She had a nervous breakdown or something. She started acting a little weird a few weeks ago. She wouldn't sleep in our room anymore. Then, she started following Dave around like she hadn't seen him in ages and had to spend every second with him. Then she stopped eating. Then she started shaking and wouldn't take her tail from between her legs. So I took her to the vet. She is in perfect health so it is all in her brain. She might have had mini strokes or have doggie Alzheimer's. Either way she's nuts. The best part is that her treatment is aroma therapy, treaties and if she gets too bad with the shaking, putting a t-shirt on her. Dave didn't believe me when I told him. He asked if I went to the vet of Liz. A reasonable assumption since she treats most things with treaties and walkies and loves to dress up her dog. We think most of the crazy had to do with Casey's blanket making a reappearance a year after his death and smelling up the joint. She's better but she still isn't normal. She doesn't like me anymore. If I try to get her to do something she just stares at me from across the room. The only time she is happy around me is if I'm letting her outside, onto the back porch or into any room where Dave is and I am not.
On a different note, I didn't get a free camera from the Internet but we did get a video camera for Christmas from the moms. I have spent the last two weeks trying to figure it out and learning valuable lessons. I know now that I yell at the cat too much. I also know that I didn't need to download a million and one codec converters and that all I had to do was convert the file to a wmv to edit it. I also know that Sony tech support is bad news. I also learned that I want a new computer. I like mine. I really do. But I don't want to have to take a half hour to upload 5 minutes of video footage and then take another hour to convert it to a file I can edit and then another half hour to load it on the internet. That is a long time for 5 minutes. I keep getting all these error messages about USB 2.0 making things go much faster. When I got this computer 7 years ago, many of these things that make computing a breeze didn't exist. I know I just need to figure out Dave's newer fancy scmancy Mac that edits videos much better and faster and stuff but Sony hates Dave's computer and Dave has to figure out a way to even get the footage on his computer at all. Then I'll be happy to use it. I promise.
The unfortunate lesson I haven't learned is how to convert the music in iTunes so I can load it in Windows Movie Maker and add songs to the video. Because of that, for the video below, instead of a lovely song I had selected from 150 kids songs to make a mom insane, you get what I believe is Leah's thoughts while eating a cupcake...in a robot voice. Don't worry, I will someday figure out how to add music. Robot commentary won't be permanent.
Enjoy.
