Saturday, June 27, 2015

The Weekend 5 (Sunday, June 28th 2015)

Last one of these for June. Hard to believe this month has flown by with little to show for it and still a lot to show for it. Been taking care of Rainbow all month long she has been on her meds and had her echocardiogram and such all this month. That's how long its been. Birthdays, Fathers Day, Summer, warmer temps. That was all this month! And on to July we go...

1. Rainbow turned 13 on Tuesday. I thought it would be a simple day. Last year my sister and me took her on a hike to a park we hadn't been to before. But this year while I didn't work she did and we couldn't do that. So my mom got a last minute idea and we took her to the beach in the evening. She was nervous but I hope she had some fun. She couldn't go on the actual beach but I let her walk in some sand on the edge. She saw the harbor. I took pictures and showed off my baby girl I am SO happy got another birthday. It has been a harsh couple of months since April when I found out about her heart murmur that changed our lives forever! The cats turned 7 on Friday. This was the day we gave them although we will never now their mystery day sometime in June this was the day. I cant believe they are 7! 7 gives me echoes of the fact that Patches & Princess our first two cats that are both gone on now sniff were when they almost died. Mostly my sisters cat. They turned 7 in June and then a few weeks later in July came the horrible thing. But these two cats are fighters and stronger then anything and sweet as can be. Total opposites at the same age as our girls were. So our pets have their birthdays out of the way (except Maggie she is in July!)

2. Thursday marked 6 years since Michael Jackson died. What as shocking sad day! Since this year echoes 2009 the year it happened it was on a Thursday that year too. I will never forget my sister telling me about it while I was at McDonald's waiting to go into work for our evening shift at Borders. I was the one to tell several of my co-workers who didn't know. While I did have facebook back then I had no updates on my phone and no way to look online for sure. But yes I asked and found out for sure and told. Such a sad day! RIP King of Pop it will never seem like you are truly gone!

3. Work is going alright. I worked last Sunday almost closing LONG LONG shift 8.5hrs it was insanity. Now I am doing more closings then ever and very little not and still only 4 days a week its just not great when I have so much I need $$ for. Need new job asap. But work is okay I get by best I can.

4. Wednesday we did the San Diego Fair. Unlike last year we went later, had no concert (little big town cancelled so sad!), had to pay not free. But still had fun. Rode 2 rides, ate some food, got crazy. Sure we didn't see the pigs race as I wanted and we couldn't look at many live animals. But had fun. Played a few games each won a small prize. Not a bore for sure glad we went. Was exhausting 4 hours but still not bad.

5. Thursday we did The Adventure Run in Carlsbad. We had no idea till we did it that it was not just at the outlet but all over the area. 5 miles in total. Yeah right. All for raffle tickets. It was free mind you but we each bought the shirt so we could look cool and get double tickets. Not bad shirt. So it was a bit exhausting running and walking all over the area for an hour for tickets. I managed to win something nothing special just some lotion but still I won. Sorry my sister didn't. I managed to not drink my free beer haha no thanks I decided not to. But hope to do it again next month.

Well that's all for now. See you all in July. Have a nice week and rest of June and 4th of July as that is this week before I talk to you all again.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

The Weekend 5 (Sunday, June 21st 2015)

Welcome! Happy Fathers Day to any dad's out there especially mine. Sadly cant spend the day with him I got a full work shift this day. But hope he has fun at home relaxing, watching movies and eating good food!! Its been an odd week but kinda slow next week wont be so enjoying what I can!

1. It is SUMMER Happy 1st day of Summer!!! Our weather woke up this week we have had warmer temps again and 80's which is nice. I don't mind too much heat but way too much not so much haha oh well Summer is here! At least I am not in Arizona where it gets and is getting already hot hot hot. But I miss my lovely state and sometimes miss the heat too. I managed one kinda workout I just went on a walk once this week. I lost motivation on Tuesday so I only had 1 day and I did that on Thursday. Being tired is no fun. I haven't been sleeping well usual norm. Even with little work and no school on days I can sleep in its really hard. To fall asleep and stay asleep and then fall back asleep. Its an ADD/ADHD thing you might not understand....

2. Hard to believe this week marks 4 years since I began my internship with FOX10 News in Phoenix. From June till August it was not long enough. I made friends, I got experience and I had so much fun. I love working at a news station. I look forward to another internship in the future whenever it is and eventually a job some place. You always know when you are where you should be. I just wish they could have hired me. But I still had fun while I did it. Wish I'd spent more time interning and less time looking for work as it was pointless not meant to be!

3. Work is going alright. Still not enough hours. I gave them new schedule and it isn't in effect yet?? If its not up by next week (so the first full week of July) I can kiss good bye any hours for the Summer. I'm not gonna give them another one and then a school one towards end of July it makes NO sense. So shall see. I worked last week a long Sunday, a shorter Monday, a kinda long Friday and then a closing (blah!) on Saturday. Whatever. Kinda hard to believe been there almost 1 year 3 months. Almost as long as I was looking for this job. I looked for 1 year 4 months. Crazy. But looking for another job is a big goal of mine this Summer. I would love nothing CS or retail or anything... trying to be hopeful!

4. My poor dog Rainbow I love her so much! She's still taking her pills. I give them twice a day trying to follow the every 12 hours rule but breaking it sometimes as I have to. She gets to go back to the vet on the 30th check make sure she is not being badly affected by these meds. I get to get my first refill that day too. Yeah about that. One month at a time. Her birthday is this next week on Tuesday. More about that after it happens so next week. Keep her in prayers I love her so much!!!

5. Yesterday was my half birthday. Half way to 36. I cant believe this. Its just insane. I don't really celebrate half but since my birthday happens to not only fall on the last month of the year but an even day its easy to find the half birthday for me. So that is June 20th. Gulp. Come on need something good for my second half the first half of this year has been kinda crappy in so many ways! Boo.

Well that is all for now. Hope you are all having a great month. Happy Summer and Fathers Day. See you all next week on the LAST of these for June. Crazy crazy stuff!

Friday, June 12, 2015

The Weekend 5 (Sunday, June 14th 2015)

It's been a long week but hey this is up ON TIME so there is that. Yeah go me! Can't promise this will happen next weekend but I shall try to see if I can do it!!!! Let's be hopeful!!

1. The 8th marks again the birthday of my dog Cocoa who died on Dec 5 2001. Had she been alive she'd be 27. She was 13.5 when she died. Of course I miss my first real pet. I had fish before her and just a few years later I got my first cat. But she was my first real pet I got when I was 8. And her loss was very sad. Happy Birthday in heaven. See you someday I am sure!

2. On the 8th or 9th unsure it marks 17 years since I graduated from High School. Looking back I try to figure out how so much time has passed and so little has happened for me. Sure I have lived out of state and back in state. I lived in two different states not California for 4 years I was on my own. But things like: never had a license, never had a boyfriend, no husband, no kids, no real career. Are really sad. Sure I have a BA degree and went to another broadcasting school graduated that too. I am back in school again. We have lost people and pets. But I feel like so much of my life that I want to happen or hope will hasn't happened yet. How am I this age and nothing much has happened while the majority of my class mates have had so much this and more? I don't know. Life is funny that way. And I'm sure glad when I graduated I didn't know that my life would be such a massive failure 17 years down the line...

3. Weather is finally warming up or it was. Few days of hot mid 80's inside. Sunny beautiful almost Summer like. Then yesterday and today cloudy gloomy and cool. June gloom I guess. Either way confusing as that is Summer IS coming and we are finally getting better weather. I did manage my first real workout in months once this week. I did the wiifit for 45min (212 days since last on there and hey I have lost 8 lbs since last time. Haha), small walk and small bike. It was good to work out even if I am still allergy cough and all ugh.

4. Work is work and well still same about days. I expect different days and hopefully more hours in a few weeks. Shall see. But work is just keeping me busy somewhat and then its not. That's how it goes. I did have my review last week and guess I got a small raise found out this week not bad.

5. My dog Rainbow is my baby my kid. I love her so much! Even has I painfully pay for pills I cant afford and vet bills I cant. She gave me a good scare the other night before we getting her pills. I thought she had fluid on her lungs because she was coughing more than usual and breathing heavy. I was up alone and thought I'd have to wake my parents take her to the vet. But I stuck it out slept out front for hours checking her breathing. And she was okay next day the vet checked her NO fluid on the longs thank God. I love her so much!!!!! Praying the meds help her but she is still so far coughing and doing pills twice a day is not so much fun for either of us but doing our best...

Well that's all for now. Been a long odd week. Not much happening but that is okay. Hopeful for the future and some good things for now just trying to get by. See you all next weekend!!!!

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Weekend 5 (Sunday, June 7th 2015)

Yesterday was a long work day and I could not even think about coming on here when I got home sorry about that! I was going to do this on Saturday but it was the same exact long shift 2 days in a row so I really was just kind of exhausted. Not like the coming 2 weekends are better we shall try to update this on time! For being late I am calling this the weekend 6 bonus point!

1. School might be not back on till mid August but I am all set with my classes which makes me glad! I am taking 16 units (I am allowed 19 so if I find a real 3 unit winner I might add it too). I am taking 3 for DBA my digital broadcasting classes (already bought 2 of the books for my classes since they cheap and had the $$). I am taking ENGLISH 10 and PRE-ALGEBRA (my only online one!). Math will be costly on the book but my sister and me are taking the exact same class so hoping to share a book since you have to buy it. Anyways. So that makes me happy. Although telling my job I can only work from 10-2 (the usual shift I get on Mondays) on Mondays might be tough but that or no Mondays and I need more than 3 days a week I need my usual 4 when possible. Then after work I will have to bust a move to the sprinter and then school at 4. Its my only class on Wednesdays but I am not giving work that day cause I need 3 days off (Tue & Thur will be super busy having me at school for 8.5hrs NO joke and hardly any breaks!

2. I'm kinda over being sick with cough and might see the doctor again next week. IF its allergies okay but if its not I am over it. Every day I cough sometimes badly. Dairy makes it worse I cant even enjoy a frappe from starbucks or a shake without coughing during and after it. I do have milk in cereal and still have yogurt and butter but seriously drinking stuff is the worst. Last night again I couldn't stop coughing and took a spoonful of honey. I actually took 3 for good measure. It works! I would swear by this home remedy I found online this is the 2nd time I had to use it. Cough be gone!

3. I am still stressed out over what is going on with my dog that I love so much. She's my kid. She's a small dog. And I was hoping she'd see 18 without a problem. Most little dogs who are healthy can see 17 or 18 no problem. My cat who was very sick still saw nearly 18 dying a few months before. Bless her heart. So this thing with my dog knowing about it since April isn't fun at all. While I am grateful for God giving me extra money to deal with this its really tough and getting worse. She had her echocardiogram on Wednesday the cost was heavy $400 (the vet misquoted me and took the brunt it should have been $550). And then I did not hear what was wrong till Friday. And now I am faced with new issues in the future. For the rest of her little life God willing 5 more years she will be on 3 different medicines to help her heart, her coughing and keep her from congestive heart failure. The price? One cost $50 lasts 25 days. One cost $30 lasts a month. And one cost $23 had to be special ordered and lasts 100 days. I have decided to check to see if they have it cheaper on 1800petmeds or petcarerx (I vary using one or the other of those for her flea meds every 6 months). The price keeps growing. In 3 or 4 weeks I have to make sure her kidneys are not reacting badly which will be another $60. The health thing I am now beginning to pay monthly beginning this month for the next year is $53 covers some stuff. And in 3 to 4 months she needs ANOTHER echocardiogram for $550. I have money still for now but am a bit stressed and will be taking this month by month. I am at a part time low paying job. I need a real job not this part time stuff. I am unsure where to look its not easy finding a job that pays well and will take me. But I've been at my current for long enough and don't get me wrong but I need something better. I wish for not retail or customer service I am over doing this since 1998 that's 17 years off and on doing CS is not easy. It takes its toll. So please keep my baby in prayers the meds work and her kidneys don't get messed up. Otherwise she will be off 1 of the meds for good (unsure at this point which that is will know tomorrow when I pick them up). Anyways that is what I am dealing with.

4. Tuesday just wanting some fun before the dreaded Wednesday and we could not nail down some final plans. Was going to do the LA Zoo never been here its great but my sisters friend she wants to do this with could not do it yet (we hope for next week unsure about this week its kinda full). So we had no zoo. So we thought the Santa Ana Zoo never been either. Cheaper and closer to home. After we (fail) tried to make plans with our cousin to hang out with her kids in the evening cause we still have yet to meet our newest 2nd cousin born last year and now a year old... we ended up hanging out with another friend a good friend of my cousin. She was going back to Texas where she now lives but visits here few times a year for weeks on end. Happened to be her last day and she let us hang out at her house and we stayed there for like 2 hours. That was after going to the SA Zoo we came 20 min before closing $10 to get in and they let us in for free cause it almost closed and we stayed an hour. Mostly monkeys but I am not complaining we had so much fun! Then the friends house. Dinner at TGIFRIDAYS I don't recommend man their food has changed it used to be good boo! Breakfast for next day Krispy Kream hello been forever. And back home. Long day unplanned but we did something. And that was good

5. Work is going fine I guess. It wears me out. I finally after the whole thing with my dog gave them more hours all but Sundays. Hope they do that by beginning of July so I get like 6 good weeks of hours can work up to 6 days. Use extra $$ for dog, saving, and school books in August. Wasnt busy on Saturday IDK why but was yesterday insane. I worked 4 days of crazy.

BONUS POINT!!

6. It's been 4 years since our visit to Cali from AZ. We worked so hard to come out for a week. I put off my internship with FOX10 that I began probably around this time 4 years ago I LOVED THAT SUMMER!! Well we came out here for fun with the family and hanging out and stuff. Not knowing just a few months later we would be coming back for good. Life is funny that way. Things you wish you knew and you didn't. But yeah 4 years we were so proud of coming out and knowing we did not live here we still had a place out of state that we called home. And at the end of the week we drove back to our heat and apartment for 3 months of Summer before coming back for good...

Well that is all for now. June is such an interesting month. We have pet's birthdays past and present here. Summer of course. Finally warming up. And well it's June what can I say? Half way through 2015!!??

Monday, June 1, 2015

The Weekend 5 (Sunday, May 31st 2015)

Honestly was hard to come up with 5 things for this past week. Sorry it was so late we have entered June and lost May and I did not post this. But here I am. Going online just for this... I am super lazy!


1. Been super worried about my dog Rainbow. This last week took her to the vet and found out she DOES have a heart murmur. My greatest fear realized. They figured it out within a second of listening to her heart and without an x-ray. Although we got that too. Now this coming week she is schedule to get a kinda of ultra sound to her heart done ekc they call it or an echocardiogram. Either way that is happening. Prayers for this and answers soon!

2. I am still sick I think. Or am I? Past two days my cough has come back worse again and I am starting to lose my breath easily. Just when I thought I was getting better this returns. So this point I may end up going to the doctor again soon as I am done with my dog stuff. I hate being sick. My allergy stuff works most of the time but for my cough not always

3. The 31st marked my ex-best friends birthday. She ditched me 3 years ago and I still miss her and all we had. I guess when you stop being friends with someone when you have known each other almost 14 years the impact is great. They just don't tell you that. You start off being friends and continue. Then just something small you did not expect sets it off and you are done with. I hope she had a nice birthday. Shes still married and has 2 kids now. And I cant be a part of her life in any way possible.

4. Weather has been behaving. And I was up until few days ago going to start working out again even light stuff. I have bought a few new clothing items for working out. Its gonna be Summer soon. The weather is so nice and mellow. So unlike last year it does not feel like June. It feels like beginning of Spring if that not the end of. Weird huh oh California.

5. Work this week keeping me on my toes. Saturday for the first in weeks it was so busy it was like Christmas. I don't know why. I haven't given them more hours yet but will try next weekend. Was waiting to see what happens with my dog if we have to keep going to the vet. Either way never a dull moment.

Well that is all. Good bye May hello June. Have a good week. Will be doing more stuff this week so it for sure will not be as boring. See you soon!