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A Pretty Girl Can Be Tough, Too

Who Gets A Steak? [10.31.09]

Did I hear that correctly? Someone is winning the steak? No, really? After all these years, someone has actually won a steak? And that someone is Tiny Elvis? Are you kidding me?

Big Daddy has been saying since 1996 when Big Daddy lost his keys in the courtyard, "If you find my keys, I will give you a whole steak." Sometimes it's not his keys that he lost but a different job he wants us to do.

Sometimes he asks us to kill the moles in the yard or the mice in the closet or the [gulp...] rat in the basement. I really want to help since I am a terrier of sorts, but it's so hard. There's just not enough hours in the day to get my beauty sleep, run around or take a walk, & then go stalk critters for the killing. Plus, if we leave them alone long enough, Big Daddy will get the job done eventually all by himself. He's good like that.

I'm sure my ancestors would be ashamed of my overwhelmingly domestic attitude, but so be it. I would love to have a steak on the otherhand. I should have found his keys in the courtyard that dark night so many moons ago. That would have been easier since they made us stay out there with them while they searched themselves. Oh, well, no use drooling over dropped doughnuts. That's what Big Mama always says.

Calm Down, Drizzle! [10.26.09]

Drizzle Izzle to the Fizzle is getting on my nerves. She will jump. She will hump. She will tear my house down!

That's an exaggeration on tearing down the house. She's calm enough & small enough not to do damage to the house, but my nerves are a different story. Big Mama says it's not her fault since she has all these hormones going crazy in her little body. Not only can she have babies, but she is CRAZY in heat! That sounds like it should be a David Lee Roth album, by the way. Or maybe that would be Crazy from the Heat. Was he still with Van Halen then? Bygones...

Drizzle is supposed to get spayed tomorrow. Thank goodness for Nashville Humane Association's low cost spay & neuter program. Big Mama laughs & says she's made of money, money, money all the time when the kibble bin is low, so I know they can afford to go elsewhere for the spay & neuter, but they keep going to NHA. Maybe she's just joking when she says she's made of money. That's something to think about, probably why she's laughing when she says it. Either that or she really has gone crazy & it's not over Krystal's.

Now that's something else to worry about...my Big Mama is crazy. When we get nuts, she calls a trainer to come & help her to help us. I wonder if there are trainers out there that can help her?

Time at Big Daddy's Feet [10.7.09]

Big Daddy is my special man. I love Big Mama, too, but she's not a man & she's not as special as my Big Daddy. You see, he came to rescue me from a high-kill shelter a few years ago. Something about the person who pulls you out of that kennel... If you've ever been there, you'll know what I mean. There's a bond that never goes away.

Last night instead of lying in my typical spot behind the recliner or on Auntie Sandi's chair, I decided to sit next to the sofa where Big Daddy was sitting. He's extra gentle, making sure he doesn't step on me when he moves his feet around or stands up. Big Mama is clumsy but she means well. She would lean over to give me some good rubbin' up & down my back & then my tickle spot on my belly. I liked that a lot.

Sometimes it's nice to break out of the box, hang out in a different spot, just to break up the day of getting to be me, Romi Marie.