Adventures: Donating Blood

Dan made an appointment to donate blood yesterday. I didn't make an appointment because I figured they would take walk-ins. When we got there there was a wait even if you had an appointment.

Dan was almost done when I finally got in for a screening. I never know if I will be able to donate or not because sometimes my iron level is low. I was at 12.8 and you need to be 12.5.

Part of the screening they ask if you have ever donated under another name. The screener was shocked when my name came up. It was from 1996! She said that was the first time ever that happened.

The worst thing with giving blood is I ALWAYS get someone that isn't that experienced and I end up getting a BIG bruise. The tech this time had a hard time finding my vein & asked if I had any water (I guess she thought I was dehydrated). Then had to get a supervisor to start me.

Sunday bruises from the blood donation on Saturday

Taking a Chance: The Great Turkey Escape Bloghop

Throughout the year, there are always different bloghops that I check out - sometimes they are just to get more traffic to your site, some are giveaways.  Well, we are getting to the season where there will be a TON of bloghops with giveaways!

Here's one that I'm going to take a chance on and enter some of the different sites giveaways.  I try to enter for items that I will actually use.

Cheap is the new Classy

Bloghops are great for checking out new blogs that you might not have heard of otherwise.  I've found some great coupon and dog blogs through bloghops.

Adventures: Halloween

We have a TON of kids in our neighborhood.  Every year it seems like we have more and more kids.  We always have over 50 kids stop by and this year was no different.  Trick or Treating usually lasts about 2 hours - from 6 pm to 8 pm.  After a couple of times alone for halloween, I asked Dan to be home (he's usually working).  It's no fun sitting outside waiting for kids by yourself!  And hard to hand out candy and watch the dogs at the same time.

Due to the storm this week, we didn't put halloween decorations out.  Dan was home yesterday, so in the afternoon, he put the decorations out. 

 

He also carved one pumpkin and put decorations on another.  The carve one started out as the Capitals logo, but he had a hard time with it, so they became eyes.  I bet you wouldn't have even guessed that if I didn't tell you!

Pups weren't too happy with the costumes.  Zed will do anything, so he was ok with the gnome costume.  He just didn't like it covering his ears.  Esa didn't really care about the bells on the collar nevermind about even having it on!  Most of the evening, she had her tail between her legs.

Our neighbor had a new smoke machine that he was using.  Come to find out, Esa was not happy with that machine - she was totally afraid of the smoke.

As usual, Zed started to shiver.  So I brought a blanket out and he was all about that.  I put the blanket on my lap and he climbed right on it & I wrapped him up.  Esa got tired after about an hour, and ended up laying down.

All in all, a good night.  Zed went crazy a couple of times with some of the other neighborhood dogs coming by, but was fine with all of the kids and them petting him.  Esa loved all of the attention.  Luckily, she loves kids & doesn't mind them all over her.