New Addition to the Family: Beagle Dachshund Mix

Today we went to the Riverside Humane Society and adopted Hannah, a 4 year old female beagle/ dachshund mix. A doxie mix.

The description on the site said that she is calm and likes to cuddle on a lap.

Yes, she is, and she does.

We think it will be nice to have some doggy loveness around the house again.

Caption the picture contest.... Winner will be announced Saturday morning.

If you plan to try your hand at the capture the picture contest, do it before 9 p.m. Friday 12/21 --
I've changed the settings so that you needn't have a blogger account.
Have some fun. Make me smile!
Win a $10 iTunes card.

The Meniere’s Game: Endolymphatic Shunt Surgery v. Gentamicin Treatment v Waiting it Out.

Just a short update to let everyone know that there are several things up in the air right now concerning the treatment of my Meniere’s Disease- the best possible case would be for it to burn itself out.

Meanwhile, there’s no place like home for the holidays!

Here is a picture of at Thanksgiving that my parents hosted this year – it was a change in tradition from our home, and it was lovely.

Please pray for continued patience for my family members – I know that I am driving them crazy.

The uncertainty of what will be going on each day, as well as some other adaptations that we are making, are annoying.

Hiding from college wimmin?

I don't see Jacob or Charles in any of the pictures.....

Crazy times and fun, too!

Just getting ready to immerse myself deep into the worst part of this Meniere's thing. But it is just silly, and not life threatening. Thankfully, now I know how to predict the episodes of vertigo - and there is one coming. Woke up rather on the late side this morning with the knowledge, so made the pumpkin muffins for my home-from-college daughter; washed some fruit, threw in a load of kitchen towels, napkins and such; did a few e-mail things, and got myself comfortable. (PocketPC and Cell phone with MP3 files...... loaded with praise music, inspirational books, and downloaded sermons, because I'm in and out and can't follow a plot...)

Now I'm ready to settle into my 8 to 20ish hours of vertigo--can't predict how many. Whirly, twirly spin cycle, I'm almost ready for you. Reminds me of the song "The world is spinning, spinning, spinning, its all for You, my all for You.....). Gotta download that one for the next time.

Just need my ginger ale and saltines.

Last time was Sunday, today is Friday. They are too frequent, and last too long. (My doctor is very impressed with me :) ). But I'm getting plenty of beauty sleep. And this one will be over in time for tomorrow's neighborhood cleanup by the homeless shelter. Yay for good timing! Boo for missing our planned family excursion to Long Beach today to check out Little Cambodia. But I guess that will still be there the next time we get together. Yep, just enjoy today for what it is. A time of whirly twirly spin cycle.

Why I Love Power Outages

No electricity means that kids emerge from their electronic music and/or gaming sessions to climb Pachappa Hill. If the outage lasts long enough, they raid the cupboard and play board games. They enjoyed themselves.
Hooray for simpler times.

(The puzzled expressions on some faces were in response to my statement "I want to take a picture for my blog" .... seems that not everyone in the younger generation knows what a blog is.)