Out of My Head

Good news!

Hubby's tests came back-the lymph node was fine and although the mole was pre-cancerous they got it all. So I suppose now I'll have to give him more back rubs so I can keep track of them :) Thanks for your prayers. I know God hears each and every prayer, not always as we want but he DOES answer

He is spending the weekend at his mom's. She is doing OK, but feels better if there is someone there. Amanda is there, but she is working 12 hour shifts so she really can't be up a couple times per night with grandma. Dan works this weekend too so he is staying with friends in Syracuse. So, I'm alone; as alone as I can be with all these pesky critters anyway.

I like being alone, but no sooner than Gale was gone my back started to itch-you know, in that place you just CAN'T reach by yourself. So I sidle up to the door frame and rub...ohhh, feels SO good! Of course doing this makes me think of a big old sow, rubbing her itchy backside on a fence post. I don't know how many of you are familiar with pigs, but a scratching sow gets a look of utter bliss and contentment when scratching an itchy place. Pigs are the most like us of any animal I think. If you look at one closely you will see they have very human looking eyes. And they really don't smell, it's only humans crowding them together that makes them smell. I am sure if you put a hundred or so humans together they would smell as bad or worse. And smart...they KNOW when someone wants to move them that they probably aren't going to a good place and react accordingly. Definately NOT "lambs to the slaughter"! (oh and don't get me started on sheep) And an escaped pig has no trouble fending for itself, so maybe it's their independence that makes me like them. And yes, I like them as chops and bacon too. The last pigs we had were pot bellied pigs. The ones we had stayed pretty small, but even a miniature pig can get pretty big. We finally decided to keep just one, but as things went we just didn't have enough time for her and so we gave her away. The lady who took her and her husband  had raised hogs and when they retired their operation she found she missed having them around. This has been several years ago, and I STILL get a card and a picture every Christmas from Polly Pig letting me know how she is doing. See, I'm not the only person who is a little sentimental about pigs

Well, I think my head is a little better...woke up with a mig this AM and I find that blogging helps me relax while the meds work. It gives me something to focus on by going back and fixing my spelling and syntax errors. So I hope you didn't mind my ramble this morning. And a Happy 4th too, just in case I don't get back before then :)

disappointed-

well, we decided that we are going to have to skip going to the Ohio Mini Convention next month. What's that, you ask? It's the 2nd largest annual rabbit show in the country, and this was going to be our first time going. Unfortunately, we don't have enough cash left in the show fund after last week's show to even pay the gas to get there and back. So, since we do have to be adults and make our mortgage payment AND do something for Dan's graduation we will be staying home. Lionhead and Silver Nationals are going to be there, but I will have to miss them again this year. Polish Nationals last week was OK, but the highest we placed was 5th and I'm pretty sure I can do better with my Silvers. Oh well, now I'll just save up so we can go to Ft Worth this fall to the ARBA Convention-that's the largest rabbit show, and kind of like Westminster is to dog people. Besides, I want to stop and visit with my buddy Don, and his sugar glider children and it's on the way to Ft Worth. Plus I've never been to Texas, and I suppose everybody should go to Texas at least once, if nothing else to see what Texans think is so great about it

oh by the way...our fifth place animal was in a class of almost 40, and we were showing against people from all over the country, and Canada. We had 7 rabbits and I think they all placed in the top 20, some in the top 10 so really that is a pretty good for a small rabbitry of only 24 Polish-woo-hoo!!!

Saturday

Well, wouldn't you know it...I complain about weekend migraines and they aren't bothering me as much this time. Of course there is the very real chance that I will get thru the weekend-all the visiting and traveling, etc and then totally crash on Monday. I'm sure most of you understand what I'm talking about. I'm not going to worry about it anyway, I'm just going to take a little something to try & head off the one I feel coming on and get thru the day. My parents won't be here until this evening, so I can probably take a little nap. I groomed a big dog this AM, just an all over kennel clip, for a special client...the guy who suggested I stop working for someone else & open my own shop several years ago. This was at 6 AM or so at a convenience store where I had stopped for something to drink on my commute to Lincoln. Bear in mind I was waking up with migraines, injecting imitrex and popping a Vicodin and then driving an hour to work, hoping that it would all kick in by the time I got there. No wonder his idea sounded so good! Anyway, the shop didn't last long cuz the migs never went away and just got worse, but I still had clients that I groomed for and they refer new ones to me now & then. Anyway, I woke up without a migraine this morning, "Anna" got her haircut, and I got a $14 tip so all is pretty good in my little world right now. I went and bought some fat pants...I'm not going to lose all this weight overnight, and I figured that I probably shouldn't go to Amanda's concert or Dan's graduation in sweatpants. So, I feel pretty good about having something to wear now. It's pretty sad that buying fat pants can make me feel good, but I'm pretty easy to please. Hubby brought home flowers for me last night, too..no special occasion, just because. So that may have something to do with my good mood too ;)

Anyhow, it's a beautiful sunny day, not hot or humid enough to trigger my migraines, so I will be out with the bunnies. There will be more on that too-we have had quite a few various critters over the years. Now we are concentrating on showing rabbits. We got some many, MANY years ago for the kids to show, then discovered that we enjoyed it more than they did. Now we are working on 3 breeds- Polish, Silver and Lionheads. You can see some of them here:

www.webspawner.com/users/glcritters

well, I have dog hair to clean up and rabbit pans to clean, so I guess I'd better close this for now.

~hugs~