The End of the Story...

While listening to public radio the other day, I heard a story in which a boy was told that, "all stories have a happy ending." When the boy questioned this, the lady replied, "If it doesn't have a happy ending, then the story isn't over.".. Now, I'm not sure I buy that theory, but for this week it seems at least plausible..

Alex went in for her follow up test. I was a nervous wreck as I dropped her off a the vet, and being as I had been up all night for work, I went home for a nap until they called for me to pick her up.. Being the bad "mom" I am, (and Tif-do, Alex says this so trumps you forgetting a piano lesson) I forgot to turn up the ringer on my phone.. Alex hates nothing more than being locked in a cage (PTSD following a night in the pound) and had to spend two hours longer at the vet than she needed to.. A special treat and all was forgotten, but the guilt I felt.. Then came the waiting for results, which was awful! But then the vet tech called and said that everything was ok.. Not sure I was buying this, I had to have more information.. OK?? How could it be ok? Something had to have caused the original results.. Well, it turns out that there are a couple other things which could be causing this enzyme to be elevated, arthritis being one, which wouldn't be good, but nothing to be really concerned with.. Now, don't you think they could have told me this from the beginning, instead of making me freak out two weeks and be sad everytime I looked at her????? But I won't complain about the ending of this story....

In other news, CAT and I continue our fishing quest. We found the place where the fish are.. We spent hours sitting on the bank, poles in the water, and watched the fish mock us as they happily jumped all around us... I've never seen so many big fish jumping! But there they were, even swimming along the bank so we could see them laugh at our sad attempts to catch one.. And NOT ONE bite!! I however did catch a fish.. Sort of...



I reeled in my line and was wondering why the worm seemed so much bigger than when I put it out, and then I saw this odd little fish hanging onto the worm.. Maybe that doesn't really count as catching a fish, but it was better than the nothing that CAT caught :)