Monday 11/16, Took Castor and Brizo to the vet for nail trims and found out I can’t hurry up the surgery for Castor. Talked to Sos and Kay-See, who were both helping with the salad. At home I was feeling frazzled, I showered and found that Chuck Schwab didn’t do the letter correctly, so I had to call and request a new one and deal with that bs. Saw J&S pull up and went to meet them downstairs but they were fighting in the driveway and it was super awkward and ridiculous. Luckily he fell asleep in the back. We picked up Kay-See and all rode together. On the way I went to Mom’s to pick up the check. We made it to Hakim and Carmen’s about a half hour late, oops. Josh arrived just as we did and waited for us. We walked up and were all apologetic about slim salad fixins. Josh talked about his relationship and Lena, yikes, feel bad for him, and Kaya. Dinner was good, convo was fun. Hakim got out his hilarious remote control car. We had lots of fun and found out K is for sure going to Australia for Christmas and New Year’s, while S&J are going to Jamaica. We had delicious orange ice cream with chocolate bits for dessert. We left by 9 and I whispered to Hakim and K at the bottom of the driveway about the earlier fight. We dropped off K talking about relationships, talked the rest of the ride home. When I arrived the lights were out and hilariously, Eric was asleep. It was 9:30. I took the dogs out, updated this, watched the end of DWTS because I missed GG. Grr.

Sunday 11/15, Relaxed all morning then forgot I had to get gas so I took off and did that, talking to Kass on the way. Back home to shower and eat some lunch then dashed over to W. Seattle to meet up with the fam to look at houses. We saw 8 or 9 and saw Droohv and Akemi’s - so nice (except as of now, 11/21, it fell through). I loved it. There was nothing spectacular, which was kind of a bust, so we said our byes and I headed home, stopping at the store. Home by 3:30, upstairs, watched a couple episodes of OC (Season 1) and relaxed until DH came on. To bed after 10.

Saturday 11/14, Up earlyish and had a long talk with Eric about family and dynamic and it was very helpful, for both of us I think. I woke up AL at 10 because that’s when we were supposed to be over at the house and Dad called for us to get over there since the appraiser was already done and it was only 10:10. Kass called and we were going to get there around the same time, and in fact, did arrive at the same time. We walked though for a long time and everyone seems to like it and Sky wants me to keep the carpet and thinks it’s homey. Hilarious. AL thought Mom was crazy for wanting to demo the pool and couldn’t think of anything more fabulous. We went home and ate a little then headed up to the Fall City art show and saw Miska did a new painting of a coyote and it’s got this bright red and is all glossy and I really liked it but it would have to have just the right spot. Back home and relaxed for an hour then to the airport to drop off AL. Back home for an hour then to dog class. Brizo did ok considering it was chaos and lots of people. Cheri taught me how to get her to lay down and it’s genius. Cheri thought she wouldn’t get it while in that environment but she did it; she’s a survivor! We went home for a while then over to Mom’s for Dad’s birthday dinner. It was a fun dinner with lots of funny conversation and lots of good cheese. Dinner and dessert were good and the part of dinner where Sky couldn’t remember where they’d first said “I love you” to each other was, and guessed the couch and he was in the dog house after that. He was like “Karrah! Help me out!” which made me laugh harder, then I couldn’t remember where we were when Eric said it to me. I’m sure it’s documented here. We all said our goodbyes and we were given the task of dropping Jake off at a friend’s on 40^th. Home to the dogs and couldn’t stay up even close to see SNL.

Friday 11/13, I woke up but didn’t take Castor on a walk like I had wanted because of the rain and instead took my time getting ready and headed to my eye appointment at 9. Eyes stayed the same and I was out of there and home to get ready for the funeral. I showered and got dressed then me and AL left for Mom’s with a stop at the store for apples. AL wanted to help clean and make sure everything was ready to go after the service. We were waiting on Kass and Skylar and ended up leaving late and getting to the cemetery JUST as we were supposed to be driving to the ceremony site. As soon as they wheeled her out I started crying, it was so awful. I was ok after that until they played Taps. Even one of the pall bearers was tearing up. The Native American prayer was so pretty and a great juxtaposition to the other military stuff. We were out of there and back to the house and Eric went to check on the dogs for me. I ate quite a bit because it was all so good and the sun was out which made it a pleasant afternoon. We went home by 6 or so and relaxed and talked about watching a movie but we were all so tired. I watched Ugly Betty then turned in.

Thursday 11/12, We watched the usual shows and I checked periodically on the flight info for both Alix and Auntie Lauryn. Planes landed by 9:34, I left and talked to Alix on the way there and picked her up at Alaska then we circled and AL called to say she was ready so we swung in and picked her up next. We drove to Mom’s and saw the memory board and chatted with Mom briefly before going back to my house. We talked for a long time in the second bedroom then made tea and back upstairs again to chat. Finally I had to turn in because it was like 1. Eric was asleep, of course, and all the puppies were snoozing away.

Wednesday 11/11, On our day off Eric was up at 6:00 of course and then I couldn't go back to sleep. He took Castor to the park and went to HD to pick up supplies and came back and put the knobs on while I relaxed on the couch while I finished my bridal magazine, but then when I went up to see the knobs they were in the wrong spots and I was disappointed and Eric was upset with my reaction and ended up taking off for a couple hours because he needed to get out of the house. I talked to Susan and told her I didn’t know what was going to be the plan for the day but I’d let her know. I took Nyx to the pet store to get some doggy treats and chatted with Leslie and everyone thought she was very cute and sweet. She loved the turkey jerky at the front and had quite a bit of it. At home Eric was back and we talked and everything was fine. We took off for Chrystol and Schuyler’s. We took off for Gorditos and I talked to the HOA Property Manager about the requirements for renting then walked around the corner to a floral shop where Chrystol and I quickly talked about the wedding then over to eat lunch. We had fun at lunch and laughed at some of the music. Lunch was good. We went back to theirs momentarily then to Goodwill to drop them off. We went up to Susan’s and hung out and met the kitty, Penelope (Eric’s name for Nyx). We went to the GO and I got a ton of cereal, of course, but also got some other stuff I didn’t need like microwave popcorn and fluorescent green Oreos. Yikes. But also Famous Amos pecan chocolate chip cookies, which were the ones Grandma always used to get. We said our goodbyes after checking out and headed home to the pups. I wanted to watch Cougartown but it wasn’t on, boo. I ate some cookies and we went to bed early.