My favorite quote...

"If life gives you lemons, say 'F*** lemons and bail.' " Paul Rudd, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I don't like the 'make lemonade' portion of the original quote and the quote makes me want to gag. This one is much more effective!

Birthday Countdown!!!

My birthday...2 days...October 1st. That's a good day! ;)

Aunt Sherry's Gallery Opening

We went to Casey's aunt's art opening in Venice a few weeks ago and I completely forgot to blog about it!

Aunt Sherry is an extremely talented artist who we are lucky to be related to! All of the art in the gallery was just gorgeous! We are even lucky enough to have 6 pieces of original artwork in our home, plus quite a few pieces of pottery that she has painted! 

I love Casey...

I got the mail today and found 2 DVDs from Blockbuster Online. They are almost always guy movies that only Casey likes to watch. I opened up the envelope and look what I found...

I didn't even ask him to put it on the queue! He is such a great husband!!!

Date Night - 9/23

Janine and I went out on our weekly date night. This week, we decided to hit up El Torito for Taco Tuesday. We planned on getting 2 tacos and trying not to have chips and salsa and margaritas, but our planned changed. We ended up getting a margarita, eating the entire basket of chips and salsa, and sharing a chicken quesadilla. It was a delicious meal that did not make us feel overly stuffed.

We then went to Target for a few "essentials." A few "essentials" turned into $40 for me and $90 for Janine. Darn Target! It is a black hole! 

The most random item that we found was the following:

Seriously...a man groomer? Why is that so disturbing?!?! I wanted to die laughing when I saw it.

LT's Day at the Beach

I know that most of my posts lately have been about LT or pugs, so I apologize. Here is another one! We took LT to the Huntington Dog Beach this morning and he loved it! We had been once before, when he was about 6 months old. He kept chasing the big dogs down the beach and I had to chase after him. This time was much easier. He played with some big dogs, but mostly stayed with dogs his size. He got in the water on accident (we followed a big dog into the water), so we decided to put him in a few time! We're so mean! He got a nice little bath when we got home...he was super sandy and salty!

Most adorable Halloween costume!

I found this adorable costume yesterday at Target! I had to buy it to save for my future child!!!

Haha...Random Pug Pictures!

Casey and I decided to randomly take pictures of LT's funny face...don't worry, by squeezing his face we didn't give him any extra wrinkles!

Fun time with the BFF

I go on weekly 'dates' with the BFF. We decided to do this when I started back to work to make sure that we hang out more than once a month. We pick a new (and cheap) thing to do each week (coffee, cheap dinner, yogurt, etc.) and have a blast!
I am so happy to get to hang out with her as often as we do. We learned that you don't have to spend a bunch of money going out and drinking or eating in order to spend quality time with a person. Coffee, chatting with homeless men, and random dollar bin shopping at Michael's is a fabulous evening! ;)
Thanks BFF for fun times! (Especially watching USC games together!)

Vote for LT!

LT has been entered in the OC Register's 'My Dog's Face' contest. If you go to this link, you can see his picture. To vote for him, you can click on 'vote for dogs' then in the pull down menu, click on 'LT-Fullerton' and vote for him! You can vote over and over again too! It's not limited to one vote per computer. Vote lots!!!
(Yes, I know...I am lame. You don't have to tell me.)

http://ocregister.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?PageType=APPROVED&ContestID=2913&SubmissionID=179946&IncrementNumber=1

The things we do for our dogs...

I absolutely love LT. I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world! The only time when I question our decision to get a dog is when he needs to go to the vet. Here is the story...
LT was pretty lethargic on Sunday and Monday. He was just laying around and relaxing. I didn't think anything of it because we had a busy weekend, so I thought he was probably tired. On Tuesday, I noticed that he was keeping one of his eyes closed so I figured that he got into the rose bushes and scratched his eye. I went to rub out the eye goobers in his eye and he squealed...that was not good! Wednesday morning he was normal again...excited to see us, ready to eat, wanted to go for a walk, etc. I decided to still take him into the vet that evening because his eye had a blueish tint to it which was really weird. They did a couple eye tests and determined that it was corneal-edema. It is caused by over irritation to the eye and can possibly turn into an ulcer. He has it in both eyes, but one is more serious than the other. Oh no, the vet visit couldn't be simple, right?! They gave him a shot of anti-inflammatory and a prescription ointment to put in his eye 4 times a day. He seems to be doing much better now. He is energetic, wants to play and eat. He goes back for a re-check tomorrow to see how it is healing. He also had 3 vaccinations, his anal gland expressed, and his nails cut. LT truly got the 18 month "tune up."
The part about this story that kills me is the amount of money the vet charges for an hour long appointment. Here is a breakdown of the charges for the day...

Illness Exam-$51.00
3 Year Distemper Vaccination-$60.00
3 Year Rabies Vaccination-$18.50
1 Year Bordetella Vaccination-$16.50
Anal Sac-Express-$25.50
Corneal Stain-$33.00
Eye Pressure Test-$43.50
Nail Trim-$15.00
Anti-Inflammatory Injection-$50.00
Eye Ointment Prescription-$22.80

Grand Total-$335.80

Although it was a lot of money, his health is the most important thing to us. He is a part of our family, so no matter how expensive his treatment may be, we will still pay for it.

LT, next time lets go to to vet when we have a little extra money to spend! You're really good at getting sick when we're short on cash! :)