We're Back

I went to the back surgeon yesterday and sooner or later I will have to get my spine fixed, but untill Obamacare stops fixing things my insurance company doesn't seem to want to approve anything. 

So in the mean time I'm all clear to get back to walking. So now hopefully we can get some of those pounds off of Daisy who has bore the brunt of the sedatary life that a bum back brings. If you see us don't try to hit us, it's not funny and we can't run that fast. 

Life Lessons With Daisy

Take the time to eat the roses.

Off to Little Rock, Arkansas

Daisy Mae gets to carry her own luggage at the airport today! 

Finally I have a full service, service dog. 

2 Dogs & A Stuffed Carrot...Another Epic Weekend!

$1700 Picture

My 3 day RACZ procedure is over. Now I just have to let the juices "cook" for a few weeks and see if they did their work and ate up all the scar tissue and then filled up the gaps with fresh healthy blood flow or some blah blah, medical stuff that I didn't really listen too much because I was busy looking at my hand because when your on the kind of drugs that they had me on, looking at your hand is faciniating! 

Good thing I had the best nurse ever. 

And only a handful I of people thought I was serious when I posted that it wasn't my back at all but that I had given birth to a healthy baby boy. No wonder I was in pain when he comes out at 6 weeks old!

I sure did show my insurance. When They don't cover a procedure that might just help me perhaps avoid spinal fusion I take lots I pictures. "Oh thank God Obama care will come fix every thing soon!" said Daisy in her most sarcastic voice ever as she went to go check on the baby. 

Stay classy and always lift with your back in quick, short thrusting and jerking motions!

I Knew She Was Moonlighting

Confession

My name is Daisy Mae and I weigh 84.5 pounds.  I didn't weigh that much 6 weeks ago, In fact I weighed 11 pounds less. But I started a bad habit.  you see, I steal my 11 year old brother's kibble when he is not looking.  His bowl, then being empty gets refilled by his mom who thinks my mom just didn't feed him when she fed me and no one is the wiser.  I have been eating two dinners for the last two months and would of gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids and that pesky dog.
Now they are watching what I eat and making me exercise above and and beyond what my human is use to. Oh well, at least I'm not in Utah (inside dog joke).

Old School Blog

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Reader Mail

Dear Judy,
My mom says I should stay in school and be a doctor. But I want to be a stand up comedian. I really like your comedy and wonder, where do you get your ideas?
Billy McCloskey
Toledo, Ohio

Dear Billy,
You should listen to your mother and be a doctor! Just remember this, doctor's can always tell jokes but stand up comedians can't perform surgery.
As for the ideas for my comedy, I just listen to the voices.
Stay in school Billy!

My Phat Phriend

I'm not saying who, but OK Daisy, has gained as much weight as I have lost in the last month. So we went out for a hike to burn off some kibble this morning. 

She has to look good for our last handful of shows of the year! 

Plus she can't break the plane when we fly.

My Service Monster

Thanks Branson , MO!

It's Been a Summer of Surf!

Working Hard

So far the focus group seems to really like my new material. 

Surf Em If Ya Got Em

Watch the Pope Live from World Youth Day

The best part is that there are no bathrooms lines!

http://wydcentral.org/live/

The McDonald Clan

Surfing in Ireland Makes Your Head Cozy

The last time I was in Ireland I was blessed with the opportunity to go surfing. 

At the time I would not have called it a blessed moment. It was a bit of a hassle but the payoff was memorable. 

To rent a board and a wetsuit was only about 10 Euros for the day but I would have paid 100 for the wetsuit alone.  The water was freezing. And not like 'freezing' here in Southern California when it is in the 60's, no, it was Irish cold.
Irish ocean water required not only a wetsuit but booties, gloves and the all important head wet suit....what do they call a wet suit for your head? A cozy? Whatever it was, it was necessary.  I stupidly paddled out the first time without it and the first time an Irish wave came and I duck-dove under it, I almost died! It was an instant ice cream headache. No, more like 200 ice cream cones were simultaneously stuck to my head at once. I had never felt  pain in my noggin like that before, even when my dad lifted me into the ceiling fan!  It froze my brain! It actually slowed my thinking down which in turn slowed my body down. I guess that's why it took so long for me to get to shore to put on my head cozy.

Paddling back out I didn't take the time to let it all sink in.  I was surfing in Ireland! There were Irish fish, Irish dolphins, Irish people in the water with me.  The waves were poopy but it didn't seem to matter.

Yes it was cold and was a pain in the butt to carry everything down a hill to the beach but damn it, I was surfing in Ireland!

Take the time to pay a little extra, work a little harder, take the chance of being eaten by an Irish shark...to "surf in Ireland". Don't let awesomeness slip by because of inconvenience.

Dang, put a diaper on my and I could lead a cult...on a surfing trip to Ireland!

NCYC 2013

Daisy's First Padre Game

Thanks to Buddy Black for tossing Daisy a ball before the Padre game started. What a lucky puppy!

Fly, Fly, Fly!

When there is a fly on the airplane I think, "wow, this fly is smart."

Or sometimes think, this fly is going to have it's mind blown when it finds out this plain is going to (state I am flying to that particular day). 

 I also think, "wow, this fly's family is going to be super confused when he doesn't show up for dinner, at the trashcan...which is in the first class galley."