Snow and Beds

Snow in Memphis is a pretty rare thing. Well, rare, meaning it only happens in the winter - pretty much every winter we see some snow, but not a lot. It's fairly early for it to be snowing the first week of January, but anyway... it DID snow last night!

Not only did it snow and all the schools were closed today.. (no work for me, then!!) but our brand new bed was delivered promptly at 9:00am, exactly 2 minutes after we woke up. Haha.

Dr. H and I have been sleeping on a California King bed since we were married, five years ago. Actually, he's had the bed since 2004, a whole year before we were married. Since we both are folks of festive plumpedness, (a new word!!) we were in dire need of a new bed. A king size Serta Perfect Sleeper Euro Top bed has officially joined the family!

Last night in preparation, he "made us" move the other bed to the guest room, which I thought was quite ludacris since the movers were very much going to be able to move our current bed to the location we wanted it, take any old beds with them, and place our new bed in our bedroom! "Not so!," cried Dr. Harrell! So around 10pm last evening, we cleared the old queen size out of the guest room, propped it up in the dining room, (Julie, come get this bed!!) and then quickly realized that in fact, no, that bed frame will not expand out to hold our California King bed that was henceforth coming into that room. Oh my. What to do? Just put the dang bed on the floor! (You can take the girl out of Lauderdale County, but you can't take the Lauderdale County outta the girl !!)

We made our huge Cali King up (on the floor with no bed frame.. lol) and slept quite nicely in there, after all, that used to be the master bedroom! Jack assumed his normal position at the foot of the bed on his dog cushy. I think the whole process thoroughly confused him, though. The guest room is also HIS room during times when we have to leave him home alone, (His kennel is in there.) and I think he thought we wanted him to sleep in his kennel or something. Brad said he didn't sleep too good because Jack didn't sleep too good. I slept fine except when I woke straight up at 5:30 wanting to know if it had snowed or not and whether or not schools were open.

Obviously I went back to sleep, because I woke up again at 9am, just like I do everyday by my internal clock, to the sound of a large truck outside the bedroom window! "Its's 9:00!!," I yell, at which point I then yell, "They're here!!!" With lots of gusto Brad jumps out of bed and says, "Where's my clothes??" I throw them at him, grab Jack, to try and corral him in the office, and then the phone rings. Brad is trying so hard to pull his clothes on, and I get Jack in the office only to find that the phone is missing! Where's the phone?!?!? (It was the movers trying to call and let us know "they're on the way," when in fact, they were in the @&$^#& driveway !!)

Anyway, to make a long story short, the bed was delivered and set up. We ate breakfast and then began to sit in the office and work on our computers when we looked up and couldn't find Jack. Where was he?

Yup - piled up (which he knows he isn't supposed to do) on the big bed that is now at his perfect height (since there's no frame) in "his" room.

Hmmm... dogs. They think they know everything. Haha

Freezing

Today is the second day of 2010. (I began this post on January 2nd.) It is also the last day of the Harrells' Holiday Hiatus from all things hellish such as teaching lessons, school, and work. Big sad face here. :(

But! Got some things done today and had some fun too.. We did end up taking Thurston to the vet the other day. Turns out, his platelets were very low and he had been bleeding from his gums for atleast 3 days. Poor little thing. He was wiped out. Doc prescribed him a few scripts, namely, put his little ass on some steroids, and in 12 short hours, the little man was back on his feet!

This morning was the follow-up appointment with the doctor, and all is well that ends well with Thurston. He's perfectly fine. 

Julie, you.. know... the GMOP, (Godmother Of the Pup.) met us at our MOST FAVORITE breakfast joint in the entire country this morning after Thurston came and went, (yeah, of course he went back home with my mom and therefore is now 'Noodle..') and then she and I went trasping off to the mall to do some after-Christmas Christmas shopping, then to her house to get her two boys (a Bull Mastiff, Argus; and a Rodesian Ridgeback, Romie) only to come back to our place to get Jack and head to the dog park for a nice afternoon stroll in the sub-zero temperatures. Oi.

I literally froze my legs and my bum off. The things we do...