I gave up being sick this week and went to the doctor. I am glad I did! They gave me some good medicine and that day I started to feel better. The doctor told me I had junkie lungs. LOL! Meaning mucus in the lungs which I have asthma so that made since to me.

So…I got a blood blister on my tongue the other night. I didn’t even know that could happen! Was eating and I bit my tongue. No big deal. Then I felt my tongue swell and I looked and there was a blood blister on my tongue! I didn’t know what to do. The internet says do not pop. So I called my mom and my mom says pop it. Mom says to either bite it or stick a needle in it after sanitizing it. She said since I was on antibiotics anyways for my sickness that it would take care of any infection on the tongue if there were to be any.

Jeff suggested putting ice there till was numb. So I did that then I popped it with a needle. Jeff was freaking out! LOL! That I popped it with a needle. I am glad I did though. Now it’s not there and can’t even tell there was anything there. It didn’t hurt when I popped it and it doesn’t hurt now. What adventures I have.

I am going to see Disney on Ice with my mom and Bree on Sunday. I don’t know why but I really want to see this. I grew up watching Disney so I just a big kid sometimes. I think it will be fun.

Ugh! I have been sick! I have never had a sore throat like I did a few days ago in my life! Unfortunately I got Jeff sick. I feel bad about that.

Our weather doesn’t help either. Now it isn’t as cold as it was but we have rain which is turning to ice. Why do we live here again? A question I ask every winter.

So here is a cute pic of Tex and Scotty.

Oh it has been so cold in Wisconsin for the last few days. During the day it has been -15F. Then I got sick. My asthma is terrible and it feels like I have the flu. Been taking my medicine but it’s my throat it has been terribly sore. Ugh!

Tex never sleeps there by himself but he is thinking it’s warm over there.

Scotty has the right idea. Curl up with Jeff.

It was so cold that Jeff had two days off of work and basically everything was closed.

Today it is warm 2F. Heat wave! LOL!

This Sunday is the Superbowl! Of course we are going to watch. I want the Rams to win. Also Maroon 5 is the half time. I know they are going to put on a show. It will be fun to watch.

Oh man it’s cold now! Look at all the snow we got over night!

During the day it has been 0 or in the negatives. I hate WI winter!

Last Sunday we celebrated my dad’s 64th birthday it was fun. We all went over to my parent’s house. We had pizza and Jeff made red velvet cake with his own frosting. I admit the cake was good but I didn’t care for the frosting and Jeff agreed.

Excited! While at my parents house I discuss going to Disney on Ice with my mom and who ever wanted to go. It’s going to be my mom, Bree and me. I am excited to go. I haven’t seen one of those things since I was a kid. It will be in February.

Over the weekend we got snow! NOOO!!! I know, I know it was going to happen.

I just got tasked to make 12 hats for Christmas. I like creating but I am tired of making. Lol!

On the adoption front. We are going to talk to Bethany Christian Services. I have never heard of them before but one of Jeff’s co-workers just got their child from there. We looked at them and read all their stuff from their website. Going to check them out soon. I hope during December here.

I don’t know really. I think at this point in my life I don’t really want to physically have a baby. However my mom wants us to pursue the whole fertility thing. I would prefer to adopt a child instead. I am still mystified that my mom didn’t like the idea of us adopting. It’s still another grandchild regardless. And whatever child we get they will be ours regardless.

What’s insane is how much adoption costs! You can spend and spend thousands and thousands of dollars for a child. It’s so crazy! Just to do the home study is $1500. If you don’t get a child that year, years after it is $500. Wow! But still worth it. I’ll keep you updated on that.

Nothing really else just making and making Christmas presents.

I am setting a big goal for myself. I am going to read 50 books. Why? Because I miss reading. I used to love to read but now I always say I am going to read then I don’t. I want to finish 50 books by next December. The books do not have to famous books either and they do have to books I have never read before.

50.

I mostly got this book because it had police dogs in it and looked interesting .It wasn’t. It had two stories in one book. Both stories were boring and generic. Not a great book to start out with.

49.

This book was great expect the ending. It was very action packed! I want to read more stories by this author. The ending gave me the rolling eyes effect. Like whatever.  I know these are romantic story stories but please that is not how it works in real life. I wish she would have gone more real life for the romantic part.

I got some more of these type of books because they are so cheap at about 5 dollars a piece. Something about holding an actual book, I like. I know old fashion I suppose.

I have been a creating fool! I am almost done with all three mermaids. Then I have to make four hats maybe more, haven’t decided yet.

Tex the other day wasn’t helping me clean the office. Lol! But he found the window!

What is this? Tex and Scotty together?!

We have been having a terrible time of Tex being too rowdy with Scotty. Biting his face which Tex bit a chuck out of. Tex bites Scotty’s ears and gets little owies on them. Our training instructor says that Scotty will eventually fight back but when was the question. Tex was literally hurting Scotty. So…

I don’t like the idea of the shock collar but we got one anyway. I shocked myself and will NEVER shock Tex. However it does beep and vibrate. We did beep then vibrate once so he knows this isn’t okay. So far only beep has him stopping. We have never shocked him and never will but the beep is nice. It funny Tex thinks the beeping is in the floor. Like IN the floor! LOL! Anyways Tex was sleeping on top of Scotty mostly but not biting him. We were worried that Tex was going to scratch out Scotty’s eyes or even bite near them because how he was trying to play with Scotty. This way we have a peaceful Scotty who is trying not to be scared of Tex which he was and still is a bit. I think eventually they will live peaceful together. And that is what we will use the collar for and that is it. All other behavioral things is the word NO! We just want Scotty and Tex to get along. We were separating them and that sucked. I felt bad for Scotty who couldn’t be with us because of Tex being so aggressive with him. We understand that Tex is a puppy but that isn’t right to actually cause harm to Scotty.

We had Tex out of his play area from the time Jeff got home till 9. That is Tex’s bedtime. He was so worn out for being out and not taking a nap that he slept all of last night! He has never done that. It’s funny when you see the personality. I ask him if he wants to go potty around 11 at night but last night he gave me attitude and went back to sleep. He makes this whining noise like “Hey trying to sleep here.” Then sticks out his tongue, goes back to bed. He is so silly!

The biting has stopped, mostly. Once in a while he does nip and he has bitten me during play. I tell him owie! Then I get kisses for sorry. He still has a way in the training but he is trying, so that is something. He is starting to show his personality more which is cool to see. Oh and I am for sure his mom and he likes me more than Jeff. LOL! He always wants to sit on my feet and lay near me more than Jeff and I get a ton of kisses! Which is a huge switch from when we got him.

Adopting has been sort of a strange process. There are some services that actually discourage adopting. I thought that was strange. We talked to someone who does Foster Care in our town and they are the ones who discourage it. I thought that was strange because there has to be kids who need adopting even in our town. We also tried a service in Appleton that said they are so full of applicants that will would be 2 year wait or longer. In fact they said they were doing their applicants like a lottery because they have so many. That didn’t sound promising to me.  Also I can’t wait that long, it was really the longer part that got me. So we keep going and looking to see what other services their are.

I did this diamond painting in 2 weeks! Take a pic later in a frame.