Mel36's Journal

We went this week and ordered Faith's wedding dress!  We also found the bridesmaid dress.  I think it will all come together very well.  I'll load a pic of Faith trying her dress on - well, the one they had was ivory, we ordered white.  She's so beautiful in it - even if I say so myself.  I forgot to get a pic of one of the girls in the bridesmaid dress!  We'll probably have to slow down on planning for now.  I'm out of money.  So, until things look up, we'll just have to wait on anything else.

I'm looking to go back to teaching.  I'm missing it now that school is starting back up.  James's school may need a new 5th grade teacher and I have several contacts there, so hopefully that will work out.  It is my dream job to get on there.  It's also where I graduated and Faith did too.  I was a thirteen year senior.  It's not perfect, but much better than where I just quit!  Another school a little further out may need a 4th grade teacher.  I have one contact there and she said she'd talk to her principal about me.  That school won't pay as high as James's, but I"ll take whatever is offered first!  the other one is out close to where my husband works.  We couldn't carpool tho, b/c I'd have to get James off to school and Trav leaves way too early.  so, y'all pray that something comes up.  I'll still groom on the side, but I need a steady income.  I was pretty busy the first two weeks of August, then this week, I had one appointment. Next week I only have one. It may be because of school starting, but I doubt it.  Anyway, I think I want to teach again.  I change my mind a lot, don't I?  

Hope everyone is doing well.  I'll be checking in! 

Nothing special today - I slept late b/c I didn't have any appointments.  Been lazy all day.  Yesterday seemed to have wiped me out.  I got a call this evening for two min poodles - she'll bring them out in the morning and hopefully it won't take me long to get them done.  She has to go to work at noon.  I'm sure I can get them done.  She just wants them trimmed, bathed and dipped.  Bet they are cute!  My mom has a toy poodle, so I'm looking forward to seeing the difference in size.   I had told the lady $50 for both, but if they don't take long, I may just tell her $40.  I don't want to take advantage of anyone.  And when I was talking to her on the phone, it sounded like she has money issues, too.  So, maybe by helping someone else, I'd feel better. 

I'm on a new cholesterol med - can't think of the name right now.  But, I"m worried about the side effects.  Guess I have to give it time.  

I'm having weird dreams.  Usually in the morning after Trav leaves.  Guess if I got up with him, that wouldn't happen.  I don't know if it's meds causing them or just crazy thoughts I'm having.  These dreams upset me a lot and make me very uncomfortable.  They are so bad I don't even want to describe them to anyone.  Anyway...

It was cooler today!  Cloudy and windy, but no rain.  At least it wasn't over 100!  I guess I need to cut back my plants.  They look awful.  All dried up and burned.  

Everyone have a good evening and I"ll try to check in tomorrow! 

Business is slow and steady!  I've had one or two dogs almost everyday over the past two weeks.  I had two tough ones today.  My first was an 18 year old Spitz.  Matted like you wouldn't believe!  I had to shave her all the way down.  She was great!  Her mats were so bad that in some places, the skin was in it, so that was hard to take off.  But, she feels good now!  Bless her heart, she's an outside dog, too.  This 105 degree heat had to be killing her in all those mats!  I told them it was $30, but they gave me $40, so that was nice!  The second one today was a 16 year old pekingnese.  She was hard.  The owner stayed to help, but turned out, she has lung cancer and the dog hair and dander was hard on her.  So, she'd help a while, then go outside.  Once the dog got used to me, she was great.  She actually did better w/o the owner around.  I had to shave her down some, but not all the way and that was hard to do.  I didn't know pekingnese hair was so hard to work with! Her nails were awful , but I got them clipped so now she can walk better. 

Anyway, I'm doing that, still piddling online making some money.  But, I'm still behind in bills.  Honda let me put off July's payment, so I have to work on Augusts!  Plus, alot of other bills that are due.  Wish my husband made twice as much.  Oh well, nothing is simple, is it?  He took next week off to go finish working on his mom's house.  I'm hoping she'll pay him a lot and really soon.  I also sent a bunch of my old jewelry to cash4gold.  Haven't heard from them yet as to what they'll offer me.  

Honey is doing better.  Her new meds make her feel good.  She still doesn't go out as often and limps.  I just don't want to lose her.  I still can't believe we'll be losing her.  Lung cancer.  From a bone tumor in her leg, she gets lung cancer.  That's just so wrong.

Anyway, I wanted to check in since I haven't in a few days.  

Hope you all are good!

Oh, I went for my yearly yesterday, I'm huge - 206!  Plus my cholesterol is way up there.  My blood pressure was up too.  That's not normal.  I haven't had high blood pressure since I was pregnant with James - 12 years ago!  I'm hoping when money starts coming in more, things will get better with my health.