Today
Today has been crazy! I woke up to the maintenance people here at our apartments pounding away at the wall my bed is against. They're replacing all of the siding on our side of the building. When I finally got out of bed, I took the puppy to work because he hasn't been feeling very well. He had diarrhea yesterday and has vomited 3 times in the past 24 hours. Poor little baby!!!
When I got to work, I got a fecal, blood, and we took some abdominal x-rays. His bloodwork and x-rays were beautiful, but he had quite a bit of bacteria in his fecal test. I gave him 200cc of fluids, an ampicillin antibiotic injection, we gave him an anti-nausea injection, and I took home 3 different types of medications and some special food to help him feel better faster. He's been sleeping all day. Actually right now he is "playing" with one of the cats. Apollo doesn't see it as playing though haha.
Wow, I'm afraid to go outside today. There are fires in south central Oregon and south easterly winds are blowing them straight into the Willamette valley. The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency says the air quality is worse here than in Oakridge, which is a town 24 miles away from one of the biggest fires. I've never seen the weather sites say "Smoke" where it usually says "Sunny" or "Cloudy". The air quality has been officially labeled "unhealthy" and people can expect to face health problems because of it. Crazy! Apparently people in this area have been finding ash and soot on their cars. Also crazy!
Austin, Alex and I were originally going to go climb Spencer's Butte but it would definitely be too dangerous, since we'd be needing as much clean air we can get in order to cool down in this upper-80s weather. Ick!
I am about to head out to run errands and then get the hell out of here! The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says our air quality index is 28 and the LRAPA says Eugene/Springfield's is 164.
Eugene
I'm here in Eugene with Austin. I never realized all the memories I have here in Eugene. Walking through Albertson's in itself brought back tons of memories with Blair and Lauren, like making cake at 2am, making a batch of almond poppyseed muffins and eating the whole batch together before it got a chance to fully cool, or living off of lemonade and limeade, or difficulties with the self-checkout. Or being checked out in the dairy section at 11pm at night. I miss doing penny drives with Blair all over Eugene and going on adventures. I miss laying around our apartment doing nothing in particular. I miss staying up until 4am being silly.
But I have so much to look forward to this year! I'm excited to find new favorite places in Portland. I haven't thoroughly explored Portland much (on purpose at least, other than getting lost!) and I'm excited to do that with my family and Portland friends.
Right now the boys are setting up their new HD cable box with Alex's new surround sound system and DVD player. We were going to climb Spencer's Butte today but the forest fires have made everything really hazy and muggy. Everything is cast in an eerie golden light, as if it's been sunset time all day. It's kind of pretty. The above picture was taken around 4:30pm, way too early for sunset lighting. The lines are from the blinds. Crazy!
One more thing!