I am so happy to report that I have some good news. My husband got a job offer yesterday. Woohoo! 
It is the one with the school district as the head custodian at the High School. I know, it’s not like a dream job for most people, but it is full time and year round and even though it’s a little less than what he was making at the cabinet shop, it’s got insurance and benefits. So, that will be really nice. He starts on Monday. His schedule will be from 6 am to 2 pm. I think that’s going to be a really nice shift actually, even though getting up early enough to drive the half hour to work each morning won’t be fun. LOL Seems like when I was working early mornings like that, you just tend to get so much more done during the rest of the day.
The funny thing was that along with the job from the school district yesterday, he also finally heard back from the Home Depot. Talk about everything happening at once. They wanted him to come in a fill out the paperwork for hiring him part-time. He kept saying, “I can’t believe I’ve got a job.” I kept telling him, “I can’t believe you’ve too many jobs and you’ll have to turn one down.” Anyway, what a nice problem to have right now. When I called my mom to tell her she said, “Well happy anniversary!” I’d almost forgotten until she said it that it was our anniversary too. Bleh, that’s what happens when you’ve got other things spinning around in your head all the time. So, I guess we won’t need to out and get any personalized gifts for each other. I think we both got what we wanted, him to have a job again.
The thaw continues. Woohoo! Well, except for the mud part. Hopefully a few more days of this and it will start to dry out a bit. Maybe then I can even consider bathing everybody. Till it dries up though, that would be a total waste of time. They just seem to have a never ending ability to find the muddy parts of the yard. There is enough lawn showing through the snow that I couldn’t resist hauling the jump outside today for Layla’s one jump work. The problem was that with all the mud around the edges of the grass, I kept slipping and couldn’t keep up with her to be in the right spot for the run by part of the jump around the clock drill. So, no video for today. Maybe in another day or so it will be better conditions out there.
My husband went out for an interview for a job yesterday. It’s not really an ideal job, but it’s a job. He thinks that the interview went ok, but of course them more time he has to think about it, the more he’s questioning himself. Bleh. Hate how the mind works sometimes! I guess they will be calling for second interviews on Monday, so we’ll know more then. Monday he also has another interview. So, at least there are some possibilities. The other fortunate thing is that we are not in need of any bad credit credit cards. In fact, we don’t have anything on credit cards so that’s a big relief right now.
The other thing that we are tossing around is the possibility of me taking some online courses to get certified to be able to do medical coding and billing. We have a couple friends that have done it and it seems to be a field that is growing right now. So, I am going to be talking to them a bit more in detail about what is involved and the chances that I would be able to find employment working from home once I finished the courses. I don’t have much choice in that regard, since someone needs to be here to run the boarding kennel too.
Anyway, just a little glimpse of what is running through my head right now.
I have a little ranting to do…and a little raving too. Bear with me. LOL I got ahold of Dr. Overall and she agreed that it would be appropriate to add amitriptyline to Rogue’s daily meds at this point since we haven’t seen progress with the fluoxitine alone. I spoke with the vet here in Salt Lake today shared her recommendations, and he agreed to call in the prescription.
Here is my rave. The vet in Salt Lake asked me if I’d considered working with a trainer to help Rogue. I’m grateful that I have a vet who obviously realizes that Rogue’s issues need to be addressed by not only medication, but also through training. I wholeheartedly agree that behavior modification is vital. I would never think that medication alone is the answer. I feel very privileged that we found Dr. Overall through Leslie McDevitt and that she has given us protocols of behavioral modification to work through in addition to her recommendations for medication.
However, here’s my rant. I think I literally bristled a little when he made that comment. Long before I decided to go down this avenue of seeking anti-anxiety medication for Rogue, I had been working with her to modify her behavior. I thought that I’d explained what we’ve done with Rogue prior to coming to him. In fact, I think that anyone who knows Rogue…knows the amount of time and effort we’ve put into training. Granted, in hindsight not all the training that we did was helpful. In fact I think some backfired, but I did what I hoped would help. Bleh, I don’t know, it just struck me like he thought that I hadn’t tried any training before. Whatever, that’s my rant for the day!
So…here’s the latest. We’ll start her out adding 10 mg. of Amitriptyline once a day for 10 days and then go to 10 mg. twice daily. I’ll keep everyone posted if we see any changes. Keep hoping for the best…