, where will she be while Nick is there?

I am happy for you both. :)

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Kelly will be at home with us. Tiffany was just in Atlanta a couple of weeks, is home for six, then is off to school.

And thank GOD our private financial aide loan got approved. The kid is about to be happily in debt! LOL. But we're still working on the school financial aide package because of the social security nightmare. That was all so ridiculous. We've had to appeal, and we will get the appeal and they know it, yet they made us count her SS in the initial package. Growl. Once that appeal is approved, since I make no money, lol, then Tiff will be eligible for grants like the Pell grant and another one for med students. So we'll actually have to shell out more this first semester than we would normally have had to if all that crap had been straightened out. Unreal!!!!

But she is GOING! Got her dorm, she's got her roommate, she's on the 9th floor and the only thing we have left to buy is a new refrigerator.

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

That's great about Tiff. Too bad about the first semester. Colleges are terrible like that now. :/

So Tiff and Kelly will be able to help Nick get into plenty of trouble.... ;)

I hope Nick isn't too disillusioned by the US...

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

LOl nooo Tiff and Kelly don't get to play with Nick. Okay that isn't true--Tiff won't be here likely at all, but Kelly will be. He'll be doing his own thing though. He thinks it is great that Nick is coming to the U.S.

I don't think Nick will be--the political climate aside, there is alot here to enjoy so we will have fun. We'll do one big road trip but I plan to take him to Austin for a weekend of course, and Dallas of course, and who nows where else we can go on a weekend.

During Spring Break week, both of the kids will be in Europe! Too funny. They're actually going to be going to Germany, though down in Bavaria, not where I like to stomp around (though I'd like to go to that area someday)

[klgrem.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. :)

Congrats to Nick!

[kij66.livejournal.com]

On the flat AND the internship!!! Way to go :-) It's always so great to hear when such hard work pays off *grin*

And that's so awesome about the visit to the states; I'm thrilled for you both :-) Makes me wish I was closer so I could meet you both.

Ahhh, nothing like husky love; I so miss having a dog, but it's not really practical for apt living in LA (and R really needs a cat to make him happy).

Hey C, I'd like your writer's perspective on my last wrensdottir post (also x-posted to the breast cancer community), when you have time (no hurry, I know you're quite busy now).

Re: Congrats to Nick!

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I actually read it last night before I went to bed, the one phrase that really caught my eye was 'incurable, not terminal.' Saying that over and over again is a really good thing--POUND it into their heads because it is a message I think that is hard to let through, what with all the fear that naturally comes with having Stage IV.

I will go zoom back over in a bit but that really played over and over in my mind.

Another reason I am glad you are doing this book is that I for one have not personally known anyone with cancer at this stage--it has to me the potential to reassure the friends and family, too, that their friend/family member with cancer does NOT have to give up the fight, no matter how long that fight lasts. Seriously, that is also a very good thing. I've wondered if getting some of R's perspective wouldn't be interesting. He too has chosen life--yours. That makes him appear a prince in my (and probably others') eyes, but I wonder if he is just the kind of guy who thinks "Hey, I love Karen, so of course I'm here." Talk about a selfless love. (squee!)

Oh man you are definitely waaaayyy far away. LOL. We won't be headed that direction! Although dammit I'd love to meet you and Anthony and R and just sit around and talk writing and drink Miso soup. :)

Re: another book

[kij66.livejournal.com]

Yes, I definately want to write "Stage IV Cancer: Incurable is NOT Terminal", and now you've given me the best reason! One of the comments I got in the breast cancer community said that all her friends treat her like a ghost, as if it's just a matter of time before they're attending her funeral... It's about people not wanting to face THEIR OWN mortality, so they will dump someone with that shadow of death in order to stay in denial about how short life can really be. I've been so lucky in that dept; I've inspired folks to grab onto life & stop waiting for the "right time" to make a necessary change...The office manager at my old job gave notice last week & is going into public speaking, which she's great at, but didn't know until work asked her to attend toastmasters to network for the business (we have folks in Kiwanis, Rotary, Chamber of Commerce & stuff like that; need an insurance agent, hey there's that guy from Rotary...)

I'd been thinking that my personal story might be an easier sell to a major publisher than the spirituality book; each perspective is unique, and there need to be LOTS more stories of hope for Stage IV's.

Hmmmm, maybe I could do that "Stories of Hope; Stage IV Breast Cancer Survivors. Then I could include other women's stories and get THEM royalties!!!!

*sniffle* This disease is SUCH a financial burden on so many women & families, if I could do something like that.... Do you think that's possible? If so, I want to write that one first, and put the other books on hold (well, not completely, 'cuz the pagan book should write itself fairly easily; my gods are kinda adamant about that one, but it's got a limited audience) I wanna reach the masses (and let's face it, get an advance from a publishing company so I can live comfortably)

Never hurts to dream big, right?

Re: another book

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

You should look into it now. Non-fiction is different than fiction in how it is handled and I don't know that much about it.

Honestly, when my grandmother was sick with lung cancer, it terrified me, didn't know how to handle it. Oddly I was in the hospital the same time she was, and I MADE myself go down and see her. She was in very bad shape by then, and didn't know I was there, but just sitting with her made me feel better. I was 20 and had just beat back blood poisoning (caused by the stupidest thing--my fish tank!) and that made me think, at least briefly, about things.

With Kel's illness, it wasn't an obvious one, no one knew how serious it was except him and me. But he also lived in heavy denial most of the time and refused to talk about it. I didn't push it, either, thinking I was right not to, and... Oh man, I wish I had done alot differently.

Always dream big.

Re: Russ

[kij66.livejournal.com]

He is truly amazing; he moved out here knowing I was Stage IV & *could* be terminal at some point. That was the first time in my life that I actually believed someone truly loved me; I always had doubt/self-worth/self-loathing issues in all my other relationships. But that one thing was the closest I'd ever been to unconditional love in my life (except maybe my mom, ya know?)

Yes, we've had fights, past relationship issues & triggers to work through, and we NEVER expected to have to deal with a disability, just a deathbed vigil, really (I know it's morbid, but you gotta be realistic...)

So yah, including family & friend's perspectives would be a must as well...

Re: Russ

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Greatness. Yeah, Russ is pretty amazing (he's not on my lj so we can talk about him).

I think talking about the morbid makes it less morbid. Takes the mystery out of it or something.

[richtyrrell.livejournal.com]

Maddox' cuteness makes me want a dog! What would Valentino say???

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but Siberians are know for their love of cats. To chase and EAT them. LOL. Unless they are brought up young then they know this is their cat--but that won't keep a husky from going after other cats. I don't have cats and won't have any though I like them, don't get me wrong. I just am a dog person.

Huskies are incredibly sweet. I had now idea though I'd heard they were very sweet tempered. This guy is smart and oh my when he cuddles, he is all into it. Amazing breed so far.