Rascal Flatts in San Diego!!!

Not only is "What Not to Wear" coming to San Diego, Rascal Flatts is coming as well--March 13!!! AHHHH!!! ... and yet I am so far! :(

What Not to Wear in San Diego!

I've recently started watching a lot of "What Not to Wear" and went on their website to see how to get on the show. Sadly, they are not accepting nominations for the Sacramento area, but they ARE for SAN DIEGO!!! (Another reason why we need to move back to SD!)

I've been racking my brain, trying to think of someone I can nominate, haha! If someone were to nominate me, I wouldn't be offended. Well, maybe a little, but then it would quickly pass as I embarked on my $5000 shopping spree!

I thought I'd include the information here, too, for those in SD or have friends in SD. If each person nominated someone at Harvest, the odds might be pretty good that someone would get chosen! I haven't seen an Asian girl on there yet...

for details about getting on the show, follow this link.

three ways to hold a puppy

like a child:


like a baby:


like a wallet clutch:


(Aunt Sam loves how mellow and agreeable Lucy is!)

puppy camp

I went home for Chinese New Year this weekend and wanted to bring Lucy, but my mom was ADAMANT that I could not bring Lucy to our house because "it would put a lot of pressure on Indee." (My mom is overprotective of all her children, including her youngest and most loved one). So Lucy went to Monticello Puppy Camp, aka Jessie's house, where she had a REALLY good time wrestling and romping with MoMo and running around in Jessie's ginourmous backyard and jumping into bushes (she loves bushes) and coming out smelling like lavendar and herbs.

Here are MoMo and Lucy, having an intimate heart-to-heart between wrestling sessions:

"You don't say!"

geoduck.

oh, my goodness. I'm watching this Food Network show where the host is digging for geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck"), this gigantic species of clam that I've had many times as a sauteed delicacy in Chinese restaurants (called "jerng but pong" in Cantonese). This is the first time I've actually SEEN them before they're prepared, though, and they must be the most phallic food/animal ever. Here's a picture:

Note that the geoduck also squirts water out of it's... trunk.

good puppy!

I've been emphasizing to Lucy that I don't want her coming into the bathroom. I say "emphasize" because I didn't mean to teach her; it's just that every time she came in, I'd shoo her out and tell her to stay (this is mostly out of my own phobia of bathrooms; I try not to spend unnecessary time in bathrooms, so I don't want my dog to, either). Just now, I went to the bathroom to pee, and (okay, this part is embarrassing...) I left the door open because sometimes Lucy whines when she can't find me. And, there's no one else home. So anyway, I'm peeing, and Lucy likes to wait by the door for me, except this time, she had her new tennis ball with her, which accidentally dropped and rolled just inside the bathroom. I could tell Lucy was torn between following the rules and retrieving her beloved toy, because she looked at her ball, then at me, then back at her ball, but must have decided that she HAD to rescue her toy because she stealthily reached in and tried to paw it towards herself, but in her haste, pushed it in farther. So she dashed half way in but pushed it farther still, then got scared and dashed back out. Trying again, she dashed in, pushed it away, got scared, and ran back out... where she obediently stayed, staring at her ball.

Meanwhile, I'm laughing at her and praising her at the same time, and trying to pee as fast as I can so that I can give her back her ball, which she very happily received when I was done with my business. What a good puppy; I'm so impressed with her quick learning! (I guess it's redemption for the poop I found in the corner of the living room earlier today!)

this stinks!

Lucy stinks, that is. She is soooo cute, but she also farts A LOT! And they are REALLY smelly!!! ugh... I'm dying as I type this. I brought this up to her vet, who attributed the stinkiness to Lucy's change in diet. Hopefully, this is something she will get over as she gets used to her new puppy food... because if her farts are this bad now at 1o weeks, I don't think Wayne and I will live to tell you how they are when she's an adult.

ugh................

more Lucy!

I can't help it. I'm sorry.
(more pictures by auntie em)

No Conflict Here!

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Originally uploaded by worldTRADEorg

Who says you can't love more than one dog?! Okay...she is cute as a button, but for once in my life, I have to actually take care of something, which sort of scares me a bit. I've lived a very "self-centered" (not necessarily in a bad way--I mean that I've only had myself to clean/feed/take care of) life these last five years here in Sacramento. All-of-a-sudden, I'm responsible for a real living being. But whatever fears come around, it's a good thing because little Lucy there might help my mind and soul be more ready to take on "next big step" in life...but only after little Lucy becomes big Lucy. :)

--Wayne

Conflicted.

Lucy is adorable, but I feel like I'm cheating on Indee. Indee has always been "my puppy" and the cutest and best dog in the world to me. Indee is STILL that to me... but now I have Lucy. And I feel a little guilty for lavishing so much attention onto another dog.

Lucy is a Golden Retriever/ Chow mix, just like Indee (less a few breeds). She even LOOKS just like Indee when Indee was a puppy! I know I can love both dogs. If Wayne and I ever have multiple children, I'll have to learn to love each one of them too, I suppose, so this should be no different.

But still... I can't help but feel like I'm replacing Indee.