Our New Pup

Pete and I have been wanting a puppy for a long time now and finally broke down and got one this weekend. I've wanted a Keeshond for about five years now. I randomly decided to check petfinder for one and there was an adorable seven week old Keeshond mix available almost two hours from here. Pete called and she was still available so we made the drive to pick her up. She is sooo cute and very sweet and playful! It's fun having a dog around our apartment. It's kind of like having a baby though. I had to get up in the middle of the night with her several times to take her to the bathroom. We can't leave her unsupervised or she will get into everything she's not supposed to. She whines occasionally because she is not used to being the only dog but they said she would adjust within a week.
We named her Mila. It is russian for darling or sweetie.

Mila trying to drive herself to her new home.

Close up of her adorable face.

Me holding her on the way home.

Playing at the park right after we got her. She decided she needed to go to the bathroom right after leaving the animal rescue.

Taking a nap on Pete's lap on the way home.

Playing at her new house.

Mila already found her favorite spot in our living room next to the fireplace.

We had our ensigns and church news under the tv but Mila wanted to eat them so we had to move them. Once they were cleared out Mila wanted to lay in there.

Twilight Breaking Dawn Vampire Widower

Well, I won't see Kira for the next day. The new Stephanie Meyer book in the Twilight series, "Breaking Dawn" just came out tonight at midnight. I had to go to Walmart and wait for the book. They didn't actually put it out until 12:30 am, and that was after "I" went and talked to a manager. There were a bunch of girls there waiting for the book, but I had to go get the manager so that they could all get their books. I just wanted to go home and go to bed.


Now I will be neglected for the next day. I might as well not even exist. I am a Twilight Breaking Dawn widower. Maybe if I was a vampire Kira would like me more. Maybe if I were a preternatural being, a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave to disturb the living, an extortionist who preys ruthlessly upon others until I am exhumed and impaled or burned (see "vampire" at dictionary.com), then Kira would like me more than this book.

I think you have to have seen or experienced the world through the eyes of a 13 to 15 year old girl to like the Twilight series. I read the first book and I barely made it through to the end. It is hard to enjoy a book when you don't like the protaganist, an annoying, selfish little girl, who thinks of nothing but her own selfish, unnatural infatuation with with a "corpse, animated by an undeparted soul," who is tempted with eating her all the time. OOOHHHH, How Romantic!! If only you could express your love to someone by just not eating them. That's the story isn't it, that he loves her so much that he keep from acting on his strongest desire to eat her blood. I love you so much that I am not going to eat you and suck out your blood.

I guess I just can't relate to a teenage girl, especially one who is in love with an animated corpse. I don't know if she turned into a vampire herself in the next book, because I didn't read it, but it looked like the story was going that way. I guess girls like the story a lot for some reason though.

Anyway, I'm a widower for now, second to a romantic teenage vampire fantasy book.