Skipping rocks on a pond

The weather is rainy today and then sunny later in the day. Kind of fitting.

Yesterday was a bit rough. Everyone was sad over Mylee's death. I had to do the unpleasant business of calling the vet and talking with them about what to do with Mylee. They are going to cremate her and put her ashes in a little urn that we will get.

I had to talk to the people we bought Mylee from. They are working with the breeder to see if we can get another puppy. He said the breeder's vet will call my vet to make certain of the cause of death.

It is hard to deal with the "business" end of an emotional loss. Anyway, it is all addressed and we will see what happens. Our vet says there is a 6 week incubation period for that parasite to infest a dog's digestive system. We only had her for 2 1/2 weeks so it had to have happened at the breeder.

Drew has a football game at Ballard(Huxley) tonight. Tomorrow we have to go to a wedding for Dawn's cousin.

I am glad it is Friday.

Off to start.

TRAGEDY!

Yesterday morning Mylee was under the weather. She wouldn't eat and just seem a bit lethargic. I took her into work with me and about 9:00 she just wasn't right so I called the vet and they set an appointment at 1:30.

Around 12 she really started getting out of it. Her eyes wouldn't focus and she started to get limp when the small seizures started. Nancy and I rushed to the vet, she had a big seizure in the car and went unconscious. By the time the vet arrived to look at her she was in bad shape.

He worked on her and found out she had a stomach parasite and that was everywhere in her stool so it was really bad. He treated her and told me he would call and let me know.

Last night at 8:05, I got the call. She had died. She was 13 weeks old.

I was in the middle of teaching class and that was pretty rough but I made it through. It is a very sad time and even though she was only with us for a few weeks she was very dear to all of us.

Molly kept looking for her last night. She kept walking around the house smelling and kept looking in her pen. She laid and slept outside her pen.

I am at a bit of a loss. Shelby was very hard and Mylee brings back many of the feelings of that day. The kids are very sad but will be fine. Time tends to heal.

I am not sure what I want to do. Part of me just doesn't want another dog. I just can't go through this loss again. It is too hard. The other part of me knows how much joy a dog brings to everyone in the house and maybe it would be good to just get another one and get that joy back.

Right now I am just sad.

Blah

Weather is going to be wet and cool. Not too bad though.

Last night the girls won in three games. It was a very easy win and Jess broke her own school record for kills in a game. I think her old record was 8 and she had 9 in the second game last night.

I am not sure how many kills she had total on the night. I know she was perfect serving again and she served a bunch. I think on the season she is 120/121. She has only missed one serve all year.

I teach tonight and have tomorrow night free....woo-hoo.

Today is going to be kind of icky. I have to move a bunch of computers to our alternative school and do some work in that building. Not too terrible hard but probably a bit dirty. I will have to dress accordingly. The problem is I can't dress too shabby because I have to go to Des Moines and teach. I can't look like a mess when I do that.

Not much else so.....off to start.

For christ sake, snap out of it already!

The weather is rainy but the temps are still good. I guess the dry wonderful weather we have had for the last few weeks has run its course. Hey, I'm not complaining. It was a great run of wonderful weather and if it was like this all the time, people would be flocking to Iowa instead of California. (Well, we don't have a beach but went don't have as many nuts either)

Class went well last night. This class is a good group and we really fly through the material. It is kind of like teaching an honors class. I really should rethink the material and make sure I have enough content.

Tonight Jess has a volleyball match in Saydel. We should win pretty easily but you never know.

Thursday is an open night. No activities. It will be a chance for me to watch tv for a change.

The huskers really ticked me off this weekend. Losing to Virginia Tech is one thing but losing in the manner in which we lost it like pulling my heart of my chest and throwing it on the floor.

Friday Drew has a game at Ballard (Huxley). It may be another rough night but we only have two away games left and this is one of them.

I have to go to a wedding this weekend. It is in Indianola, which is about an hour away. It should be ok, but I am not big on such things. I am not sure why I don't like stuff like that but it just isn't my cup of tea. To be honest, I would rather sit on the couch and watch tv.

Work is the same.

I was listening to the radio yesterday and ran across a guy who talked about life. It was funny but true. In a nutshell he said,"Life sucks and the sooner you come to the realization that Life sucks, it becomes easier to deal with." He also talked about how the media and press makes it seem like everyone in the world is happy and having a ball but you. When really, like sucks for most people. Get over it and move on.

It was funny but it really rings true.

Ok, off to start.