X-rays, Promotions, and Sausage. Oh, my!

This has been one crazy week for the Hall family. On Tuesday, I came home from lunch to let Dooley out and he had quite the surprise for me. Without getting into all the details, he got sick in his kennel and I spent 2 hours cleaning him up. I felt sorry for the little guy so I called Chris and had him come home to hang out with him because he was running outside frequently to go potty. I had the day off on Wednesday and we played together all day and he seemed fine. On Thursday though, he woke up with a bad cough. I figured he would be fine, but after we got home from work it was still bad. I gave the vet a call and she told me that we needed to take him to the urgent care right away. She was afraid that when he threw up on Tuesday, he got some liquid in his lungs and that could become a very serious problem. I scheduled an appointment with her for the morning and decided to only take him to urgent care if it got worse. He didn't get worse but woke up a few times during the night in a coughing fit. Chris took him into the vet this morning where they took his temperature (he had a slight fever) and gave him a chest x-ray. Everything looked alright. He just has a cold. They have us giving him Benadryl for the weekend. If that doesn't clear him up they will start antibiotic on Monday.

I received a promotion at work on Monday. I am now the Sales Support Manager. So instead of just dock and housekeeping I am also in charge of security, alterations, customer service, and the store secretary. I already take care of most of these people anyway so it won't be that much of a change. I will just have a title that is considered a "higher position" in the company.

And now on to the sausage... On Saturday we officially kick off our Holiday season at the store. The managers put together a fun program for all the staff which includes food, games, and cool prizes. I had the brilliant idea of making breakfast burritos. So as I type, I am cooking 16 pounds of sausage that will fill 200 burritos in the morning! I will be waking up at 4 am to start the rest of the process. My house will not smell the same for a week!

That's it for now, gotta get back to my sausage!