Well... pitter patter of puppy paws?

After much discussion with a couple breeders, hmmmming and haaaaing... Countless hours of running to vets for tests, taking time off work, driving for 3+ hours straight to make appointments and waiting for results, not to mention Karma springing a heat cycle on me a few weeks earlier than anticipated and progesterone tests coming back with out to lunch results compared to cytology results and so on.
Karma is up at her breeders as I type.
Which sucks on a few levels.
First off, I feel like I just gave her away.
Second, I'm SOOO tired, woke up Monday morning went to work for 7 am... went to Blind River ( 2.5 hour trip one way) to get my work truck, drove it back and worked the rest of my 10 hour day, returned home and drove up to breeders ( 3 hour trip one way) chit chatted and discussed the final plans for 45 minutes or so and returned home at 1:30 in AM to go to sleep and get up for work 4 hours later.
Up until this morning I still had no news on Karma's Brucellosis results but both the breeder and I felt that it was wisest to have her up there and wait on word of the results.

9:07 this morning, test results were in, vet called my cell phone... Karma is negative!

This is what I now know about my dog.
-She has no signs of Hip or Elbow displaysia according to OVC ( yes I know OFA is a far better rating system, but forgive me for using Canadian, Ontario on top of that for those results)
-She is CERF ( Canine Eye Registry Foundation) clear... no signs of eye problems ( but is due to be retested this fall again as it is a yearly test),
-her thyroid is normal, thyroglobulin antibodies are negative,
- at day 6 of her heat cycle her progesterone tested at 8.5ng/ml which loosely translates to her being in standing heat, or should be bred that day or the next, however
-her cytology on day 9 shows that she has only 20% cornified cells meaning that she is not ready yet???? Science. Can't rely solely on it.
-Brucellosis negative as of Friday that just passed.

Translates to... a good deal of money spent ( $1 815 to be precise)not to mention time off work and GAS for driving around, in the end, worth it!

Which brings me to another point.
I have also learned that my car choice is not a good vehicle for what I am doing so I will have to break down and buy a mini van soon enough ( Golly Swell, settle down, I'm not looking for one right now, if I was I would definitely buy yours lol)however, my car can get me to these appointments and such in a good speedy time *thumbs up for the Tuscany*

I will keep you posted on what happens next. The stud chosen for Karma is a handsome fella too, he has a great rear to hopefully strengthen hers.
I will get some pics up of him, and a newer one of her but tomorrow.

Thats all for now...
I really need to sleep

Take care everyone