la_belle_laide | It's not the real new year.

The new year starts in February when it's the year of the rabbit. This "January 1st" thing is some arbitrary western milestone. So there.

Here's the thing, I took Haku for his two-week post-op checkup where they informed me that the prosthetic ligament had snapped, and he had to have the surgery redone.

If you could see my Angry Face.

They re-did the procedure for free, (on New Years Eve) which, yes, that kind of goes without saying. I did have to pay for the extra meds. Worse, though, Haku is in so much more pain this time than he was the last. He's actually screaming when he tries to move. And his leg doesn't actually even look as bad as it did the first time. Maybe this is because I took him home the day after the surgery instead of two days, and they had given him morphine the first time around. Still, today is the second day, and this would have been around the time I picked him up last time. And he's still knocked out and really hurting. I hate to see this.

And it sets me back another two weeks.

For some reason, today is just a random day when I really miss Dad. Maybe it's because I'm already in a bad mood though. I can just about see him patting Haku's head and saying, "Poor little guy. He'll get better." Today's just, UGH, really hard in terms of missing Dad and I'm not sure why. It's not a special day or anything.

Well on a brighter note, I played my new PS3 into the new year. I busted out FF XIII and fired it up for the first time just before midnight. It's beautiful beautiful beautiful, graphic-wise I mean. Story seems pretty interesting. Fighting is fairly fluid. I hope I can finish it, because I'm led to understand that it becomes really difficult down the line. And for right now, I don't want anything too epically challenging. I'd like to just be amused for a while.

Umm, I haven't studied for my state boards. Haven't even thought about studying. My book bag is still beside my sofa. I did get the letter telling me where to go for it. And also that I have to leave behind: My entire purse and any coat or sweater I might be wearing. I have to leave them in the entrance room, out in the open, at my own risk. Phone, car keys, wallet, money, everything. We just have to leave them sitting there. No lockers, nothing.

This makes me actually sort of disproportionately angry, but I don't know who to complain to.

And to round out today's bad mood:

Dear all you hunters today, shooting up the wildlife in my pretty swamp-woods and scaring the christ out of my two dogs by constantly firing off your obvious peenextensions:

I swear to god, people.

Grr.

Does hot chocolate count as "juice" if you're trying to do a juice fast? How about pizza, if it's organic?

Oh, but here's something nice. I got an email from my boss congratulating me on having the second highest sales on the entire island, after only the biggest store in the region. *slow clap* Give me more money, then. No but seriously. That's cool. It is, right? Being good at sales?

I'm not usually this pissy. But I think that once in a while I'm allowed to be.

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I'm not usually this pissy. But I think that once in a while I'm allowed to be.

Heh, hell yes. And you'd think you'd get a bonus for the sales.

FF13 never seemed that horribly difficult, so you should be peachy. I should fire it up again, I think it's been long enough that replaying it won't be stale or boring.

Here's hoping Mr Nutty Saluki Boy doesn't have any more complications!

You finished it? How long did it take you? It seems real nice, so far.

Yeah, you'd think, wouldn't you? >_<

And, thanks. Man, I really hope not, too.

Um, I'd have to fire it up again to be for sure about the hours played, but I want to say at least 30. That's including some of the side quest dealies, but not all of them. I liked it, perhaps not the most mind-blowing game ever, but I did enjoy the storyline and the characters.

And it's so damned preeeeeeety. ;D

30's not so bad! And it's obviously beatable? Cool. Might have to settle in for that, then.

Go ahead & be pissy- you're being provoked for godssake! I notice I'm missing my dad a lot when I'm angry, but I'm never sure which came first- if I suddenly miss him and get madder than normal at everything, or because I'm angry it trips off my missing him more than usual. Suck.

Weird about not being able to keep your car keys on you during your test. How long are those tests? Could someone go with you, drop you off & pick you up or something? I wouldn't want to leave all my stuff either.

yeah, I can't decide of the chicken or the egg yet, either.

I think I'm riding in with a friend. I tend to take tests super fast and will probably be done in a ridiculously short amount of time and then wait around for her. So I might be able to leave my stuff in her car, but if I'm waiting for another few hours, I'm still kind of screwed, and then where is she gonna keep her keys? It's ridiculous.

bleh. but i do wonder...how do you convince a dog to stay still and chill if he feels fine? honestly, maybe he'll slow down this time and hopefully allow himself to rest. :-/ that may be a really morbid way of looking at things, and obviously it sucks he's in pain. but maybe there is a silver lining?

:( sorry about missing your dad especially much.

as far the test, ehhh with those guidelines, i'd leave everything locked in the car. just bring in your keys. but still call or write whatever entity is involved and ask if someone will be watching that shit, and if not, why not?

Keeping him still is going to be a problem when he feels better, for sure. It was the last time, but I managed it. The prosthetic snapped because it was a bad batch, not because or anything traumatic.

He's on pain killers but honestly they're not doing too much. Worse, because he's only got the one kidney, I really don't have a lot of options with giving him drugs.

Oh man, they already told us that no one is watching our stuff, and that we have to leave it there at our own risk. :/

Grr, the whole thing.

ahh gotcha. that makes sense. but still, when you first wrote about and him having to rest, i thought o.O "how do you tell a dog that?" good luck, they don't do so well with the english beyond a certain point. ;-)

wtf, that is the stupidest thing i've ever heard. who's higher than who you talked to? ;-p

but you'd think they'd give SOMETHING for the pain, even to keep it to a dull roar. :( no painkillers?

It's not the real new year.

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