He is ADORABLE!! I want to snuggle him under my chin.

Oh, I WANT him!!! He's the most adorable puppy I've ever seen! Um, what's your parents'address again?

SO!! CUTE!!!

(I think that's exactly what I said when he appeared the first time too!)

Such cuteness should not be legal! Too bad you didn't get a photo of Bob with the stickie notes.

Adorable. I love the way puppies smell and I can tell he smells good like a little puppy should. He has a little puppy pee-pee I can see it! I love dogs.

I so totally relate to the straight hair thing! My hair is so straight and I do mean "STICK STRAIGHT" that I can bake it on hot rollers or the hottest curling iron and it will be straight once again within 15 min.

I have been the envy of my daughters and all their friend this past 10 years but the fact remains I don't look good in straight hair. I look so much better with a little body.

Yes, the 80's were a bitch! I paid tons of money for perms that only lasted till the roots grew out.

Adorable little brother, you can already tell by that sweet little face that he is going to rule the roost.

A highlighter-post-it pen? I never knew! what genius, I am ordering a six-pak for the office right now.
love the puppy pics!

A mental Geritol! I have to stock up on them next time I go to Costco.

You're little brother is adorable! When you're parents start talking about how great he is please remind them that you haven't pooped on the carpet for years. (hopefully?) I'm sure they can't say the same for him.

Good luck at the dentist. I hate going. My orthodontist had an eye tick and it scarred me for life. Once a month for three and a half years I got to sit in his chair watching that eye. It still gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

Have a great long weekend!!

OMG, he is so friggin' adorable!
Must get kitten or puppy soon!

Hows come people with straight hair are jealous of curly heads and vice-versa? I have naturally curly hair and it is a bitch to straighten. I don't even bother on wet, humid or daylight days. hmmmm?

That puppie is dripping of cute, cuddliness.
But......alas.....I am a cat person and canines are not welcome here (somecat made me type that)

You speak as if you will be MIA during the rest o the week so I will bid you a HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY. Here is Ohi-a, it just might break 80.

ciao

That is the cutest puppy in the history of the world! And if you took a picture of Bob coverd in post-its, please post! Good luck at the dentist. We all feel for you!

When you replace your post-it flag pen, you can use this coupon from 3M to save money:
http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/coupons/index.html

Turns out 3M has coupons all over their site for people who would like to take money they'd normally spend on office supplies or cleaning products, and save it for wine instead. (Or, I guess, save it for feeding their children or donating it to a Good Cause or something like that. I spend it on wine, because I am a wicked, wicked woman.)

It should be a crime to be that cute!

That may be the cutest puppy ever. And I envy your straight hair, I have naturally curly (aka frizzy for half the year) hair and would love for it to be straight. I don't bother straightening mine because, well, I'd rather sleep.

Have a great weekend!

Bob in Post-It Notes...heeheehee. I like those day-glo highlighters - was it dayglo? My Rav4 moment was yesterday, talking about Pop Beads; nary a glimmer of recognition from the group. That new brother is simply adorably darling - have a great time with your folks.

Ohh, please post a photo of Bob with the post-its!!!

Doggie- too cute!

Also, did you know that they have new clear/see-thru post-its so you can highlight or write something in a book without messing up the pages?!

OK, I read about Bob and the post-it notes, then IMMEDIATELY scrolled down for a photo of post-it flag festooned Bob. :)

I'm not even a dog person, but ohmygodhowcute is he?

Sympathies on the typo. I hate it when that happens.

Also on the young co-worker thing. One of my coworkers is barely more than half my age. She was all excited to reach drinking age. Ugh.

AGH! I must now find a puppy to cuddle! Chivas is so cute!

No, don't worry, Soba, I still bow down to you first.

Oh. My. Word. He is too cute!!!! And I love the mental geritol. Can you OD on that stuff? Because I think I did.

Haha. Yea, I totally sent the Red Cross a cover letter the other day that started "Dear Humane Society ..."

I realized as I was hitting send and was all slo-mo with a "Noooooo" trying to stop my finger from clicking.

Now, if beer comcercials used puppies like him instead of boobtastic models for their ads, staight women and gay men would be drinking way more beer right now.
What's that little puppy? You want me to buy that brand of toothpaste? Ok!

P'shaw, you don't need to have lived through the 80's to know about the hair. I was all of 2 1/2 when we hit the 90's and I certainly know about it. Doesn't she watch tv?

...your little brother is cuter than should be allowed. I want a Welsh Corgi with their adorable faces and cute little stubby legs! But my cats would eat it. o.O

LOL from start to finish of your post. We had cocker spaniels when I was little named Chivas - there were first and second editions. Chivas I slept under my crib.

I will happily assist you in the dognapping if I can have shared custody.

Oh, God. That pic of him upside asleep with his legs in the air? Melted every single bone in my body.

For my senior prom I went to the hairdresser in the morning for the wash, set and dry. I went back at 5:00 for the comb out. I was gorgeous at 7:00 for the photos and stick straight by 11:00. Permanents last about a month. Am I resistant to curl?? Ya' think?

Cutest little baby bro I ever did see and I just love his little puppy peepee. LOL

Finally, my third wish was granted. To see some DOGS on this blog.

ohmygod I cant breathe! giggling too much from reading some of the comments (yes Laurie, you were funny too) and I about passed out from hypoxia by the time I got to the bottom of the page.

The little brother is SOOOOOOOOOOOO adorable! You can see just how smart he is by the way he was sleeping on his back in his crate. (my dog used to sleep that way too. It's a sign of intelligence! really!)

I'm still auditioning dogs myself. I'm about to go get my new glasses made, and while they're making them, I'm heading over to the pet store to see all the little babies and maybe hold one in the little cubicles that they have in the store for you to play with the puppies.

I'm hoping that I'm not really allergic to dogs like I think I am. My mom really wants a puppy.

The pictures of little Chivas are so cute, I just want to dive into the monitor and grab him and say "MINE!!!"

Mental Geritol - *LOL* I take those every day because everyone I work with is apparently TWELVE and "don't know about that old-time stuff".

And. . . SQUEEEE! That puppy is adorable. I want to hug the stuffins out of him!!!

Your new brother is adorable. I'm dentisting tomorrow too - to the tune of three crowns. I am not looking forward to the four hour appointment - I will be sipping my cocktails thru a straw all weekend long...

Anyone who looks at these photos and doesn't go "awwww!"? Heart.Of.Stone.

Errrrr... C.A.P.? I'm not sure but I think someone may have shot your new brother!

And please would you just fake up a picture of Bob with the post-it notes over his furry body?

See, what you should do is scan your email showing a pen and ink correction, and send it to them, selling your mad proofreading and editing skillz.

Or maybe not.

You can always drop the puppy off with me. ;-) He is too cute for words.

Ah, the Corgis. Love them, and Chivas is a particularly cute example.

My daughter has declared Corgis her favorite dog. Alas, she has some kind of mental block when it comes to the breed name...so whenever she sees one walking down the street with its owner, she shrieks "A PORKY! A PORKY!"

She is only 4, so the owners are usually pretty forgiving once they overcome their mortification.

Corgis are the smartest dogs on the planet. We had a corgi for close to 17 years....he was a good doggie! They are almost people with fur. I miss my dear Corgi boy.....if I ever get another dog I'll get a corgi.

He's just too cute. Are you sure he's not a wind up toy? Did you check for a key on his back side?

Those short little legs are to die for. He is seriously the cutest dog walking the face of the planet.

May I tell you the sad tale of my hair? It was poker straight in the 80s. No amount of Rave hairspray helped. I did the Rave home perms. I did salon spiral perms. The problem with perms was that as my bangs grew out, they lost their perminess and would no longer stand up straight. I was inconsolable.

Now that flatironed hair is in? My hair is curly. It changed when I had my babies, I am not even kidding. It's not super curly, but just enough that it won't go super straight anymore, and it gets frizzy in the SF moist air.

In other news, that puppy is so cute he should be illegal.

Awwwwwwwwwww, I want a puppy!!

The cuteness! Oh sweet cuteness!

Aren't the so adorable as puppies???? Why can't the stay that way?!

post-it Bob would have been a great picture! But thanks for all the doggie lovin'. He is seriously cute.
I don't like people that weren't around in the 80's. Grr.

OMFG!!!
I think we have just declared our new president and emperor.

ALL HAIL CHIVAS!

awwwyouaresodamncute!

OMG I just want to snorgle that!

You realize, if you brought him home with you that he would turn into a cat?

Not that that's a BAD thing, mind you...

I'm just sayin'....
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Awwww! I'm relieved to see that I wasn't the only person who flew through the post looking for a picture of Bob with post-it notes all over him lol!

Your new brother is adorable!

Your new brother is soooo cute, & I wanted to commend you on not getting a puppy right now due to the reasons that you gave. We got a puppy back at the end of December, and the level of commitment to our little fuzzy bundle of joy is so extreme. Try a level of commitment a thousand times more than our cat needs! BTW, our puppy is quite enamored with our cat. And the cat is learning to tollerate the dog's version of affection. Perhaps some day they will be able to be in the same room together without my refereeing :) Some day....

Waaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnt Chivas...the dog...oooh, and the scotch might not be so bad right about now either...Work...GAH!

The puppy is cute, but I would love to see a picture of Bob with post-it's all over him.

OMG Chivas is so cute my head is exploding.

Isn't the highlighter/post-it pen just the best thing ever invented?! I love mine beyond all reason. It is possible I'm too attached to the whole Post-It Range of Office Supplies. (I think it comes from being a writer.) :)

Not to be an enabler or anything, but if you think about all the dogs that need rescuing, who spend their days in kennels, just hoping for someone nice to adopt them, and how much better it would be to have a home instead of living in a shelter, even if their person were away for 10 hours a day, especially if the doggy had kitties to keep him company, well, maybe it wouldn't be so bad :)

Just saying.

If you rescue an adult dog who is potty trained, I doubt he or she would have any problems holding their potty breaks until you returned.

Also, dogs are kinda awesome.

How did I not know of the highlighter pen?!

Puppies usually don't do it for me, but this one? So adorable. I had to stop myself from scritching his exposed belly through the computer screen.

At least it wasn't an editing job...

Clearly the Universe did NOT want you to take that free-lance job. Heave a huge sigh of relief that you escaped it!

And buy Bob more post-its, he's clearly on a MISSION!

I'm wordless over Chivas--beyond dreamy!

He just oozes cutie-osity!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Now that I've got that out of the way... somewhere I read an interesting story about those "watch for falling rocks"/"falling rock zone" signs. I think it was in one of those imponderables books. Anyway, the question was asked: what am I supposed to do if I see a rock falling in front of my car and I'm surrounded by semis? The answer is that they don't really want you to watch out for rocks fallING, but for rocks already fallEN into the road. Some places have changed the signs to "fallen rock zone," which has the benefit of being clearer and also of having one letter fewer, which may not seem like much but matters when you're tooling along at 65. Make that 55, gas prices just went up again.

I know the stupidest things.

At least Bob doesn't sleep in your stash. That I know of. (This assumes that you have a stash. You may be one of those terrifyingly organized people who only buy yarn for their current project.)

Oh, and you are totally a genius. Seriously. Typos, shmypos. Which one of us has published a brilliantly funny and insightful book? I rest my case. That would be a case of Chivas, of course.

I've been making myself crazy in the last few days reading back posts on the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee, (must not get a kitten...must not get a kitten...must not...) but I actually think that Chivas is even cuter than a kitten. Wow. He's just gorgeous.

That people born in the late '80s are allowed to drive freaks my shit out. If you weren't wearing jelly sandals and grooving to Like a Virgin in the late '80s, BACK AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE.

(I recently sent out a (multiple) cover letters proclaiming I AM THE BEST EDITOR EVER. With, you guessed it, spelling errors.) (Open mouth, insert jelly sandal.)

Love your blog!!!

*squee*

I wants the doggie! Definitely the cutest smartest doggie in the whole world! You can tell just by looking at him.

I don't like dogs, but oh man, Chivas is cute. Love.the.name.

I went to a cocktail party last night and was chatting with someone and found out that she was born while I was in college. People who were born when I was in college should not be old enough to drink yet, dammitall!

And that's a really cute dog. And I know from cute dogs.

I was never much of a Corgi fancier until I saw those pix. Overwhelming cutitude! He's even got me making up words he's so hugerific!

The paws! Those huge white paws!!! He's killing me with Teh Cute.

And Bob? Totally normal. We all have our obsessions. Ok, where was my Elvis wig again ...?

I just came back from oogling the puppies at the pet store. (sadly, I came home alone) but while I was just going nuts over a poodle puppy, the people next to me in the other puppy cubicle, had the only Corgi pup in the store, and he was just adorable.

I held the poodle puppy up to the top of the wall, and they held up the Corgi, and the puppies looked at each other, and the little Corgi did a little puppy bark of "Hello" at the poodle.

The poodle just did the little tilt to his head, and looked at the corgi in amazement.

I think the Corgi puppy was telling the poodle that he (the corgi) was the most awsomest dog in the store.

I think the poodle was just tired after a long hard day of playing with his siblings and having humans asking to play with him.

Oh yeah, I've done the typo... Picture someone saying "Hi! I'm a Writer!" only, I spell it "wrier". It was...a lot...like that...

Kinda like the equivalent of finally getting that cute boy's attention, then, as you're giving him your cutesy, flirty wave, you spill a cosmo all down the front of your shirt.

Cutest.Dog.EVER.

Oh my goodness, Chivas is too too adorable!!!
You might want to let your folks know their dog is 2nd smartest in the world, as my dog Harry Barker is THE smartest dog in the world.

Have they invested in some steps for Chivas to be able to get up on the couch or their bed? Being the owner of a short legged dog, the steps are really a good investment. Saves a lot of bending and picking up the dog!!

hi laurie
i wasn't sure if you've seen this site:
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it's got a great post today.

aaaah! so cuuuute! the shrillness of my cute-puppy-voice is calling all of the neighborhood dogs... too precious.

Oh! His ears are up already! I so love corgis. sigh.

OMG, that is the cutest puppy! No wonder you want to dognap him.

yup, officially cute puppy. Even his poops and puddles and chewed up shoes and furniture will be cute. And can you just imagine how cute it will be when your folks stand on the porch and bellow out his name at night? oh yeah.
My favorite version of the "apple don't fall far, etc" is:
The crumb don't fall far from the cracker.

I thought your other two brothers were cute, but then I saw Chivas. Sorry, guys. The baby bro is beyond adorable. ;-)

Why no pictures of the Post-It-Bob?

I don't mean to make merry of your misfortune, but the mental picture I formed of Bob with four telltale Post-Its still stuck to him made me laugh out loud at the end of a looooooong-ass day.

Also, I, too, have sent out queries about my fabulous wonderfulness at all things attention-to-detail-y and organized, and later found typos in them. It hurts. But you're not alone. ;)

Also, PUPPPPPYYYYYYYYYY

omg that puppy is freakingadorable!

I understand about the coworkers that don't get the 80's references. I mentioned the tv show "Mork & Mindy" to one the other day and she just stared at me blankly.

Let's all go visit your parents. Puppy love, oh my. I've always thought Corgis were OK. Not great, not a Golden. But I never saw a Corgi puppy before. I thought I'd seen cute, but that's C U T E. I now appreciate the Queen more.

oh my god, that's a f*(&^! cute dog! i can't stand it! give him a hugest hug for me when you meet him. i'm so jealous!

Tell the family to take lots of photos at this age. My corgi was cuteasabutton like that for about a month. She's still a cutie-but a big girl now. So big, I can't lift her up on the exam table..... Oh, yeah, there's something about lying on the back with the legs straight up- I thought mine just did it because she's so fat- must be a corgi thing!

I just have to say that I found your blog while (bad me) looking for knitting help on the web while I should have been working very hard.
Can I also just say that I have NEVER laughed out loud so hard that my co-worker said "I've never heard you be so happy about work, good for you" - yeah right.
You are so darn funny.
Love the pup, being that I am also a slave lover to my dog Buster. Your parents pup makes me want to have another one (its like holding someone else's baby, and you get a momentary longing, until they start to wail really loud)

I'm grinning from ear to ear. As the mother of 14 corgis over 38 years, your new little brother is a classic and a credit to "ruling" corgis everywhere. Corgis love their ears rubbed gently and spend a great deal of time on their back. They are known to hate their nails being clipped so I'd suggest getting Chivas used to that early. I hope you have looked at some Tasha Tudor books by now--particularly Corgiville Faire. Hugs to all of you. :)

Naughty Bob !!!
He was marking the shopping list to make sure you didn't forget anything feline.
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has a bunch of Welsh Corgis?
They are cute.

Funny, my new pup is named Whisky!

Awww, cute puppy - much better than the cats ;o)

I can't stand dogs and even I think he's cute. I suspect you & your parents will be taking a lot of photographs!

Cutest. Being. Ever!

Wow! Chivas is such a cute name for a such a wuvly ickle Corgi. I am in Paisley in Scotland, where the Chivas Bros. head office is, by strange coincidence, and am wondering - there are two different ways to say Chivas - some people (who live near the head office, or others who know what they're talking about) pronounce it SHEEVAS, but others say SHIVERS. I'm hoping it's the first one? I'm so jealous, he's yummy!

I am not much of a dog person but that little guy almost changes my mind. But not quite. But almost.

Ummm .... speaking of typos .... you did mean "stationery", no? No? OK, never mind.

Oh my gosh!!! He is too cute for words!! You know he will always be your parents favorite now. I know from experience, the four of us kids were replaced by a black cat named Jack and life will never be the same. :) Have fun on your visit with your little brother.

My parents always had a cat or two, but it seems that, since all the kids are grown, my mother's become crazily devoted to the cat. She packs snacks and toys in his carrier when I bring him to the vet for a checkup. She worries about the "stress" of vet visits on his "emotional well-being". Gah.

Chivas the litte pudgebucket is obscenely adorable.

I had to take my mental Geritol when I was talking with some co-workers about the Rick Springfield concert (Rick Springfield! Free concert! I am psychotically happy about this!). One of the ladies said she didn't know who RS was, and planned to Google him later. One asked if Rick Springfield was the one who sang "Love is a Battlefield."

Bob is obviously making notes on what to do to you if you bring home an extra fat bag that wiggles.

oooo-ahhh, that's a sweetie baby (must be said in a low, baby-talkin' kind of voice)

OMG he's adorable!!!! But if you took him home I think Sobakowa would eat him.

and yes that mental geritol. I was helping out in the book fair at my son's elementary school. there were books on "Who was Elvis" and "Who are the Beatles". I was really surprised they needed to have books out on them when somebody said they were a part of history. Elvis and Paul in a history book. God I'm old.

OMG... that is the cutest puppy in the world... I want one too!!!

Oh Laurie...I feel your 80's hair pain. My hair is also super straight and I went through high school and college in the 80's which means 10 years of BAD perms.

I still remember my 3 hour hair ritual which involved washing with special permed-hair safe volumizing shampoo, then volumizing mousse, then blowdrying upside down with a diffuser and scrunching like crazy. Then putting in the hot rollers. Then finishing off with a curling iron to fix the areas that didn't curl with the hot rollers.

Then some teasing and about half a bottle of Sebastian Super-Freeze hairspray.

It came out great...until about 3 minutes after I'd walk out the door at which point it would turn into a flat/straight on top/frizzy on the bottom mess.

I even spent 2 years addicted to the L'Oreal (I think) mousse with the gold dust in it.

I wish I'd know back then that if I just waited a couple of decades, straight hair would be "in."

Flatirons? We don't need no steenkin' flatirons!

Hi Laurie,

I sent my mom over to see your new brother! She thinks he's the cutest "porky"(thanks minipurl) she's ever seen! Their Dixie is about 6 years old and the tri-color variety. Very cute but not puppy cute any more(I do have a picture of her on my blog, a few posts ago. She's helping my dad mow).

When I showed the pictures to my daughters(ages 8 and 12) they squealed loud!! We have 2 labs, a border collie, a cairn/daschund mix, 5 cats and 10 guinea pigs so a corgi is not in our near future.

I tried in the 70s to blow dry my curls into a Farrah flip. Looked good for about a second and then SPROING, my curls would be back. 1980 dawned and suddenly my curls were in and I was the envy of all my friends and my stick-straight-haired sister and her friends, who were perming theirs. From then on, I've reveled in my G-d given curls, even in humidity when my hair tends to resemble that of the fabulous Diana Ross. I've given up fighting it. I just use the right products for my hair and I'm fine. Curly or straight or somewhere in between, just accept the hair you have and don't try to make it do what it won't.

Chivas is sooooooooooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! There's a family in our neighborhood with three corgis, each with their own unique expression and personality. I love corgis.

I want a baby brother! He's adorable! But then I want photos of Post-It Bob, too. Was he even the least bit embarrassed?

OMG, I used to have a dog named Chivas Regal! Except it was spelled Chevis. I didn't name him, just got custody of him in a friend's divorce. He was a golden retriever.

hey! I've been thinking on it over the last 24 hours and I reckon that Bob was framed. May I suggest that you turn your eyes towards 'The Great Dictator'? It is all part of her greater plan!

I love reading your blog, it always boosts my spirits, so I had to mention it in my own blog :) What a cutie Chivas is!

Step away from the Geritol, you young whippersnapper. Screw the 80's - I was totally cool in the 60's when stick straight hair was in. I used to help my curly-headed friends iron their hair. Yes, we had electricity then.

Am going to the dentist myself tomorrow to have a tooth pulled. Will come home, apply rum as needed to the gums (also tongue, throat and stomach) and come back here to see the cutest dog in the world.

He is SO ADORABLE!!! I want to snuggle with him :)

Remember Spritz Forte, anyone? It was what my friends and I called hard on hairspray because it turned your hair to STONE. Smelled so good. Still didn't work so great on my hair. I was confined to bobs in the big hair 80's. Sucked, but I learned to live with it, and didn't look like everybody else.

I love you and I don't even know you! I found your blog on another blog site and I just started reading it. It is great and you are so funny and talented. The puppy is soooooooo asorable!! I'm brand new to blogging. You are so great.
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Oh my Lord, Rave #4! You almost needed a chisel to get that stuff out. But it sure held my *itch flip in place!!

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DANG - posted to the wrong day's thread! - here we go again:

AAAWWWWWWWWW........SO INSANELY CUTE I MIGHT STROKE OUT!!!

I think I know what's really going on with Bob. It's a desperate bid for attention, because all that cuteness emanating from even a continent away is making him feel insecure. Don't worry, Bobster - he'll never have your perfect kittie toes!

Either that, or Bob was set up. Soba framed him, because - well, because she's Soba. It's what evil dictators do.

Bossy must eat that puppy now with a big spoon. Wait -- that didn't come out right.

Hey, I have two corgis and two half-corgis and i can vouch for the fact that they are indeed THE smartest and THE cutest dogs ever. Not that I'm biased or anything, just sayin'.

I think Chivas might be the cutest corgi ever! I just want to rub his little tummy. I had a street bred corgi according to the vet. 1/2 Corgi and 1/2 bad boy that didn't stay around. Best dog I ever had and she loved to have her tummy rubbed gently.

Geritol! OMG I used to work with a girl..and yes she was still a girl, who would ask me to tell stories about "the olden days"! Fortunately she found another career.

Adorable pup!

The amusing thing about the 80's and big hair for me is that I used to wash, blow dry and curling iron curl my hair every morning. While I am sure hairspray was invented prior to that I did not have a clue that that might have HELD the curl longer than the bus ride to school.

Now I am 42, straight hair is the vogue and I have learned that if my hair is layered it is rather wavy/curly.

So I have big hair and it is uncool.

I keep coming back to this post just to look at picture of Lil Bro.

Chivas is adorable. He's going to be even more adorable when he starts his adolescence. Corgis' ears stick up naturally, so when he goes through it, one ear will flop and the other will stick up straight and then vice versa. It's probably one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Don't let the cats stop you. I have 3 and I adopted a middle-aged Corgi about 8 months ago. The cats have forgiven me (mostly) though they do not all get along.

That puppy is so cute that I may have to get another one. That picture of him laying on his back is adorable.

When I brought my corgi boy (Ned, the perfect dog)home 8 years ago, my Tortie (the late great Minnie) beat him up on a regular basis even after he understood very well that she was The Queen. One time he was up on the bed and she got up on her hind legs like a boxer and smacked him across the bed and then knocked him off of it. She eventually forgave him for being a dog - or really any living creature other than herself and me - and ignored him. My other cat, Chevy, took a year to not fear him. Oddly, Chevy never feared Minnie, who was the real threat in the house, no matter how many times she beat him up. They eventually learn to either live together or stay out of each other's way.

OMG PONIEZ TEH CUTE!

Ah yes, I remember Shpritz Forte and Rave4 and Aqua Net and how about Aussie Sprunch Spray! Practically had to chisel that stuff out of my hair - took three days to get it all out. Should've realized that any hair spray bottle bearing "removal instructions" was better left on the shelf.

That puppy!!! So cute!!!!

You didn't happen to take any picture of Bob sporting the post-its, did you?

How about French Formula?? Now that was a build up leaving hair spray if ever there was one. A hairdresser panicked once cuz she thought it was nits...nope just hairspray build up that would NOT wash out.
I used to get my mom to give me Rave "body"perms for mor poof. Heaven help me the time she gave me a Toni perm in my short hair because every curler was wrapped so tight that my hair naturally fell into curler sections when my styling products let go. And she would struggle to get even the shorted hair in so I always had a frizz at the neckline thanks to that.
As a kid my hair was quite wavy but now I'm forty and if left alone its pretty curly. Just like a Rave body perm..........

ahhhh.... mental Geritol... I know it well... I HATE realizing that someone you're talking to doesn't know what you mean because you're saying it stupid, but that they're too frakking young to know what the heck you're talking about... grr.

Oh. And that doggy is so frakking cute it made me wiggle in my seat and say AWWWWWW! and want to squish him... *wants one*

too cute! damn!! :)

Why did you post this picture. I am NOT A DOG PERSON! I am a CAT PERSON. But OMG, if that isnt the cutest little punim I have EVER seen!? I just may have inadvertently become a dog person.

The hair? I have frizzy/curly hair--the 60s when you were supposed to have long straight hair were torture!

1. Post-its were an *accident*! Did you know that? I do love me some 3M, they made my life as a secretary much easier, and when I was promoted to "Administrative Assistant" I like them even more! (NOTE: that involved getting a new name plate ONLY). I'd have liked that picture too. 2. Your new brother is just like everyone else has said. Did you know Her Maj de Queen has corgis? Did you know that Tasha Tudor (who I want to be when I grow up, notice the resemblance?) as Corgis. The truth is....they're CATS, who think they're PEOPLE, disguised as dogs. They are, however, superior to both people and dogs. (Cats are the best...ask Sobakowa for confirmation0. Dentists? You're too young, but I will sing the virtues and praises of my beloved dentures forever. Trouble brushing those back teeth? NO PROBLEM when you're holding them in your hand!! {BIG grin}

Such a cutie!
Happy Sunday!
Oh and yes I have tagged you too (if you ever get through all of these comments he he).

In Bob's defense...are you sure it's not case of Soba framing Bob? It's the kinda of thing an evil dictator would do.

Corgi puppies are the cutest things. And that would be OK, but the problem is that they are also VERY SMART. Too smart fortheir own good. Tell your parents they really need to practice tough love with this one or he WILL take advantage. Oh and btw, they all sleep that way, it is the funniest thing.

Oh. My. God! The cuteness!! It is overwhelming!

I had one of those "jeez my coworker is WAY too young" moments when I referred to the full on Madonna regalia I used to wear circa "Like A Virgin" and the only way she really knew of Madonna was from adopting Malawian orphans, not through music...

Hi Laurie,
I’m in France now, and my hotel charges for internet access. I thought you’d want to know that I’m paying the equivalent of 60 cents a minute to read your blog!
I know that’s not nearly as good as if that money were going directly to you, but hey, it does show the value I place on keeping up with your blogging. I’m going to be here for 2 more months. I hate to think of how much I’m going to drop on internet charges.

Love,
B
(I met you at the Compatto Yarn Salon book signing).

That is a cute puppy! Where are the rest of his legs?

Tooooo cute! I have been lucky enough to be babysitting some puppies lately; aren't they just little angels? (Sort of?)

Anyway, I am pretty new to the whole blog thing, but I find yours to be highly entertaining. I am thinking I will be buying your book shortly....

Cheers!
Leanne

How can they name a Welsh Corgi after Scotch? They should have called him Cardiff or Tenby. LOL

the puppy is way too cute!

But on TV related info, have you seen the previews for the Ice Truckers of Alaska? The preview shows one of the big semis breaking through the frozen lake he's driving across and slllooooowwwwly sinking. You Deadliest Catch types are gonna love this!

I've just stumbled on your blog and just have to say yey for women who can write so well! I've not laughed this much in ages, and I've also just discovered thanks to your blog that I can't laugh and drink tea at the same time, but at least no-one saw me dribble. If it makes you feel any better, not so very long ago I stood in front of a very easy on the eye architect who was planning my house extension, and tried to ask about a full structural survey, but got my words muddled up.........
Thanks for the laugh,
Kim

Dear Aunt Purl or other cat owners,

What was it people said to get to calm your cats? It was an atomizer. We had a spraying weekend and I need to do something to restore peace.

Dot

Found your blog via "WebAwards'07" website, funny! My best friend Libby was a Tomboy when she moved into my Minnesota neighborhood, back in 1958 or so, & we were both plotting how we'd get into the "COOL" Clique at our High School, the summer before we STARTED H.S., 1961.

My Dad came to pick us up at the 1st FOOTBALL Game of the Season, at our new High School, & we were both excited, giggly, & engrossed with drooling over all the CUTE GUYS we saw. My Dad said we were MOVING, AGAIN (moved TWICE in grade school); so I didn't SEE my Best Friend for a couple of YEARS.

I got to see my friend during my SOPHOMORE Year of High School. I was GREEN with ENVY! Because she was still a "Tomboy" but now was REALLY pretty, and HER Dad had bought her a COOL Pink CONVERTIBLE (Damn, I wasn't even allowed to DRIVE at all, yet, then!)

She didn't have a "MOM" like mine around, keeping her with going out & PARTYING All Night, with BOYS like I had to "sneak" around to manage ("Fonzie" types, with Motorcycles, who took SHOP Class, Smoked Cigarettes, & Drank BEER); and I thought she had all this FREEDOM because of this, with just a HOUSEKEEPER who came in to clean, when her Dad was away on Business Trips!

I didn't realize then, how hard it must have been for her, not HAVING a Mother to "FUSS" over her & "ruin" all her fun.

I really wished I had her HAIR too! My friend Libby had beautiful brown, shiny, flowing HAIR, which she IRONED on an Ironing Board like they used to IRON CLOTHES on?

And we DROVE around my former Town in her Convertible, with the Top down, with her HAIR flowing like in a "BRECK" TV Commercial!

I would have KILLED to have Hair like that, & most of all, to be so very POPULAR like she had succeeded in becoming, while I had failed. I was a geeky, shy, glasses wearing one of those sortof "INVISIBLE" kids all High Schools have?

Not the ones that get PICKED ON, or the ones with PIMPLES or who were GOD HELP THEM in HIGH SCHOOL, OVERWEIGHT! No, just socially awkward, just not quite READY for High School.

I finally did get the Ironed, shiny long HAIR, in COLLEGE. I think many kids are simply just "LATE BLOOMERS" socially!

I was finally COOL! Transformed myself into a blue-jean wearing "Hippie" Art student, with the oool "GRANNY GLASSES" like JANIS JOPLIN wore? My new friends & I discovered the Dark Side of the Moon & enjoyed like CRAZY "tune in, turn on, drop out" good times, for as long as our Moms & Dads could afford to keep us in COLLEGE, that is! For me, I managed to stretch it out to FIVE awesome years!

It was a real "TRIP" a LOT of Baby Boomers shared, & YES, YES, YES! a LOT of us also remember--- POP BEADS!

(POP BEADS were round cheap plastic BEADS, which we collected & strung together "popped" together, into long Necklaces. The Longer your POP BEAD necklace, the cooler it was!

We girls all collected, them, I think. They were sold at corner Candy Stores in my City, & back then, most Grade Schools had a Corner Candy Store right next to them, so you'd stop there when walking home after school.

Tje POP BEADS were sold singly, one by one, in GUMBALL type Machines! It was a big Kid's FAD in the 50's, like "Garbage Pail Kids" for my SON's generation! (He was born in 1977) Boys collected Marbles, Baseball Cards, etc.

Your BLOG commenters postings were fun to read too, especially the "mental GERITOL" memories! It's fun to be able to share MEMORIES like Pop Beads! It's also not so bad, turning 60-ish, when the STORE MUZAK now is the music you loved back then! My favorite "WHO" or "BEATLES" or "Pink FLOYD" Albums being played in the DOLLAR STORE!

I'm looking forward to how HILARIOUS a bunch of Baby Boomers will be in the Nursing Homes of the FUTURE! Our MUSIC won't be local Church Ladies coming in to sing hymns from dusty old Song Books!

AND, we'll be demanding stuff like POOL TABLES & LAVA LAMPS & "MEDICAL MARIJUANA, not BINGO Games, you can bet! Can't wait to "Re-Live" the 60's & 70's again, if only in my OWN MIND!