Some Good Old Fashioned Mocking.

I spent a solid ten minutes today laughing uncontrollably and mocking my dog, who got herself stuck wrapped around a bush and had to bark for assistance.

My favorite part of the whole debacle is the irony. See, she couldn't have reached that bush and gotten herself trapped if she hadn't first broken free and pulled the stake that her leash is attached to out of the ground.

This is the first time I've found her trapped in a bush. Usually she gets stuck in the retaining wall blocks stacked up against our house. That scenario has the added hilarity bonus of finding her trapped while precariously sitting over a foot in the air on blocks.

Oh, silly Pepper. Bushes aren't for dogs.

Movie Review: Iron Man

Oh my god. Iron Man was frickin awesome.

I really shouldn't have liked it. I mean, it's a comic book movie and I pretty much always find them lame, Iron Man was never my favorite superhero, Tony Stark's a total asshole in every comic I've seen him in, and it features a guy in a suit with a mask that covers his face (HATE! SO MUCH!).

Luckily, I love Robert Downey Jr, Stark's an asshole in a good way, the whole film is pretty funny (without being slapstick), the love interest/assistant is awesome (despite the fact that Abi hates Gwenyth Paltrow), and the CGI action sequences are kept to a bare minimum (and the ones they have are awesome).


Favorite Bits:

- Robert Downey Jr frequently running around in a muscle-baring tank top.
- The robots in Stark's house. "You douse me again when I'm not actually on fire and I'm gonna donate you to the local college."
- Tony Stark's sheer awesome brilliance. "Tony Stark made one in a cave... from junk!" "Well, I'm not Tony Stark!"
- Pepper running from the big-bad-guy robot monstrosity and not looking back for a second.
- "Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D"


Also, I totally call my puppy "Pepper, Pepper, Pepper Pot" but I also call her "Pepper, Pepper, Pepper Pants." It's an alliteration thing.

Quick Bits!

Some quick bits:

- I'm currently entirely addicted to 30 Rock. Everywhere I went on the internet last week seemed to be talking about how hilarious the "MILF Island" episode was. And it was pretty funny. Especially "eat my poo." I then went back and watched most of the second season from nbc.com and am currently working through the first season via netflix "instant play."

"I love Foxy Boxing! It combines two of my favorite things! Boxing and referees."


-Dude. Monster's Inc is so adorable. That little girl cracks me up. The boys just acquired that movie for 80 cents at a thrift store. Totally worth it.

- I excitedly bought Willow on my way out of work today and spent the afternoon trying to explain to 20-yr-olds who've never heard of it why a fantasy movie about midgets and sorceresses and fairies was awesome. I totally failed. But I'll watch it with the kids tomorrow.

- I bought a new-release chick-book because it had a Crusie quote on the front of it and I just can't hunker down and get into it. I think I'll wait till my day off on Sunday so that I can just buckle down in my chair and read most of it in one go.

-I totally lost my keys yesterday. At the house. After successfully driving myself home from work. And let me tell you, it wasn't nearly as funny as the time I threw them in my trunk and had to call AAA. It was damn frustrating. I mean, I checked the driveway, the ground near my car, the sandbox, the shoe shelf, every surface in the kitchen/dining room, the food cabinet, the fridge, every pair of pants I own, every sweater pocket, every friggin purse, and the entire front lawn. I even checked all of the holes Pepper had dug in the front lawn in case she had found and buried them.

They were on the fucking grill! The stupid, gray, overturned goddamn grill that's laying in the grass in front of the garage. My best guess is that I bent over to pet the puppy (who sits by it because it's as close as she can get to the kids' sandbox while on her yard leash) and I set them down. Fucking puppy. I knew she had to be involved.

-The other day, I told Pepper she was a bitch "both biologically and attitude wise." I was in the process of throwing her outside because she was barking at the vacuum (so annoying). It still cracks me up. It's probably not good that I find myself so amusing.

Introducing Pepper

Say hello to...

Pepper!



The newest addition to this overstuffed household.

She's a blue heeler (also known as an Australian cattle dog), and it's the same breed our other dog, Holly, is.

She's nice and docile and quiet. Except around Brown-Eyes, who keeps trying to choke her. I think he likes being able to beat someone in the house up. Well, I bet she bites him before the week's out, and he'll more than deserve it.





Aww, look at that face.