starting to come together

As panicked as I was earlier this week, I’m much more relaxed now.

The Addison Oaks fiasco

Lots of things have happened this week and we are much more on track than we were this time last week.  Awards have been ordered (and are going to be awesome!), insurance has been purchased, start/finish line setup is covered (thanks to OCP), the kids race is covered (thanks to Mike and Steve), the beer has been finalized (thanks Tom and Chris) and neutral race support has been secured (thanks TJ).  

We’re heading out tomorrow to meet Steve and talk about the kids race.  I hope to ride the course to scope where we need to mark and where we need to place course marshalls.  

The Merchandise headache

I’ve filled all outstanding merchandise orders and haven’t received anything new since.  YAY!

The crumbling homefront

Shania is back home and doing very well.  She’s got a shaved ear and a very neat incision to be cared for.  Her ears are still very swollen with infection, but I’ve been giving her all kinds of different ear drops and medications – hopefully we’ll see that swelling go down over the next few days.  I also had them test for UTI and/or intestinal problems while she was under anesthesia.  Turns out, she’s got a pretty severe UTI which has probably been causing all of the indoor poo/pee problems we’ve been having.  She seems to be responding well to the antibiotics prescribed, which is good.  She’s happy and spunky, just like normal.  

We’ve got a follow up with the doc next week.

The Trails Edge saga

Not much new on this front, but I’m still banking on getting the sponsorship proposal updated before we go to vegas.  We’ll see how that goes.

 

In other news – I’ve finally booked tickets for our Vegas trip.  We’re leaving on race-day, flight is at 8:00 pm.  We’ll most likely be leaving right from Addison to go to the airport.  Luckily, I paid extra to secure a couple of exit row seats, so we’ll have plenty of room to stretch out and sleep.  I think Karma came through for me on this too – when I looked at flights on Monday, the price had gone down below $300 (it’d been sitting at $354 for the past couple of months), but I wanted to wait until I knew how much Shania was going to cost before I made the purchase.  On Tuesday, I didn’t get a chance to get to the bank to make the deposit that I needed to make in order to purchase tickets – the price had gone back up to $354.  On Wednesday, I finally was ready to make the purchase and got tickets for just over $300 (but, add in $60 for luggage and another $60 for seat assignments).  And, it was really perfect timing because – Thursday the price went up to $419, and today I saw the price went up to $489 (I get daily alerts from Kayak).  Wow – talk about getting it right.  Heh.