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I think we’ve about explored the limits of umami jokes and ginger related issues, so here is a new thread.

Lily is ornery tonight. I’ve taken her out several times since dinner, but she keeps wanting me to go out for some reason. We’ve pooped and peed all over the place, but for some reason, it just isn’t enough tonight.

BTW- moving in three weeks, and making all the arrangements sure is a PITA.

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  2. 2.

    Comrade Mary

    We’ve pooped and peed all over the place

    She’s a dog. I didn’t think she needed live demonstrations from you to figure those things out.

  3. 3.

    Mike Kay

    We’ve pooped and peed all over the place, but for some reason, it just isn’t enough tonight.

    She sounds like a Firebagger.

  5. 5.

    jeff

    Here’s a possible topic:

    After living in Brooklyn for ages, I’ve been gentrified out. The weird thing, is that I’ve been gentrified out of Brooklyn…and into primo East Village. WTF??

  6. 6.

    mr. whipple

    “We’ve pooped and peed all over the place, but for some reason, it just isn’t enough tonight.”

    We’ve?

  7. 7.

    gbear

    Lily is ornery tonight. I’ve taken her out several times since dinner, but she keeps wanting me to go out for some reason.

    Maybe she wants just YOU to go out for a while. Everybody needs some time alone now and then.

  12. 12.

    Betsy

    I posted this in the last thread, but since the party’s moved over here…
    This is in response to Yutsano’s plaint about the lack of food pr0n:

    I currently have banana bread in the oven, making the apt. smell good. When it’s done my fiance and I (hee! I still get a kick out of saying that) are going to watch Wordplay.

    Tomorrow, a friend and her little girl are coming over to make biscuits with whole wheat pastry flour and an assortment of amazing jams.

    Embarrassing girl stuff warning, those who hate all things wedding should read no further:
    I’m on cloud 9 tonight because my mother found my grandmother’s wedding band, which is beautiful and elegant and fits me and is perfect in every way – the more so because my grandparents were married for 63 years and incredibly devoted to each other until the very end. It is a ring that comes with good vibes. And is just one more way to avoid the wedding-industrial complex.

  13. 13.

    jeff

    @ Mike

    Williamsburg—>E. Village

    Yeah, I know…but, I’ve been searching in Greenpoint, Clinton Hill, Ft. Green, Carrol Gardens, etc. and didn’t find as good a deal as multiple offers in Upper West Side and the Village. You would be astonished at how low U. East Side rent are, though I could not possibly live there, though it’s now the cheapest NYC neighborhood (exclusive of problem hoods in Brooklyn and far parts of Queens and most of the Bronx).

  14. 14.

    jacy

    Hey, isn’t that how you hurt your shoulder? You ever read the Ray Bradbury story “The Small Assassin”? Just saying….

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’m half dozing, but did anyone else just hear Larry O’Donnell say that The Tonight Show has admitted to goosing up the laffter for Sarah Palin’s “stand up” routine?

  16. 16.

    Mike Kay

    @jeff:

    that is funny. you’re saying rents in UES are competitive?

    so what happened to williamsburg, did the influx of hipsters and youngsters wreck the supply and demand curve?

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    @jeff:

    You might be able to get a deal on Bernie Kerik’s old place in Riverdale … I hear it got fixed up real nice.0

  22. 22.

    slag

    @Betsy:

    When it’s done my fiance and I (hee! I still get a kick out of saying that) are going to watch Wordplay

    Fun movie. Although if either your fiance or you are highly impressionable, be prepared to be purchasing the Sunday NYT for the next few weeks. If you aren’t already, that is.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @Betsy: Oh man. You just reminded me I hoisted off on gave my mom some overripe bananas last weekend. I still haven’t seen the results however. I’m also gonna bag cooking tonight (in my defense I did cook last night and it will most likely be dinner at work Sunday) and see what my brother’s in the mood for.

    @burnspbesq: Bah dump dump!

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    @Yutsano: Did you mean foisted or were they unusually large bananas that required some sort of block and tackle?

    Sorry. I’ll go cook dinner now and stop being a pedant.

  25. 25.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    My Tunch DIAF mug came yesterday. It is teh awesome. Thank you all who worked to make the store.

  26. 26.

    JenJen

    My fat little Strider-dog has been more velcro than usual lately. Just can’t stand being away from me, gets increasingly whiny when I’m getting ready to leave, cuddles with me whenever I’m home. It’s so weird, and so unlike him. He’s always been kind of an independent little shithead.

    I’ve decided he’s trying to tell me there’s an earthquake coming. That or he’s becoming that awful death-cat that stalked that nursing home predicting death so creepily a few months ago. Get away from me, kitty! Seriously. Get the frack out of here. Go. Scoot. Scram.

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Are you allowed to be pedantic on an irony delete? I think this issue requires further study. They were rather large bananas and my mom had the ranch hand grab them, so we could both be correct here…

  29. 29.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    but she keeps wanting me to go out for some reason

    Charlie gets like that sometimes, like suddenly he gets ants in pants if he wore pants. I don’t think it’s to pee or poop, just some restless energy he has to get rid of, where usually our afternoon walks take care of that. And sometimes, I think he just needs some attention and affection, like some bad memories have come back or something.

  34. 34.

    Johnny's mom

    Regarding little Lily’s frequent need to go out- watch for uti. Our little Johnny is prone to them, and the first sign is she asks to go every 20 mins or so.

    JenJen- watch for illness, I read they can get that way when they’re trying to tell you they aren’t feeling so well.

    I hope they’re both fine, and just bugging you guys because you didn’t give them beef for dinner (they don’t they should be made to practice lent, as they are already angels).

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: So just to make you giggle: you’ll never guess what the Dawg and I talked about today. If you knew us both you’d be laughing your tail off it was so funny and out of place for both of us. Oh and I know where he’s going, he sounds excited or else he’s playing it up for me, hard to tell which.

    @jeffreyw: That one may just cause wifey to break the black cats only rule. What a precious one!

  38. 38.

    JenJen

    @Johnny’s mom: Yeah, yeah, he suckered me into a vet’s visit a few weeks ago. Not a damned thing wrong with him. Vet pronounced him “exceedingly healthy” some $500 bucks later (lost my beloved Stu to internal bleeding when he was only 8, so I’m a bit overly-cautious).

    I’m telling you, he’s trying to tell me there’s a disaster coming. Or that I have SARS.

  39. 39.

    PaulW

    If your puppy is desperate to goto the bathroom often, there may be a problem. Check the signs… find a dog health website and see what they have to say about dogs wanting to constantly go.

  40. 40.

    Johnny's mom

    JenJen: So, who’s the bigger sucker, you for the $500 clean bill of health, or us for the $500 uti treatment at the e.r. (more than once)?

  41. 41.

    Mark S.

    @JenJen:

    $500? Yikes.

    I was thinking of buying Halo 3. I’ve never played any of the Halo games. I’m not a huge FPS fan, but if it’s like Half-Life I’d probably enjoy it. Any suggestions?

  42. 42.

    jeff

    @ Mike,

    Yeah, man, seriously. Williamsburg is now much more expensive on a parity apartment basis than the East Village. Absolutely true!

  43. 43.

    RedKitten

    @jeffreyw: Oh, what a sweet girl!

    John, I have no idea why Lily has ants in her pants tonight and keeps wanting to go outside. Maybe the preparations for the move are freaking her out? Dogs don’t like changes to their dwelling — it fucks them up.

  44. 44.

    soonergrunt

    @Mark S.: Go and buy Halo games. They are not excessively like Half-Life, but they are pretty good.
    If you’re looking for good PC-based FPS games these days, get Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. You can get them on Steam and they are both worth every penny, particularly when on sale.

  45. 45.

    Anne Laurie

    It’s starting to be “mating season” for temperate-climate mammals here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I swear that can make even staid, neutered, middle-aged housepets a little sketchy. Something about the effect of day-length on the pineal gland? All three of our rescue papillons have been absolutely bugfvck this week… and believe me, Cole, you should be grateful that Lily confines her elimination behavior to the OUTSIDE, because I am godsdamned tired of mopping up puddles. I’d assumed it was all down to the fact that Gloria is just past the six-month post-adoption mark where she’s “renegotiating” her position in the household (and let me tell you, we NEVER intended to live with a spayed girl dog who lifts her leg to pee). But last night the Spousal Unit and I came out of a mall restaurant around 11pm and almost fell over a muskrat in the parking lot, several hundred yards from the nearest waterway, in a commercial/industrial area at the intersection of two very busy freeways. Not to mention, I heard the first migrating-geese honks of the season this afternoon. So I’m reconsidering some part of the general hyperactivity and unusual craziness on the part of all the normally predictable dogs at last Monday’s training class.

    (But if Lily seems to be uncomfortable, squatting & not producing anything, or if there’s a pink tinge to her urine, you should still get her into the vet ASAP.)

  46. 46.

    JenJen

    @Johnny’s mom: There really are no suckers here, we do what we have to so that our pets can stay with us longer. I’m just concurring with Cole; my dog is also feeling a little clingy this late winter and it doesn’t necessarily mean anything’s wrong. Dogs grow and evolve in personality, too, at least in my experience as a dog lover/person who is owned by them.

  47. 47.

    ihop

    if i had to hazard a guess, i would it was because she felt the sun today, and it was warm and good.

    and each time she makes you take her out, you have failed to take her out the correct door to the warm place she has been hoping and dreaming about for far longer than any doggie can do.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: It got even bettah. He told me I’d have to marry him in order to find out something about him. I got the answer out of him anyway. Where it was REALLY funny is we both declared about five minutes before that neither of us is the marriage type. Though now that I’m re-thinking the whole conversation he might have just been messing around with me.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    The demon spawn of Scott Brown scored 11 points as the Boston College women’s basketball team upset No. 8 Florida State in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

  55. 55.

    suzanne

    We’ve pooped and peed all over the place, but for some reason, it just isn’t enough tonight.

    Damn. Apparently the party’s at your place tonight, and I missed it.

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: We really have the exact same attitude about this. We know how we feel about each other. We don’t see the need in signing a piece of paper or throwing a huge party just to note that fact. I’m sure he’s trying to con me into some sort of admission here, but for the most part that’s our attitude.

    @Tattoosydney: SHOW ME THE PUPPEH!! /Cuba Gooding Jr.

  62. 62.

    Warren Terra

    Huh. Also moving in 3 weeks. Maybe this makes me secretly John Cole?

    Well, not it being Cole means I get a busted wing like his. Sounds like no fun at all.

  65. 65.

    Betsy

    @slag:
    OMG, I loved it. Loved it loved it loved it. In actual fact, “it made me laugh, it made me cry.” Granted, I was +2 (which is a lot for me; I’m a lightweight) but still.

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Aww, thanks darlin. I appreciate it. :)

  68. 68.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: Inasmuch a that would be an incentive for doing the deed, considering how, uhh, rough I am on glassware I’m more than likely just going to have to replace it all at some point anyway. Oh and no more buying bowls off Amazon. Done it twice now and still bought the wrong size. I’m jetting over to Target tomorrow to rectify the situation.

  69. 69.

    New Yorker

    So my alma mater, Cornell, clinched it’s 3rd straight Ivy League basketball title tonight and became the first team to punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament. I’ll say that I will be sorely disappointed if they can’t steal one in the tournament this time. They’re good enough to do so.

  70. 70.

    Yutsano

    Rachel just told me unequivocally that health care is going to pass. That somehow made me feel better about the whole mishegas.

  72. 72.

    Skepticat

    Well, JC, you do have another shoulder, after all. Perhaps Lily’s drawing a bead on that. (On a more serious note, that behavior is a sign of UTI in cats, may be the same for dogs.)

    My house is (still) on the market, and the thought that at some point I’ll have to pack up thirty-plus years’ worth of STUFF and take it somewhere else (considerably smaller) makes me rather sick to my stomach.

  75. 75.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I actually appreciate the Japanese concept of having a different dish for each component of the meal. I’m just going to be short on dishes period mostly because of my brother moving out and taking his stuff. So it may not all match when I’m done.

  76. 76.

    AhabTRuler

    BTW, I didn’t see if anyone had mentioned this. Now my sister can get ferreal married instead of fuckyoubigots “married”.

    I mean, I know we covered the fucked up Catholic thing about pulling spousal insurance for their workers, but this is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue about ‘oo killed ‘oo.

  80. 80.

    Morbo

    BTW- moving in three weeks, and making all the arrangements sure is a PITA.

    I’m going to be right behind you by a week or two. I’m going to need to get the furnace inspected and probably replaced. Aside from that I’m still in excitement mode.

  81. 81.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Well he’s from New York (let’s not get on the state of equal marriage there) and I live in WA (everything but the word) so that may or may not solve anything. Plus, well, what I said was true: I’m really not hard-wired for marriage. Fake spouses are totally a different duck.

  82. 82.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Morbo: Moving out of state? Hope it’s for a good reason!

    @Yutsano: Yeah. It’s just when you said you’d talked about something neither of you were really into, I immediately thought of DC and the marriage thing. So, you know…maybe he’s hinting? I love fake spouses. So much easier.

  83. 83.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: If he’s hinting anything, it’s determining the security of our relationship, especially since he’s going overseas. I would think he would know better about me and us, but I guess he’s just looking for security before he runs out in the world. I hope I’m making it clear I’m not gonna drop him just because he’s leaving the country, but maybe I need to make it crystal to him.

  85. 85.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Well when he gets done hustling lance corporals out of their cold hard cash (poker players, his cop past loves to peek out every now and again) I’ll try to get as serious as I can with him.

  87. 87.

    Morbo

    @asiangrrlMN: Nope, just going across town. Will be able to walk to work in the summertime and have enough garage space to practice putting in the winter.

  89. 89.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: LET MY COMMENT GO!! All I did was mention what the Dawg is doing tonight (a popular card contest in Vegas involving five or more cards) and WHAM!!

  90. 90.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Well, that’s on the forbidden list, you know. But still! Power to the people! Free Yutsy’s comment! Free Yutsy’s comment!

    Sigh. I gotta go work out. Talk to you later.

  91. 91.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: It’s not like there aren’t folks around to perform the deed, although DougJ is freely confessing to being three sheets to the wind and Anne Laurie may have stepped away. Nevertheless I’m going to stand in protest for my comment!

  92. 92.

    burnspbesq

    @New Yorker:

    Congrats. But enjoy it while you can – with a senior laden team, y’all need to have a killer recruiting year to keep pace with Harvard and Princeton going forward.

    And as a Union grad, let me just say that the third time will be the charm if we meet you guys in the semis of the ECAC hockey playoffs.

  102. 102.

    Betsy

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Not sure if you’ll see this, since this thread is good and dead, but just in case!

    No idea, yet. Fiance would just as soon have no one there but the two of us; he’d probably get rid of the officiant if he could! Whereas I want it to be a celebration with family and friends. So we’re working that out. He’s got practicality and good sense on his side. I have society on mine. Probably we’ll split the difference and have a small-ish wedding. Either way, we’re both very resistant to spending the equivalent of a new Prius on a single party.

  103. 103.

    Dog is My Co-Pilot

    One of our dogs is like that occasionally. I think from time to time she just gets restless for some reason, even after we’ve walked her.

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