A Twist of Things to Come

You heard me. What? It's not the day you wash your dog? But, it's Thursday!!

Seriously, our dog gets a bath every Thursday, plus medicine morning and evening, because she has mange. Luckily, it's not the sort that can infect people, and we caught it very early. She is a very bushy dog, so you can't even see the one hot spot with missing hair (about silver dollar sized), but she was losing the hair on one eyelid, which is how we caught it.

She submits well enough to bathing, but we muzzle her for it to be safe. (Her name IS "Bitey" remember?) Turns out that was a good thing, too. When I was trying to dry her off (it ain't easy -- she's got a lot of hair) she tried to nip my ear. I knew she was sensitive about her neck area, but she was so good last week that I foolishly assumed she'd be fine this week, too.

See, Bitey has PTSD, and hands around her neck area are a trigger for her, which makes petting her or letting her interact with people interesting. Still, in our loving environment she has begun to relax and, for the most part, be safe and act like a reasonably un-traumatized dog. We don't know the detail sof her abuse because we took her in as a stray, but there's the neck thing, a tendency to cringe around toy or air guns, and a fear of rope. Not leads or what have you, but anything that looks like rope.

Just having her around is a risk, of course, but she has never offered to bite the kids and is super obedient and fun. Just, yanno, don't touch the neck. Plus, I'm in kind of a unique position to appreciate the value of beings with slight irregularities. ;D

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Working through some Premiere Pro stuff. Brain has not exploded. Yet. I certainly hope to be up to speed on it soon.

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Cleaned the kitchen. Scrubbed the stove and everything. Collected some clothes to donate. Folded laundry. Planning on making cookies later.

Generally a perky, getting stuff done sort of day. Went to lunch with my Beloved for the first time in ages (just the two of us). Ran into a friend of my Beloved's, who commented on the fact that we were holding hands and called us "lovebirds, after all these years."

*snicker* You don't know the half of it, jack!

Also, I was really pleased with my skin and make-up today. I've been moisturizing with this really thick vitamin E oil, which is a bit of a pain because my hair gets stuck in it. Generally I do it at night and sometimes a dab in the mornings. Not only is my skin no longer dry, but it's looking really fresh. The make-up thing... I often struggle with wearing eyeliner or eye make-up. I think I need a bit of definition there, but I'm never really sure how to do it because of the Asian slant/fold of my eyelids.