I look at the grandkids and wonder what their lives will be in 20 years and wonder if we’ll still be around to see. Of course no one knows their fate and all we can do is enjoy one day at a time, but I still want to watch them grow up and see what they do with the life they’ve been given. Of course we want better for our grandchildren and hope they don’t make the mistakes we did or their parents.

When you’re young your so full of anticipation and anxious to be grown at least I know I couldn’t wait to get older, but now that I’m older the years can stop passing me by so quickly. It seemed like forever before I reached the age of 16 and could get my license and I would be well on my way to being an adult. Of course I pushed it and became an adult with a baby at 16 and had to learn new responsibilities, I was so impatient to be a grownup.

I recently got a pimple and it made me feel like a teenager again. I always thought when you got older your glands became different and you were done with all of that, but I guess stress and other factors still play a role. At least I don’t have to worry about getting acne treatment like my sister did so many years ago. You would think getting age spots and wrinkles would be enough to worry about now without adding a pimple to compound it.

I actually would not want to be young again I’m grateful for all the years I’ve been given to experience so many different things and feelings and I’ve actually been very lucky in my life. I always felt like someone was watching out for me. When I look around I can see 10 other people that have had a rougher life than myself so it makes me grateful for everything I have and time can slow down again now that I’m older so I can enjoy it..

My dog is an American Eskimo and of course they have an undercoat and a longer coat and if you don’t groom them often they can get matted up pretty quick, they also shed like crazy. You should never have them clipped because they don’t grow back right. I knew this from reading the book I bought when I got him, but decided to have him clipped anyhow a few years back because it was so hot.

He loved it and pranced around like a little puppy, but like the book said his fur has never been the same since. It looks like corn rows all down his back and it doesn’t matter how often I brush him it still separates. I’ve mentioned my dogs several times in other posts and I always use a small bitmap image of Shadow as my icon in the address bar encase you ever wondered what that was. I actually use the same image on all of my blogs.

My Shadow recently had an ear infection and the vet gave me a cleaning solution and an antibiotic which cost 33 dollars and recently I was checking to see if there are any home remedy solutions and found that you can use vinegar to clean the ears, but make sure you thoroughly dry them afterwards. If there is an infection marigold or a small amount of tea tree oil can effectively kill the bacteria, rosemary extracts will also help build up immunity of the ear.

I always have a problem with his nails so I bought one of those pedi paws which I like, but if you still clip them and happen to cut it and make it bleed be sure to put some baby powder on it to help stop the bleeding and help prevent infection from entering the nail. I actually tried having him clipped at the vets and there were several people trying to hold him and even they couldn’t trim them. I still have a problem holding him when I try using the pedi paw, but I’m hoping it will get easier with each use.

Some dogs simply have a weird odor when they’ve been outside and come back in. I know that always happens with Sadie and it’s horrible. I bought some dog perfume oil at the pet store and if you put a drop at the base of their neck between the shoulder blades it’s suppose to penetrate the body and help mask those odors, but yuck it’s so strong and if you have asthma it can trigger an attack so I’ve found that if I take a used fabric softener sheet and run that over her it works just as well.

If you have home remedies that you use for your pets I’d love to hear about them.

I’ve been looking for information from other bloggers about beds and usually the searches bring back everything except what I want. Finally I found a blogger that sounds just like me that wanted a new bed the blogger at  Wine On The Keyboard actually got the type of bed I want and she has pictures of her husband putting it together in another post which didn’t look that difficult. I enjoyed reading her other posts also because she has a sense of humor.

I’ve been dying for a sleep number bed ever since I saw it advertised on television, but I don’t know anyone that has one. I’m a terrible sleeper, I toss and turn all night when I do finally lay down and I hate my bed it’s one of those really high ones, but at least it keeps Sadie off and if it was low she would no doubt be on it all the time because she loves her comfort and so do I, but I simply don’t have it right now. Sadie has taken over the small sofa in my office.

Bill of course loves this bed, we bought the set about 5 years ago, but I didn’t know how to pick a bed and I felt weird laying on it before buying it so I was on and off so quick I really didn’t get the feel. I should have told Bill to come back after an hours nap and I’d let him know how it slept, but of course I couldn’t do that. Then I started seeing those ads and I’ve wanted one ever since, but I also want to try one of those magnetic pads. I need a comfortable bed.

I also have a hard time sleeping with anyone so I have to have one of those body pillows in the middle so I can throw my leg over it instead of a person. Bill calls it my man pillow, but I can’t sleep without it which reminds me I need a new one. I’m not a good spooner because I get very uncomfortable if someone has their arm around me I feel very confined and restricted, yeah I know I’m weird. The older I get the worse my sleeping patterns become.

How do people deal with ex partners and events that happen in their life? Do you remain friends and share special events and attend marriages and funerals. Do you keep in touch with their children and remain a part of something even though it’s over? I guess some people do just that, I know when Bill’s ex (not wife) had the tragic accident that took her grandsons life Bill went to the funeral, I chose not to.

My personal opinion is that when a relationship is over it’s time to put it behind you and move on except when you have biological children involved then you need to be civil. I don’t think I would ever go to an ex’s funeral or any of their family, I might send a condolence card and flowers for the family. I don’t know what the etiquette is for those situations or if there is any. People pretty much do whatever they feel like doing now a days.

I told you about Bill’s ex friend and her son that had an accident a month or so ago, he was the Father of the baby that died. Well, he died last night he was 31 and I feel so bad for that family and their heartache so of course this will probably be another funeral Bill will attend. When I split with my ex I severed all ties with his family and I do not keep in touch with anyone even though they were apart of my life for almost 10 years.

Heart Wrenching

It seems like the whole time Bill and I have been together some event or tragedy has kept that family very much in my life. I don’t want to know the woman or her family even if I feel sorry for all the tragedy. Maybe I’m selfish and jealous or maybe I’m just tired of getting the low down about his ex and all the events that happen monthly from her brother-in-law that works with Bill.

Believe me it’s always something, it makes me think a small part is still interested. I don’t think I’m a horrible person I even talk to Bill’s ex wife of 25 years at their grandson’s birthday party every year and when I see her at the store. I even gave her my stray cats food when he ran away, but that’s different she was at least his wife not an ex girlfriend. I hope you didn’t read all of this I just felt like getting it off my chest.

What exactly does hardcore mean? If you do a search on the web you’ll find this:  Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity; diehard; Resistant to change; Obscene or explicit. Of course I know about the obscene and explicit doesn’t everyone? And I know about the diehards = stubbornly resisting change or clinging to a seemingly hopeless or outdated cause, but never really understood using hardcore attached to product names.

Everyone is weight conscious and most of the blogs I visit have at least a few diet tricks even if they aren’t devoted to food or diet or health. I guess depending on your metabolism something might work for you and not someone else. Everyone wants to lose weight, but no one wants to diet or exercise. We always look for an easy way or at least I do, but my metabolism is so low that I just look at food and I’m heavier.

Ephedrasil hardcore, what the heck is that? I thought it was something pornographic until I did a search and found out it was a diet pill that’s suppose to give you energy and make you feel good. At my age I need all the energy I can get and I certainly want to feel good, but I don’t know, can a diet pill do all of that? I looked it up and found this supplemental chart, but I’m not sure what all that stuff is except the b12 and caffeine.

I guess in this instance it means for those that are really serious about losing weight, but I could be wrong. I read mixed reviews, but I don’t know any of those people so how in the world would I know unless I know someone that has actually tried something. We mostly depend on word of mouth and we really take it serious when we actually see something work for someone. Has anyone used this?

Having pets is sometimes worse than having children and taking care of them is a big responsibility. Most of us consider them as our children and worry just as much about them. When I was young I simply thought of dogs as dogs of course, but when I got older and I no longer had a child to mother I started feeling different. This last one somehow became my baby and filled a void, he’s going on 11, well 77 human years, sorry I had dog years there.

When we go away I have to make sure someone stays at the house with him instead of putting him in a kennel because I want him to be in his familiar surroundings. I leave a list of his likes and dislikes and numbers where I can be reached. I never worry of course when I go away by myself because I know Bill’s there and my dog loves him more than me even though I had him almost 5 years before I met Bill.

For some reason my dogs have started eating dirt or at least that’s what I think it is. I know the squirrels and rabbits play in our yard all the time and bury stuff and I have no clue what else they may be doing that my dogs are always sniffing and picking and digging and eating. I know that dogs love to eat cat turds because I read somewhere they consider them treats, but yuck, poop is poop.

I’ve given them pet supplements in the past, but it looks like they may be missing something in their system now so I guess it’s time to restart them. I seldom have any health related problems with them except my old guy recently had an ear infection and his medicine cost 33 dollars. I started to get pet insurance when I first got him, but it didn’t fit in my budget then, but I’m thinking now that he’s older I might need it.

Just like older people they start having more aches and pains also. He doesn’t get around like he use to and I hate to think he’s in pain. I know he has a fatty tumor, but at his age I don’t want him put under and have it removed. The Vet said if it grows it goes, but it’s stayed the same for the past few years, he’s slower getting up and down the steps though. He’s even started to snore, but that might have been from the infection.

He has slowed down a lot unless you drop something on the floor then he’s there like lightening. Both dogs are fixed, but it doesn’t stop him from getting amorous thoughts even at 77 he still tries to get frisky. Of course she’s younger and simply flips him around and shows him who’s boss, but it doesn’t stop him from trying and it’s very embarrassing when we’re outside and kids are playing in the next yard and my female dog is acting like the male.