Vegas Day 1

I tried blogging from my iPhone during the trip but the Typepad app gave me all sorts of problems…grrr!

We flew out on Monday afternoon. Just leaving the airport was an experience in itself with the group of people we were travelling with! Most of them wouldn’t have been able to find their way through security if D. & I had not been there. Sheesh, how do people like that make it in today’s world? Case in point, one of the women brought a water bottle filled half way with Tequila (for her nerves). Doesn’t everyone know that you cannot bring more than 3 oz. of liquid through security? Wonder how often the security people get to confiscate water bottles filled with Tequila from passengers?

During the flight we were watching the moving map on the TV screen. When we flew into New Mexico one of the women stated “We better hold our breath here, this is where all that pig flu came from”. Um, yeah, the Swine Flu started in Mexico, the COUNTRY. We are flying through New Mexico, the STATE. And, I don’t think it can permeate through an aircraft even if we were in Mexico, the COUNTRY! Hard to believe but this WAS the same woman that had the aforementioned Tequila filled water bottle!

When we landed I immediately got a voicemail from the people watching our dogs. They have 2 dogs themselves and their Jack Russell Terrier attacked our Cocker Spaniel (Montana). She had taken him to the vet and (at the time) they didn’t know if he was going to make it. He is doing good now, came home yesterday (Friday) after spending all week at the vet and having several surgeries. He has lots of stitches and drain tubes right now but he is eating and drinking so that is a good sign. There is some internal bleeding still that we need to watch but the vet thinks it will heal on its own. Here are a few pics of Montana from today (don’t look if you are squeamish).

I feel so bad for him, it breaks my heart to see him hurt. I can tell he is in a lot of pain because he doesn’t move unless we pick him up to take him outside. But once he is outside he wags his tail so my Montana boy is still in there under all the cuts and bruises!

We finally arrived at our hotel – Paris Las Vegas! What a beautiful hotel / casino!

The view from outside as we arrived

 

The inside of the casino, made to look like you are outside in Paris!

D & I checked into our room and immediately set out to check out the Strip.

That evening we saw Mystere – Cirque de Soleil at Treasure Island. The show was AMAZING! This is the second Cirque show I have seen and I am more impressed this time! It is amazing what they can do!

That ended our first day in Vegas, baby! The show was over at 11pm Vegas time which made it 2am our time so we were exhausted! After our 30 minute walk back up the strip to Paris we crashed for the night!

More coming…

Vegas, baby

Ok, I am blogging from the plane. I want to try to document this trip in detail. We are currently flying over Greenville, Mississippi at an altitude of 36003 feet. I am waiting eagerly for the damn flight attendant cause I want a Bloody Mary!

Vegas, baby

Ok, I am blogging from the plane. I want to try to document this trip in detail. We are currently flying over Greenville, Mississippi at an altitude of 36003 feet. I am waiting eagerly for the damn flight attendant cause I want a Bloody Mary!

Unsettled.

I am feeling "off" today. Can't really find the right word to explain it so "off" comes closest.

Every day I sit here at work for 8+ hours and think about all the creative things I want to do when I get home. I make notes of ideas and inspirations. I jot down quotes and lyrics that I want to incorporate in a scrapbook page. I browse the internet (quickly since I AM at work) looking for supplies.

And then I get home. And it all changes.

There is dinner to fix, laundry to fold, dishes to put away, homework to review. There are fights to break up and feelings to soothe. Then baths, stories, tuck-ins and snuggles.

By the time all of that is done, I am exhausted, both physically and mentally. And when I am mentally tired I cannot be creative.

It is really frustrating because the next day the same situation starts over and usually ends the same, me tired and no creativity.

I need to find a way to balance this so that I am able to get some creative time in, maybe not daily but a couple of times a week would be nice.

How do you balance everything? I would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, solutions!

Dog Whistle.

There is an app for that...dog whistler that is.
At the office today one of our co-workers had just downloaded the dog whistler app onto his iPhone. He asked me if it really worked (because I had it on mine for a while).
My response "yeah, it works I guess. The dogs didn't notice it but the hubster did".

So, silly prankster co-worker decided that he was going to mess with the hubster. He watched until he saw hubby come into my office. He and I were talking about work (yes, really) and co-worker played the dog whistle. The hubs stopped talking and kind of cocked his head to the side (much like a dog does when he hears a new noise) and said to me "Do you hear that?"
I can't hear the dog whistler unless it is at a really low frequency so I innocently said "No, honey, hear what?"
We started talking work stuff again. A few moments later, co-worker does it again. Once more the hubs stopped talking, cocked his head and sort of spun around looking for the noise. He turned to me and again said "Do you hear that?" You can imagine my response.
This went on a few more times and the hubs was getting really annoyed. I think he was getting a head ache as well! Each time the dog whistler sounded my hubby would immediately stop dead in his tracks and look around for what was making the sound.

It was HYSTERICAL! He looked so much like a dog would look in the same situation!

I love you babe, don't be mad at me for blogging this!

Snow White.

Sometimes I feel like Snow White in my house.

Not because I live with 4 little dwarfs named Grumpy though.

Remember in Snow White when she ran away and was in the forest and all of the animals gathered around her. And remember when she met the dwarfs and they adored her and wanted to be with her all the time.

Yeah, that's why I feel like Snow White, because when I am at home ALL living creatures in my home have to be right there next to me.

When I sit down on the couch to watch TV I have the dogs in my lap or the kids in my lap or sometimes both. When I am in the kitchen making dinner I have the dogs laying at my feet (ie., me tripping over the dogs at my feet) and the kids all in there wanting to help me cook. Hubby usually has to stop in for a kiss or two as well (something about barefoot and in the kitchen he says...). When I sit down at the computer I have a dog at my feet and a dog in my lap, a kid standing behind me and a few on my bed. When I fold laundry I have kids all around me as well but oddly enough, not helping fold the laundry!

It seems that the only place I don't have ALL living creatures following me is in the bathroom. Oh wait, strike that one cause the dogs love to follow me in there as well.