stephanie is: 
waiting for news…
so the latest on my brother (
nonsanity) and his wife (cuddles_cat)… she is in labor and the doctor expects a baby before midnight. *does a good luck dance for them* it doesn’t seem like danny will be able to leave work early tonight/tomorrow, so we will just have to see when the best time for us to come visit is.
so i am less than pleased with the groomer this time (second time going to him) now that i;ve seen simba up close. he has been strutting around all pleased with himself and spent hours cuddling with me once he was sure i wasn’t putting him back in the evil car machine again. he always is very lovy after being groomed and he seems to grow balls when it comes to the dogs and lets them sniff and lick him when he’d normally run away if they so much as paused beside him. he had had a few mats on his belly and neck and i told the groomer it was fine to shave them as needed. i don’t get him groomed for appearance – i do it for his health and comfort. whether it is just a bath and brush out like today (when the shedding gets beyond the point where i have the tools to maintain his coat) or in the summer when he gets a lion’s cut to keep him cool and lower his heart rate (he has a heart murmur). when he was laying on my chest i felt scabbiness under his chin. (working with animals all day you learn to spot even the tiniest injuries even when you aren’t trying to find them. the other day i was running my hands over kaela the great dane and thought i found a scab, but my hand recoiled in horror when i learned it was a tick. ew! i sent her out with someone who knew how to remove them. end tangent.) i looked close and saw a small bald patch with several new scabs and blood in the fur around it. there was also a similar spot by his ear but not as bad – just pin prick blood spots in a bald patch. both places had had minor knots. i had brushed him the night before and it hadn’t been there (and he wouldn’t still have blood in his fur since he had a bath before being groomed). it really looks like the knots were brushed out so hard the hair was pulled out at the root. simba seems completely unfazed, but it disturbs me greatly to think of him even having a second of pain in a stressful situation like this. i will be asking my dog grooming friends at work for their opinions on if i should confront the groomer, talk to the him next time about it, or just try someone new. he must have rushed in the 5 minutes he had me wait when i arrived at the time he had given me and simba was still on the table. because he would have seen the blood while he was finishing up unless it happened moments before he was put back in his carrier and brought to me… *sigh*
edit…
so simba bear is still following me around all lovey-dovey. in better lighting i see that the cuts on his throat are in a vertical line as though he shaved out a mat and nicked him. that is easier for me to handle that thinking he ripped the hair out. and the patch of mats between his front legs (where the hair is curly and mats almost daily when he is in shedding mode) was shaved as i had originally asked for. still, i am not so sure i’d want him doing bear’s summer lion’s cut. hm.
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so i now know that girls are over needy and that guys only need a couple of hours a day with their love, and it is rude for me to imply that it should be otherwise. well i already knew i was needy and that i suck. i don’t know how to react when i am scolded. my sudden sullenness only makes things more tense.
i am trying to make a list of all my chores and housework and projects. both things that need to be done regularly and one time projects (like clearing out my closet of old clothes for charity or spackeling and painting any nicks in the walls). then i shall do time estimates for everything and enter them into a schedule so i have certain tasks assigned for certain days. it is going to take me a while to figure out the scheduling, but hopefully in a couple months i’ll have a system where i devote a couple hours of time when i get home to chores and everything gets done around the house and freelance-work-wise. it has just been so hard to find the energy and budget the time to clean the house and stuff now that i work full time.