General Jackassery

Amazing. Christmas is only three days away and I was at work today, will be tomorrow and will be at work on Christmas eve as well. I’m not sure what I’m going to do on Christmas Eve, it’s really the first time in my life that I will be alone on Christmas Eve. Jackie will be headed out of town at some point on Wednesday and I’ll be staying at home. I’ll drive to Birmingham on Christmas Day, and I suppose I could head down there Wednesday night, but I just don’t like the idea. So, I looked at the schedule for the Church that I’ve really always considered home and they have a Christmas Eve service at 6:00 that I might go to. Then I guess I’ll turn in early and head to Birmingham in the morning.

It’s definitely going to be an interesting week. Aside from being alone for the first time in my life on Christmas Eve I’m not sure what my plans are going to be for this weekend. I got home from being on the road this weekend to find that Nanook had a pretty serious rash on his belly that he’s licked all the hair off of that area and the skin is infected. Anyway, I decided that now was the time to take both the dogs to the vet for a check-up, their vaccinations, and to get that rash looked at. Niki has a 100% clean bill of health, and so does Nanook with the exception of the rash. The rash is actually the mange and the sore spot on his belly is a full blown infection for which he now has to take oral antibiotics for the next two weeks. Also, part of the treatment for the mange was that he had to get a bath with medicated shampoo, then he had to be dipped. One of the side effects of having the dip that he got is that he is not allowed to be bathed or get wet at all for the next two weeks, when he gets to do it again and two weeks later when he gets to do it AGAIN. So Nanook get’s to be an inside dog for atleast the next six weeks.

So, between having to be inside and having to take medicine for the next two weeks twice a day I pretty much have to either be home or he has to come with me. Not necessarily a good idea either way. Not sure what to do.

Anyway, this is shaping up to be a not so great Christmas. To top it all off Nanook and Niki cost me a huge amount of money today. I guess I should say that Nanook cost me an obscene amount of money and Niki was rather reasonable.