Little Nikita

AKA Nika, Nee-kee, Little One, Lick Monster and Nika-Lou depending on what trouble she’s into. She is a Teacup Yorkie born on December 4, 1994. She is blue & tan and the runt of the litter from champion bloodlines. I went to visit her at 4 weeks; she was so little and a bit shy. However the next week when I went to see her she was a feisty little one. She was the center of attention and rightfully so with that little attitude she has. At 6 weeks for my birthday I got my very own first puppy, I have always had dogs but they were the families. When I first brought her home she could seriously fit in the palm of my hand paws and all, she now weighs in a hefty 3 1/2lbs.


I took Nika everywhere from the park, to shopping, to everyone’s house, the beach, etc… she rode with me everywhere. My roommates and I made the biggest mistake ever when she was a puppy, she made a little growling noise for the first time and it was so damn cute that we were all like awe. She thought that was so great, now no matter how much you want her to shut up she is the loudest yipper you have ever heard; she is so cute though that you still have to love her. Nika is so talented she can do all of these tricks: Sit, sit pretty, sit pretty and wave, lay down, shake different paws, roll over, play dead, fetch, kiss, she also will role over on her back when you say tummies, she can even do a little dance. Sometimes she thinks she is a cat, she will walk across steep furniture ledges and jump from heights that are way to far for her. She knows all of my moods and always is accommodating to them. One thing to be aware of, she is a serious klepto and will steal your hair bands and panties, then hide them under the bed.


A little over 4 years ago we brought home a sister for her, if you can call a Boxer puppy who at 3 months is already 4x’s the size of her, a sister. Well immediately Nika took charge, she told her what to do and when to do it and surprisingly enough Holly (the boxer listens to her.) Nika is the smallest one in the house, however she is also the loudest. But we love her and all of her attitude, who said dogs are a man’s best friend? I would take her over diamonds, any day.



- I had to write this as Nika was jealous of all the celebrity feedback from the stinky Holly pootie ass post.
- And yes it’s obvious that I don’t have kids, because the dogs are my kids.

Self Portrait Friday

I know I am just a little late, but as they say better late than never. I got this from the space chick's site. This weeks theme is your favorite t-shirt. Of course, I couldn't pick just one.

Cheesy Mastercard Moment

New Sunnies - $10





New Roxy Tank & Slippers - $48





New Beverly & Company Jeans - $132





An afternoon shopping at my favorite stores in Boston - Priceless

Are You A Genius?

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. Scroll down for each answer. The questions are NOT that difficult. But don't scroll down UNTIL you have answered each question!


1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
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The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door.


This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.


2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
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Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?


Wrong Answer.


Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.


This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.


3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference… All the animals attend...except one. Which animal does not attend?
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Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there.


This tests your memory.


Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.


4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
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Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.


This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.


According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively
Disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four-year-old.

The Saying Goes...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Yeah, I don't think so in this case, these guys are scary. Hey Undr, do you still have that can of RAID?





*Last bug pics I promise.

Say Hello To My Little Friends

This post is for you Anika since you have such a fascination with bugs on your blog ;) These are pictures that were taken in my backyard. Cute aren't they?

* Click pictures for an insane close up... be one with the bug!

A Book Meme

Jen the spacechick put this on her site and tagged her viewers, so here's mine.

How many books do you own? A couple of 100 or so, I end up loaning them to people and never seeing them again or selling them at garage sales for $.25.

What is the last book you bought? Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination- it was pretty funny in the beginning and became to far fetched in the end. I almost wish that you were never really sure if she was crazy or not. (Does that say something about me?)

What is the last book you read? Same one, but right before that was Anna Karenina- I liked this book a lot, til the author decides to kill off the heroine. I know it is suppose to be different and unexpected, but when you can relate to it, it is kind of scary that she would commit suicide, eeek.

What’s the one book that you can’t wait to read? The Fiery Cross- it is 5th book of the Outlander series by Diane Gabaldon. I normally don’t read this type of book, however I read the 1st one not realizing it was a series and now I have to know what happens. Dammit, I just found out there was a 6th one, these books are not short by any means.

What 5 books are most important to you? (In no particular order...)
1. Ellis Island- this is the 1st book I read that I didn’t have to read, when I was a teenager. I loved it so much, I started reading everything I could get my hands on and haven’t stopped.
2. She’s Come Undone- I felt like I could totally relate to the character, which was somewhat scary.
3. The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- it is so real and the author is amazing the way he just tells it like it is. Thank you!
4. A Woman Of Substance- it is sooooo inspiring and makes you just want to hug your mom, I love you mom!
5. My Grandmother Marie’s Bible- it has all her favorite passages bookmarked.

I hope you enjoyed my answers and will read some of my favorites. I am going to tag Grody Jo-Dee and Anika to do this, all you have to do is copy the format and then post it on your site with your answers. Have fun!

I'm An Aunt

Look at how cute my nephew JT is with my Bro:







I will be home to meet you soon, I can't wait!

Beauty And The Beach

How can you tell the ocean is friendly?

It waves.


I know silly, but it goes so well with my day. We are headed off to the beach, hope it doesn't rain.

Is It Odd To Love Your Car?

I do a lot of driving, A LOT of driving. In fact in just over a year I have accumulated almost 30,000 miles. You would think that I would hate driving, actually I love it, and I love it so much I think I am obsessed. Here are the Top Ten reasons I think I am obsessed with my Acura TL:

1. I talk to my car everyday and she talks back, seriously. (Sometimes I don't agree with her.)
2. I love music and I have more choices and better sound quality then most... 5.1 surround XM, iPod, DVD/CD,Radio & cassette (not that I have tapes.)
3. It has these lovely leather seats that lean all the way back (don't ask.)
4. Of course it's green! (Go Green!!!)
5. It has 270 horses (I don't know a lot about cars but it's pretty freak'n fast.)
6. It has a sports shift, so for when I want to race around and automatic for when I am lazy (which is most of the time.)
7. It tells me where to go and when to go (it's kind of like a backseat driver.)
8. It finds anything I want and directs me to it (my very own personal Chauffeur.)
9. My car has this blue tooth thingy that communicates with my phone and therefore I can call people and hear them through my surround sound. (It’s funny when you go through a tollbooth and you are talking to someone on it, they look around the car wondering where the other voice is coming from.)
10. It automatically dims those lights from behind. (Great when you have pissed someone off and they are flashing you, it doesn't faze me a bit.)

5:30AM Are You Nutz?

I was just talking to someone the other day and they suggested I get up at 5:30AM to start my day. Well if you know me... HAHAHAHAHAHA. Then that is what you were just doing, yes it's ok, I know that you were LOL. Seriously I am the worst morning person ever. I snooze for over an hour and still sometimes don't get up. If I am awake that early, then I probably didn't go to sleep the night before. I am so lucky to have one of those jobs where you don't have to be in til 9:00AM, it's amazing when I'm on time. I couldn't believe they would even suggest this. They tried to convince me that something about the serotonin levels are better before 6AM. Something about if you wake up before then you will be more likely to workout and get a fresh start to the day. They said it would be totally refreshing and I would feel like a new person. I don't even know that I could get up if I wanted to, much less to workout. I barely do that during normal hours.

Reasons I would actually get out of bed that early:
1. The house is on fire. (I could always sleep in the car while they put it out, it's pretty comfy.)
2. Someone is making loud noises ie. screaming, snoring etc... (If the pillow over my head didn't drown out the noise, I could put it over theirs...not a good thought, no, not nice.)
3. Superman was knocking on my door. (Mmmmmmm... Supergirl would like that!)

I thought I could come up with more reasons, however I just couldn't think of any more reasons that were good enough to get out of bed that early.

Bizarro

While blogging today, I was told that if I were to travel to end of the universe that I would find another universe with a Yes-L staring back at me. Maybe she would look somthing like this, the evil me.

Brown Noise

One night when my parents were up here we were watching this movie called "White Noise". While we were watching the movie we kept being rudely interrupted by this fowl smell in the air. You see my dog Holly seems to have a problem. She can clear a room, quicker than a fire alarm. She has this stinky pooti problem, but we can't help but love her anyways. How could you not love this face? It's soooo ugly but yet so adorable. Trust me she will fart silently and pick up her fat ass and leave the room. We will be like what happened to Holly? Then we get a whiff of the air that has so violently entered our nose and it's like OMG! So obviously now we know why Holly has left the room. She was nicknamed Brown Noise by my parents. Holly will never live down this nickname with her stinky ass.



That is our other little girl in the pic, she is a much better dog. She basically doesn't have the Brown Noise issue.

Happy Birthday America

We are on our way to see the big firework show on the Charles River in Boston. The Boston Pops are having a free concert and there are over 600,000 people planned to attend. This will be an interesting gridlock in the traffic system. Unfortunately the firework show doesn't start til 10:30PM. Not good when it will probably take over 2 hours to get home and you have to work the next day. Anyways, Boston is also celebrating it's birthday of being 375 years old the city will be celebrating the entire summer, supposedly there will be a city wide celebration. I can't wait to see that, it sound like chaotic fun. Hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday!

Wonka Wonka Wonka

I can't wait to to see the new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The movie looks so vibrant and strange. Johnny Depp is so perfect for this eccentric roll and it will be very interesting to see Tim Burton's version to say the least. If you didn't know this already it comes out on July 15th. My favorite line so far is when Johnny Depp says "Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most." I already own a shirt that says "I'm sorry, I don't speak American." I will probably have to buy the tank top too. I am not normally this much of a fan of anything, hmmmm... maybe it's living in Boston where everyone seems to be fanatic about something. Could I be turning into a Masshole? Please someone help me before I say wicked or add a r to somewhere it doesn't belong.

Anyways, back to Wonka mania I recently rented the old version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on DVD. It was a lot brighter than it used to be, when it was in Technicolor. I wasn't the only one out there renting it, Blockbuster had over 20 copies of this digitally enhanced movie. I forgot it was a musical, I wonder if the new one will be? I don't typically like musicals, but I don't mind the oompa loompas singing a song or two.