Bopo vs. A Car

Remember a few posts ago i said that maybe something exciting will happen ... well i didn't expect anything like last night to happen. 

This is Bopo.  Bopo is my mom's dog.  Bopo likes to run out the house when she wants to frolic in the street.  Last night Bopo was one lucky dog.

As i was getting ready to go out and see a friend of mine play i get a phone call from my mom ...

"heidi ... was is the number that's on Bopo's tag?"
"umm ... my number ..."
"okay ... well if you get a phone call from someone saying they have Bopo, let me know"

As you've probably guessed ... Bopo got out of the house and no one could find her.  To make a long story short ... Bopo got hit by a car and broke her leg.  off to the animal er we go ... they pissed me off.  Hello!!!  My dog got hit by a car ... is bleeding ... and looks like there is a bone hanging out. 

Why did you wait 15 mins before you decided to register my dog???
Why is there only one vet?
Where is your technician so that they can go ahead and take my dog to xrays???
Why is the dog's condition next door more critical than my dog's???
Where is the vet???
Where is your technician???
HELLOOOOO WHY ARE WE NOT BEING TREATED?!?!?!

I had to tell my mom that i had to leave or it would have gotten really ugly.  I have heard horror stories about the ER that we went to and boy to see it first hand was scary.  All i kept thinking was what if my dog has internal bleeding?  Why are they taking so long?  This place does not know how to multi task.  My mom did not leave that place til 130 ... almost 4 hrs after we got there.  Wow ... i don't think they know how to determine what is critical or not. 

So the diagnosis ... yep she definitely broke her leg and will need to have surgery so that it will heal right.

Today that's what we did and it's going to cost us $1200 :c/  All i know is that is one lucky dog.  Things could have been worse and i'm glad that it's not.  Hopefully Bopo has learned from this will realize how dangerous the street can be and will stay inside.  Oh and where did we find her ... the whole time after she got hit she managed to get back in the house and hang out in the living room.  I hope that i never have to go through anything like that with Snowflake ... she's like to frolic in the street too :c/

Snowflake and My First Real Photo Shoot

Snowflake and I have taken plenty of pictures together but we've always done studio pictures and this year i really wanted to go on a for real photo shoot. So entered a friend of mine and a fellow photographer. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the shoot. Don't you think she did a good job :) Now i have to figure out which one to put in my christmas cards this year ... which one do you suggest?

Photos from Becky Huff Photography

Not really an update ....

And that's mainly because not much has been happening. Between babysitting, working at my mom's boyfriend's shop and working at my regular 40 hr a week job i've really had no time to do anything else. So why post ... basically to let everyone know i'm alive and well :) hopefully this week will bring some exciting things to talk about.

This is a story about trying something new.

So i signed up to send entries from my phone and did one and this is what shows up ...

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*sigh* yeah ... i'm probably doing something wrong. i'll figure it out :/

Update: Figured it out ... it's seems to be working fine now. gotta love technology.

This is the story where i talk softball

(some of the players from the team ... L-R Devin, Josh and my bro, Jon)

This week is the kickoff to the softball season and my brother is the coach for Team Flip Flop (flip flop is a place he works at) and monday was the first game. They were doing great for the first half and then the other team was just getting lucky with the ground balls and so Flip Flop lost but last night they made up for it and kicked butt!!! lol! they beat the other team by 15 points!

And on monday i was designated the team mom so when i go to the game next wednesday there will be rice krispie treats and juice boxes for the boys. :c)

This is a story about church

So today i did something i have not done in a year. i went to church. it seems like for the past 3 years i only go to church in March. not sure why but this year it's going to be different. i am really am going to try to go every sunday to get spiritually fed. two weeks ago i was getting a strong urge to go to church. i think it's because i miss it. i wanted to go last sunday but slept through my alarm. this sunday my friend Shelice was giving a talk and i made every effort to go and listen ... even if it means going on two hours of sleep.

shelice's talk was awesome and there was a part that really stuck out and felt like it was meant for me. at the end of her talk she was reading a testimony by Elder Holland and he said:

"To all of you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, this conference calls out Jehovah’s unrelenting refrain, “[My] hand is stretched out still. I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them,” He said, “[and even if they] deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto them, … if they will repent and come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts. His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears."

Lately i've been feeling lost and that my life has no direction. i feel stuck. i don't know if any of you have ever felt that way ... stuck. and i think i have disappointed people because i might have done wrong (according to the church). today people came to me and asked if i was new and it was hard to answer ... "yes um no um maybe. i've been in the ward for a year and am just now coming" but i guess it really doesn't matter what the answer is ... i came and making a decision to come back to church. that is what really matters. but i also am not sure if i can follow all the teachings as before but it could all change ... no guarantees though.

Before i close i must say ... this album is AWESOME!!!

This is a story where i get caught up.

Hi all!
So while i am doing laundry i figured i will sit down and take a couple of minutes and update you all with what's been going on lately.

First, when i last posted a for real post it was the day before my brother's birthday (March 11) and as i was surfing the web i came across a cookie monster song that says C is for Cookie. Well my brother has a love for cookies and i thought i would make a little video in honor of his b-day so check out the Birthday Cookie video!

The following Saturday i went out with a friend of mine to celebrate her birthday and almost got hit on by a 40 year old man. That's the story of my love life. LOL!

Then on Sunday my mom and her boyfriend took me, jon, my bestfriend joe, our two cousins chung jo and woong sik, to an all you can eat korean buffet for Jon's b-day. It was sooo yummy and we ate more than our tummies could hold.

Of course March 17th was St. Patty's Day and at first i was just going to spend the night at home but my brother convinced me to go out and join in on the festivities. I do not think i saw so much green in my life. My brother ran around like a leprechaun ... a 6'4" leprechaun. LOL! Oh what a night!

And then to end the week i got to hang out with friends last night. I have pictures but there were not taken on my camera so once i get copies i'll post them. So that's my week and a half in a nutshell. My goal is to try to be more consistent with posting so that I am not bombarding you all with a long entry. Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

This is a story about white stuff we rarely see.

So at about 11 this morning i get a text from my brother that said: holy &!*#Y it's snowing. Now the talk of the weekend was "it's supposed to snow on sunday" and my response was " i won't believe til i see it" I have lived in Georgia for about 20 years and can count on one hand how many times it has snowed. Just about every year we will get a weather forecast that will state it will snow and we have had many disappointments.

So i get out of bed and try to focus on the world around me and just about scared poor snowflake when i yelled Snowflake it's snowing! LET'S GO OUTSIDE!!! I got myself together and thought about what in the world am i going to wear. I have no gloves, no hat, no coat thick enough and barely any sweaters. So i put on what i thought would work and went outside to play with the little white stuff on the ground. Snowflake was not sure what to make of this. She was sniffing the snow and growling at it at the same time. Soon she realized it was not harmful and just had a ball running in the snow and trying to eat the snow as it fell down. I tried to get video of that but of course she did it when the camera was off. Typical.

So now as i type this blog the snow is starting to melt and there is a snowflake or two slowly making it's way down. And when i think back to this day i will forever remember the day my baby made her first yellow snow.

This is a story of a pot hole in my road.

have you ever had a moment where you take a step back and you evaluate your life and you come to realize that you are not where you'd like to be and that you have a list of fifty gazillion things you would love to change but you want all these changes to happen tomorrow but when you realize that tomorrow will be the same as today you just feel hopeless? Yep ... that is how i am feeling at this moment ... sigh