Shave and a haircut......

Hello everyone! Greetings from Antioch. The heat has come down on us for the past few days and the time has come to get Maggie professionally shaved. We all know how bad she looks after I give her a haircut. So since our new home is considerably warmer than our last one, I decided to bite the bullet and shell out the $66.00 to have Maggie feel cooler and more comfortable. Who knew my baby was a blonde? And she is so tiny under all that fur! She is still the cutest thing I have ever seen, and now she smells so pretty I can just eat her up!

Happiness in Everyday Life

1. Waking up to Maggie's cute face next to mine.
2. Popsicles late at night
3. Fireworks
4. Driving on a warm night with the windows down and The Who on the radio.
5. Asking inquisitively "Gabby?" and she meow's a response! It really happens....
6. A great hair cut.
7. The way my skin feels after a shower when I have spent all day in the sun.
8. A great Caprese salad.
9. A good book you can put down.
10. Any episode on Sex and the City when you are feeling blue.
11. An A's game on a beautiful summer night.
12. The lean-in for the first kiss.
13. Slurpee's
14. Sitting on my back porch listening to the birds chirping first thing in the morning.
15. Freshly clean sheets after they dried on the clothes line.

Nothing better....

Girls Weekend!

Maggie joined Tara and I on our day trip to hogback Island while we sat

in the sun and read gossip magazines!

Facial masks, Survivor finale and chips occupied our Sunday!

A gorgeous day on the river reading trash and listening to some tunes!



Bond's beautiful little Yesenia causing a stir!

What a glorious weekend with my girlfriends! It was scorching hot though, Yowza! I cant believe that it is only May and it is already 106 in Antioch!

Maggie's new BFF

My very good friend Brandon came over to visit me and Mags and watch our favorite show "The Office" and Maggie was smitten. Hmmm....I wonder why? Yes, that is her sleeping while he is petting her. Awwwww.......

A picture of Maggie and her new boyfriend!

Welcome to the 94509

My lovely kitchen after everything was unpacked!

Of course, before it looked like this:

We were exhausted!

The bedroom before:


The Bedroom After (my glamorous babies included and notice the chandelier!)

Well, me and the girls are all moved in and loving our new home. They are settling in to the routine very well. Maggie loves it because she takes two walks a day. We go down to the water and she discovers new smells and adventures everyday! Gabby is happy as usual but just as vocal. I get very nervous thinking my neighbors can hear her, but so far, no complaints. We are very happy...life is good.

On a side note....

I aced the class! Whoooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!! My first "A" in class since High School!!!! This was a hard one too!

And we move into our place the first weekend in February. Things are chugging along there too. Mom and Sunny stocked me full of necessities at Christmas. I have enough toilet paper to last through the apacolypse! Very very thankful for that though.

Bruiser aka Maggie

O what a night we had last night.

Maggie loves going to the park by our house. She loves running and sniffing and doing all the things dogs love to do at parks. Last night it was dark by the time I took her. Well I normally let her off the leash so she can sniff and do her business without a tether attached to her head. Big mistake!

She took off after a cat and ran face first into a black chain link fence. That's right, she took it right to the muzzle. After a slow walk home I checked her out in the kitchen and discovered blood in her mouth and realized she had split her gums and shaken loose her K9 tooth. Off to emergency we go! I know you are all shocked, but this is NOT the first time we have taken her there. I am surprised she does not have a standing appointment there! Well we leave $100.00 lighter and instructions to administer pain killers every 6 hours and an appointment at our regular vet the next day. A very very very very long night ensues, including me up at 2am to give her the next dose of meds.

Long story short (too late!) diagnosis was good, the tooth had to be pulled and 8 stitches fill her mouth now. Her jaw was not broken though, and that was a huge relief. My baby doggie was so brave! She had to be put under and operated on and has a little shaved leg to prove it. The stress of this whole situation combined with serious financial burdens and lack of sleep made for a very long day. We did not make it home until 6 tonight and yes, it was expensive. Very very expensive. I even had to take out a credit line to pay for it! But it was all worth it, Maggie is sleeping it off right now and almost back to normal. We have another 4 days of meds and special diets but all is well. At least she feels better and her mouth is not as damaged as the nurse thought.

But for now, she has a gap where her big tooth used to be. I was trying to think of famous people with gaps so I can come up with a funny nickname ( I know...I am soooo mature!) but all I could think of was Madonna and Lauren. Nothing any funnier, except calling Maggie "Madge" was not too much of a difference. So for right now we will settle for Bruiser. My tough ass poochie! But the vet added the bows to her ears, not me. Yeah, those were ripped out when we got home!