What's new, Pussycat? whoa whoa whoa...

I've changed the background yet again, haven't I? I can't help it! I just got Microsoft Publisher, and that combined with my other programs helped me to create this particular appearance. The idea itself came to me yesterday when I was doing my school work like the good student that I am. I think that the other appearance (the one I was so proud of before) didn't even last a week. I can't help myself! I've had insomnia for the past several nights because I've been to busy planning a new background to bother with falling asleep. The funny thing is that I'm just blindly tinkering with the template page to get everything lined up, colored, and displayed correctly. Maybe I need help. Something like "blog-editing-aholics anonymous," perhaps? Have I made myself plain? No, I was born that way.

In other news, my body hurts. Specifically my hamstrings, my shins, my gastrocs, and my abs. In fitness walking yesterday we did the one-mile pre-test, which equated to seven laps on that particular track at our top speed. So on the second lap I'm going at top speed and I think I'm doing great until all the muscles in my lower legs decided to celebrate bonfire night a bit early. That was kind of lame. What I meant to say was that my legs felt like they were on fire, and like someone had rubbed a good bit of novocaine on them because they wouldn't listen to me and would occaisionally drag on the floor. Weird, huh? But I finished, and I wasn't last (only second to last, woohoo!). Plus, I went home this past weekend and helped clean the yard up from Ernesto. There were a ton of branches down in the yard, and the action of bending down to pickup all of the branches for a prolongued period of time really did a number on my hamstrings. I still have trouble bending down and straightening my legs, and it's been five days! Bah, enough complaining.

My dog Scrappy got to go to the Vet yesterday. We thought that she'd had the mange for months now, but all the medicine we rubbed into her skin didn't do anything. In fact, she was losing more hair than ever, and developing a terrible redness and sorness in several areas. So off she went to the Vet. Was it mange? No. It was a secondary staff infection! So now she's on antibiotics which Doc Westbrook said would nip that in the bud, and then she gets to go back for treatment of this cyst she has on her paw. My poor baby! But hopefully she'll get better with the antibiotics.