Ups and Downs!

Well the last two weeks has been completely filled with great great great ups....and some seriously serious downs.  Last thursday was when everything started.  I feel like my brain is kind of ready to explode when I think about all that had happened.

So to get to the point, I woke up thursday morning, and spent the morning hours applying to all sorts of jobs.....as I had done every morning.  At approx 11:30 am I got a phone call from one of the jobs that I had applied to the previous day.  The phone call lasted all of 10 minutes, it was kind of like a.....HI is this laurin...yes yes it is......im so and so from this place and got your resume and would really like to set up and interview......then he says...well are you available today?  I go....uh yea!  So at 1:30pm I was sitting in Roberts office, telling him what an amazing employee I would be! :)  This was absolutley wonderful!
Obviously I was more profesional in my answers, on the phone and during the interview.  It was really really great, i felt so good when i left my interview and i was super excited about that opportunity.  He basically told me that he would let me know the next day what his plan was. 

So, i left there, then went home, picked up Andrew and Tex and took Tex to the vet. He had been acting sad and gloomy and cry-y and SUPER lazy, and limpy. So we decided to take him to figure out what was wrong. Andrews diagnosis was that he injured something on his left hind leg because of the way he was favoring it. We get to our vet....who is wonderful by the way, and he examines our little man.  Basically he said....well we need to take xrays, he thought that Tex had popped his hip out of socket cause his hip was swollen.  So....an hour later, we enter into the xray room, and.....the worst xrays ever lay in front of us.  Dr. Oden (the vet) says, well little Tex has SEVERE HIP DYSPLASIA. :(  This is something that dogs dont typically show signs on till mid to late years, after a life full of using and working the hips.  But Tex was born with this horrible trait.  If you dont know what it is.......think of it like this, make a fist with you right hand and then cup it with your left hand.  This is like your hip bone in its socket and you can move pretty freely in the socket.  Well, that is  normal. Tex has no socket....and no fist.  Hes got a tiny inward crescent where his hip bone is resting flat on it.  bone on bone. this equals puppy in pain!  so...what do we do..?  He is now on anti inflamitories to reduce swelling therefore reducing pain, and also joint lubricants. And we have to keep him super active to keep his muscles strong.  Andrew and I decided that as long as we can manage his pain....we wont put him down, he doesnt deserve to be in pain forever.  So thats where we stand with that....Both andrew and I were pretty sad when we left the vet, and just kinda wanted to get home and.......zone out. 

Well to make matters worse, on our way home Andrew got pulled over for speeding! (62 in a 50)  It was so dumb....we were both kinda numb at this point so it was like...ok bring it on i guess.  Then we get home, and finally just sit on the couch for a while when I get a phone call from ROBERT (the guy I just interviewed with). He went on to say that he really liked me and that he wanted me to do a working interview on monday, and that if that went well then I had the job (and also I was to send him some references) So I was totally stoked about this!!!!!!  Andrew and I were pretty darned excited. 

In the next like 15 minutes, my mom called.......she went on to say that she was in the car with my dad and aunt and they were headed to monterey CA, where my Great Aunt Ruth lives (my dads aunt, but really my dad was like her son).  She went onto say that Aunt Ruth was in the hospital and the Dr. didnt think that she was going to make it through the night. I basically just kinda broke at this point, I just cried.......and had to get it out. I felt better afterward.  Just so you are aware.....Aunt Ruth was very old, and had a wonderful life and her body was just finished, and it was her time to go.  She actually passed away on sunday night, pain free. Its just so hard to let go, and losing two family members in less than 20 days is a lot to take.  (sadly my dads brother passed away just before christmas).......it was kinda like......AHHHHHHH!!!! 

The next day I think I stayed in my pjs till around 2, till i got up the nerve to take Tex out for his needed walk.  It was so helpful to talk with both my sisters, although when the second I hear their voices I break down in tears, they know what to say to build me back up.  Thank goodness for them! I love them so much, and I love how well they know me, and know that I need them!

So....ugh....right?  Now its sunday, and Andrew and I went shopping to buy me some dress clothes for my new job! (thinking optimistically). Monday comes and I was so nervous, I got to the place 15 minutes early and had to call andrew before I walked in so he could help calm me down.  I walked in at 8:30 and in like 3 minutes it was 5pm and time for me to leave.  The day was so great and went by so fast.  I was so happy!  Basically the boss told me that he thought I was a perfect fit, and that I would be signing papers on tuesday. SO.....yesterday I signed my life away, and.....Officially have a job! WOOHOO!!!....what it is will come later. :)

What an intense new year already...........