Update on life

So... it's been a little rough lately.

I'm almost done with my first round of midterms and I cannot wait until Thursday is over!  Midterms haven't been difficult, but the studying has been.  My cohort and I are notorious for studying too hard; I guess we believe you can never be too prepared?

On the bright side I'm enjoying the NFL and Fantasy Football.  Who else watched the Vikings/Packers game Sunday? AMAZING!  Brett Favre was like public enemy No. 1 to me at the beginning of the game (dirty married man..), but I have to admit he is a bad ass.  Playing through a messed up ankle and almost pulling out a win!  Ridiculous.  If that was his last game ever, I think he can still be proud that he gave his all.

While I've been studying nonstop for midterm after midterm, I have also been taking care of two sick dogs.  Even though I have had the help of my mom and dad (my brother's been in Japan for the past 2 weeks--the worst part of the sickness) it has been very difficult. 

Someone thinks she is a model!

The dogs before it got BAD.  You can see the pain in Junior's eyes...

Although the little one (Rosie - Little Miss Cow) is back to 100%, my oldest dog Junior (12 years old) has been fighting for his life!  After a very long at-home attempt to get him well (and a veterinarian change), he had a 5-night stay at a new veterinarian's hospital because NOTHING was working.  We finally have him home and he is improving every day, little by little, but he is still fighting a life-threatening infection.  Our first doctor was completely inept, but our second doctor has been a godsend!  He was aggressive with treatment, and it's been working.  We'd practically given up hope before the new doc came into the picture!

I do support adopting from animal shelters, but be aware of kennel cough (an upper respiratory infection that is VERY common in shelter dogs).  It is a BITCH to get rid of in older dogs, so keep your new dog away from your old dog until you KNOW kennel cough will not be an issue (10-day incubation period before it reveals itself).  

Rosie is young and strong so she fought it in a week or two, but Junior has been fighting it for at least a month, and he isn't completely out of the water.

Let's hope the little guy gets better!

Rosie

My family had two dogs from when I was about 10 years old until I was around 21.  A few years ago we had to put down our oldest dog Nina due to congestive heart failure.  Since then our male dog Junior has been alone (but enjoying it), and we kept saying to each other, "NO MORE DOGS!"

Well, my brother rescued a dog a week ago.... but, we turned her into a shelter just in case her owners were looking for her.  Also because we promised each other: "NO MORE DOGS!"  As the days passed we all realized how much we missed her, and finally broke down and decided to adopt her! 

It was not a simple process, though.  First of all, she was actually promised to another family who visited the shelter after we dropped her off.  They were supposed to pick her up Monday night between 4 pm and 7 pm, but failed to show!  Due to that, we had the opportunity to adopt her, and we were so ecstatic!!

Here is the gorgeous new dog we were so happy to bring home:

And here she is with my mom and Junior.  They were all so tuckered out!

93.

This weekend was mostly spend studying, but Saturday was pretty fun!

Pick up game prior to the 20-year old meanies joining them.

Darryl and some of his uncles and cousins decided to play basketball at a park in Irvine before their great uncle's 93rd birthday bash.  Despite their team consisting of three guys aged 50+, two middle-agers, and one 24-year old, they kicked the asses of these five 20-something guys three times!!!  Granted, the middle-agers play weekly in leagues consisting of a few retired NBA and D-1 college players, haha.  Those 20-year olds were PISSED, especially this one Chinese guy wearing a religious shirt (who was rude, unfair, and not "Christian" at all).  God and the bible taught you to act like rude, whiny, disrespectful, and violent cry babies?

Another pick up game prior to the 20-year old meanies :)

Break time.

The trash-talking side of me came out in front of some of Darryl's relatives, but thankfully they didn't mind!  Darryl even got mad at one of the guys.  That NEVER happens!  This shows you how rude these guys were.

After they cleaned up (and two showers broke, yikes), we were all off to a beautiful house in Newport Beach.  Apparently Kobe lives in their neighborhood.... dayum!

Yummy food was eaten, stories were told, presents were opened, and cards were played.  It was a good weekend!

Awesome 4th of July!

As usual, my house was jam packed with relatives and friends as we celebrated the 4th of July with tons of delicious food and illegal fireworks.  We're slowly getting toddlers into the mix after a little more than a decade of only teens and adults.  It was a 4th of July to remember for my brother's friend's adorable son!

The little guy :)

The other block's illegals.  Not a great picture; fireworks are hard to capture!

I have no pictures of our illegal fireworks (just our legal ones), but I took a video of our neighboring block's illegals.  Gorgeous, but, not as good as ours!  :)

Busy bee

So much stuff has been going on lately! It's mostly fun stuff, though.

4th of July was quite some time ago but it was really good. Lots of good food, family, friends, and beautiful illegal fireworks. All of my favorite foods are served together one day a year (chicken katsu, somen salad, copious amount of desserts, bean dip, korean sushi, etc.), and I am looking forward to next year's 4th of July already!!

Darryl had his last weekend of real freedom for the next five weeks :( But at least we got to spend it finding out the conclusion to Harper's Island haha. I don't think anyone other than us watches that... Mmm and we had Souplantation and Fosselman's ice cream! I'm glad that Darryl and I both love food haha.

A few of us visited Hanna out in the desert! Loma Linda isn't that bad :) It's just super super hot! Be safe in the Galapagos Islands!

I also just got back (like an hour ago) from the AMAZING Incubus concert at the Hollywood Bowl. My camera sucks so I didn't take any pictures, but I recorded part of their encore on my phone. I also randomly had seats right in front of a friend from UCLA, and I saw a bunch of people I knew while in the concert or right outside of it. Brandon Boyd's voice is so amazing live. It might even be better than the CD.... so talented!

I know there is more that I am forgetting to post, but that's my fault for being so sporadic with my posting.

I can't believe Kacey's going to leave for Japan in less than 2 weeks!!! Must go to Porto's once before you leave!