Random ramblings..

I am out of words these days.. sorta a quiet season for me. I am happy. I am contented. There are things to do. There are things to plan and prepare for. There is peace in my heart too. I relish this peace I have.

My fingers, they ache occasionally and today it sorta froze (much like a cramp) when I carried something that were too heavy or "wrongly" in one hand. It was a sharp pain, followed by inability to manipulate my middle finger. I guess I was just too fast for my own hand..

It was rainy too. I got caught in the rain whilst at my regular hypermarket. It was also raining when I dropped off stuff at my sister's. It was drizzling when I got to mum's place too. It was good to down a hot cuppa while I was there.

I am also catching up with some shows I got some time ago. The Raya holidays got me started on them. I should be done these next few days. I like to catch some telly before I retire for the night.

I made "Buttered Cereal Prawns" tonight for the first time. It would have been tastier if my prawns were more crispy. I know what to do next time.

We got Joel his first ever Uno Cards (H2O type) on Sunday at ToysRUs. It's some cool transparent plastic cards. I like them too. They were double the price of the normal Uno Cards but I hope they are hardier..

I passed Joshua, The Screwtape Letters to read since he enjoyed C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia but he said that he found it disturbing and didn't want to continue to read them. I let him be. I haven't read it myself so I suppose I ought to read it first then. Thing is, I am not so into fiction these days. I can't believe I said that but yes, I have not read any fiction for about a year already.. No wait, I read Pilgrim's Progress about 4-5 months ago.. I guess that counts as fiction..

The mornings are starting earlier and the evenings are growing darker earlier too. As I went to get Josh today after school, it was almost dark at 7pm. It surprised me but I guess it shouldn't, it being December and all..

I am going to finish yet another movie...

Almost as good as new!

Tessa is almost as good as new now. We had her 2 stitches removed today and she is all active and near her usual spirited self again! Her hair's much shorter and quite unattractive as I cropped it off to keep her from getting more dirty than she already was! Trouble is, we can't give her that much needed wash till at least 2 days later... sigh.. her bau is the kind that only a mother can love!!! bleh!

A most traumatic evening...

My Tessa was badly hurt by my neighbour's mongrel just this evening.

She was patrolling the back portion (ie. that little 13 inch width space separating my back door and the back lane of my house) when the neighbour's maid came out to keep clothes. Two of the neighbour's dogs (female, whom henceforth I shall term, "bitch" and her son) ran out. There is some history to this but I shall skip that cos hati sakit.

The bitch lunged at my back gate (which was barricaded by plastic mesh) and tried to get my dog but failed. She then moved to another portion of the fence and managed to get underneath my fence and got Tessa, dragged her out from under the fencing and across a drain to the back lane.

A struggle between maid and her bitch ensued whilst Tessa was firmly planted in the bitch's jaws! All this time, i was frantically desperately, madly trying to open my back door to get to the back portion of the house! Screaming hysterically watching in horror as my dear dog was being torn apart by the bitch!

Finally i got out to the back portion of the house and opened the back gate too. The bitch after being held down by the maid and me (holding her hind legs whilst maid was in the thick of it!) finally, finally, finally somehow released Tessa. By then Joshua has arrived at the scene and I asked him to grab Tessa. Tessa though bit him pulak! I suppose because she was in pain where he grabbed her. Then the stupid bitch promptly pee-ed on me! I let go of her hind legs when she let go of Tessa and finally, finally, finally the maid got the dogs back into their holding area aka compound and I grabbed my Tessa too!

Thankfully, Josh's wound wasn't but a graze and after tending to him and cleaning his wound, I found Tessa to see the "damage". She was bleeding slightly but I couldn't see where and I daren't touch her for fear of hurting her further. Got her towel and wrapped her up and we went to the vet's.

These things seem to always happen on holidays or the eve of holidays and thankfully, the vet was still open in Taipan. There were a couple of puncture marks in her belly and side. She got 2 stitches on her belly and antibiotics, anti-inflamatory medicine and because the vet will be away for like 5 days, she told me to look out for internal injuries.

Tessa got home and then I noticed that she was not using one of her hind legs. She is mostly motionless which is very rare for Tessa if you know her vibrant, busy, active self and will remain rooted to the spot unless I call her. We also have to put a special E-collar for her to stop her from biting her stitches. That adds to her discomfort. She can no longer move freely in and out of the grills and for tonight is confined to her bed.

She keeps staring at me with doe eyes, attempts to jump but it looks rather feeble. I think her body must hurt like mad. Will need to observe overnight for internal injury but I am rather concerned as I see one bad sign which the vet asked me look out for, and that is laboured breathing. I have not noticed her breathing before and just now when I got home from LCG Combo night at Teng's, she seemed to be breathing rather differently... I pray she will last the night. The vet seems to think she'll be ok but I would feel much better if she is better tomorrow too. The thing is, it's Deepavali and no one's working tomorrow.. Poor, poor Tessa...

I hope the maid, who also got bitten will be feeling better tomorrow too... Poor, poor maid. She must be as traumatized as I am, if not more...