No Puppies In The Freezer

Greetings,

One of my first blogs was titled “I’ve Never Heard That Before” and I talked about phrases that might never before have been uttered in the English language.  My wife actually said “No puppies in the freezer” to my daughter the other day and may I suggest to you that this phrase might be an original.  The daughter likes these toys called Littlest Pet Shop.  She recently purchased (with her hard earned allowance) a new set and has been playing with it every waking moment.  She is quite created in her play (as noted in this earlier blog) and as such there is not end to the adventures these little pets get into.  These adventures almost stretched into our freezer until my wife uttered this new phrase “No puppies in the freezer!”  The adventures continued from there, just not in the arctic regions of our kitchen appliances.

Several Christmas’ ago I bought a used, hard backed copy of “Watership Down” for the wife.  She has yet to read it despite my near constant reminder for her to do so.  She did get a chapter or two into it but then was distracted by some other book.  After I finished “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson I decided to reread “Watership Down" (due partly to seeing the Sawyer character reading it in the early seasons of Lost which we are rewatching in anticipation of the final season this year).  After about 10 chapters I decided that I would read this book to the kids.  It is about bunny rabbits after all so I hoped they would like it.  I had each of them get 2 pieces of paper and label one “rabbits” and the other “terms” so we could keep track of the characters and some of the rabbit language.  We are about 5 chapters in (there are 50 in the book) and they are really enjoying it thus far.  Even if they get bored with it, at least the wife (who is also listening) will have read the book (or listened to it I guess).

The Uno games are on hold (partly due to the reading of the book) and partly because each child appears to be hopelessly outmatched in Uno skills and is in no hurry to reach the inevitable end of the game where I win by a large margin.

Out HP netbook woes continue in that after sending the netbook and and receiving it back (no charge for us on the shipping) the software that was missing before is still missing.  We are sending it back in again.  It is more annoying than anything but the help desk / case manager could not be more helpful.  Hopefully the 2nd time is the charm and we will have the netbook in perfect order in short order.

Well it is getting late and it is time to get the puppies (not the ones in the freezer, the real dogs) out one more time for the night and hit the sack.

Jon