Over the recent holidays we learned that she loves egg nog, but the bourbon we add to it makes her nose tickle and she immediately searches out some upolstered object to rub her nose on. So it usually takes her two attempts to truly lick the glass clean.
She’s the same with vinegar based salad dressings.
She watches me intently when I clean my eye glasses with a baby wipe (Not the ones with lotion!). I give her the baby wipe and she jumps upon my bed to molest the frail piece moistness.
What’s that you say? Your dog likes to rub around in the foulest smelling scent on the planet (e.g. decomposing ick)?
I found a new one at Target. It was a different kind. Cheaper, too. So I was sucked in.
I used the "short" attachment because it was what I had used on my old one.
When I screwed up the left I tried to make it right by making the right one look the same, but only messed it up worse. So I tried to make the left one look similar. And over and over…
At some point you realize you’ve totally screwed yourself and just give up all together.
…we don’t usually set the alarm clock; because we don’t usually have to be anywhere at a certain time on Saturday or Sunday.
Lily wakes me up pretty much by 7:30 anyway (as opposed to our week day alarms going off at 5:30 or 6:00 am).
She does it in steps. Like she’s got this thing all planned out and will wake me up slowly and gently.
Initially she climbs half way on to the foot of the bed. I feel this and wake up (take that TempurPedic!). Sometimes I will sit up, reach down, and pet her. Other times I just go back to sleep.
Eventually she has made up way completely up the foot of the bed. Sometimes I do sleep through this part — even though she makes quite a big deal out of it — like she just doesn’t have the strength to pull her back end onto the bed.
This 85 pound dog will then combat crawl her way up between me and darling hubby (we have room, it’s a king size bed). I actually can sleep through this, too.
I’m asleep.
Big paw.
Right on my face.
Not too hard, just the weight of it upon my cheek.
"Good morning, Lily," I say and scratch the top of her paw on my face and go back to sleep.
Front paws on my shoulder and hip (I’m a side sleeper). I absently give her big snout a little scratch and go back to sleep.
The weight of Lily’s chest upon my shoulders. She’s got her rear end sitting behind my back, her front paws on the bed in front of my chest and the weight of her mid-section across the rest of me.
She knows exactly what she is doing. If I ignore this maneuver she will relax further, putting more of her weight on me. I usually give her head a good pet and scratch and continue on with going back to sleep.
She pulls her rear end up and sits on me.
I scratch her belly, sides, and tail bone.
Lily makes herself more comfortable upon me. If I were a smaller person I would probably be dead now…
I slowly make my way onto my back and now I have the great Lily lounging across me. There is much petting, scratching, and cuddling going on. Lily is insanely happy now with her version of "lap dog."
"Okay, I’m up," I say and work my way out from beneath her.
Hubby may or may not be sleeping through all of this.
Why doesn’t Lily wake him up instead of me? Because that first paw placed upon his cheek will bring about a much loud and irritated, "OUCH!" And then he will yell at Lily.
Yeah, Lily is no dummy. She knows there is much more patience and fun on my side of the bed.
Yeah, I gotta take a break from the internet. Just a couple of weeks.
I’m going to allow myself no more than 1 hour a day for job hunting and I told my son I would do his taxes for him, but that is all.
I got other stuff I need to be doing (like getting stuff together to do our own taxes) and it is so easy to get distracted by the internet.
You know how it is. You click on a story on CNN which only leads to clicking on related stories and before you know it you’ve spent 3 hours on the internet and now you’ve got a whopping headache, too. (Not a migraine, just some eye strain or whatever.)
Or spending way too much time in Dooce Community. Or reading posts by other blogmates.
I need to take the Lily puppy on longer walks or read book.
Hell, I hardly even watch tv anymore — not that I need to pick up that habit again.
I do miss me some movie watching, though.
I <3 moobies, too.
I need to organize my home office, too. I need it more user friendly when working on my writing/drawing projects. I need to be able to get to my materials more easily instead of hunting around in piles of stuff.
And if I’m still unemployed when warmer weather returns I’ve got a whole list of outside projects I want to get done.
I’ve even got files to go through and organize on my computer! Oh, crap.
I’ll do some blogging, but on my desktop, to be uploaded once my internet break is over.
So here’s a picture of the Lily puppy to hold you all until I get back (taken just minutes ago).
I might even come back with a nice little Lily movie and slide show goodness, too!
Yesterday Hubby and I traveled to Sam’s Club to hunt us up a printer. Just a printer. Not an all-in-one-knit-me-a-sweater-multi-function jobber.
A printer. That just prints.
Yeah, I think I’m gonna have to buy one online for that…
BUT!
Lookit what I came upon for just $19.97 or something:
So I called Hubby over for inspection. He keeps misplacing his — and he has a "work" pair and some for home. Now he can keep a pair in every room of our house! See how my DH has already loosed one pair from the package? Yup, it’s musical readers in our house. Fer sure!
Lily will be a year old this month. Remember when we brought her home?
ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ is a middle aged fat lady who lives in a small Victorian cottage (in historic Lexington, Kentucky USA) with her husband of 27 years, 2 dogs, a cat, and a tortoise. She is the mother to one adult child who recently returned home (with his dog) to "attend" college.
ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ recently became unemployed. While looking for a new position ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ also does stuff like:
⁃ write
⁃ keep house
⁃ hang out with the pets
⁃ walk the neighborhood
⁃ blog (write)
⁃ draw
⁃ read (books!)
⁃ cruise the internet
⁃ some website design
⁃ and desktop publishing
⁃ write
⁃ nap
⁃ visit friends and family
⁃ listen to the radio
⁃ and her iTunes collection
⁃ watch television
⁃ write
⁃ work on her wellness
⁃ in mind & body
⁃ get through each day
⁃ write
⁃ and some other … stuff.
ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ has a favorite color, too. Take a wild guess, will ya!
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