Weekend-er

It was a dog day weekend. Literally. Sovann was not feeling well last week so we made a visit to the animal hospital Wednesday afternoon. On the left is Wednesday evening after her first dose of meds. She was still not moving around much. The pic on the right is Saturday afternoon after running around the yard. She is dunking her face in the bowl of ice water diving for ice cubes. I am really happy to see her feeling better. Not sure yet if it's just relief because of the steroids or if whatever was wrong is actually better. We'll soon find out.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July. The fireworks started in my neighborhood around 11am Thursday.Yep, you read that right. Before noon. That meant I stayed inside with the dogs a lot. They'd forget after a while and we'd go back outside and then it would start all over again. Interesting day to say the least. I had wanted to go down to Southport for the parade and festival and fireworks but stayed behind for a few reasons.

That's okay though...I checked an item off of the long-term-to-do list. For years I've been pulling recipes out of magazines or maybe even printing something I found online. I had a rather daunting stack of unorganized loose recipes. For someone borderline OCD like myself this is pretty shocking. It's just one of those tasks that you never have the time or desire to do. Well, I did it! We watched movies, rather loudly to cover up the fireworks, and I clipped and trimmed and organized and filed in a nicely sectioned notebook until 3am. I finished up on Friday while it rained. Operation recipe organization complete. I hope it's not too long until I knock another item off that darn list. 

I read The Dinner this weekend. It's a book club selection. We're meeting on Tuesday to discuss. I posted my review earlier today here.  This was my friend Katie's pick. We have a rotating host schedule where the host picks the book and the location for our meeting. It works great. My book club officially turned 5 on Tuesday. I hosted a girls night to celebrate. My friend who is a Mary Kay consultant came over and did facials and my housemate, who is amazing, did manicures and pedicures. Sadly, only one person from my book club showed. I was pretty disappointed. Oh well. Looking forward to Tuesday's meeting and sending the same Katie off. She's accepted a new job at FSU and is leaving Wilmington. I posted reviews today for the previous 2 books I finished as well. You can check them all out by scrolling down or visiting the Book Reviews archive link. 

It was a pretty uneventful weekend. Just the way I like them! Stayed up late and slept in. I did a couple visits to a friend's house to check on their kitties. Mattie Cat and Chickie. Both sweethearts, love them to pieces. They also have two dogs, Clover and Skylar, but the pups got to go with them to the mountains. Today is Clover's "Gotcha Day." Two years ago at a Fourth of July pool party Lauren was talking about being ready to adopt a dog. She showed me a few photos of some dogs at animal control she wanted to go look at. I noticed that all the pics that she showed me were of black dogs. First, I was excited because I know that adoption rates of black dogs and cats are low in comparison. They don't show well in photos and just get overlooked basically. She was also interested in a lab type dog based on her photos. Immediately, I thought of my pit bull rescue friend who was also fostering a black lab mix. Clover was adopted once but turns out that her family tied her up and didn't love her like dogs should be loved. Amanda and Lisa re-rescued Clover and she was safe in foster care again. I showed Lauren some photos of Clover and she was in love. They drove up to meet her and Clover came "HOME!" Clover turned out to be a great dog and Lauren has been an awesome doggie mom too! Love you both to pieces. xoxo

Clover today from Facebook!

We tried a new recipe for Coconut Curry Chicken. It was okay. Not great enough to re-post. We're going to try it again with some tweaking. I may share it then.

The Darwin Award for the weekend goes to my neighbors and their friends. At 1am last night as we were winding down and getting ready for bed I heard more fireworks. This time they were coming from the street and they sounded pretty close so I went out to investigate. What I witnessed was nothing less than a perfect argument for sterilization. Drunks idiots were in the street lighting fireworks and throwing them at each other and declaring, "this is war I'll get you." I sure hope none of them ever procreate. 

I posted my Links of the Week a little early last week. If you missed it, don't miss it again. There is some great stuff there. Here's the direct link.

That wraps up my weekend-er. I hope to make a post like this each Sunday and share all the awesome, or not so awesome, stuff that left an impression.