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Monday, Mar. 20, 2006 - 6:44 a.m. My Life with Pip
Sometimes
I get the feeling my dog is the Peregrine Took of this family. She often
acts without regard to the consequences of her actions, usually has nothing but
the best intentions at heart, and of course is insanely curious, to the
detriment of all. Most of her Hobbit-like behavior is of course where the
baby is concerned. Take yesterday for instance. The poor kid was
having a great day, until he felt the need to start running toward me and
tripped and fell flat on his face splitting his bottom lip. And he did a
doozie on it too. Lots of blood. LOTS of screaming and crying.
I finally got him cleaned up, and sitting with me on the sofa while he sucked on
an ice cube to east the pain and swelling. After a few minutes, he
actually fell asleep for a nap, and I put him on his blankie on the floor.
He needed the nap because I knew his lip hurt and he needed to sleep it
off. I got up to go do something only to find that the dog had gone over
to him and started licking him on the face. Of course she was only trying to
help, trying herself to make him feel better. However, this woke him up,
which is much like unleashing a hoard of squealing and screeching orcs upon the
quiet harmony of the house. After 20 or 30 minutes of piercing screaming,
and my frazzled nerves, he finally went back to sleep. Then there are the
times when he is asleep and she starts barking her head off, for no reason at
something unseen outside, which wakes him up, and like Sauron, his rage is
measurable. I know the pooch means no harm and she only has our best
interests at heart, but her actions DO warrant a scolding. Doesn't mean it
does any good, because she will still bark her head off at all foes seen,
unseen, real, or imagined. She will still LEAP full speed out of bed,
growling and barking to chase the cats at 3 in the morning therefore
waking ME up. Forget Sauron, I will have
dominion over all life in this house! She of course only thinks that she
is protecting us from the evil putrid stench that ends up in the litter box, aka:
her Tootsie Roll buffet. Sigh. I've said it before and I will say it
again, I love my dog. Song
Virus du Jour: "Into the West" ~ Annie Lennox, from
"The Return of the King" Soundtrack Useless
Trivia du Jour: OK, I have been trying to get through reading The Lord
of the Rings and am still on Fellowship after several months (its difficult to
do when you have a toddler around and the only reading time you have is in the
bathroom and even THAT is a bit of a lost cause). I didn't realize how
much they actually left out of the books to make the movies. Elrond is
actually HALF Elven, and he chose the immortal life. But his children,
including Arwen, were given the choice as well, to be immortal or to forgo
immortality and chose mortals for mates and eventually die. Arwen made
this choice, and did eventually die, but not for many, many years after
Aragorn. And she died by herself, alone in Lothlorien. How
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- - Wednesday, May. 21, 2008
More updates on another blog home. - Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2008 Where are my zzzzzz's? - Thursday, Nov. 08, 2007 Halloween '07 - Friday, Nov. 02, 2007 Hallween is All Good! - Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 |
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