roller coaster

crazy emotional roller coaster of a day and a half...

DOWN. I got a call last night that has put the Fear in me. One of our alpacas was at a ranch in the fall for breeding where it turns out another animal was being boarded that was just diagnosed as a PI (persistently infected) for BVDV (bovine viral diarrheal virus). These BVDV PI animals get infected in-utero when their mom is exposed to an animal with the virus. An animal that is determined to be PI must be "destroyed". So this means that we have a female who was breeding and became pregnant while she could have been exposed to this virus...which means there is a good chance she got the virus and so is pregnant with a PI baby...who will be tested the day it is born...and maybe will have to be "destroyed" within days of birth. To top it off, we have 2 other pregnant girls that we took to that ranch to "spit test" (pregnancy test)...so they've all had some exposure. I can't even begin to imagine having to lose 3 babies this year.

UP. have read 3 books in the last 24 hours...Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, & The Silver Chair (all by CS Lewis) Yay for escapism via Narnia.

DOWN. Got a call today from my Dad that my grandma is back in the hospital. And it hs been 8 weeks, so my brother is heading home for his next treatment.

UP. DOWN. UP. was contacted by someone I haven't been in touch with for 9+ years...I was really happy and excited about hearing from them...then spent nearly an hour trying to figure out how to respond to part of one of the email exchanges...had a bit of a freakout around that...and then decided that if I had done something horrible in the past that time has erased from my memory, they probably wouldn't have initiated contact (i think)

DOWN. realized mid-blog that I left the water on in the garden (so it was on for 5 hours!)

UP. Started seriously planning a fun sleepover at my house with a few friends tomorrow night (yay!) that will include watching X-men 1 and 2 and eating junk food and I now know for sure that John and Lisa are both coming, and maybe Jess?

DOWN. It is nearly midnight, and I haven't talked to Michael today...I don't sleep well when he's gone, and I'm being quite the insomniac right now, and I'll probably be hurting in the AM...maybe I'll start another book

3 eggs today.