Happy 4th of July!
Happy Independance Day!
Well - 3 boxes of kleenex, 2 3QT containers of orange juice, 4 cans of chicken noodle soup, and 6 "Breathe-Right" Vapor Shots later, I appear to be over the worst of my cold (knock on wood) :-). Just in time for 4th of July celebrations :-)
Tim has to work - he's doing the sound for the WAMU Family 4th at Union Lake so it'll be a long day for him. He headed out around 8:30 this morning, and the fireworks show starts at 10pm so I'm thinking he'll be back maybe around midnight, 1am.
I'll be at home with our neurotic, fireworks-phobic, dog Tommy. We got him some doggy downers to get him through the big bangs. He's been a total wreck all week - basically ever since the reservations started selling fireworks and kids started setting them off for fun in our neighbourhood. It's gotten worse since the legal fireworks stands opened up this weekend and Tommy was a complete mess yesterday. I ended up having to give him two pills yesterday evening because he was coping so badly - constantly shaking, panting, wild crazy look in his eye, and he was completely glued to my side. To the point where, when I had to go to the bathroom (which these days is approx every 15 minutes or so) he would sit outside the door, lean against it (like he was trying to meld with it) and whine like he was dying until I came out. Of course, there's NO getting him to go outside to go potty while all this is going on, and at one point I think holding it in got to be a bit much for him because around 10pm when I went in to straighten out the bed before I went to sleep I discovered a minor explosion of sorts had taken place at some point and soaked all the way through to the mattress. It was too large to be from one of the kitties, so I suspect it was poor tommy, and that it happened sometime while I was at the hospital (a separate blog entry, below ;-)) so last night at 10pm I was doing laundry because we were out of clean bedding! Luckily (?) Tim was still at the fireworks site prepping (they did a walk-through last night at 10pm so he didn't get home until midnight) which meant everything was clean and dry again by the time he was home.
Anyway - so that brings us back to today - 4th of July. Now that I'm feeling somewhat recovered from my cold, I'll be able to actually enjoy part of the holiday! Debra, Chris and Ella are coming over later this afternoon to BBQ and hang out with Tommy and me for a bit (since I can't really leave him alone to attend any festivities - he really needs constant companionship during this holiday, even, or especially, when he is medicated) which will be a lot of fun! And then later this evening I'll watch the fireworks show that Tim is working on TV. Between now and 5 I'll probably do my usual - go for a walk, tidy and vaccuum the house a bit so that it looks somewhat civilized for later, and get something fun for dessert. Might even poke my head out at the property again if it stays sunny. That's all I've got planned!
And then it's back to work tomorrow ;-)
A safe and happy 4th of July to you all!
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