Nurse Denise/Lunch with Lori the language-challenged

So today is not starting out much better than yesterday. The Chihuahua attack has left our puppy with an infection in her eye and stuff oozing out of it. I've been rinsing it with warm water and smearing antibiotic ointment in it. From what I can see, I think she got cut on her lower lid where it meets the eyeball and there is a little bump there. She has a vet appt. tomorrow morning for shots and to get her spaying stitches out and hopefully this eye
is cleared up by then or the doc tells me it's no big thing. I took Lacey out a little after 5 am
this morning. I don't get this. She peed outside and then came in and pooped in the diningroom. Dang! Then we went back up to bed where Tim was in the throws of another allergy/asthma reaction. So I got him to take a Zyrtec but we didn't really get back to sleep today and he is exhausted. Then Olivia woke up with ANOTHER stomach ache and said she couldn't go to school. I gave her some dry cereal and water to drink and told her she would have to go when her stomach felt better. If this doesn't stop, I may have to have her seen by
a gastroenterologist. I drove her to school about 20 minutes late with a note. Ugh. I feel like a nurse 'cept I'm not making 70 thousand a year. On a lighter note, my older sister Lori is on vacation in Columbia this week. She has friends from there whose family still lives there. Lori is quite the traveller and she knows a good amount of spanish. Working in a field with many nationalities and travelling to CA for business alot has kept her pretty brushed up on it. What she lacks, I guess, is the proper accent. She is a pretty smart person, booksmart I guess you'd call it, but when it comes to sticking her foot in her mouth, well.... she has made it an art form.
The other day at lunch she decided to ask her friend's sister(friend speaks English, sis that lives in Columbia does not) how her trout was. Lori probably thought she was hot stuff knowing how to say trout. Well, it turns out if you do not pronounce the word for trout just right, what you wind up saying is the word for body odor. The woman made a strange face and didn't reply.
Someone enlightened Lori and I guess there were no hard feelings 'cause the woman sat next
to my sister for lunch again yesterday. Lori figured she had it licked because the woman was having chicken and she'd seen "arroz con pollo" on enough menus to feel confident. She again goofed with the pronunciation and wound up asking the woman how her ass was. They all cracked up laughing and made a scene in the restaurant so I guess there is no offense taken from the language-challenged gringo. I think she better stick to por favor and gracias.
I almost forgot. Today is 25 years since Tim's and my first date. Wow, a quarter century. Time just FLIES, doesn't it?