it's days like these that keep me on my winning streak

Okay, new update. Earl ate something and drank a little water today, so my mom is going to see how things go for the next couple days. I don't know exactly how I feel about this, but he's not my dog so it's not my decision. He looked pretty bad when I stopped by the house today. =/ But I have to believe my mom knows what's best for him. So I guess we'll see how things go...

SO. Onto better things. Butch Walker is going to be playing with Taylor Swift on the Grammy Awards tonight. This makes me pretty damn happy! Even if I have to sit through a lot of crap to see him. Maybe she'll be on towards the beginning? (yeah, I know. prob not since she's prob going to win Record of the Year)

I haven't gotten a chance to write much here on my vacation. The other day my mom wanted to run a couple errands. And then we were gone for FIVE hours. And then Earl got pancreatitis again, so I spent part of Thursday morning at the vet and I've been helping her watch him. But I'm finally coming home tomorrow because seimaisin and I are going to see the Graham Colton Band. And then it'll be back to the harsh reality of work starting on Sunday.

But first! janevok asked for some photos from around the cabin, so I put together a whole flickr set of photos of the lake, the cabin and my parents house. Some of the better ones are ( behind the cut )

YAY!! My brother is home! I missed that kid like whoa. And when we got back to my parents house, I let Earl outside while they grabbed the luggage out of the car and told him to look who we brought home. DJ called his name and Earl completely flipped his lid. His tail was wagging at about 1000 wags/minute. So adorable! =)

Boo. I have to get up in like five hours. I don't know why I haven't climbed into bed yet. Tomorrow is going to hurt!

Ow. I obviously slept weird last night and pinched something in my neck. Again. I can only turn my head to my shoulder, and even that hurts. Looking behind me is definitely out. No money for a massage this week though. Any volunteers to give me one? ;)

This week's theme over in the Seekrit Music community is "Music We Grew Up With." I downloaded a bunch of stuff I haven't listened to in years so I can post it. Stuff I only have on vinyl or maybe cassette. It's terrible that I can listen to it and still remember all the words. Also, looking at the list of stuff I'm going to post makes it apparent that there is something mentally wrong with me. Seriously, it's all over the place. You'll see when I start posting it later this week.

This weekend was pretty boring. I had to work at Hallmark all weekend. Boo. And I had to help my mom set up the new ornament display. Ugh. I finally grabbed the book from her and started doing it myself since I was tired of her bitching. It didn't help that I was crampy and tired and cranky. But it got done and actually looks kind of cute. I also had to check in all the new ornament stock and pull all the orders for customers. No one else at the store is organized enough to be able to do it. Including our manager. =/

Also, listen. If you want to stand there and open all of the sound cards, whatever. Have fun. But for God's sake, don't come up to the counter and open them directly in my face and go on and on about how great that song is. Yes, I've heard it before. Yes, I've seen the card before. Can you just shut it? Please?

Also also, I will never ever get the women who carry around those fucking suitcases and then have to lug them onto the counter and dig through them for 5 minutes and take all kinds of junk out just to find their credit card, all the while going on about how they hate that purse because it has too many pockets or they can't find anything or needs to be cleaned out. No one is forcing you to carry that thing around. Clean it out, decide what you really need and carry a smaller purse. Really, it's possible. Sometimes I even go out with only what's in my pockets.

Also also also? Our store is next to a Curves. Can I please put out a plea to the Curves women? If you want to shop at our store after your workout, that's fine. But for the love of God, go out to your car first and put your workout stuff in there before coming into the store. Because carrying your smelly shoes around our store? Kind of disgusting. Putting your smelly shoes on our counter when you're checking out? Really disgusting. Setting your DIRTY SOCKS on the counter? Completely unacceptable. And this has happened more than once.

So, other than getting Hallmark rage, I also hung out with my family this weekend. I stopped by on Friday to see how Earl was doing and he was still kind of bad. He was shaking and didn't want to be touched. But he was better on Saturday and let me scratch him under the chin for a little while. He even came out from under the bed to see me. Riley is also doing much better. He's back to ignoring me at will. Stubborn dog.

I spent an infuriating amount of time trying to get my parent's cable modem to work with a wireless router. Comcast gave them some new modem and it works like shit. I never did get it to work with the router. But I did finally get the modem to recognize my mom's laptop when we had it connected by wire, so we called DJ. It was 10:30am there and he was just getting up. Unfortunately, his webcam was broken so I didn't get to see him, but I did talk to him for a while. It's some sort of Thanksgiving-type holiday in Korea this week, so he was taking a vacation to some tropical island with some of the other teachers at his school. He's going to learn how to surf! Sounds like he's having a great time. He's definitely not home sick.

Other than that, I watched a lot of TV and futzed around on the computer. Kind of a typical weekend.

I just wanted to stop in and thank everyone who has sent me a holiday card. Or will be sending me one. Or thought about it but decided it wasn't worth the effort. =) I don't really have the time to thank everyone individually, but I do certainly appreciate all of them. And all of you.

I think I forgot to mention it, but I'm here with the dogs for a few days so my time online will be fairly nil. They hate it when I'm on the 'puter and my parents computer sucks ass anyways. But I'll try my best.

( I'll leave you with photos of Earl enjoying his new outfit )