Fitting in with the Fam

Lia really fits in. Everyone yells at her all the time just like they do with other family members. There's nothing but yelling in this house. What's nice about Lia is that now, there is a lot less yelling at each other and more yelling at Lia. Poor baby. She loves Uncle Michael the best. I can tell because she has eaten or chewed more of his stuff than anyone else's stuff -- including mine. Michael is down a pack of cigarettes (icky, Lia) and a pair of shoes -- I suppose we should be glad it wasn't more. Of course, Michael is only here for a few days every few weeks and has only been here for a total of 3 days since I got Lia. So proportionately, his stuff has suffered a lot more than the rest of ours.

Lia surfs. I'm really not kidding about this. I have no doubt that if we lived in Cali -- she would be tethered to a surf board and hitting the waves. I will put a picture up as soon as I can. We have these floating foam mats covered in vinyl. She loves the pool so much, we had to figure out a way she could relax IN the pool. So we taught her (which took less than 5 minutes) how to get on the mat and ride around the pool. If I coud get her to lay down on the mat, it would be better, but she does balance really well and occasionally sits on the mat.

Janelle sent me an e-mail with a link to the funniest damned site on dogs I've ever seen. Chris would enjoy this because first, it is written somewhat phonetically and second, it is written "by" a greyhound.

http://www.savemouse.com/

At first, I didn't think it was so funny. But then I went through the part that said "Cleek hir 2 si 9 viry skirry theengs thatt yew shul kip awwiy frem yor dag!" (For those interested, it is in the top few paragraphs of the "Hum" [Home] page). I was crying by the end of it. It is so perfect! Those people are geniuses.

I really enjoy this sense of humor. More people need to appreciate pet-owner humor.

I'm off to SparkNote (thanks again, Chris) the rest of Mansfield Park because I would rather burn myself to death at the stake than to read the rest of that dry-ass shit.

I've put some pictures on my website, but I accidently put them in the wrong image file. I will fix it tomorrow at school and post them then.