Today's theme of the day appears to be things that are Early. For instance, Billy woke up way too early this morning. It took a while to get him back to sleep, but thankfully he's snoozing back in his bed, snuggled under his new Thomas fleece blanket.

Another example. Today, we'll hopefully be doing early voting. Sweet. With Bill headed out of town next week during the election, we'll get it taken care of and I won't have to attempt to take the little one to the polls by myself. Not that I couldn't do it. It's a matter of want, really.

So far, that's all the "early" I've got. We'll see what the rest of the day brings.

Thank goodness it's almost the weekend. Except that means I have 2.5 days left to convince Billy that the dinosaur costume he wanted is not scary at all and that it's FUN to wear. Ordered online, you know. Cute kid wearing the costume on the website. The little one said he wanted it. He wanted to RRRRRROOOOOARRRRR. The costume arrives, and the little one wants NOTHING to do with it. Hmm. Fabulous.

Oh well. Happy Wednesday.

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Happy Birthday to Clarkie, he's FOUR today!!

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My dog Sumi had a tumor taken out in February. I noticed when we picked her up in NY this summer after our Hawaii trip that she had a new one, in the same spot, and it was rather large. I admit I have been a little lazy about taking her to the vet to get the new one checked out, because, let's face it, dogs get tumors all the time. At least, all the female dogs I have known long-term get tumors. Anyway, the past few days she has had, let's say "loose stools". I figure it's something she ingested while outside. But, it's been a few days, and she was fed nothing on the first day, and very little on the second day (much to her dismay). She then was either empty or constipated on the third day while back on regular diet, and now the fourth day she's back to loose stools.

Tonight, she vomited her dinner up.

I'm done being lazy. I'll call the vet tomorrow to see if they're open. Barring emergencies this weekend, she'll definitely be going in to the vet early next week.

Poor girl. She really is the sweetest dog I have had. She annoys me much of the time with her constant running off to see the neighbors and chasing things, with her intense fear of thunder, fireworks, and sometimes rain, and with her constant stinky ear infection, not to mention the mauling of my son. Ok, she didn't MAUL him, but she did nip him twice when he was just learning to explore. But anyway, she is very loving and well behaved otherwise.

So, we'll see what the vet says.

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I just saw on my handy gas price widget that gas is $2.94/gal! That's down almost a dollar since this summer. Fabulous!

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I guess it's been a few days since my last post? Not much going on although I seem to manage to keep busy.

I enjoyed my birthday a few days ago. It seemed to be an odd day. I am pretty pretty sure I wasn't down about turning 35, I mean, I don't feel any older than I did a week ago. But, I did have a slight case of the blahs on Tuesday. Could be attributed to the gloomy, monsoon-ish weather we have been having.

Billy has been all about the "No!" the past week. It's really tiring. He's stopped with the "I love you", now it's "too". He's surprising us each day with the types of sentences he puts together. My little boy is growing so fast.

I'm really sick of the politics, bailout, and crappy economy. I plan on holding on to my investments, and hope they climb their way back up out of the doldrums. Holy crap. We'll see what happens after the election is over.

I have a lot of things on my want-to-do list. Nothing is getting done.

On that note, good night!

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