Birthday dog, bad dog, and hot dog those weren't cheap!... Saturday, October 9

Today marked Mi Nam’s fourth birthday… wow, it’s already been four years?! He and I celebrated his birthday today by taking him to the groomers, giving him the new sweater I bought for him (he uses it as a blanket), and then I reintroduced him to life in the house.

In other news, today I found the jeans I want to be buried in… sarcastically speaking that is. I’ve never been one interested in shopping beyond checking out the street vendors for chunky earrings and dropping by MAC for more unneeded lip gloss. Snickers told me shopping could be my new means of meeting people cause well, let’s face it, beyond exercising and tutoring I really don’t interact with many people. Shopping for me, however, has gone online and I’ve been all about Internet shopping lately. Mind ya, today I went shopping at Yawoori. The only reason why I even headed out shopping was because I couldn’t figure out what jean size to buy online. So back to my original comment, the fact that I found the jeans I want to be buried in. I had approached some random Korean girl the other day who’s jeans looked absolutely awesome on her. She was about my size and my build so I asked her where she got them. She got them from The Gap so The Gap is exactly where I went today. Bought a pair of The Gap 1969 Always Skinny jeans and a pair of The Gap 1969 Real Straight. Both equally hot!!! Mind ya, both equally cost me practically an arm and a leg... yikes. It almost hurt spending that much so ya, besides the fact that I think they're hot and I plan on wearing the heck out of them, Snickers is going to bury me in them if he finds out how much cash I dropped for them.

Another random note about today… today I did the unthinkable and drove Gotti over to my sister-in-law and mother-in-law’s house. My sister-in-law loves Gotti but my mother-in-law gave me frowns for not wearing my helmet. I really should wear my helmet not just for the safety aspect of it but because driving Gotti around town is always accompanied with random dudes yelling at me, I’m serious. Strangely enough, today I counted seven people who yelled at me. At first I thought I had done something wrong, driving wise, but I religiously use my blinkers like they’re going out of style, I try to make as little lane changes as possible, and I drive in the shoulder lane, so it's not like I'm some kind of road hog. At first I thought it was funny when some dude tried to stir up a conversation with me at a red light but then it just got annoying when another tried to do it too. Five more enough tried to say something to me or yelled out in reaction of seeing me on a scooter. Talk about freaks.

The Old Rock texted me later in the evening and I told him about it all. Driving is the easiest part of driving Gotti, it’s dealing with yelling Korean guys annoying the heck out of me. He joked with me, asking me if I wanted him to go kick them in the head… hahaha. Strangely enough, “just head kick” (as in just kick them in the head) has apparently been the phrase of the week among my friends and the answer we've been using for many situations. You don't like screaming guys? Just head kick. Students didn't do their homework? Just head kick... hahaha.

More randomness... I have 7am personal training tomorrow with my client so staying up past midnight to the crazy mutt next door was definitely met with pure frustration on my part – and my landlady’s too as I found out. My neighbours were out of town for the night but had left their ugly crazy mutt behind. That dog, no word of a lie, must have barked for two hours straight. I had once told my landlady’s kid, after I he tried to share his grapes with Mi Nam, that I had heard that grapes can kill a dog, so while I tried to ignore the crazy mutt and my landlady and her husband tried to open the door to get to the crazy mutt, my landlady’s kid went outside to try to throw grapes into the mutt’s window. How hilarious is that?! Honestly… I thought that was hilarious, not the fact that it may killed the dog but the fact that this kid tried to… oh never mind. You either think it’s funny or not.

Hahaha…

A bit later some hired man showed up with a power drill and a toolbox full of tools. Not too sure on whether he drilled a whole through the door or not but an hour later they got into the apartment. No more barking crazy mutt for the rest of the nice, sweet.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is it really true, the seeds from a grape can posion a dog?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-- Rita Rudner