Only Child

Lulu has been an only child for the past week or so and she has been acting like a big baby. On her first day alone, I took her to work with me (against office rules) and she was -so- excited. She hadn't been to the office since before the new rule was put into place and she was bouncing around in the car in anticipation. Unfortunately I was "reprimanded" and she had to spend the next few days alone at home.

She was glad to be alone for the first few days. She didn't make a mess and she was uncharacteristically cheerful when we came home. She ate well, played a lot and asked for attention. Over the weekend it started to die down a little bit. When we came home late on Saturday night, she didn't even bother meeting us at the garage door and I found her knocked out upstairs on the bed instead.

Then this morning she was a cranky, whiny little baby! She refused to go outside to pee or poo. After numerous attempts, we finally had to force her out the front door. I think she knows that we leave for work after she does her business so she was trying to prolong it and come with us to work! After we left, she sat at the door barking continuously. It was so sad- I hate leaving her alone when she wants to come along. :(

So the next couple of days shouldn't too bad-- work is a little slow so I am going to try to work from home the rest of the week. That way, Cora can come back home too since I'll be there to monitor the Christmas presents! I'm wondering if we should keep the tree up until after the new year (to make our New Years' party more festive) or get rid of it immediately after Christmas so Cora can stay at home again. Then again, I'm sure she'll find the next best thing to chew on!

GV Nonsense #1

I'm going to start a series of nonsensical Google Voice transcripts. Here's one from my greataunt to start. The original voicemail was about pearls.

Hello Sheena you need to call in the promo I need to have a media 9th and she's not. He must whacks at my mom buddy and we'll be at a what I mean yeah daddy gonna get a pass it on the all hello money at project and and. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Thank you. Bye bye.

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I wonder if this one was targeted especially for me.

Imagine Them Naked

I think at some point in our lives we've all heard that public speaking is the number one fear amongst people. And at another point, I'm sure we've heard the old line "imagine everyone in their underwear."

What I'm curious about is, where did this come from? I'm sure sayings like this don't just come up randomly in several different situations and catch on and spread... there is usually one originator. Like the saying, "for Pete's sake," probably started with a certain Pete in mind.

So, which perverted public speaker came up with this advice?

How much effort?

Props to Mr. Persaud from Long Beach BMW who took the effort to write out an automated dealer response e-mail ENTIRELY in initial caps. Unless he was using notepad to write this, his grammar/spell check must have been SCREAMING at him to use proper capitalization.