_{Lindy and the "cake" we got for her 13th birthday on May 5.}

Yay random updates!

My new laptop arrived on Thursday! It's a 13.3" Toshiba U405 - the one I've been eying for months. On Memorial Day they had an amazing sale so I got a great deal on it and nice specs. So this weekend I've been upgrading it, installing stuff, etc. To save myself money in the long run, I also got the 3 year, everything-covered service pack, because I KNOW that I'll eventually drop it or spill something on it. One more paycheck and I'll have enough to pay back BillPay! XD

On Saturday I got a letter from the county summoning me for jury duty. "Bad news..." my mom said as she handed me the letter. When I saw it, I started laughing. "What are you so excited about?" she asked. "Jury duty sucks!" I replied that jury duty is kind of a rite of passage. It will be interesting to go through the process for the first time, but I nonetheless hope I won't get chosen as a juror!

As for my dog, Lindy, she gave us quite a scare this weekend. She's 13 years old, and Friday night she started having convulsions and generally going haywire. My parents rushed her to an emergency vet hospital, and the prognosis was that she had an episode of "old dog syndrome," which is basically a stroke. Things looked really bad... But since Friday she's gotten a lot better and just came home a little while ago! There are some lingering effects - she's very unbalanced, tends to walk in circles and holds her head at a tilt. Even though she'll recover in a week or two, it hit my family and I pretty hard that we're going to lose her sooner rather than later, and that will be a very, very hard time for us. But at least she made it through this time.

So, how are you all doing? Enjoying your summers?

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