Mar 09, 2009 08:22
My life is crazy. What's new?
Today I'm home with a sick kid. Yesterday all he did was sit on the couch. He had some diarrhea and projectile vomiting (sorry TMI). This morning I was praying he would miraculously feel better, and he seemed a lot better until I went to pick him up from his high chair after eating and he had a diaper full. So I called the daycare, called off work, and made a doctor's appointment for him to make sure he doesn't have an ear infection. Since he weaned, he's been getting ear infections every couple months. He NEVER had one when he was nursing. His dad had them really bad, though.
A week ago, we bought a basset hound puppy. I didn't really want a puppy right now, but Joe really really wanted one and he talked me into it. What a mistake. He is such a pain in the ass. He will not pee on his puppy pads in the house, so we have to take him outside constantly. He pees and poops fine outside for Joe, but he won't go for me. Then as soon as we get inside the little shit pees on the floor. It makes me livid. Leo and Joe both love him, so I'm really trying to not go crazy to get through this puppy stage. He is like having a newborn that can move. He is clingy and he won't sleep by himself. He stinks and hates being in his pen or crate. Never again will I get a puppy. I wanted a dog, but Joe said we just haaaaadddd to get a puppy. Maybe I'm just a cat person. This is my first dog. I've only had fish and a cat.
Late last month, my uncle died. He fought cancer for two years, and it finally beat him. He was really bad in the last six months or so. He was probably 90lbs and in the very end he could barely talk because the cancer was eating his jaw. It made me so sad to visit him, so I didn't as much as I should of, which I feel guilty for. He was my next closest family member other than my parents. When he was a bachelor, he spent the weekend as our house and even went on vacation with us. He was like a second father.
These deaths have left an open wound in the pit of my stomach. Mentally I'm not doing too well. I feel like my body is shutting down. I have no motivation and my house is more of a mess than usual. It feels like there is so much weight on my shoulders that I struggle to take one more step forward.
In positive news, we are trying to spruce up the kitchen. There is a strip of wallpaper above the cabinets that has been a nightmare. There are several layers of old wallpaper. One of the lower ones is orange and brown candy striped, it is horribly hideous. It has cardboard backing and it is impossible to separate it from the drywall underneath. I really don't know what we are going to do with it. We have given up for the time being and painted the rest of the wall. The cabinets are plywood with this dark brown plastic fake wood glued to the outside. We have decided they would look worse painted, so I'm trying to work around it. I'm painting the walls yellow to brighten up the cabinets. I also have to work with this green tile above the counters because it would be a pain to replace by ourselves. The flooring is this ugly yellow linoleum, so we are replacing that with some nicer tile linoleum or maybe laminate flooring. The thing with the laminate flooring is we have beautiful oak wood floors through the rest of the house, and I think it will just look bad next to the real wood.
I think I will take a nap with Leo before it's time to go to the doctor. The poor guy is just sitting on the couch :(
dog,
cancer,
sick