Back From the Land of the Lost

Holy neglected Blog Batman! I have been so busy at the new job I haven't even had time to think about posting.. but I'm getting faster every day and though I'll probably never have the time I used to mess around with this, I will get to the point that I can at least keep it somewhat updated.

Here is a pic of our Sentinel... keeping watch over his subjects below....

Eric went skiing with Tommy and I on Saturday for his last lesson for the season. It was snowing and sticking in his beard.. I couldn't get a great pic of it, but check out how much of a snow monster he is!

Hmmmm so what else is new? Well, last Friday Nanuk busted out of the room (again...) and got up on the counters, got them all muddy and ate all of our bagels, english muffins and loaf of bread that we had on the counter. These types of occurrences, as well as other property damaging incidents, happen frequently. This happened to be the last straw for Eric. He was really angry, which is unusual for my normally sweet and patient lover, and wanted to get rid of Nanuk. I, of course, broke down in tears and pleaded his case. For compromise, we decided to always chain him up every time we leave the house... good for a temporary fix, but the problem is this: his naughtiness simply can't be contained so easily. Everywhere you put him outside, and believe me there have been numerous spots, gets thoroughly destroyed. So we've taken to putting him in the very back of the yard which he has turned into his personal mud wallow. Which means that when you bring him in it takes 10 minutes of scrubbing to render him acceptable... sort of, he's still pretty muddy. And it gets me all dirty in the morning before work and also makes me late. So this weekend we are planning on buying him a dog run... I'm sure it'll be trial and error to get it to actually work for us, everything with him is. But I think that we can make it work. Also I am surprising Eric on Sunday by taking him skiing at the Canyons (free radio passes) and to Ruth's Chris Steak House at Hotel Park City (gift cert from Eric's mom), should be fun. Have a great Valentine's weekend all...

Couple of "Tommyisms"

Nanuk, our Giant Alaskan Malamute, has been soooo naughty lately. On Friday night he tore apart our bathroom, there was stuff everywhere. He completely destroyed the garbage can in there, strung garbage all over the place, chewed on my sparkly girl stuff, chewed the hair brush; then he busted out of the bedroom and ransacked Tommy's room... needless to say, he spent Saturday out on the chain in the backyard while we were at the U/Y game. Then yesterday morning, with Eric asleep right there, he proceeded to chew my hair pick and tried to eat our bottle of Tums. Unfortunately although he wasn't able to retrieve any of the yummy contents, it did render it unsuitable for human consumption... So I got to thinking.... maybe he could use some extra attention or something. We took him to PetSmart so everyone would go, "OH!! What a big dog you have!" He loves that stuff, eats up every minute of it.. Here is a pic of him howling to go, literally.

We got him a HUGE rawhide so he has something to chew on and will hopefully leave everything else alone.

The whole inspiration for this blog was a couple of things Tommy said to me on the phone. He was talking about how great it is that I am his mom and that he is my son, then he had this to say, "Having children is great because they do kind things for you; it's kind of like having slaves.... But that's not the great part."

Also, here was this nugget of wisdom, "I am glad I am a male because it would be uncomfortable for females to be pregnant, having the baby would be like pooping out a boulder."

They both had me laughing so hard it was difficult to continue the conversation.