Found a good place for Jeff's clam strip cravings last night, Hagen's Fish Market Really good and really cheap fish sandwiches too.

Today Jesus found something new he loves, well at least a new spot. He now like to sit in the window behind me on the sofa. Been there all morning. I brought him his blankie.

Got to see Jonneal for a bit before going to rollerderby last night. Brent and I met up with Jeff, Tiffany, Mel and Ben. Great game, close the whole time. First good challenging team...and sad to say we lost 68 to 71. First loss. So close, all in the last 30 seconds. Chicago Outfit is a really great team.

Was super awesome seeing Tequila Mockingbird last night. Its been a year since her accident. She is starting to walk again!!

Thinking about going to Liars Club tonight.





I bought Jesus a couple new dog toys, and I'm thrilled..yes thrilled at how much he seems to love them. He is such a pain in the ass, and stinky, but then I get so happy when he is happy and playing.

Watched Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. Yesterday watched Black Book and Offside. Good movie weekend.

Had a professional fitting for a super nice corset today at Skyscaper Heels.
I love it so much I wore it home, didnt want to take it off.
(Even though I look weird in sweats and a corset) :P

Super snug, super sturdy. I have to take smaller breaths in it. Yes, you can pass out from wearing it she told me. So no going out and dancing in it HAHA! She suggests I wear it on and off for awhile to get used to it, moving, sitting, breathing. It does take some adjusting while wearing it.

But I really love it, nice treat for myself

We went to Six Flags in Gurnee yesterday.
GREAT FUN!!
Jeff was a good sport and rode most of the rides with me, he did all the rollercoasters!
We liked Batman and Raging Bull the best. We rode Superman first, it was super freaky hanging like that. We were screaming and laughing. But we hate the Iron Wolf, the way the things are next to your head gives you cauliflower ear!!

We had a really good time.

JOY!!!

Pulled pork day at Logan Square Farmers Market!!!

Jesus and I went to Montrose Beach for Brent's Cream Team volleyball playoffs.
Then to the dog beach right north of it and watched some really cool planes from the Air and Water Show.

I bought a kids raft for Jesus so he could still get wet but not have to swim when he gets tired. He dug for the first time today!!! Dug and dug and dug!!

Jesus Update:

He has a kidney infection, showed up in the x-ray, so taking meds for that and to tighten up his pee pee so he doesnt leak
Seems to be helping

Also reason he was drinking so much water
which is now helping his puking
He threw up 4 times today, but its way better then 10, and its mostly water, and not as much volume.

Now I control his water intake, slow him down a little, give him little bits at a time, seems to help.

He played with Bishu, Jeff and Tiffanys dog last weekend. First dog he has played with. They chased each other and played.

We put his bed on the bench by the window, he seems to like that and if he gets up at night I can hear him jump off the bench and go let him out. He doesnt get me up every night and if he does its once and not twice.

So its better

Gets another vitamin B shot on this week, and I'll ask about next round of blood work.

Im not as frustrated....at the moment
Now its work that is wearing me down

Been super busy with work since Thursday. Non-stop calls all weekend. To the point Im all confused today, just in a cloud, but still working

I did get a brief moment to step out Sunday to Market Days. Just long enough to get pictures, get a gay.com temp tattoo on back (its still there) and watch buff guys in Speedos play Twister. Jeff got the car for me while I sat int he car and worked and he went and got me a funnel cake that somehow managed to explode all over my car. (Which I cleaned today because when I feel like I dont have control of things, I get control back by keeping everything in order in my car and condo. I did laundry (included the bed), washed floors, rugs and the bathmat today as well as a funnel cake explosion)

Steambath guys playing twister


Bucket of cheese fries


Cutest ass!


Owner of the cutest ass, and the guys that tattoo'd me




Brent throwing at the dunk tank (got it on his 3rd try!)






Brent and I did this together while Jeff was getting the car for me. You get blindfolded and shove everything you can down your partners shirt. You had to get $ bills, and a certain number of pieces of colored paper to win stuff. We didn't win, but Brent kept a $ bill I shoved in his shirt :) It was silly fun, Brent was laughing so hard, his laugh was cracking me up.



BTW - Supposed to be the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight, step out and take a look. I will!

Jesus update:

Vet called today with info from last weeks blood and pee tests.
Traces of blood in his urine, so now I am taking him back in tomorrow for an ultrasound.
I mentioned the extreme barfing frequencies and she speculated could be dilation of his esophagus. So she might do an x-ray of his esophagus while he is in tomorrow, might run more blood work too, and while he is there go ahead and get his weekly vitamin B shot too.

So we will see what comes of this round of tests.

Jeff felt bad when he came home when he saw how frustrated I was and offered to do barf clean-up for the night. He got frustrated too. Everytime we turned around... he even puked in the same spot Jeff had just finished cleaning up another puke.

So tomorrow:
Drop off dog for more test
oil change and tire rotation
and replace missing drivers license

and I go on primary on-call at work tomorrow around noonish until next Tuesday.

I am really grumpy and guilty right now.
Its about Jesus...the dog.

I take him out every 2 to 3 hours.
He peed on my rug this morning anyway.
The amount of times that occurs...is nothing.
My main problem is his puking.

He barfs up water, or water and kibble sometimes up to 10 times a day.
I am tired of scrubbing the carpet, cleaning floors and washing rugs.
I know he cant help it and thats why I feel guilty, cause it makes me so mad sometimes.
No bile comes up, and it doesnt seem too stressful on him when he does it. I mentioned it to the vet last week, and will tell her more this week (weds). I thought maybe it was his dog food, but no, he is just a barfer, which means more tests.

He is an expensive dog:

The enzymes to help him digest, weekly vitamin b shots for a little while, all the blood tests we have done and will have to do monthly for awhile, pee/poop tests and then I have the amount of cleaner, papertowels and detergent he makes me go through!!!

and he has barfed on me....twice now

Yes, Im an obsessive cleaner anyway but I dont need anyone giving me MORE TO CLEAN!!

Im grumpy, tired, frustrated and then feeling guilty about being mad about it.

Went to see Gogol Bordello with Brent on Friday at Metro. I really hate Wrigleyville and all the people there. Gogol was good, I like the music. We had a good spot close to the stage but when the music started it was scary, hard pushing and shoving and I was worried about the welfare of my toes with everyone jumping up and down around me. So we moved further back and then eventually upstairs so I could see them better.

Last night we met up with Tracy to see Matt and his brothers (Smoking Popes) open for Flogging Molly at Congress Theater. Liked the venue. Had a great spot on the side of the stage for people watching. 2 drunk guys were entertaining. One guy was really creepy, latching onto every nearby girl and grabbing them. A couple of times I thought he might throw up on one of them. Stumbling around like he might fall over. Another guy was big and happy and dancing all over the place. People were giving him dirty looks for bumping into them and he would latch onto girls too but not as bad as the other guy. He would mostly just dance with them and ease into a little touchy feeling rather then lunging. By the end of the night he was talking to me and Brent too. We did a lot of smile and nod, but he was nice.

Brent and I are so WAY cool, everytime a guy on stage would motion in our direction we were all like haha that girl thinks he is looking at her but it is so me. :P We like to pretend. Whatever. I also like making up dialog for people I am watching.

Lost my drivers license at some point yesterday. :( Have to go to DMV sometime this week and replace it.

Jeff is in Ohio this weekend spending time with his boys so I been going out and watching movies. Watching Latin Boys Go To Hell right now. Then might go see Swing Vote and X-Files. I like to see at least 2 movies if I go to a theater and just buy one ticket. Saw Mummy and Hellboy yesterday.

I take Jesus out every 2 to 3 hours on average so I am really getting to know a lot of people in my neighborhood from being outside so much.

I made a cake.