omg! who the heck is in that coffin?? rotfl, lmao!!!1!

Anyone else watch last night's LOST Season 3 Finale "Enhanced"?

If by "enhanced" they meant "riddled with crap you already know, except probably written by a 17 year old girl" then yes I suppose it was enhanced.

We watched last night with our friend Jon, and the phrase of the evening was "What.The.Crap." Every time that little mini screen would pop up we would cringe, shocked and horrified by the extreme-0 immature text and lack of anything really all that juicy. The exception being learning that one of Jack's fellow surgeons has the same last name as Bernard. Woop-dee-freakin-doo.

Needless to say, I was quite disappointed. Here are some of my favorite "gems" from last night:

• No, Desmond is not grabbing a siesta.
• Who the heck is in that coffin?
• By the way, Kate and Sawyer have been hooking up
• Looks like Jack's in for a bumpy ride

At any rate, I'm still totally stoked for tonight's new episode, and even more excited to go visit the puppies at 6 weeks this afternoon!

diapers and orthopedic shoes: a post that's NOT about old people

Since we're getting a purebreed and since our breeders are pretty hardcore, we've been asked to hold off on spaying our pup until they can determine whether our not she will show. That's right, we're getting a potential show dog. I came into this with pretty much zero knowledge of what a show dog is besides the Christopher Guest movie Best In Show.

I know what you're thinking "Oh no, Nikki is going to wear orthopedic shoes and become this weird dog lady with an airbrushed picture of her dog on a white Hanes sweatshirt." NOT TRUE! Dog shows aren't that weird. Besides, what if our doggie turned out to be a champ? The great thing is that if she doesn't, we can spay her and keep her and love her anyway. Our pastor Roger has a champion Shar Pei, Rosie. Roger explained to me that we're going to have to get used to some things if we're showing our dog. Namely, we're going to have to deal with our girl going into heat every 6 months - our doggie will have to wear diapers. Yes, doggie diapers.

Aren't they hilarious?

So that's the news. We're hopefully heading over there again on Thursday (the puppies' 6 week birthday). That means in 2 weeks we'll be bringing home our little baby. Of course I will post new pictures, and maybe by Thursday the pups will have enough personality that we can actually pick ours out! Exciting!

best day ever

Well, we went to visit the breeders and our little puppies again today. They are so busy! They're walking, playing, crying, growling, teething - growing so fast! Last time we saw them they were 2 weeks old and had just opened their eyes. Now they are 4 weeks - they are literally twice as big as they were 2 weeks ago, but as you'll see in the pictures, that's not really saying a lot. We are now choosing between 4 little pups as one is already spoken for. Our breeder friends will be helping us pick the best one for us. We're going back in 2 more weeks to see how they're doing. By then we should have a pretty good idea because their little personalities will really start coming through. It's so exciting!

We had some old friends over for dinner and got to play with their almost 2 year old. Kids grow up really fast - it's amazing. Tonight I think I'm just going to snuggle up with a movie. Long weekend! No work on Monday! Well, enjoy your weekends, and enjoy the pictures!

their first real food! (basically they just licked up the juice then mom came in and devoured all the food)

they're very tiny and very sweet.

they liked hiding under my legs. "if we can't see you, you can't see us."

naptime - couldn't you just die?

and playtime...

how can we possibly choose?

seriously - how!?

Die, Stuart Little, die!

The Border terrier was bred to hunt vermin such as rats, foxes, moles. Can we get our puppy 2 days ago? Saturday evening I was watching LOST with Jas and noticed something move in the darkness of our living room. I figured I was just imagining things. After all, we had just spent the last 3+ hours watching a TV show about things not always being what they seem.

Sunday morning, I get up well before Jason to make some coffee and watch Thursday night's Grey's Anatomy. Out of the closet crawls proof that I wasn't hallucinating the night before. A mouse!

We've noticed now that our little "friend" likes to run between our closet under the stairs (where we keep our Harry Potter) and the big leather sofa on the opposite wall. Since we don't have a little vermin-hunting attack dog yet, we are discussing the following options:

Option 1: Snap or glue traps. The upside to this would be a fairly quick fix. The downside, me having to find this little mouse with his neck all broken or stiff and lifeless on a piece of glue. No thank you.

Option 2: Live traps. The upside is a little more humane solution to our problem. The downside is having to put the trap in our car and drive Miss Daisy one mile away so that it doesn't return.

Option 3: Get someone to come and lay nasty poison down. This isn't really an option right now because neither of us have the time this week to stay at home while some exterminator comes to do his business.

Gross. Can I just say that I keep an extremely, almost obsessively clean house? I guess this is what happens when you live in a city, and in a rowhome to be more precise.

Five more weeks and we'll have a 4 legged mouse hunter extraordinaire! 4 more days til we get to see the little babies again!

I'm out. Like a mouse. What?

something new

So I've decided to start a blog. I've actually started a few blogs, but none of them worked. I didn't have anything to say. Well, my life is about to change pretty drastically. My husband and I are getting a Border Terrier in a few weeks, and I wanted to figure out a way to chronicle our little puppy's life with us. In addition I may write about other things that interest me, like what I'm cooking up or what I'm reading, but for the most part this blog is dedicated to our little pup.

We're getting our puppy from a breeder couple not too far away. They're very nice, totally legit, and more knowledgeable about the breed than anybody. We were there last weekend to meet them and their dogs. We also met 5 two week old puppies - one of which will be ours very soon! When we met them they had just opened their eyes. They couldn't walk, but were doing quite a bit of squirming and squealing.

We're going back next Saturday to visit and see how the little ones are doing. Our breeder said they are now "toddling" - I can't wait! We are going to be choosing between 4 girls and 1 little boy. We're just going to take our time and visit them as much as we can so that we can pick the best one for us. I'll take pictures next time.

Off to put in a chicken and continue watching LOST Season 3. Can't wait for January 31st!

Oh, welcome to dogby :)