Less than two weeks until the return of the mighty vacuum cleaner! I'm kind of excited. I have piles of crumbs and too many toys lying around on the floor. I know a certain somebody who can take care of both problems.
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How funny. Yes, dogs come in quite handy - sometimes.
It's very smart to have a dog around. I think you'd end up listing it as cheap entertainment.
I've been thinking about getting/adopting a cat. Since we have received a bird feeder from Santa, we have numerous tracks to and from the bird feeder. I don't believe its the birds running in the snow either. I'm convinced it's MICE!! EEKS!
Cady wants to renegotiate her contract. What's with this no dogs on the furniture thing? The problem, however, is that she's incapable of going on strike. If she sees food on the floor, she'll go right ahead with her vacuuming job whether or not she has a new contract.
I'm pretty sure a kennel wouldn't let her on a couch either... and would have a whole heck of a lot less in the way of dinner leftovers... so the choice is hers...
I must tell you, our little dog wasn't allowed on the sofa at my parents' house when they watched her at Christmas time.
When she got home, it took her serveral days before she decided to test that rule here again and she jumped back up on our sofa...
We considered making the no sofa sitting for the dog permanent but, we caved in and let the little stinker back up when she got brave enough to give it a try.
Cady isn't that shy. Whenever we bring her back from Susan's, she runs into the house and up on the sofa as quick as she can, announcing to one and all that this is her house and she is definitely allowed on the couch.
When did Cady coming to visit become a *good* thing? Altho I think the pup is adorable and completely lab in her doggy habits, apparently you must be coming around to all the charms and pluses of having a pup around :) Not looking forward to the visit enough yet to actually have one live with you permanently, eh?
I believe that Susan's entire definition of "the charms and pluses of having a pup around" consists of a 99% reduction in the quantity of freely available food scraps on the floor.
My big brother, aka Patio Boater, knows me so, so well.
There's also a reduction in the number of toys scattered on the floor. It's the only time my children actually pick there toys up. The alternative is to watch them go into Cady's yawning maw.
Rich: We call him Daddy around here, but that seems a bit personal for you.
Shea: He's 12.
Atlee: She's 8.
Greeley: She's 5.
Emerson: He's 2.
....and adding to the roll call: Uncle Michael. Because when you outsource your blog to someone, they should get a mention in the credits. I don't know how old he is.
Two cats, two fish and did you perhaps hear ABOUT MY DOG?! That's right, a dog. They're all alive still but the house plants didn't make it.
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Cupcakes I have loved before. Because I love all cupcakes.
2- I want to be independently wealthy and the lottery thing hasn't panned out.
3- I want to go on vacation to a tropical-like isle with my husband. Without my kids. Please help.
The 2010 list.
Janet Evanovich's Plum Spooky
Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
Rick Riordan's The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan's The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief
The 2009 Currently Reading List...
Sigh. I stopped writing them down, but there were a bunch of VI Warshawky's in addition to oodles more Jane Haaddams and all sorts of things I didn't write fown. Double drat. 2010 is a new year.
Qiu Xiaolong's the Mao Case
Jane Haddam's Hardscrabble Road
Jane Haddam's Cheating at Solitaire
Erich Segal's Love Story
Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown
Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shoutin'
Leslie Chang's Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Janet Evanovich's Twelve Sharp (Again.)
Richard Adams' Watership Down (Again.)
Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear (Again.)
Johanna Lindsey's Secret Fire (I said Don't Judge Me.)
Jude Devereaux's The Enchanted Land (Don't Judge Me.)
Richard Russo's Empire Falls
Stephanie Kallos' Broken for You
Alexander McCall Smith's The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
Qiu Xiaolong's Red Mandarin Dress
Vicki Myron's Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Jane Haddam's Fountain of Death
Diane Mott Davidson's Chopping Spree
Sharyn McCrumb's The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Joyce Carol Oates' My Sister, My Love
Ken Follett's The Third Twin
Ken Follett's Jackdaws
Martha Grimes' The Dirty Duck
Billie Letts' Shoot the Moon
Julia Spencer-Fleming's I Shall Not Want
Julia Spencer-Fleming's All Mortal Flesh
Julia Spencer-Fleming's Out of the Deep I Cry
Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn
Julia Spencer-Fleming's A Fountain Filled with Blood
Julia Spencer-Fleming's In the Bleak Midwinter
Agatha Christie's Postern of Fate (I gave up after half of the book. I just didn't care.)
Stephanie Meyer's Eclipse (Um, Truthfully I read it twice...)
Katie MacAlister's Zen and the Art of Vampires
JA Jance's A More Perfect Union
James Morrow's This is the Way the World Ends
2008: A Good Year for Reading. And Read I did.
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Turned On and Off
Janet Evanovich's Seven Up
Stephanie Meyer's New Moon
Stephanie Meyer's Twilight
James Patterson's Honeymoon
Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter
Kimberla Lawson Roby's Casting the First Stone
Joshua Piven's As Luck Would Have It
Michael D. Kelleher & CL Kelleher's Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer
James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder
Christopher Moore's Coyote Blue
Chris Rogers' Bitch Factor
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Sharyn McCrumb's Missing Susan
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass
Laurie Notaro's Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
Laurie Notaro's The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
Nathan McCall's Them
Martha Grimes' Dust
Martha Grimes' The Stargazey
Marie Phillips' Gods Behaving Badly
Janet Evanovich's Three to Get Deadly
Janet Evanovich's Ten Big Oes
James Morrow's The Philosopher's Apprentice
Clive Cussler's Treasure
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went Underground
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Sniffed Glue
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
Martha Grimes' The Winds of Change
Gregory Maguire's Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Clive Cussler's Black Wind
Clive Cussler's Cyclops
Qiu Xiaolong's A Case of Two Cities
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went into the Closet
Clive Cussler's Fire Ice
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Saw Stars
Clive Cussler's Blue Gold
Clive Cussler's Trojan Odyssey
Clive Cussler's Inca Gold
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Smelled A Rat
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Talked Turkey
James Patterson's Four Blind Mice
Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went Bananas
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Read Backwards
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Read Shakespeare
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Sea of Fire
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Blew The Whistle
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell
Ken Follet's The Key to Rebecca
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Triumphant
Ken Follet's Whiteout
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Son of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes
JA Jance's Hand of Evil
Mark Coggins' Vulture Capital: August Riordan Series
Mark Coggins' Immortal Game: August Riordan Series
Dan Zevin's The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grownup
Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants
Janet Evanovich's Motor Mouth
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat who Brought Down the House
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Said Cheese
Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
11 comments:
How funny. Yes, dogs come in quite handy - sometimes.
Lordy. You are a brave, brave woman...
It's very smart to have a dog around. I think you'd end up listing it as cheap entertainment.
I've been thinking about getting/adopting a cat. Since we have received a bird feeder from Santa, we have numerous tracks to and from the bird feeder. I don't believe its the birds running in the snow either. I'm convinced it's MICE!! EEKS!
Cady wants to renegotiate her contract. What's with this no dogs on the furniture thing? The problem, however, is that she's incapable of going on strike. If she sees food on the floor, she'll go right ahead with her vacuuming job whether or not she has a new contract.
I'm pretty sure a kennel wouldn't let her on a couch either... and would have a whole heck of a lot less in the way of dinner leftovers... so the choice is hers...
That picture really is a gem!
I must tell you, our little dog wasn't allowed on the sofa at my parents' house when they watched her at Christmas time.
When she got home, it took her serveral days before she decided to test that rule here again and she jumped back up on our sofa...
We considered making the no sofa sitting for the dog permanent but, we caved in and let the little stinker back up when she got brave enough to give it a try.
Happy weekend!
Cady isn't that shy. Whenever we bring her back from Susan's, she runs into the house and up on the sofa as quick as she can, announcing to one and all that this is her house and she is definitely allowed on the couch.
When did Cady coming to visit become a *good* thing? Altho I think the pup is adorable and completely lab in her doggy habits, apparently you must be coming around to all the charms and pluses of having a pup around :)
Not looking forward to the visit enough yet to actually have one live with you permanently, eh?
I believe that Susan's entire definition of "the charms and pluses of having a pup around" consists of a 99% reduction in the quantity of freely available food scraps on the floor.
My big brother, aka Patio Boater, knows me so, so well.
There's also a reduction in the number of toys scattered on the floor. It's the only time my children actually pick there toys up. The alternative is to watch them go into Cady's yawning maw.
err, that's their toys.
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