Weekly Round Up: A Cookie and a Bunch of Dog Stories

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I made cookies, and I have a bunch of dog stories to share.

An Update From Last Week

RIP Yardball. Date of birth unknown, date of death December 9th.  You were the Best Tennis Ball ever, but you started to break into pieces so you had to be sent into the next world before you got eaten.  Scoutball and other assorted tennis balls and squeak balls are filling in for you.

Thank You SANta!

This was my first year participating in the Secret SANta Swap, and some lovely Christmas Cheer showed up in the mail via Julie.

You're looking at a FLW coffee mug (lol does she know me or does she know me?), and some See's cocoa and See's California brittle.

The cocoa has been shared with the fam, the milk brittle is on its way to becoming history, and the mug has gotten its first of many uses.  Thanks Julie!

Eats

Every once in a while I see a recipe and a voice whispers "drop everything and make this now".  That's how I came to make Sally's Baking Addiction's chocolate frosted cookies.  They were a hit with 4/4 members of the house.

Workouts

The usual, nothing exciting to report

Watching

Hubs and I are continuing our Seinfeld-from-the-beginning journey.  We just started season 3.

On the movie front, in recent years I have seen and surprisingly enjoyed just about every 80's Vietnam movie except Full Metal Jacket.  Somehow it came up in conversation with the Hubs and the next thing you know we were clearing our busy schedules to watch it.  I feel that this was a case of saving the best for last.

Reading

I'm about halfway through the audiobook of Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins, still liking it though I've taken a pause to catch up on podcasts.

For non-audio books, when Nicole started talking about The Girls from Corona Del Mar by Rufi Thorpe, my spidey senses told me to pick it up ASAP.  I adored Margo's Got Money Troubles, so it was a "when and not if" I was going to read more by the same author.  When you're the bad girl and your best friend is the good girl, but then you grow up and change roles...there is lots of food for thought with this one.

Best Random Dog Story of the Week

One morning this week Doggo was taking a nap in our unmade bed.  She was on Hubs's side, and I came into the room and naturally took a moment to indulge in the best part of WFH and snuggled with her.

I noticed that there was something between the dog and the bed that was neither dog nor bed.  It was a small piece of a potato chip.

I immediately walked into Hubs's office with the potato chip and the dog followed.  I said "you'll never believe what I found in bed with the dog", and showed him the chip.  I moved the chip within Doggo's range and she promptly did what any dog would do and snarfed up the potato chip.

So the questions are:

• How did a potato chip get into our bed?  We're not "eat potato chips in bed" people.
  
• How did the dog end up lying on top of the potato chip instead of eating it on the spot?

There are no answers, it's just a Mystery of the Universe.

Speaking of Doggo

Let's close it out with some seasonal doggy cheer.  I haven't mentioned this before, but someone in our house was the star of a viral Youtube video*  If you've ever wondered what Doggo was up to last Christmas, here is the answer.

*Youtube star = she is in the video for two seconds starting at 1:40

*Viral video = the video has 93 views and approximately 86 of those are from Hubs and me.

Doggo came from Moco Mutts Rescue Center in Tennessee, which is a state that has more dogs than people who can love them.  Moco works with various animal transports to get their dogs to places where there is a bit less of a supply, so that's how she came to be in a shelter up here in the north last January.  A few months after we got her, we took a look at her adoption paperwork, and Hubs did some internet sleuthing and found out about her Youtube career.

 

Peace Out! See You Next Week!