My Dog, The Psycho


Anyone who knows my dog, knows that she is very odd, very crazy, and very intelligent. Right now, as we speak, she's dragging her ass along my floor. Lovely. Remind me not to eat anything off my carpet that I might drop... like a kernel of popcorn or a potato chip.

She barfed all over the front seat of the car today. D and I had gone to grab a bite to eat at Wendy's before he got on the bus and came back to chunky dog vomit on his seat. I laughed. I know I shouldn't have, but it was funny... plus, I heard on CSI a few weeks ago that smiling kills off the gag reflex. I didn't want to lose my lunch.

Why didn't she barf on my seat?

Anyway, another psycho moment occured last week when I asked her if she wanted to come to bed with me. She went into her box, so I told her that I would have to lock her in there so she didn't make the bath mat upstairs her own personal litterbox. She decided that she didn't like either option and went postal. She does that with pretty much anything she feels she has some God-given right to. Bones, toast, socks... whatever.

The funny thing is? I think we (my family and I) are the ultimate cause of her weirdness...

People are Like Fingerprints

I was laying in the bathtub thinking about how people are like fingerprints. Some people leave a good impression in your brain and can be recalled easily. Others may have been a passing in the night and just left a smudge. When Kat's apartment got broken into, the forensics guy said that conditions have to be just right to get a good impression so that you can actually use the print. I found that fascinating, and really, it applies to people.

Some people leave negative good impressions. These are the people you tend to think about even if you don't want to. They just come up in your mind... perhaps an event sparked it, perhaps a scent - but the impression comes to mind. Conversely, there are the impressions that are positive, that when you think of them you smile, and say "wow, I'm really glad I met that person."

On that note, perhaps we should go through life trying to leave people with the positive good impressions. Granted, we all do things at some point or another that we wish we could take back, or wish we hadn't said something, or perhaps even a negative thought, and that impression stays with you... but the point is.. try. Try to leave good fingerprints.