Let me tell you bunnies, I think raising my ADHD knucklehead was excellent preparation for this guide-dog puppy raising!

Thankfully the puppy sleeps more than my knucklehead ever did…

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Volt has finally moved into my house, and you can read all about our guide-dog puppy raising adventure here:

Angel’s Furbabies

Oh go on, admit it!

When last did YOU do some of these?!?!

You Should Have a Purple Christmas Tree

For you, the holidays represent a time of creativity and expression.  There’s no way you’d do something bland simply for tradition’s sake.You are an independent person, and you definitely do the holidays your own way. And you’re decadent enough to go way over the top with any unusual holiday ideas you have. Your purple tree would look great with: Purple lights and ornaments You should spend Christmas Eve watching: A Christmas Story What you should bake for Santa: “Kitchen sink” cookies – with a ton of things in them.

Your Cupcake Says You Are Your Own Biggest Fan

At parties, you tend to like to stick to your core group of friends. You don’t venture out and meet new people. You hardly have any restraint. You only hold yourself back when absolutely necessary. The most important thing in your life is fun. You are dominant, vain, and a bit of a show off. To know you is to worship you.

You Are an “A-OK”

Your life philosophy can be summed up as, “Whatever will be, will be.”Your greatest wish is to live each day a little better than the next.You are naturally calm and stable. Some people would call you a rock.  You feel one with the world. You are a spiritual person, though no one who knows you would guess it.

Your Dosha is Pitta

You have a quick mind, a gift for persuasion, and a sharp sense of humor.You have both the drive and people skills to be a very successful leader.  Argumentative and a bit stubborn, you have been known to be a little too set in your ways. But while you may be biased toward your own point of view, you are always honest, fair, and ethical.With friends: You are outgoing and open to anyone who might want to talk to you In love: You are picky but passionate To achieve more balance: Be less judgmental of those around you, and take cool walks in the moonlight.

You Would Be an Upstanding Superhero

You are alert and observant. You can see through people easily. You know who’s evil and who’s good.You need a lot of freedom in your life. You like to do your own thing, and you don’t fit into any normal mold.You understand people quite well and often know what others are thinking. Because of this, you can get people to do what you want.  You tend to feel apart from the rest of the world. You don’t really fit in, and you don’t try to! You are a true intellectual. You are thirsty for knowledge, and you are curious about the world.

You Are a Chocolate Cheesecake

Rich and greedy, you’re attracted to the dark side of life. Nothing ever quite satisfies your inner beast. And somehow, people find that sexy.

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 8/10 correct!

You Are “Wrapping Presents”

You are a whimsical and fun person during the holidays. It’s important to you that Christmas is amazing, down to the littlest details. You are talented at creating a picture perfect Christmas, and you put everyone else to shame with your present wrapping skills.You think that the holidays are about getting all the little things right. A sloppy present can ruin the magic of it all!

Mine sucked and I don’t want a do-over for love or money!

Usually, my Fridays are a crazy busy day full of baking and mixing icing and decorating cupcakes and order collections and such, so this last week was very strange for me as Friday was a holiday.

On Friday morning, my Glugster took the knucklehead to work (sucks that he had to work on a public holiday), and then we set off to complete a few chores. After finding a new pipe for the Kreepy but not having much luck with other stuff ‘coz so many shops were closed, we went and had a relaxed brunch – just the two of us. This is something we haven’t done in I don’t know how long and it was wonderful!

Then we went home to do the stuff we had allocated to the day, and my day went rapidly south! This is going to be a long ass description of much misery and disappointment so if you actually read the whole thing I will be impressed. Feel free to click away now. ‘Tis the season, after all.

A little while after we got home and after the Kreepy Krauly was working again, my Glugster called me and said there was something wrong with the koi pond.

Up until yesterday morning I had 8 beautiful koi of varying colours and sizes, and a goldfish in a pond in the garden. Every weekend we refill the pond because the water evaporates. Yesterday, my hubby put the hose in and forgot about it and by the time he remembered all the gloriously balanced pond water had been replaced with toxic tap water and the fish were suffocating! We spent the next hour or so (I don’t know how long it was) de-chlorinating the water and trying to keep the koi moving so they could get cleaner water over their gills. After that hour or so we were dripping wet, stank of pond and had 4 dead koi and a dead goldfish. The three biggest koi and the smallest one were still moving of their own volition albeit sluggishly, and we were hopeful they would be okay.

Then my knucklehead arrived home from work several hours earlier than he should have and announced that he had resigned.

Fantastic.

Not.

We went and had a shower to get the pond stink off of us, and then spent an entertaining hour watching Minx and Greebo trying to call a lizard down off the kitchen wall!

Then I went out to check on the pond again and the middle sized orange and white koi had died as well. Now the two biggest ones and the littlest ones were all that remained. I was too afraid to go back and look again!

My mommy darling then called asking if we wanted to pop in for coffee and I burst into tears when I told her my knucklehead is now unemployed and I’d lost my beautiful koi!

On the way to my folks’ place, I got a call from SAGA telling me I can’t fetch Volt (our guide-dog puppy) on Monday anymore because he and his litter-mates are on a course of antibiotics and I can now only fetch him when they’re done, which is after Christmas.

I nearly broke down again right there!

After a whisky and a bit of a chat at my mommy and daddy darling’s house I started feeling a wee bit better, and when it got dark we decided to take ourselves off to Lawley Street to see the Christmas lights as my folks had never been.

When we got back, our car’s left from “slow puncture” was no longer slow, and my daddy darling, da Bruvva and my very sunburnt Glugster spent over an hour changing the massive Navara wheel!

We eventually got home after 11!

Finally!