Oh my gosh! It's April 15th and where have I been? My work is increasing and spring has sprung here in southwest Virginia, and I haven't blogged in a week! I really hadn't blogged much before that last entry either. Lots of stuff going on...

Well, Sir Bentley is doing good; he is taking his medicine like a good doggie, and he seems to be holding his own regarding the heart condition. Miss Jesse is adjusting to the new dog food we have them on; finally! Whew...

Pickle is really just so happy to be here with the doggies. He actually thinks he is the same as they. Lots of funny things go on here between the two dogs and Mr. Pickle. I really should have sent some stuff in to funniest home videos through the years, with these three stooges...Pickle loves Bentley to distraction, and Bentley constantly growls when Pickle comes near, but at the end of the day, those two sleep very close to one another in our bed with us. Sometimes Jesse and Pickle come in contact with each other and they just stop and do a staredown...then the damn cat jumps over her back, turns toward her and starts cleaning her ears. It's just the kind of stuff you really have to see...

I graduated from the Crisis Intervention Training last week, same as the 14 cops who attended all week. It was pretty cool stuff actually. I was able to interact with the officers in a relaxed setting, where I had the opportunity to see them as human. We had a great week together as the staff of our community service board and I, taught the officers some tricks of the trade, in working with those who deal with mental illness everyday of their lives. We all took part in skit activities chosen from real situations that happened with clients in the past. We had a lot of fun and it was all very serious at the same time. Now I can say I have played cards with the cops...woo-hoo! We literally did have a card game going on one of the days. It was a game where everyone playing had a different set of rules to follow. The purpose of the thing was to teach about the many aspects of a variety of different cultures with different socio-economic backgrounds, etc...and we had to do it all without speaking. Damn that was hard for me!

We are having potato soup and corn muffins for dinner tonight. It's a little chilly here today, so I thought soup was a good choice. Of course, I will enjoy the corn muffins. Sam will probably eat a peanut butter sandwich with his soup; or some such silly thing as that.

I am agitated to say the least, regarding our two democratic candidates running hard for their place in the oval office. What concerns me is they both are in agreement on so many of the same issues, and yet they continue digging away at each other. Oh I know, it's politics, and it's about winning the game right now. I just feel the focus needs to be on the seriousness of what we all are facing in this country; and that my friends, is not a game. Guess I'm just tired of it now, and ready to move it up a notch...

I'm trying once again, to organize my computer room. This place has been a real uphill battle for me; mainly because when I start to get things the way I want them to be in here, my beloved husband throws a monkey wrench into the project. Well, it may actually not be a monkey wrench, but my Sam has lots of tools and shit, and he feels comfortable making the computer room his catch-all for stuff quite often. No matter how much I threaten to trash whatever things of his I happen to come across in here, the result is always the same. He's good about it for awhile when I bitch and moan, and then....well, you know the rest of the story...I am back to finding his stuff all over the place again. Sam is anything but an organized individual; and that just makes me crazier than I would be if I didn't take prozac, ya'll!

I mailed a package of newborn clothing to our daughter's friend who had a baby a few months back. I really love shopping for baby stuff, even though I have never shopped for my own baby. I always get such a kick outta' the cool outfits that are out there now for boys, as well as girls. And, the little tiny socks just kill me...

Gonna' go finish adding some touches to dinner I suppose. Tell me how you have been...???