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29.7.11 Ali Moore 0 Comments

I'm enjoying my second of two days off this week and loving every minute of it.  I went for a run, had breakfast in bed, shopped, got caught up on Teen Mom and am about to hit up the spa for some more me time then meet up with Andrew at the pool.

I know - sounds amazing and like I am very spoiled.

Guilty, but I also think this is well deserved after the Tuesday I had with Franklin.  

I alluded to that terrible day on the book of face, but here are the dirty, dirty details.  Those with weak stomachs, maybe just skim the pics and move on.  Because this is real life and lately our life is gross.  Mainly my life since Andrew was already at work and would have never made it out of this without throwing up at least once.  For being a farm kid, his skills at handling puke/spit up/poop/etc. are pretty disappointing.
I can't wait until we have kids!

I woke up late and decided to take Frank on a quick walk to at least get him out of the house before I got ready for work and headed in to the office.  We were just about two blocks from home when he lunged for this old Ziploc bag of food that had been leaning up against a tree in someone's front yard.  I immediately yank his leash over and try to get the bag out of his mouth.  He has clamped down soo hard that it doesn't budge. 
Instead it rips and brown liquid and mush fall out.  

WITH MAGGOTS.

Awesome.

The worst smell I have ever smelt is being wafted up, and I am gagging and trying to get this away from Franklin,
getting it all over his nose and mouth and my hands.  

Gag, gag, gag.

Whatever was someone's lunch or snack weeks ago (that has sat out in 100+ temps all this time) is rancid and covering us.
By this time, I'm giving up that I'm ever going to get the bag away from him.

So, he swallows it, the brown mush and maggots whole.  

Talk about breakfast of champions.

I am cursing him under my breath the rest of the way home in between gagging and dry heaving. 
As I'm carrying a bag of poop in one maggoty hand and his leash in another.

We immediately go to the backyard so he can get a bath.

I shower, get ready for work, call in for my status meeting instead of heading to the office and then call the vet.  Just as I suspected, he needs to come in.  I was not going to risk that dang baggie getting stuck in his insides and then having to pay for surgery to get it out later.

Instead, Franklin got an injection to help him throw up and spent four hours at the vet's office.

When I went to pick him up that afternoon, the staff told me as I had barely gotten through the door that whatever came up was very disgusting.  Bag and all.  They had to take breaks and come up to the front of the office to get away from the smell.

Dr. Dugan said it was definitely in her Top 10 most disgusting things she's ever seen.

That's my boy.

Little guy was so excited to see me and ran straight inside once we got home.

And then did this for the rest of the day.

Anyone want to adopt a 2-year old white lab?

Just kidding.  Kind of.

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Good Weekend

19.7.11 Ali Moore 0 Comments

Who knew July 16th would be such a popular weekend for weddings?  I was back in Hiawatha for Halley's wedding, Andrew was in Manhattan for Matt and Jenny's wedding, and when I got home and checked Facebook there were at least three other weddings that popped up on my news feed.  

I was sad I wasn't able to be in Manhappiness too, but I almost felt like I had been there when I saw the photo strip Andrew brought back.  

Notice the stain that shows up on Andrew's shirt in the last frame.  (Thanks, Heath.)

Good use of props.  Good bro love.  Good weekend.

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Red-White-Blue

5.7.11 Ali Moore 1 Comments

Hope everyone had a great time celebrating the red, white and blue this past holiday weekend!

 After helping my brother and sister-in-law move into their new house, seeing our friends' new baby, Hannah (only four days old!), taking Hannah's dad to the ER after he sliced his thumb open on an outdoor security sign, and logging a bazillion hours on the road this past month (I've been in Wichita for a full weekend only once since May), we are exhausted. 

I slept in and both Andrew and I took a much-needed nap before we went to the pool yesterday afternoon.  Frank did too.  
He is not one to pass up a good nap.

Took it easy last night and had our own fireworks fun with just a couple of packs of sparklers and a camera. 

My kind of Monday night.  :)

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Awesome/Horrible

1.7.11 Ali Moore 4 Comments

This is equally horrible and awesome. 

The awesome part:

I submitted Andrew and I to participate in this a-mazing contest to be part of the Don't Give Up Project - this amazing photographer's bootcamp type of weekend where you interact with other photographers and learn about yourself, about others and how to put more meaning into your photographs.

Yep, awesome, and I want to go.

The horrible part:

To enter, we had to submit pictures of ourselves (Andrew and I).  Okay, that's not so bad.

BUT.

Then I had to combine our pictures to see what our offspring would look like. 

And, now I don't want to have kids.

Alindrew is sooooo CREEPY!

But, as creepy as he/she is, we need your votes to get us into the Don't Give Up Project.

SO - if you like me a lot...or even if you like me just a little and maybe this picture made you laugh a whole lot...please CLICK HERE and leave a comment at the end of the blogpost to vote for us and all of our creepiness.  Do it now, do it only once, but do it before the end of Monday.

Many thanks.

Happy 4th!

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