Sad and Lonely Valentine's Day

OK, this sucks! The photo above pretty much sums up my day today. Karlo is travelling and not only left me all alone on Valentine's Day, but also for the nasty "snice" (that would be snow and ice) storm. How nice. I "worked from home" today and I think I redefined the term. Not only am I working for my job, but I'm busting my tail shoveling the driveway. So far I've been out there 3 times and I'm losing the battle. I wanted to try to keep up with it so it's not a solid block of ice when Karlo gets home. And by the looks of the flight cancellations, he will be lucky to get home tomorrow night. He was supposed to be home tonight :-( boo hoo

So I'm sitting here sad, sore, and lonely. I think I killed my back and if it hurts this much now, I fear what tomorrow will bring. And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is the loneliness. There are no boys in the house! As if not having Karlo around isn't bad enough, I had to drop Bentley off at the vet last night. He was supposed to have one of his toes amputated. God, I hate that word. It broke my heart to leave him there last night. Lately his paw has been great and here I go, dropping him off to spend two nights in a cage and get ripped open. I just didn't feel good about it and it killed me.

Boy was I surprised when the vet called me today to say that she decided NOT to cut his toe off just yet. She agreed that he seemed to be doing much better and changed her diagnosis about the toe having a tumor in it. We decided to wait until his next flare up to cut him open. Why make him miserable when he's doing good? So now it's sleeting and I'm afraid to drive and go get him. For positively no good reason, my poor dog is alone in a cage when I'm home missing him.

So here we sit . . . me and Peanut . . . missing Karlo and Bentley (our Valentines). sniff sniff