Sick as a dog

So to start. I want this dog^^ but this dog turns into this one. >>

and right now thats alot of hair and dog in our little apartment, plus I would never do that to dog (make it live in an apartment). If I were a dog I would want to run around the backyard and play. But....let's be honest, it's winter out people and I would be stupid to have a puppy that I have to take out every 2 hours in the snow and freezing cold to go potty. Taylor keeps begging for a dog but another reason the answer has been "no" (on both of our parts) is because our apartment has a $300 pet deposit (which you won't get back, let's face it) and then you add an extra $30/ month onto the rent. We need that moolah for betting things like crafternoons or new clothes or maybe....a NEW BED, WASHER/ DRYER or pay off our crap. Stuff we really need but who cares about that....

Anyway, what I am getting to is that I had started feeling sick about a week ago....sick as a dog!!! About once a year I get a sinus infection, double ear infection and flu type crap topped off with strep throat as the cherry (get it, it's red. ugh I annoy myself sometimes). But this sundae of sickness with sprinkles of headache ect thrown in makes me want to "tough it out" and be a woMAN about it. However with a full weekend (3 12 hour shifts) at the hospital with the littlest people in my life doesn't allow that. I can't call in sick and I can't feel like crap for the whole 36 hour ordeal (just 36 because I sleep for the other 36 of the 92 that I'm not at work. not kidding). Thus I forced myself to get out of bed on wednesday and drag my happy self to the horrid event that is URGENT CARE!!! I want to scream thinking about how aweful it is to be sitting in a waiting room full of people contageous with everything from lice to pink eye and probably dysentary or cholora or something horrid like that, that we thought didn't exist anymore. Then you add a couple of screaming inpatient kids, pissed off waiting people and some grumpy nurses all to see a nurse practioner and get a Rx for amoxicillin which doesn't work anyway because we took it every two weeks for anything from paper cuts to meningitis as a kid. NO THANK YOU!!!

Taylor forced me to go and I figured I would sweet talk my way into a better Rx. So it went like this
*show up at KUmed urgent care (10 min from home)
*see beautiful new looking waiting area and offices
*waiting area only slightly peppered with mostly quiet people and very few children
*friendly front desk staff
*long questionairre of health history to fill out
*pounding headache worsens
*picture how many germs I am breathing and touching
*hand sanitize up to my elbows and don't touch anything
*get charged a $5 copay... YES FIVE DOLLARS. THAT'S IT!
*see A REAL MEDICAL DOCTOR in 10 minutes
*get a RX for augmentin (stronger than amoxicillin and less used that Z-pack so it works better)
*get Rx for only $10 a walgreens
*get home realizing I did all of this in baggy victoria's secret sweatpants, my winter coat and my obnoxious black and white houndstooth rain boots.

Bottom line folks---when you are an employee at the University of Kansas Hospital you get easy almost free healthcare in a short amount of time that has you feeling 100% better by friday

Maybe we'll get one of these   or these
but probably this..... because I can't stand the thought of strays being at the shelter alone with no family to love....

oh well, not today doggies.