Random Ramblings

I know it's been awhile.  Sometimes I get on these rolls with work and projects and everything else is cast aside for a bit. Just a warning that the remainder of the post will be just rambling without any cohesive theme or topic.  

There has been a little extra TLC for certain little peanut in the house...thanks for the comments and e-mails.  Brooklyn is doing okay now--or as okay as she can be considering that an entire series of tests couldn't diagnose exactly why she had a seizure.  

Yes, my  one and half year old peanut had what the vet called a seizure.  I would have diagnosed it officially as "freaky crazy scary paralysis weirdness" which may be why I don't make my living as a vet.  Girlfriend froze halfway up the stairs one morning, fell over on her side and slid all the way back down the stairs. Since the vet (and board certified radiologist the final bill told me) didn't find anything in any of the tests, we were told it was either a one-off inexplicable seizure, or the first in what could become epilepsy.  Breaks my heart.  It's just a waiting game now so hoping for no recurrences.  

Seizures are exhausting.  

In my defense, I did this to her before her seizure.  Why she hates costumes so much I'll never know.  Knowing how much she's hated them the past two years probably won't stop me from doing it again next year.

I am that mean to her.

There's been a bit of baking.  I usually try not to indulge in the little one-use-wonders in the kitchen but there is a Williams Sonoma outlet about 30 mins from Las Vegas.  For reals people.  When the adorable little apple pie molds are a few dollars, it's hard to pass on.  Pretty stinkin cute molds.

Tons of leftover Halloween candy means trying to incorporate it into baking.  For the record, banana bread + Reeses Pieces = yum.

Spent a little time with a sweet little Chipmunk over the weekend.  

Had a wonderful opportunity to volunteer photography services for a charity event last week.  Never thought I was a cowboy-loving kind of girl.  

I'd say I'm a cowboy-loving kind of girl now. 

I'll admit that a  little snowy mountain scene was not something I expected to see in Las Vegas. 

And of course, the end of daylight savings.  While sad to leave the office when it's dark, each night when I leave the office and walk out to the parking garage I'm greeted with this scene.  Can't wait to see how Vegas does Christmas lights.