Monday, February 25th, 2008


mommy made a steak dinner a while ago. she and daddy splurged on filet, and mommy even found red carrots at the grocery store, which is quite exotic for these parts.steak dinner

she roasted sweet peppers with the carrots, made a yummy salad, and cooked the filet on the rare side of medium-rare. while mommy and daddy ate, i hung out in my bouncy chair and izzie and the cat stood by, waiting to “turn on the beg” on a moment’s notice …

they didn’t get any food. mommy and daddy were too busy wolfing it down themselves.

but mommy likes to give izzie the plate to lick when she is done eating. this time she made izzie lie down and stay while she put the plate in front of him. he was so good at staying that mommy also made daddy go get the camera so they could document how awesomely good izzie is at obeying, even where there is a plate full of steak juice just waiting for him to attack.

here is izzie, being really, really, really patient:

izzie and the steak plate

and again:

izzie and the steak plate (continued)

and finally, when mommy lets him have his treat:

izzie gets his treat

the last picture is blurry because it is a still photo of some very LIVE action.

so to conclude: the fact that no body parts were lost during this entire episode proves that izzie is the best, smartest, most patient, dog ever.

the end.

i’ve been trying to watch what i eat, etc. in what i anticipated would be a futile attempt to lose weight …

not the baby weight, mind you. that came off within six weeks of poppin’ out the kid …

this is the weight i put on in los angeles, just before moving to poughkeepsie … 20 lbs of it, to be exact … it’s been coming off, slowly … largely because i have (begrudgingly) stopped cooking with things like entire sticks of butter, cartons of heavy cream, and oh-so-glorious bacon grease … all of which make for fantastic eats …

well, i got on the scale today and … drumroll, please …

i can kiss ten!!! … (10!!!) … T-E-N!!! … pounds goodbye!

only 10 more to go … and i will be back to my textbook/ideal/whatever weight … woo-hoo!!!