Pointless Announcements

Glad I decided to download this particular anime, as I'm not a premium member at Crunchyroll, so I can't stream on my tablet. Though my husband will watch almost anything animated, I'm pretty sure a romance is out of the question. He wouldn't be bothered by the guy on guy aspect of it at all--just the romance.

So I'll watch it on my tablet while he plays GTA V.

 

Now I really miss my family's dog. He was a black lab/Greyhound mix. He was a beautiful, sleek dog--so very, very fast at times, and incredibly lazy at others. He was convinced he was a lapdog...an 80-lb. lapdog.

When my cats were young and still living with my parents, he was their nanny. He barked any time they did anything he perceived as wrong; as a result, they grew up very well-trained for cats. After my cats had moved in with me again, my parents came to visit and brought the dog; the cats hadn't seen him in about a year, so I wondered how they would react. Both of them, when they saw him, walked straight up to him and head-butted him right in the nose, a couple minutes apart from each other. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Initially, when he was a puppy, he did not care for the water. He then met my godfather's dogs on a beach trip. My godfather has always had labs of some kind as he is an avid duck hunter. Of course, those dogs were content to be in the water anywhere, so when faced with a creek on a trail, they just dashed right through it. Our dog stared at them for a moment before he decided that was apparently Normal Dog Behavior, and went after them. He never had a problem swimming after that, and even when he was older, I would throw tennis balls into the bay for him, since it was one of the things he could do easily still.

 

Baby cuddles are wonderful, and toddler cuddles are magical.

 

My husband's childhood dog was a border collie/Australian shepherd mix. Smiley was apparently very adept at herding children.

When we get a dog, that's what we want--either a border collie mix of some kind, an Aussie mix of some kind, but preferably both together. I'm flexible as we want to get a shelter dog first and foremost.

 

You've got to earn them

 

Yep! Exactly.

Today she took a nap just when I needed one.

 

Why yes, we are the kind of people who wear Blazers shirts on game days.



(Half of my t-shirt collection is sports shirts...the other half is beer shirts...I wonder what that says about me...)

 

Spent the afternoon making venison sausage, snack sticks, and jerky with my hunting buddy and his family. Good times. Stanley was extremely excited to have company, per usual he assumed they were here solely to see him.

 

We met Saint Nicholas today! It was fun to visit the annual German Christmas festival.

 

I think I'll spend the first part of the morning lounging, drinking coffee, and reading porn.

Priorities.