Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Shasta's bad week

So Miss Shasta had a rough week last week. It started out fantastic for her-she got to sleep in a hotel room with a bed all to herself. Seriously, very little makes her more happy and excited. It started on the road to Iowa we think...

Here's a picture of her in seventh heaven.

Alas, thing went downhill from there. On Thursday she was minding her own business outside and got attacked by another dog! Luckily, the other dog just seemed interested in her hindquarters, so she didn't get any life-threatening injuries, but she did end up with 25 staples in various cuts.

Here she is after we got her home that day (the tears are mostly from the aftereffects of the anesthesia, but they're still heartbreaking!).


Since then, she's been on antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, but that means she gets cheese everyday, which is good from her perspective, and all of her cuts seem to be healing fine, which is good from our perspective. Unfortunately, not all of her cuts are completely healed yet, so she's gotta have the staples in for the deepest for another two weeks (we got them all out, but that wound re-opened, so they had to put new ones in). We say "unfortunately" too because this means she's gotta be "quiet" (vet's word) for that time. Heh...if you've ever met Shasta, quiet is not in her repertoire really, so we're in for an interesting couple of weeks. But at least she's back to her normal chipper self!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Happy birthday Guinness!

Our little gray bunny (ha. Giant Gray Bunny) is 8 years old today. Geriatric bunnies rock.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Post-interview joy

I keep saying that I can't wait till I have a full-time job so I can stop working so much. Spending inordinate amounts of time working on job applications and maintaining three totally different projects takes a lot of time that's unfortunately not relegated to normal working hours...

I had my interview for a position I really want this week. It seemed to go pretty well. I hope it did. But being done with the interview means that I didn't have to work on job talks or applications... and I took a break from catch-up for everything else.

Instead we:

Made molasses-oat bread
Made blueberry jam
Planted all the daffodil and tulip bulbs we bought after we moved into this house
Went thrift-store hopping to look for furniture and scored a great coffee table
Went to Shasta's favorite place (twice) (the dog park - i.e. the Happiest Place on Earth)
Explored the international food store (again)
Found (and purchased) an awesome arm chair and ottoman
Redecorated the living room (now it looks like it belongs to people who aren't college students! and displaced Shasta's (formerly my) chair to the bedroom, where no one can see it except us)
Made pea soup (this took forever)
Made muffins (twice) (date-lemon-walnut and raisin-lemon-walnut)
Raked the yard
Moved the shed
Went to the farmer's market and got caught up on the pluses and minuses of growing different types of greens (you can get 5+ harvests off of Toy and a different kind of bok choy)
Fixed our plumbing woes (OK, Jim did that all on his own)
Read two novels (Steph) and most of one (Jim)

And even slept in.

Before (the blue is, obviously, painters tape. The splotchiness on the walls was the previous owners' deliberate choice):

This is a terrible picture of Jim. Never mind that, and just admire the grossness of the walls.


After:

Better!