I am so pressed for time...

I am so pressed for time (my class starts at 10!) so I apologize for not responding to comments individually.  I'll be off the air while in class (runs from 10 - 2), so unfortunately I won't know anything else to share after this update until this afternoon.  🙁

Scooter made it through surgery, but his prognosis is guarded, at best.  He lost his spleen and a lot of blood.  The tumor was HUGE.  It must have been growing fast because the vet examined him pretty thoroughly just two months ago.  I started feeling it over the weekend so I don't think it was always there.  Shaun got a photo.  Maybe he'll post it in the comments so as not to spam people who are sensitive to things like that - I don't know.  You can always just message him if you want to see it.

Anyway.  Scoot's old, he was very underweight, and just all around not doing so well, so we have no idea if he's going to pull through or not.  I'm rooting for my old man, of course.  I love him so much and I have no idea how I'm supposed to concentrate on anything but him today, but worrying accomplishes nothing, so maybe class will keep me distracted.

And with that, I'm off.  Send some good vibes to my old man, please.  I didn't get the feeling that he was ready to give up yet, so if he's fighting then I am, too.  ❤❤❤

Scoot's in surgery.

Scoot's in surgery. He's got a tumor. We're waiting to find out what it's attached to. We loved him up in case he doesn't wake up. The vet said that he was in pain and I can't have that. We stayed with him until he was sedated. I didn't want him to feel abandoned.

I feel really overwhelmed and sad.

I feel really overwhelmed and sad. I had plans to visit family in Munford today. Everyone is cooking out and it sounds delicious. But, I have a Biology test tomorrow. And Scooter is still hanging in there. I don't want to be away from him, but I'm also having a very hard time thinking about anything but him so studying has not been productive. So I am having a bad day. 🙁

I'm not leaving. Mom is bringing me food and picking up Shadow. I'm going to try my best to study. And Scooter has a doctor appointment tomorrow after my test. I will get him in earlier if he looks worse. The timing of all of this is horrible.

My chest hurts from laughing...

My chest hurts from laughing at my offspring. We're sitting up watching The Office and he's been playing with a balloon. Well, it popped. I looked over at him because I was shocked by the noise. All he could say (in the most monotone voice) is "Wow. I'm sad." 😂😂😂

Me and the kid are in the floor with a shaking, cowering pile of dogs.

Me and the kid are in the floor with a shaking, cowering pile of dogs.  I'm on Facebook, rapidly approving lost and found posts in Happy Tails Lost & Found Pets of Calhoun County.  This is how we spend Fourth of July.

If you have pets and haven't yet secured them and assured their safety - please do it now if they haven't run away in terror.  If you can't find them, post them ASAP.  We have just shy of 5000 members in the local area so maybe your fur-child can be found before it's run over by a car.  Don't mean to be a damper on everyone's party, but seriously - take care of the innocents in your charge - this evening and always.

Thank you.

I feel like I've been posting a lot today.

I feel like I've been posting a lot today.  I should be studying for my Biology test that is on Tuesday, but I don't think I can concentrate right now.  So, I wanted to talk about the internet.  Cable One as a provider, specifically.

So you might remember last summer when my data usage spiked and I eventually got upgraded from the $50 plan to the $80 plan because we exceeded 300 gigs of data 3 times in a row.  Our plan is now 400 gigs a month, and of course we went over THAT the first month that Shadow was out of school for the summer.

After A LOT of troubleshooting I figured out what was causing our overages.  In a word:  YOUTUBE.

We have Netflix and Hulu and Shadow games online, but since cutting off access to YouTube at the router, we've not even come close to our limit for the month.  We have Netflix set on a lower quality setting.  That didn't change much.  I started turning the internet off for 7 hours a night and that also didn't do much.  Even with YouTube set on standard playback it didn't change it enough.

For now I've got YouTube totally blocked.  I think I'll keep it that way until this billing cycle is up.  Then I will probably allow access (via parental controls at the router) to it for maybe 30 minutes a day.  I'll see how that impacts our usage.  For the record I'm not blaming it all on Shadow.  I love nail art videos, though admittedly I have much less time to sit around watching than he does.

Anyway.  I just thought that anyone out there who is having issues with Cable One might be interested to know how we are handling it.  Of course Cable One is no help because they want money so it took us a lot of trial and error to get this figured out.  Since Corporate Greed really chaps my ass I'm sharing with the world.  Feel free to do the same.  Keep in mind that if they upgraded you and you don't want it, after 3 months of not going over your limit you can tell them to bump you back down to the lower-priced service.  They can't keep charging you for something that you aren't using.

Went to Tractor Supply. Picked out a bone for Scooter.

Went to Tractor Supply. Picked out a bone for Scooter. He wasn't interested. He seems to prefer the kind I bought him before this one so I'll grab more of those later. 

I am not SUPER worried that he didn't want that bone. He felt well enough to snatch Booka's Pupperoni. 😂 That made me happy. My good little bad dog. 🙂