Hi folks! It's just little 'ol me here. It has been interesting at work lately. Someone finally listened to us about the space problem. They were in measuring the office the other day so I guess they are trying to find us a better floor plan with more room. One of the girls is heading off to Hawaii next week. Of course, we are jealous of her and begged her to put all of us in her suitcase but...alas...not possible. We decided that we are all going to use self tanner before she comes back and then we won't feel so slighted! Sometimes the job can be very rewarding even if it is just a small thing. I have a fella who keeps having seizures in his apartment which causes him to fall and hurt himself a lot. I was finally able to convince him that he needed to go to an adult foster care home for safety. I was able to locate one that not only allowed him to have his birds but let him keep his 50 gallon fish tank! Not only that, I was able to get him a spot in the only foster care home in the state that allows residents to smoke inside when the weather is bad. Every question he had about the place had a solution. When I took him over to see the place, he fell in love with it. He had been asking for a dog for a long time. The foster care home has three dogs. When he was visiting the home, he was very unsteady on his feet and almost fell over several times. The big dog ran over to him and wedged her back and side into his legs and prevented him from falling down! She just started following him all over and licking his hand. When we sat in the living room and started to talk about the paperwork, the other two smaller dogs came over and the smallest dog jumped onto his lap and started licking him and cuddling him. We were all fascinated by it. He will be moving on the 1st of March. There was even a current resident there that he knew and was friends with. I told my boss that sometimes, as stressful and thankless this job is, there are times when God really shows you that you are absolutely in the right profession. I truly praise Him for that.
In an earlier post I spoke about losing my Cockatiel of 9 years. I was asking for a cat but my sweetie stated that there would be no cat's in the house. After pouting about that for a while and coming to the conclusion that it was a dead issue, I started thinking about another dog. My little dog is on a wing and a prayer right now and the vet is surprised that he is still hanging on. Well, my sweetie and I were talking about another dog last night and what we would want if we actually got one. Both of us said that we would like to get a Blood Hound. It's actually quite funny as we had a really interesting experience with hounds when we were lost in Wisconsin on one of our Geocaching trips. We ran across this little house out in the woods with several hounds all chained up in these big barrel dog houses. They were barking and some of them were trying to get off the chains (probably smelling lunch) to get at us. That took some breather time to shake off. We started talking a little more last night about Geocaching and I said that if we got a Blood Hound, we could teach it to sniff out the caches! My sweetie got quite a kick out of this and we started talking about names and came up with "Geo pup" and "Geo pal". Well, we both seemed to take immediate ownership of the idea so I think we may look around a little. It was a very fun exchange of ideas.
The wedding is falling into place. We solved the dress material crisis and all it took was a color change. We are now going with red for the brides maids. There was plenty of material and it is a kind that they are always going to have in stock so we lucked out. The kids picked out the church and I am pleased to say that it is the church where my husband and I got married! They have the hall paid for and the father and step mother are paying for the food. All that's left is to buy the Mother of the Bride Dress. AAAAKKKKK! I ain't buyin it until right before the weddin so as to no be too fat for it. Anyhoo, all is going well. How does everyone like the talk about taxing everyone for how many miles we drive? We are not too keen on the idea. I mean, we pay a huge gas tax as it is. Well, all I can say is you who voted for Obama, got what you PAID for! Now you all are going to have to PAY for his ideas. Well, not much more to talk about today. Hopefully, the Spring weather will soon arrive and I will be off with my Trusted Steed to Geocache my life away! Cheers all! Freedancer
