Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Gifts that keep on giving....



 

It was my birthday! I turned 28 this year! I have been looking forward to this particular birthday for as long as I can remember.

28 is probably the hugest milestone of my life and I did it! I turned 28! And the craziest part is that I did it while I was asleep!

Impressed? I know, it's incredible that the annoying saying "I could do it in my sleep" just got really real.


Sadly, the day after my birthday I discovered I had gotten an unwelcome gift. I came down with a horrendous coldflubug that I am still fighting off. I am much better today than I was this time last week. I was so weak I couldn't even blog!

Keeping on the topic of gifts...As you may know,  I stole was gifted Blade by my parents over a year ago. He is the best dog ever, I love him so much. However, since I took Blade as my own I noticed that my dad's gift giving began to take an eerie change.

It went from Kindles and Flip Cams to THIS:

Birthday Gift of 2011



and then this year I got THIS: 

Birthday Gift of 2012

(I hope my use of a larger font has served my intention of subliminally heightening the drastic-ness of the situation)

Maybe these are things I NEED but it sends a loud message: TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR/MY DOG! Even though Blade is MY dog (my dad just borrows him for hunting). In fact, they have been training every weekend in the woods for the past month or so. And guess what happened??? The weekend after my birthday I picked up THIS!

My poor little pup had to get stitches! He was attacked in the woods! By a vicious tree, or branch, or rock, or something.

(did telling you about the subliminal bolded bigger font thing make it lose it's effect?)

Luckily Blade has recovered well from the tree/branch/rock bite and is back to normal. Though he does seem to be milking the attention a little bit more than usual.

Usual cute attention seeking behavior:


Post "the accident" severe cute attention seeking behavior:



I know what you are thinking! Look at how much more Blade is trying to look cute now that he is wearing that cast!

Anyway, thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes and gifts! It couldn't have been a better birthday (except for getting sick....so I guess it could have been a better...but that happened the day after my birthday so it probably doesn't count). yay!

Happy Wednesday!