christmas 2012

christmas is definitely a retail holiday for our family. we don't go to church nor do we decorate a christmas tree, but we do hang up little stockings and buy teeny weenie gifts for each other cuz getting gifts is plain FUN don't you think?

i'm trying to start a tradition of making waffles for my fam (meaning my hubs and my sis). this year, it's whole wheat waffles and MERRY CHRISTPY bacon. you need energy before you rip into packages....rawrrr.

then the dogs get their pressies after we eat, spoiled pooches.

charlie's auntie made him a bill cosby inspired sweater and he got a chew toy with a bone hidden inside. he likes to destruct his toys, ass first apparently.

lucy got a whole new outfit from her auntie and chew toys from us. pretty in pink with a touch of mrs. claus. she ripped into her chew toy fast...there's a little rawhide dog bone hidden inside. fyi, that toy is DEAD the last time i checked. her teeth is just plain ruthless. you should see our pathetic sofa, it is a freaking MESS. thanks lucy....grrrrr.....

then of course, there's our biggest bear, bronx aka "donkey" as i fondly call him because of his huge badonks. he got a new kennel liner and chew toys. he is pretty darn handsome don't you think? GQ baby.

they were pretty excited about their toys and got uber tired after running about stealing everything from each other. *sigh*

we also found a reindeer gone AWOL. he must be tired from his flight today...christmas is a tough business.

my hubs got me an early christmas pressie....aka he-couldn't-keep-a-secret-for-the-life-of-him. it's an ipad minnniiiiiiiiii! and he personalized it with a little sweet message engraved on the back. i love it, a useful tool to be productive AND to waste time.

feeling grateful for all the mini and big things in my life. i hope you're having a wonderful christmas too!!

happy howl-o-ween!!

halloween is that special time of the year when my fam (2 and 4-legged) geek out more than necessary. is it to the point of ridiculousness and downright embarrassment? sure, probably. hence i say geek out.

after a long day at work, i came home on friday to a very excited sis. VERY. a lot of the geeky excitement actually originated from her so we got in her car and drove to target to look for doggy costumes cuz our local dog park was hosting their 3rd annual "howl-o-ween" costume contest. omg. like you had to ask if we were going to participate.....

it went from us browsing the aisles, to figuring out a theme, to laughing hysterically at our brilliance when we figured out our plan.

we ran across a white rabbit costume (from alice in wonderland) and also a generic kingly robe. since charlie was going to be the white rabbit, i suggested that lucy go dressed as the queen of hearts. all i had to do was sew a red felt heart on her robe which i did and a smaller red heart on her crown to emphasize our point. hearts + more hearts = the queen of hearts. that's how we roll.

although lucy did look super cute as the white rabbit if i must say so myself but we wanted to stick to the gender roles. besides, the robe was waaaaaay too big for charlie. we tried. we really did as he struggled to get away.

unlike last year when charlie was the only participant, we upped the heat and wanted to make sure that we won SOMETHING this year, so we decided that the WHOLE family had to be a part of the act. since my sis had a blue dress, she was dressed as alice and my fiance and i became the playing cards. brilliant. you know you love it.

when we got to the dog park, it was PACKED. it was quite the celebration indeed because everybody was in a jovial mood and all i heard was laughing. i love that people celebrate with their pets in all manners of silliness.

i did see a not so happy butterfly. perhaps pink wasn't her color.

here's a dog straddled by an angry cowboy.

a cow that jumped over the moooooooooooon. omg, so cute!



and a dog with the largest set of muscles ever. what a great body guard he would make!

a mummified dog. so scary!

marie antoinette with her one eye.

and the smallest giraffe in the world. i was floored when i found out that the costume was all handmade by the owner. i'm telling ya, the heat was on!

but in all seriousness, my dogs were 10,000% cuter! come on now! C-U-T-E! <3

we saw another themed group there, but ha! please don't cry when we dominate you captain america...especially since yours is not a cohesive collection.

cuz we are rockin' it alice in wonderland style!



and we won! THE END.

juicy lucy

hi, my name is lucy. i'm getting kinda big and my momma always threatens to starve me so i won't grow anymore. i know she's joking....do you think she's joking? my daddy feeds me in the morning before he goes to work and my mommy feeds me at night...but after eating all that food, all i really want to do is run around and play but stupid charlie is fat and sleeps too much. sometimes i get so bored chewing my rope by myself that i fall asleep too, just like this. zzzz.....

mommy thinks she gets a nice break when we take our naps, but i'm still a puppy so that only means i'm resting so i can jump higher and run faster around our wee house...especially when she's watching something she had recorded on t.v. it's funny watching her rewind the shows over and over again because she missed something. maybe if she didn't yell at us to be quiet all the time, then she would have been paying attention to her shows. i don't understand her sometimes....

other than running around and annoying my mommy, i also like to eat a lot. i'm trying to grow up to be big and strong so that i can knock charlie out with one paw swipe. even though i eat everything in my bowl, i like to sit REALLY close to charlie when he's eating his food. sometimes so close that my nose touches his bowl. my mommy laughs at me when i do that.

now that i'm older and taller, i also know how to dig into things so i've been playing a game called "retrieving." my mom throws something in the recycling bag and then i take it out and she throws it back in again and i take it out again.

it's really fun until she yells out "NO!" really loudly and then i run into my kennel and turn on my rock music and pretend she doesn't exist.

oh darn, where did the time go? it's already 2:34 in the morning and my mom said something about us being busy tomorrow because we are getting ready for halloween. ok, nice meeting you! i need to go to sleep! talk to you soon!

smoochies,

lucy

meet lucy!

having charlie is enough. it really is. he is the best beagle doggie ever with the most velvety ears and the smoothest of smooth coats. let's just say, he gets molested by strangers all the time trying to rub his gorgeous little head...and i don't blame them. he does have the sweetest little face and super expressive eyes. if you saw him, i'm pretty sure you would be compelled to rub is furry head too.

here is my fur bag striking a pose in a sculpture piece at ucla.

but he seemed kind of lonely with us. i don't know, maybe i watch dog whisperer too much and got guilt-washed, but dogs belong in packs and it didn't seem right for him to only have two-legged pack members. besides, we don't always play with him cuz we're tired after a long day at work and it's pathetic when he rams his toys into our legs hoping to provoke some playtime. attention whore? neglected fur baby? sadness? yes. :(

then i found out a coworker's dog had 12 pups and when i told my fiance they were a labrador retriever mix, my fiance was sold. his two favorite types of dogs combined into one! holy smokes! it's like a chanel/tiffany/vca store for me but err...doggy style. i didn't want to say no to my fiance and ultimately, i think charlie would benefit from having a sibling so soon enough, we picked up our new family member and named her "lucy." (i nicknamed her "juicy" though cuz she squirts so much pee. it is ridiculous how much she whizzes....i know, she's a puppy, but goddamn!).

she also requires a lot of baths because she pees everywhere and likes to roll around in it for fun. not to mention that one morning when i found a piece of turd stuck to her side. ugh puppies!!!

but it turned out i couldn't have two dogs because the chinese character for dog, once doubled, means "cry" "wail" "moan" so basically, bad luck. even though my parents don't live with us, they sure can nag persistently from afar so in order to appease my dad, the uber superstitious one of the two, i got a third dog named "spike."

spike is a good dog and does not pee everywhere like lucy does. he even has balls! i like him a lot.

i'm not sure if my dad cares much for this trick, but he's not protesting as much anymore. besides, he can't argue the fact that charlie now has a four-legged friend, even though lucy dominates him and plays so rough! poor charlie!!!!

i'm pretty sure everything will smooth out between the both of them and i hope they grow up to be good, old friends. my day is pretty complete when i have my family and my four-legged buddies around me.