June 2, 2010
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Nuts????
I brought my newest addition with me last Thursday to agility. Now she isn’t ready to start the class however, I want her to get accustomed to being out and about and socializing her a bit so when she does start (hopefully this fall) she won’t deal with fear issues like Madison does. While at class I expressed my displeasure with the name given to her at the shelter, Robin. Nothing wrong with the name but it just doesn’t fit. One of my classmates suggested Peanut. PERFECT. She’s nuts, Max is nuts, Madison is nuts, I am nuts why not just put it out in the open and name one of the dogs for a nut, Peanut!
Thus welcome to the family Peanut!
She is 7.5 pounds of pure energy and I love the fact that she is part Italian Greyhound mix as she can fly! I can’t wait to train her up and let her loose on the agility track. I think she might even be faster than Madison.
So speaking of doing and saying things that are nuts, I was on the phone with my mother today and told her that one of her comments sounded like that of someone who did too much pot in the 1960′s! Perhaps not the best approach but it worked. She realized how stupid she sounded. Of course what you are not hearing in the story is that my mom is partially deaf and refuses to wear her hearing aid. This means she doesn’t EVER get the entire story so she superimposes whatever she wants on top of things. For example, years ago she and I were out to dinner. I told her that she HAD to read “Memoirs of a Geisha”. The next day she went to the bookstore. I spoke with her and she was so frustrated because she and someone that worked in the book store could not find “Memories of a Gay Chef”. Moments like these are funny. Others however are frustrating. She and my father have been on one real vacation in the past 10 years and it was a Hawaiian cruise with myself and my ex. Mom loves cruising and Dad wants to travel so I called her today to sell them on the idea of doing a Spain/Monte Carlo/Italy cruise. Now dad tells me to ask mom and mom tells me to ask dad and between them they plan NOTHING. ? So dad seemed excited and I was speaking with mom who got thrilled at the idea (and this one it is ok if she misses out on a few things she gets the big picture). All was going well until she said “aren’t you worried about everything going on in the world?”
Huh, which part?
Then she says “what about the pink hole in Guatemala”.
SHUT UP!
To this I responded in a few ways:
“Are you going to Central America? NO you are going to Europe”
“where did you hear this bs from?”
“are you sure that you didn’t do any drugs in the 1960′s?”
Now I know that she was supposed to hear SINK hole and yes I read the news but WOW my mom was worried about a pink hole and what it meant in the universe.
Perhaps we should nickname everyone in the family. Mom can be macadamia, Dad cashew, etc…
