Everything Sven

12/25/2025

Kids: No real Santa's were harmed last night. He got away.

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas to our friends, fans, and online family.

12/23/2025

No matter where we go, we have some of the best neighbors. Last nights were

12/15/2025

12/13/2025

Picture Day with Santa...

Lunch with Grammy at and this time instead of a picture of me under a table, Grammy got in on the action too. Did a few errands on the way over to where we had to wait in line a short bit. Kudos to Sven and his training in patience & manners; there were dogs, people, distractions and temptations everywhere on all sides as the photo venue was in the classroom area this year, and my only critique is that he wanted to stand more than sit. I had to keep reminding him after each time we moved up in line. My biggest peeve was all the other people reaching over and around others to try to pet him when he's wearing a vest festooned with "DO NOT PET" ... I had to really shout at one woman, as I nearly got knocked off my feet in line. {sigh} As****es be everywhere. That's when nervous other dogs leap up and lunge and things go sideways fast. I had Grammy move the cart up and block one of the isles from people getting at us. Other than that, pretty great day and some fantastic keepsakes for the scrapbook.

What's for dinner?

12/12/2025

So, we got up early, went to 3 stores today thinking we'd avoid some of the Holiday week rush... Ha-ha-ha! No.

Turns out everyone else was up doing the same. People stopping to talk to us slowed us way down. We even met a NH state handler.

By the time we got over to the whole world was up, doesn't anyone work anymore? OMG! The store was packed with zig-zag walkers, stopping short, U-turns in the aisles. It was like trying to do a supply run during the zombie apocalypse tv show... you know the one I made a list and still it was no match for those crowds.

Pretty sure we got everything we needed if not what we wanted. Tried hard to no overspend or shop too. When low-n-behold we turned the corner and Grammy & Grampy were there too. Sven was so surprised. Wish y'all could seen the look on his astonished face. Priceless. He also broke rank and file to go hug her mid-isle.... and I crashed my cart. {sigh} She's got dementia and forgot you can't do that. Thankfully we didn't break anything. Phew.

We sure, could have used this monster truck on the drive home. Traffic between the two malls was brutal. We're both beat and it's only 5pm! Definitely a cereal for dinner kind of a night.

Market Basket, Lunch with Grammy & Pictures with Santa tomorrow. Wish us luck!

12/07/2025

Still here, just trying to survive the bitter cold temps and wind chills recently. Along with Migraines that are waking both me & Sven up in the middle of the night with symptoms like throwing-n-going, BPPV, being all wonky. these always worry me that I might choke to death in my sleep, alas Sven faithfully wakes me just in time.

I've been doing a lot of year end administrative stuff & battling with the printer specifications, making next year's appointments along with the post-thanksgiving leftovers, setting up a few more decorations for the upcoming holiday after Grammy & Grampy bequeathed us the old timey holiday ceramic trees. And doing some last minute online shopping, I'm at a point where I can't keep track of the tracking info. LOL Hopefully it all gets here.

Grammy came with us to do some errands & have a luncheon. Sadly Sven had a mishap with a paw pad, not sure where why or how, as we didn't notice till he was home and fussing with it a bit. Nothing too serious, but we still had to soak it, treat it with medicated salve, wrap it and keep it dry.

A box from Chewy via FedEx broke open... looked like they were punt and passing it with a band of silver back gorillas. The tape was no match for the contents; making matters worse they put two orders in one box along with 60 lbs. of food. We were missing a few items and Sven discovered one of his Xmas stocking stuffers. It was supposed to be a 14-inch Clifford toy, turned out it was only about 6 or 7 inches and more suited for a puppy - but he lost his mind and wanted it just the same. Ugh. He's been really good, so I let him have it early. It had already been slobbered, so no exchanging it for a larger version. Ah-well. What's a Dog Mom to do. We'll find something else for the big day.

I finally finished a sewing project for a baby blanket for the grand-nephew and need to get that in the mail this week as well.

Lastly, we made an appointment for Sven to go have a visit and his photo taken next weekend. Grammy is coming with us too. This is always fun for, as a scent detection dog he knows a lot of the staff and you really can't trick him too much. He's like , and usually does the whole "Santa, I know him!" happy dance.



(video below is not of the new toy)

11/30/2025

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11/27/2025

11/23/2025

I'm Posting for Mom today. She's on the couch with the blahs.

Our floor mats were dirty again already. So, this afternoon we snuck in a quick trip to the laundromat before all the thanksgiving & black Friday holiday travel rush starts up. The laundromat is sandwiched in between two malls and a grovery store so it was a now or next week moment.

While there Momma started feeling crappy, and while not trained specifically for inositol, I can still smell it and often alert for Grampy (much to his dismay) Normally alert Momma for Serotonin and Cortisol. I can smell Covid and Cancer too.

Well, anyway... Momma had a rare emergency, low blood sugar like event, or maybe dehydration, she started having some pangs and feeling all wonky and nearly took things out of the drier so we could leave sooner but we mats are even harder to carry.

By the time we left she just about couldn't walk, talk or drive, and she knew what was happening because she used to work in the medical field, she pulled over and went into MickeyDs right down the road for a soda & sit. She tried to order a small, but even the staff knew something was wrong and gave her a large.

Scary as its not typical for her. She's been having some endocrine issues with thyroid and going for bloodwork and tests, as it's all part of the same system, so something is up, especially as she had a muffin before we left home and really didn't work too hard at tossing a few mats into the machine. Came as a surprise. Anyway, we made it home just as it was starting to rain and snow bit. Phew.