Ever-Changing Reflection

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wonderful Wednesday

I have to say this Wednesday has been nothing short of wonderful. I woke up this morning in a gray-sky morning (kudos if you know that song) with rain pattering outside. I struggled to my computer in a pink cloud of a bathrobe and began working. Shortly thereafter, the blackened sky cracked open and the most magnificent ray of bright sunshine illuminated the street outside my window, in the midst of pouring rain! I love weather days like this.

To make the day even more wonderful, Lilian at Lateral Window bestowed an award on me!
The Best Blog Award rules are:

1) To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.

2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Part one... check!

Part two... lemme go look at the old blog roll to see who my newly discovered bloggy friends are!

1. Lyndsy @ Yellow Brick Blog
3. Mrs. EyeCanSee @ The Juice is Worth the Squeeze
4. & 5. The two ladies @ Sweet Nothings (since there's 2, they count for 2!)
6. Collins @ Simply Collins
7. & 8. Whitney & Carrie @ Page Turners Book Club (again, 2 for 2)
10. LiLu @ Live It, Love It
11. Bridgette @ Life's a Beach
12. Lacey @ Lacey in Love
14. & 15. Megan & Kristin @ BonBon Rose (BonBon Rose Girls count for my last 2!)

Whew! That was a lot of work! Congrats to all of the nominees!


I'm going to close this post with a story that I find amusing (in no way is it meant to be cruel). Our adorable Lhasa Apso Morris (he has his own label if you want to see pictures) has been gnawing on his little paws the past couple weeks like it's going out of style. So, I took him to the vet today -- a new vet at that! He was a very good boy, and the vet and all the nurses loved him because he was super laid back and a flirt wagging his tail for everyone.

Turns out, as we thought, our little furry man has allergies! We thought it was something we were feeding him, but no. Vet says Morris has seasonal allergies. I didn't even know dogs could have seasonal allergies! Like his momma (me), Morris seems to sneeze at pollen, dust and mold! LOL... Sorry Morris, but I think that is pretty darn funny.

No worries, my animal-loving friends; he is being treated... with antihistamines! Doggy Benadryl! LMAO! And we have to bath his feet once a week in medicated shampoo to hopefully kill the fungal infection that's developed in his paws from all of the licking.

Ah, the joys and surprises of parenthood.

17 comments:

rachaelgking said...

Awww, thank you so much, love! And congrats! :-)

I think Axe Murderer might have allergies... she wheezes something fierce in her sleep. Who knew!

BonBon Rose Girls Kristin said...

Thank you for the award! You're too sweet. My cat has allergies too. She sneezes which wigged met out at first, but lo and behold, the vet says she has allergies. ah ha

Unknown said...

Poor thing! He's so damn cute though!

Congrats on the award!!

Elizabeth Marie said...

Awwwww so cute!!! Poor thing!

Congrats on the award yay!

Mrs EyeCanSee said...

Thanks for the award! We had a Lhasa growing up and my parents just got a second one a few years ago. Hope your pup is feeling better soon!!

Classic Passion said...

I just received an award to and wanted to pass to you as a small way of saying thank you

KatBouska said...

Awww poor baby! He sure is adorable!!

And thank you for the award! So nice of you to think of me and you know you totally deserved one too! Because you're cool like that. ;)

Collins @ Life. Mostly Sweet. said...

thank you thank you thank you! i really had such a bad day at work and this certainly cheered me up! i will make sure to return the favor tomorrow. :)

Michelle Schraudner said...

He's such a cutie! Lhasas are totally my favorite breed of dog. That's what I used to have!

Summer said...

Your doggie is sooooo cute. And I don't even much care for dogs! So, that's saying a lot. =)

Collins @ Life. Mostly Sweet. said...

By the way - I know someone who has a golden retriever that is allergic to grass. GRASS. Not much you can do about that. The poor dog has boots that he is supposed to wear when he goes outside. Can you imagine??

Jen said...

Aw, thanks for all the compliments/well wishes on my pup... he's all right, we'll keep him around! Haha, we love him to pieces. He's doing ok on his meds, and he's such a good boy about taking them!

lesley said...

thank you so much for choosing falafel for the soul for a blog award! you rock :)

xoxo,
lesley

A "cheery" disposition said...

O, thank you. Sorry... I have been out of town and just noticed our book club got an award. Glad you got your book and your joining us.

Lyndsy said...

Thank you for the award! So sweet of you!

Micaela said...

yes, the joys of parenthood!

aw, i wish my little bichon and your cutie could have playdates!!!

weather days like that are truly the best.

Clothes Hound said...

Thanks for the Award!!!! You're too sweet!