Ok, I’m not a big meme follower, but when my new pal Julie from Angry Julie Monday invited me to link up, I figured what the heck.

When I was three, my mom took a picture of me in this outfit on the porch of our house. I was wearing socks and brown sandals. We recently found a few of my little outfits my mom saved. This fit Sweetness so I put her on the porch and shot a similar shot. I hope I can find the original of me. I had the same blond, curly fly-away hair. If I find the one of me, I’ll repost side by side.

My cutie patootie and the poochies.

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I’m an anxious puppy mommy. My little ball of fuzz, my youngest little Chihuahua, Daggett, is having kneecap and butt surgery today. And no, they’re not related. How could you ask such a thing? Is your knee connected to your butt?

My little bundle of energy and puppy kisses popped his right kneecap out in November. He was in miserable pain and despite vet attempts to put it back in, it just slides out. I heard the pop when it came out and I figured he’d damaged the joint, taking out some cartilage that was keeping the patella, or kneecap, in place. In time he healed enough to where he used his leg again, but gingerly (unless there was a squirrel involved, then all bets were off and full leg usage was deployed).

About the time my vet convinced me that we needed to do a little surgical procedure to cut the groove the kneecap goes into a little deeper to help correct the damage (and help assure the little guy would not have debilitating arthritis in his older years), we had another issue. Daggett’s butt swelled up and exploded. In other words, one of his anal glands burst from an infection. He had this back in 2007 with the other gland. This hurts, is quite messy, and is expensive.

So with my Dagger Waggers already going under the knife and a load of the good drugs already lined up with his name on it, we decided to just have those offending glands removed to avoid future painful, bed-staining, cone-of-shame wearing, expensive episodes.

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Yesterday was a rather eventful one in Jen’s World. I’d been planning for months to get myself a brand spanking new iPhone. Yes, people, contain your disdain. I have fallen pray to Apple. But AT&T didn’t help much. My company pays for my phone service as I’m on call 24/7. When it came time to upgrade last time, I looked at all the service out there, and our company discount at AT&T was still the best. I did think the iPhone would be neat, but the boss wasn’t having paying for that. So I got the company issue Palm and went along my merry little way. Then, last October, the VP gets himself one and VOILA, he’s a convert. I am given the blessing if I want to get one.

So I called AT&T all excited for the chance to have my very own Internet surfing, video playing, 8 million app operating piece of coolness. They said yes, I was eligible for an upgrade. I talked it over with the other half and we decided to push the button last November when we were down in Oregon (the land of no tax). I’d called AT&T twice and had all my printouts ready outlining price and the intricacies of making our individual accounts a family plan. Then we get there, start the process, then the little dude working at the store tells me I’m not eligible until Jan. 2, 2010. WTF?!? I’d called twice. Well, before, he said, I’d have had to pay $600 for the phone. I was eligible for the $400 early upgrade. If I wanted the $200 upgrade, I’d have to wait another 6 weeks. He asked if there was anything else he could do for me and I said “get me the number for Verizon!” a little louder than my 2-year-old in a tantrum and stormed out. I was pissed.

I took my six weeks and cooled off. I planned and budgeted. I was already dreaming of the things my new iPhone and I would do together, what I’d name it, how we’d be so organized together, I couldn’t turn away. I did the obligatory visit to Verizon to look at what they had, but it was still cheaper for me to stay with the big bad AT&T.

So yesterday we strolled back into the store in Oregon, having planned the post-Christmas visit with the inlaws around this one thing. All was good this time, and we left with two brand new, shiny iPhones.

Daggett and his Cone of Shame

So what does this have to do with exploding butts. If you stuck with me this far, you’re about to find out. Turns out my youngest little Chihuahua, Daggett, hadn’t been feeling all that well. When we got home and I finally crawled into bed around 10 pm, I noticed him licking his tail end vigorously. When I went to pet him to see what was up, he yipped. I picked him up and his whole back end was a yellow-green-brown and red. The poor pooch’s anal sac had ruptured. After an immediate wave of guilt for not having noticed he was in pain (he had been lame after hurting his knee so I just wrote it off as that), I got up, dressed and we ran to the vet. (Why can’t my pets have emergencies during the week during office hours?) Ninety minutes, $300, three prescriptions, a shaved butt (his not mine), and one cone of shame later, I brought the poor guy home.

And just to be a show off, this photo was taken with afore mentioned new iPhone. In anticipation of getting these phones, my hubby got me the phone case I’d been eyeballing, an ifrogz blue and black case. He also gave me a Blue Ray copy of the new Star Trek for Christmas. So when I got the phone, put it in its case, and had a look, I had to name it the first thing that popped into my head – Spock. Live Long and Prosper.

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