our little "it"

i had my first ever semi "mother" moment - my fur baby underwent her first surgery and i was worried sick.

on the morning of the third, poor little emzilla went under the knife to get all hollowed out - literally. i thought they just snipped a couple things here and there and called it a day but no, it turns out they remove entire organs. apparently, this was a major surgery for a pup because they kept her all day, 8:30-4:30, to monitor her recovery. i know, this probably sounds a little overly dramatic since she is only a dog, but she is our dog. i almost cried when i picked her up at the vet - she was all doped up, had a bare, stitched up belly and a cute, little pink bandaid on her front leg covering the spot where her IV was inserted.

at first she wasn't so bad. yes, she cried the entire way home from the vet but once we got home she was so doped up that she just curled up into a ball on the foyer floor and didn't move for a few hours. jesse had to carry her upstairs (a fairly funny site since we just found out she is now 87 lbs) and she slept there until about 10 pm when she decided she had to pee and was a bit hungry. after that, jess carried her back upstairs where we figured she would quietly sleep the night away considering her dozy state earlier that day. well, we were wrong. at about 12:30 she decided she had to pee, then again at 2, then again at 3, then once more at 5:15. when the vet said that the sedatives they gave her could make her have to urinate frequently i thought it would be right away, not 12 hours after surgery in the middle of the night. for some reason i was the only person in our room that was able to hear her whine (something that shouldn't shock me since jesse is notorious for his heavy sleeping). when i complained to jesse the next day about my one sided parenting the night before he was completely oblivious to the fact that i even left the bed, let alone had mini conversations with him and turned on all the lights and simply said that this was good practice for motherhood and as much as i hate to admit it, he is probably right.

sad face for my puppy

PS - the post underneath is our thank you card for the wedding! jesse and i just made it using www.shutterfly.com. if we consented, it automatically posted the link into my blog for us and gave us $10 off our next purchase, so, since i love a deal, i obviously consented and you all get a sneak preview! shutterfly was super easy and turned out really great - all we did was upload the wedding pictures we wanted to use onto the site and manipulated them into a premade template then customized the wording! they are shipping 50 to us in the next 7-10 business days and i will update you when they arrive on whether or not we are happy with the quality!

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happy hallow's eve!

halloween is one of my favorite holidays and this year we went all out since it was our turn to have the party at our place. on saturday jesse and i spent all day decorating, making our main floor into a dexter style "kill room".  dexter is a serial killer that kills other serial killers for being serial killers (ridiculous, right?) and every time he murders someone he polys the room completely, knocks them out, ties them to a table and puts pictures of their previous murder victims on the wall so they understand why he is killing them. those of you who are unfamiliar with dexter probably wont get as big of a kick out of our "kill room" pictures as we do but oh well!

our friend linsey (who went as a dead, zombie amy whinehouse) with our friends who couldnt be at the party aka our victims.

mary, sarah, cecile and ellen went as a deck of cards!

tinkerbell, tiger lily and louis lane

the ugliest hooters girls with the smallest hooters

tri force of triangles

buzz lightyear, batman, superman and his alter ego clark kent

occupy calgary!

obviously, buzz got a bit too buzzed.

we had such a great time on saturday that we didn't have the energy to carve our pumpkins until tonight! even though jesse thought i was crazy, i got emi a pumpkin of her own! so, jesse made a triforce pumpkin (yes, that seems to be his halloween theme this year), i made myself a friendly frankenstein and emi a halloween cat simply for the irony of it!

emi kissing her pumpkin - i knew she'd enjoy it!

halloween kitten

friendly frank

rasta pup

stealing snickers

we probably only got twenty kids; a SWAT team member, two iron mans, a green lantern, a graveyard fairy (basically a zombie with pink fairy wings), a spiderman, a "red and white angel" (i guess kids just make up their costumes sometimes), five zombies, an army man, a grim, a "nameless/ faceless ghoul" (again, either i am behind the times or these kids are incredibly creative for their age) and my favorite, a white fuzzy unicorn with a fabulous purple and pink mane - she bravely said "i like your puppy" while jesse held emi back since she was completely loosing her mind.

i am not sure how much emi liked halloween. i think she liked the little kids although she definitely was weary of their costumes and i know she more than disliked the constantly ringing doorbell. she definitely liked the pumpkins - all she wanted to do was lick the slime off the outside while we carved them. hopefully next year she is a little more laid back and doesn't aggressively / awkwardly lunge at the door almost scaring the little kids off the stoop every time the bell rings...

all tuckered out after a long night of barking at trick-or-treaters

PS: UPDATE ON THOSE GREAT DANE PUPS - THEY GOT ADOPTED! read about it HERE <3!!!

hectic

lately, i feel like my life has been very hectic. i know, it is ridiculous - the wedding is over, life should be calm. well, it was for a bit but not so much anymore. i feel like we are constantly running around, filling out forms and waiting in lines to change over everything in the world since i changed my name. between thanksgiving, friends birthdays, families birthdays and halloween we have had constantly packed weekends. on top of all that, we have been working full time, i have been prepping for and going to various job interviews. it seems like there is always something to do.

thankfully, last night was one of the rare evenings where we didn't really have anything too crazy going on. after i made dinner and walked to dog, i decided i was going to veg out infront of the tv with my little itouch and play some rapid fire words with friends. well, since it was tuesday, there wasn't much on tv so i i decided to try out the latest simon cowel extravaganza, the x factor. to my surprise, i was fairly impressed - most specifically with this 14 year old girl named drew. she was unbelievable. maybe she will be the next taylor swift... what do you think?

amazing

lately jesse and i have been exploring the idea of getting another puppy to keep emi company during the day. we have always said we would get two dogs and now that emi is 7.5 months old it is about time we start seriously exploring options if this is something we are going to do. most vets suggest that if you are going to add another puppy to your household that you do it anywhere between 9 months and 2 years of getting your first.

i know what you are thinking; we want another great dane, crazy, right? you would be surprised, the majority of the dane owners we run into at the dog park have two and claim that getting the second was the best thing that ever happened to the first. not only do they keep each other company during the day, but they play together, eat together, learn together and, most importantly, they sleep together (yes, we may be able to finally get emi out of our bed).

 this amazing story definitely made me think it would be a good idea: lily, a blind great dane and her guide dog, another merle great dane (like emi), who she relies upon completely both needing a new home after their owners are no longer able to care for them.

thankfully, there has been an overwhelming response from people who want to help! hopefully these beautiful puppies will find a home sooner than later.

ch-ch-ch-check it out

i just want to wish my little brother good luck on his opening weekend! looks like he got off to a great start last night even though he didn't agree with Global Sask since he told me he "sucked" when i talked to him on the phone earlier! good luck duncan, we love you and wish we could be there!

krazy with a k

i have come to a new realization about kijiji-ians - they are absolutely insane. now we all know that all-in-all i am a huge kijiji fan but honestly, our latest experience was too crazy haha

after a few weeks of not moving an inch from our drive way, we decided to post jesse's old truck on kijiji. since it wouldn't pass the road safety test and really could only be sold for parts or as a farm truck, we figured we shouldn't ask too much. jesse originally spent $500 dollars on it nearly 3 years ago when it was still in good running condition and had less that 350 000 km's on it, we figured we would  ask $250 OBO this go around. well, jesse posted the add at 9:07 on tuesday night and by 9:11 we already had a buyer that was "coming with cash in 20 minutes".  i seriously thought i was going to have to pay someone to take that bad boy off our hands; best case scenario, call the kidney foundation or some other charity who would write me a cheque for $50 bucks and tow it to the dump for me after no one replied to our add for a month. this overwhelming amount of interest was completely unexpected.

so, jesse immediately ran over to his parents house so that kev could help him write up a bill of sale, then he ran back to our place where he hurriedly cleaned out all his old receipts and tools from the glove box and the back bed (yes, that is how unprepared we were). here is the shocking part. in the 34 minutes it took to clean out the truck and for the incredibly mexican buyer to arrive at our door (i say mexican because he had a very strong spanish accent, barley understood english and tried to barter us down to $100)  we received another 10 phone calls and a few text messages plus a good 5-10 emails. it was an incredibly frantic 53 minutes but definitely worth it!

this experience definitely opened my eyes. i cannot believe how on it people are with kijiji - i never understood how i had such an issue getting things from sellers when they posted their add a mere 30 minutes before hand. well, now i completely understand: kijiji-ians are krazy with a k.