Owner: Let the Dog In! URL:http://letthedogin.com Join Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:46:58 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: humorous reflections and stories from a Bainbridge Island, Washington family of 3, plus dog; written by Wendy Wallace Site statistics:Click here
A Napless Wonder 2007-02-27 23:23:32 I am in mourning (and not just for my favorite hair stylist moving away and Top Chef being over). I loved them so. I miss them so. I looked forward to them everyday. And then, one day last week, naptime was gone. Gone like a ‘59 Cadillac. Poof! What are those phases of grief? I sped past denial and slammed into shock. Okay, Kid is 3 1/2. I am lucky by some standards to get this far. I know. Now, I am trying to instruct her on “quiet time” which means staying in her room and not disassembling her bed, swinging from the shelves or, God help me, performing the “vengeful pee” in the corner. How do other moms do it? The ones I’ve asked have lots of trouble having any kind of quiet time. Thus far, Kid plays in her room initially and then starts silently creeping out, sometimes “in hiding” with a blanket over her, like a little fleece ghost with butterflies on it. Maybe for my own quiet time, I could hide under a blankie?
a very merry unbirthday 2007-03-02 05:54:21 My Kid is in preschool and my Kid has an August birthday. Do you know what this means? I did not. This means that she has a 1/2 year birthday party at school. This means she gets to wear a birthday crown there, and they sing to her and eat some kind of special treat at snack time. Sweet, but somehow I missed that memo. As I dropped her off, the teacher, a very nice person, gave me a soooo, uhhhh, is there a special treat in with the normal snack you brought?? Uh, why? I asked. Then she told me about the 1/2 birthday. So off I dash to get something for the treat. And the bakery which usually has tons of cookies with sprinkles and animal shapes with frosting that morning had bupkis, except shortbread cookies, chocolate or vanilla, circles only, no animals, no sprinkles, no icing. Real Special.
I assume it all went fine at school, excluding how Kid frankly informed me later in the car that she did not care for the chocolate cookies. Then came the after party–which invol
The One-Eyed Crow 2007-02-28 21:43:14 I am not proud. I confess, we were eating a fast food lunch in our parked car the other day in Poulsbo, when who should pop onto the hood but a one-eyed crow. You should see the other guy, he seemed to say with his proud stance.
“Ewwww! Yuck!” I exclaimed as my hubbie rolled down his window. He held out his hand and fed a piece of french fry directly to the injured crow, now near the windshield. He seemed to be compensating just fine for his deficiency (the bird). He deftly snatched the french fry and did not fall over or bump into anything.
“Hey, I’m trying to eat here!” I cried. It was kind of gross looking, the scarred divot in the left side of his head. Poor thing.
“How would you like to be a one-eyed crow in a world of two-eyed crows?” my spouse asked.
“It would not be my first choice.”
Always a fan of the underdog, my husband feels especially fond of crows. His father rescued several baby crows, among other animals
hello, Chuck? 2007-03-04 23:21:01 A new form of teasing surfaced here this weekend. Like a little boy, my spouse enjoys getting our Kid to scream in protest. If it is not physical torture, tickles, nose squeezes, hamstring pulls, or ear tugs (aka “the combination”), then it is a mental test. (Don’t think I get off from this treatment, too. He constantly teases me, too, e.g., pretending not to get something at the store that I needed and then when I get mad, he smirks his little smirk and slowly pulls out whatever he said he forgot. After a few years of this, I don’t fall for it….as much.).
This weekend, the “hello, Chuck
?” game was born. Kid was talking on her Elmo phone, pretending, at first to discuss world events with her friends, then she was yakking with our neighbor Sheri (Why, I don’t know. Ever since their girls’ margarita night, they’re BFFs.). The subject of the call involved how sick her husband Chuck was (nothing exotic, just a cold).
when ya gotta go…..? 2007-03-06 22:40:17 So. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m at the park yesterday with the rest of Bainbridge Island because this bright, round ball appeared in the sky, and we all ran out&hellip
;. Anyway. It’s a relatively small but popular park. Not one of the rambling, wild-ish ones you might find in this region. Picture crowds of kids, 0-8 years old, couple of swings, a few slides. There’s your usual stomping on heads, throwing wood chips and dangling from high heights. Then I saw it. One boy gave his mom the universal signal of “gotta go!” Not unusual for this age (4?5?). What was different was the mom’s decision to have him pee on a tree inside the park fence. She/he was discreet, although my monkey immediately tried to peer around the tree. What worried me the most at that moment was that my kid would then think SHE could do the same thing next time she needed to go. She LIKES doing her business outside, and that’s all I need is visua
“white wine during colonoscopy?” 2007-03-06 06:33:11 Google is king. Everyone uses it. We bloggers, likewise, use Google Analytics to see if anyone at all ever, even inadvertently, clicks on a word out there in the Webosphere and lands at our blog. Not only that, but Google shows you all kinds of things about these people, like their home address, dirtiest laundry item, medicine chest contents and pet vaccination schedules.
Most entertaining to me lately has been the keyword search that led someone to my site. Many pertain to questions about colonoscopies due to this post. Apparently, I was not alone in wondering about drinking WHITE wine while preparing for a colonoscopy
(no red liquids, you know). A friend smarter than I recommended jello shots. Some curious George even asked Google about &ldquo
;white wine during colonoscopy?&rdquo
; to which I would say, extremely difficult if you don’t like drooling and spillage. Although a former EMT I marriedknow suggested you could if you get it in your IV (since it is similar in color
greener living - in a tea cup 2007-03-09 00:24:17 All this talk about peeing reminds me of something — tea! For years I was caffeine free, not counting chocolate (not one square, bar, truffle, cocoa or….) for health and crankiness reasons (Can you believe I used to be MORE cranky? Well, who’s asking you anyway, chump?). Then, the Kid. In crept a little green tea from time to time. With that jolt, I’d scrub the floor with a toothbrush. Towards the end of her napping career (;O), she started waking up earlier, so….more green tea. Now, no naps, and add to that, middle of the night bed-crashing. So, dawn breaks, and I am TIRED. I don’t need tons of sleep, not like some people I married, but ideally a good 8 1/2 hours has me waking with eyelids gliding easily up, rather than the eyeball scraping rough-housing we have now.
Anyway, I am ditching the herbal stuff and coasting through new green teas. Lately, honey ginseng from Celestial Seasonings and Stash chai. I am still hunting for that perf
bridge closure = store closures? 2007-03-09 00:22:48 Here’s some local news. As a result of the Agate Pass bridgeclosures
this month, Rite Aid, one of two drugstores on BI, is closing an hour early, at 9pm, on those nights for the month of March to allow their employees to get home across the bridge (and the other drugstore is probably closed then, too). So, bridge closes, Rite Aid loses sales, employees lose paycheck (hopefully not insurance bene’s), and islanders hope Safeway has all their evening drug needs (unless they close early TOO). Nice. I hope everyone plans their medical emergencies accordingly.
It’s weird to live on an island sometimes. Some of us wanted to live on an island (with a bridge), not BE an island…..
And I wonder if other businesses are effected similarly. Anyone know?
[This post can also be found on my online newspaper blog, Bainbridge Breezes.]
ridin’ the pineapple express 2007-03-10 02:39:08 Look what we get — Flood Watch Issued for Most of W. Washington
An approaching Pacific weather system laden with subtropical moisture could cause many Western Washington rivers to flood their banks Saturday night through Tuesday, the National Weather Service said in a special flood watch advisory issued this afternoon. The weather system, a classic “Pineapple Express,” is expected to dump colossal quantities of rain on most of Western Washington with little or no letup for 24 hours or more starting Saturday afternoon.
It HAS been darker this afternoon and wet, off and on. I almost don’t want to know about this. And, best of all, we may get some wind, too, which always leaves me nervous about going back pre-Edison. Good thing: I got more yarn and needles and can finish that hat and start that scarf. Bad thing: Kid without naps means no knitting time and heavy rain means creating a preschooler’s Gold’s Gym inside somehow. Let’s hope the NWS Read more:ridin
, pineapple
what was your name again? are we married? to each other? 2007-03-10 18:54:11 My friend Will’s recent post about atheism reminded me of something. Not long ago my spouse and I were discussing death and souls (oh, the Deep Talks we have!), and he said something like, what did I care about souls since I did not believe in God anyway. Huh??!? I’m a believer (cue the Monkees’ song)! Ever since high school. I had a great visit alone with my grandfather after a trip I was on got cut short a few days and before he had a fatal heart attack about 18 hours later. Ever since, I don’t believe in coincidence.
Granted, we do not go to church. Granted, DH is the self-proclaimed “Christian” (I’m technically half Jew and just don’t like that word much). Granted, we usually discuss which American Idol contestant is the most idiotic and who should have cleaned that broiler pan before the word “putrid” could be applied to the kitchen atmosphere. Still, shouldn’t he have known this about his wife? Isn’ Read more:married
our own Project Runway designs 2008-03-09 20:56:23 Kid happily jumped into fashion design this week after I watched the finale episode of ProjectRunway
while she was around. Next thing I knew, she hauled out toys wearing her dresses. She even has a jiggly runway walk herself.
“Two will be IN, and one will be OUT!” said she in her best [...] Read more:Project Runway
me=movie loser 2008-03-06 11:23:25 Last night, I had a golden opportunity slip right through my fingers, my fingers that have handed over countless movie
tickets to ticket rippers, eaten billions of buckets of popcorn while watching larger-than-life images roll in front of me, and grabbed innumerable armrests during shocker moments of thrillers.
An A.C. Nielsen Movie Survey guy [...]
LEARN-A-WORD WEDNESDAY: virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\ 2008-03-05 10:32:40 noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
The intrepid heroines range from Unn the Deep Minded, the Viking virago who colonized Iceland, to Sue Hendrikson, a school dropout who became one of the great experts on amber, fossils and shipwrecks.
– Ann Prichard, “Coffee-table: Africa, [...]
CHECK IT OUT: Lars and the Real Girl [Time for a movie review!] 2008-03-04 12:10:41 You may not have seen Lars and the Real Girl when it played for 2 days at your local theater, but I am here to tell you to find it, see it, and when it comes out next month on DVD, RENT IT! Heck, just buy the dang thing.
Sure, the idea of a guy [...] Read more:movie
, review
help, i’m limericking uncontrollably 2008-03-03 07:10:31 I’m working on all these limericks for the bookstore contest here, and now I can’t stop! And they’re just getting worse!
“Blogging’s the thing!” they all say.
Thousands in cash every day!
Just upload and push,
To show baby’s fresh tush,
And your Paypal brims over; yes, way!
Oy, I’m irritating myself. Where’s a haiku when you need one?
Anyone [...]
There once was a limerick from Perth…. 2008-03-02 14:48:51 Hey, didya hear? The Bookstore here is having a limerick contest (not that I could find it on their website…ahem!). Deadline is March 30th. Submit by email to staff@eagleharborbooks.com or by mail or in person.
Here’s one of mine (it’s G rated):
Frog Rock hopped to Winslow at dark.
He shopped for their flies as [...] Read more:Perth
My Bainbridge Island police blotter 2008-02-28 20:39:47 February 23:
Officers were called to the residence, a site of a possible manmouseslaughter. A match to the tire tread imprint was immediately found on the resident’s Toyota automobile. “IF I did it, it was an accident. I didn’t have anything against him,” the woman claimed. However, after officers searched the garage, [...] Read more:Island
Learn-A-Word Wednesday: ersatz \AIR-sahts; UR-sats\ 2008-02-27 10:25:36 adjective:
Being a substitute or imitation, usually an inferior one.
Then there was the sheaf of hostile letters larded with ersatz sympathy, strained sarcasm or pure spite.
– “Time for GAA to become a persuader”, Irish Times, April 13, 1998
Ersatz derives from German Ersatz, “a substitute.”
This word would be great to remember when you’re stuck with a “z” [...] Read more:Wednesday
Do you think there is too much violence on TV? 2008-02-25 10:40:02 A friend’s 4 year-old daughter recently listened to a story about her mother’s grandma, who she was, what she liked. The usual stories.
Then she asked, “where IS Grandma now?”
“Well, Grandma got very old, and she died,” her mother replied matter-of-factly.
“She did??”
“Yes,” said the mom, bracing herself for The Discussion of death and dying.
“Who SHOT [...] Read more:think
Blogging away to nothing: blogging tips I hate 2008-02-22 19:05:44 I’m having trouble writing anything lately. I think I’ve been reading too much blogging advice, and it just depresses me. Did you bloggers out there know these things?
1. Posting every day is passe — just clutters up people’s readers. Work the system, I say.
2. No one cares what I had [...] Read more:blogging tips
pestiferous \pes-TIF-uh-ruhs\ 2008-03-12 09:26:14 adjective:
1. Bearing or bringing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease.
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.
Pestiferous is from Latin pestifer, “pestilential,” from pestis, “pestilence,” + -fer, “bearing.”
No, I did not make this word up, but it does sound like something Willy Wonka would say.
And what is pestiferous to [...]
here a dog, there a dog: Seattle’s Dog Show 2008-03-10 23:57:26 We went to the dog show this past weekend to see the pooches, because being home, letting the same Dog in and out, in and out, all day, just isn’t enough.
We saw all kinds of fuzzy, nervous, uptight types. But the dogs at the end of their leashes were sweet.
I [...] Read more:Seattle
Is this the message you want your kids to hear?? 2008-03-15 09:28:41 “A person’s a person, no matter how small!”
Yes, it opened yesterday (big) and being the movie loser lover I am, I took Kid to Horton Hears a Who.
Sure, it was colorful, silly and most importantly, less than 90 minutes long, but there was this message.
And they kept repeating it.
And while laughing nervously, I [...]
micro-managing at 4 2008-03-13 20:09:51 Since Kid had yet another half-birthday party at school recently (But THIS TIME I knew about it ahead of time! Ha ha! Preschool, you can’t get me TWO years in a row! Last year, you saw me run out panicked after drop-off in search of any remotely fresh bakery cookies; this year, Kid [...] Read more:micro
For MMLM: my first video post 2008-03-17 10:44:05 Here’s my entry for Make Me Laugh Monday hosted by Absolutely Bananas. It’s a dog. It’s lots of snow. We can laugh, because it is definitely turning springy around here with warmer days, birds returning and extra sneezing (by people, not the birds).
I hope this all works. I’m such a dork; [...] Read more:video
Learn-A-Word Wednesday: gewgaw \G(Y)OO-gaw\ 2008-03-19 10:54:09 noun:
A showy trifle; a trinket; a bauble.
The origin of gewgaw is uncertain.
Here’s yet another useless word. Except that it describes what all the female 4 year old’s I know (and 3 and 2…) love and are instantly attracted to.
ANYTHING WITH GLITTER.
They are like little crows hopping all around any sparkly item, and [...] Read more:Wednesday
can 1 question ruin your day? 2008-03-21 19:58:30 How about…..“Are you the grandma?”
Okay, technically I could be Kid’s grandmother if I started at 18 and that child had a child at 18…., but I don’t really need to THINK about that. Instead of babies, I had school, work, travel, happy hours, moves, and freedom.
If more people would let their grey hair grow [...]
bags of air….or windbags? 2008-03-20 21:08:30 Driving home, we pass the paper shop with balloons tied outside on a sandwich board. (Yes, the same place that used to give away balloons, up until that helium shortage last year.)
“I want a balloon! Can I have a balloon today?”
We keep driving.
“Mommy!”
We keep driving.
“What?”
“Can I have a balloon? PLEASE?!”
“No, not today.” [...]
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