Nakita Grinie

Hello, blog world. I heard some of you want me to have my own day on the blog and that's really cool and all, but I'm an extremely busy dog. I have to get my 12 hour nap each day but I suppose I can humor you this week at least. My mom added a few pictures of me when I was just a pup---a few weeks old, to be exact---because she knows you like pictures in posts.

Not too much new in my life. Mom keeps talking about the kitchen and how she's so happy she could just puke. Dad found a new hobby fit for geriatrics....he now likes to do jigsaw puzzles in his spare time. He just finished one of a farm and it's really ugly and boring. And me? I'm perfecting the art of barking at nothing while staring out the window. My big brother Sammy starts barking downstairs and that makes me want to bark, so I do, and then my parents scream at me to stop. This happens about ten times a night. It's so much fun.
Oh, and my other Grandma is coming on Friday! I'm going to lick her face for about twenty minutes straight. My mom says she might not be able to blog for awhile when Grandma is here, but don't worry because I'm sure she'll have plenty of pictures to share on Monday when she's off work. She's a psycho with that damn camera.
Also, mom has a continuing education course tomorrow for twelve hours straight. She's complaining about that already in anticipation. She has to go again on Friday but only for six hours, which is still better than working I guess. One thing that made her happy today was writing out the check for their wedding photo DVD, which she's been coveting for almost a year. This is a very big step in my parent's lives and I can't wait to sniff the album when it's done.

Oh, and they've been scouring the internet all the freaking time looking for the perfect vacation spot. Apparently they're looking into every city in the USA and even some in Mexico. I'm secretly ticked off they aren't taking me on the trip, so I might drop a mad deuce on their bed tonight to prove my disdain.

Okay, back to my life now. I'm trying to get my favorite ball freed from under the couch. I just whine until my parents can't take it anymore and then they'll get it for me. I totally own them.

Hello ye humans. It is I, Henry, and I know it's been awhile since I last blogged. I apologize for my absence but my mother is fully to blame. She's been hogging our new computer like a crazy woman. And crazy she is, because I've heard her talking to herself a lot lately---especially when she's on the computer. And my dad? He's been studying his face off for his first big tests in PT school. They are quite the pair I tell you. But enough of them, let's move on to me, shall we?

My mom made me pose for an absurd amount of pictures in our backyard. Something about wanting to learn more about our camera and maybe get a few 'frame worthy' shots of my cute face.

She plopped me onto this aqua chair because it supposedly brings out my eyes, but alas, the chair was unbalanced. I freaked out right after this picture because I thought the chair might attack me on it's way down.
Oh, and did I mention that it's freaking HOT being a dog? I have this thick sweater of fur, I can't sweat, and my mom makes me sit outside in the 85 degree heat to snap pictures like this:
Now I'll admit, this weekend brought the first 80 degree temperatures since last October, so it's not like I have it that bad. Mom was practically skipping around the house all weekend, saying, "Henry! It's actually NICE outside for once. Can't you just smell summer?" Um, no, mom. All I can smell is people food an I want to lick it.
This is my, "What the heck do you want, lady?" face. You like?
So. Hot. Outside. Might. Die.
Now that's better, inside where I can escape the scorching temperatures.
I think I earned my nap today, don't you?
And then mom got up close and personal, trying to play with the macro settings. My nose is one of my defining features, you know.
But don't worry, the weather didn't stay nice for long. In fact we had tornado warnings [not just watches, people] every day from Friday until Sunday. It was quite frightening if you ask me. Mom says that working in a hospital is really fun when we have tornado warnings. She had to help get every patient out from their rooms and into the hallways and it was a nightmare. She doesn't want to talk about it, but here is a picture to prove our twister weather:
In between lightening bolts, thunder claps, and pouring rain there were moments of sunshine. When mom got tired of my drooling tongue as her subject, she turned to the pink peonies in our backyard. There is just something about pink and flowers that she loves, go figure.




Other happenings in my household include:

~mom successfully rescued all of their songs from the dying laptop. It took 11 CDs to backup their iTunes library but it worked and now she's jamming out to forgotten songs.

~mom and dad ran their 6 miles down at the lake front on Saturday. From what I hear it was awesome, not horrible, and very entertaining. They even saw a man dressed in a gorilla suit for some odd reason!

~one thing that mom forgot before training for this marathon: her appetite gets out of control. Insatiable, actually. Famished at all hours of the day. She sounds just like Chris Farley on SNL when he plays the Gap girl. You know the quote, don't you? "LAY OFF ME, I'M STARVING."

So that's it. My take on life right now. Which of my pictures are your favorites? Do you think any made the 'frame worthy' category?