Shoe Eater Mud Slinger

Emily has gotten bigger and stronger over the past week. Ergo, her damage capacity is greater. Yesterday, she ripped the cover off a phone book, and then tore it to shreds. She also likes our shoes:

Also, my fuzzy slippers:

So, we got Emzee (Emily강아지) her own shoe:

tbc
(곧이어, 계속)

Plans and Rainy Day Lizards

Emily walks like a trooper at the CS department -- the corridors are a connected square, so we did two rounds last weekend. But once we're home, she's thinks she's too good for the leash.

We're starting puppy classes this Saturday -- first drop by to see if they're all right, not violent or shouty. In Dutch. This time she won't be the only one hearing, "blah blah blah blah blah, SIT, blah blah blah blah blah SIT!"

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In person news, H&M are crazy addicted to Boys Before Flowers (꽃보다 남자). Ep 9 was cheesy but so much fun. 구준표 being a goofy idiot is priceless. Ep10, not quite the best, but worth it for the Battle of the Moms.

H. had to decline the invitation to sub 돌아온 일지매 with a group. Looks like fun, but got no time.
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It's raining out. H. wanted to shop around for another Greenie Alligator or a proper Pig's Ear Chewie, but will have to postpone.

[Rainy Days, stay inside and gnaw on a lizard]

East Asian 3 / 동양3국 말티즈

Emily is a full 12 weeks old today (1.8 kg). From that we expect her to be double her weight when she's full grown: 3.6kg, at the far end of the Maltese spectrum.

Her hair's growing all over the place too. It's poking her eyes a lot. It's a battle three times a day wiping off the eye gunk, what with holding her still, and Emily biting and snapping at the cotton pads.

[Sneak clean, while she's napping]

We'll have to give her the dreaded Maltese topknot, soon. (M. groans at the idea.)

[Hey there, fuzzy face]

As H. has no shame, she's considering all options.

The one-knot standard :[Korean style/ 상투머리]

Then, there's the two-knot standard:

[Chinese style/빵머리]

Then again, if Emily keeps pissing Mommy off by struggling for dear life when Mommy's wiping her eye gunk, Mommy could just shave it off. (까불면 확 밀어버린다):

[Japanese style/아, 앞머리 없어서 편해!]

ps. 엄마: the funny sound coming from the bag, is her squeaky chew toy.

Drags them to her Secret Lair.

... and we never see them again... and again.


[Tasmanian Devil Bag]
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Work is proceeding much slower than usual, now that H. is subbing Boys Before Flowers/꽃보다 남자 herself, for M. to watch, as we cannot wait for the subbing team releases. It's no fun watching something this ridiculous/goofy by myself.

Though, when he's on 6am Potty Duty, I find M. watching old BBF eps over and over again by himself, and chortling.

Sleep Sunday

Emily was perfect on the leash, today. We walked two rounds in the CS building, and she was trotting around pretty proud of herself.

As usual, she freaked in the crate on the drive over and back. Then fell asleep at home.

[How can you sleep like that?/ 안 불편해?]

I can't stand it myself, so I have to nudge her back up to the center.
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H&M are currently enjoying 꽃보다 남자/Boys Before Flowers. Though I usually like J-doramas, Hana Yori Dango didn't work for me (too much grovel/stifle @ the beginning), but this one does (slightly different set-up).

The girl is extra spunky, the boy reveals his doofusness, pretty quick (구혜선 is cute, 이민호 is greasy good-looking). So far, an 8 episode marathon, and multiple re-watch. Tee hee.

Sleep Beep

[M. likes to do this, too]


[Then, she woke up.]

Lazy Saturday, again

Right now, Emily is playing with her bunny over in the living room, and H. is trying to claim some human time at the kitchen table. Oh, my beautiful study, how I miss you.

[The "flying frog" position]

But too often, even though it's boring, Emily hangs out too much with her Mommy. (Yes, sad. We're calling ourselves Mommy and Daddy, now)

[엄마 뭐해?/ Watcha doin', Mommy?]
Of course, this never lasts for long.

[Play!]

I get up at 6 and wait for the sun to rise

After a few days goofing off on Facebook, H. is back to Emily's blog, ready to commit to taking better pictures, ala figuring out how the camera works.

[Dawn of Poo]

On the second potty round this morning, I went out to the patio a little early to catch the last part of the sunrise, and Emily followed me out and did her business without having to be asked. Freebies!

Minutes of Fun

Wish I could say hours...


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as I am ULing this, Emily has gone and done a poo accident in the hall. She poos nicely for M. and doesn't snap at him, but with me snappy bitey crazy. M. says it's because she likes me better. I don't think that's it.

FRAP is never easy to film

There's never a camera with a memory card when you need one. If you have trouble seeing the little white blur, so do we. So do we. *trips*

[FRAP, at a full 11 weeks, 1.6 kg]
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Been itching to take a sunrise pic, too, but when I don't have camera handy, it's foggy out.

She Hears Voices

Emily can be pretty bratty. (she's also taken to pulling at our pants when she wants to play. Bad!)


Then, here's Emily being mellow. M. took 3 vids of her doing nothing. He's obsessed with the dog, too.

[Quiet and mysterious]

She Eats Trees

At least it's our long dead hydrangea.

Memo to Dog

"No Bite!" is not a game!

I hope the mouthful of armpit stink-o you got after Mommy came back from the gym was worth it, toothy.

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The Solitudes (John Crowley): I should get off my lazy internet butt and order/read the rest of the Aegypt cycle. Key to secret history of the world begins with Gypsies -- can do no wrong. Slow, but lovely old-fashioned slow read.

Eye, Tooth, Nail

Three Things About Emily Puppy:

Emily spies on our neighbors, but never tells me anything.
She also gnaws on broccoli, but spits out the chewed-up pieces on her red cushion.

With nails scuffing on wood, you can hear her charging at you before you trip over ol' fluffy white underfoot.

Emily, my Love

This is from 2 days ago, and not very exciting, but heh, H. is obsessed with her dog.

[Isn't she a Cutie?]

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Socialization is going well. We take her to new, crowded places every other day, and she greets visitors ecstatically at home. Definitely will make a crappy watch dog, tee hee.
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Biting/Snapping, however, is a bit of a problem. We're trying "bite inhibition" by the book, and she thinks "ouch" and turning away is a game. Er...

Tether Bunny

When Emily is Lazy Puppy, H. drags Bunny or Rainbow Ball around the house tied to shoelaces, to work off some dormant puppy energy. M. came up with Tether Bunny:


Which quickly descends into Bunny Baiting, again:

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Books: The only down-side to reading The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford, 1945) was that I gobbled it up too quickly, instead of savoring it a few pages at a time, over a longer period. Now I have no frothy, funny things to read. Woes.

In the Cement Garden

Typical Dutch weather, airy grey with sudden patches of sun. It makes for lovely picture exposure. Potty over and done with, Emily and I goofed around on the patio.

And she dug up our garden patch.After a month of pouring boiling water over her Potty, we don't have many weeds left.

So, obviously, she needs to eat our last pretty tree.

She's already chomped half the leaves off the miniature rose. A Rose for Emily, honk honk. No icky Faulkner connections, please. Though, I'm not betting on the Rose's chances' to last till Spring.

She also sits guard, Stone Puppy:Bath Day was 2 days ago, but M. has a workshop to organize, and we need four hands to get her in the sink. Emily is now in her 11th week, and 1.46 kg.Stay tuned for Tether Bunny! Coming soon!

Trip Trip

Emily doesn't try to trip me, I'm sure. It's just that we end up walking like this:


Sometimes, she brings Bunny along for the trip:

Plays with her Food

We received a "packet" from the vet last week, which included 3 dog biscuits. I didn't think much of them, but Emily thinks they're amusing.

Unfortunately, all food is more amusing than appetizing to her, lately. I only have to offer her kibble to make her stop chasing me and run away.
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Minor Traumas:
1. H. stepped on her foot by accident, while we were out to Potty. !!! (M. noticed the levels of spoiling went through the roof)

2. H. also trimmed Emily's scruffy little face hairs (pink stained tips and such). Too much snippy resulted in 삐뚤 빼뚤 and scrawny cheeks. She looks like Megatron. Woes.

Going in the Bushes, Books

We're sorry we missed Sunday. Emily has taken to doing her business in the bushes (sometimes "laying" her #2 in the branches of our baby chrysanthemum). Problem is, she turns into a garden monster afterwards. I'm frantic running after her Craziness to hold the camera.



We'll be better next time. Usually, I'm trying to get her not to chase after me and bite the bottom of my jeans, and bark down the neighborhood.
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Emily's now into foot chomping.

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Book Notes:

H. did not throw Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) out the window (without bothering to open the window), but she was tempted to more than a dozen times while reading it. If a spiteful but intelligent teenager decided to scribble down some notes on how her family and acquaintances are all shallow, worthless morons, (but idealizes paper-cutout orientalist wallow) this would be the book. Sadly, it was written by a philosophy professor.

H., being familiar with phenomenology and the 19th C canon, is unimpressed by the trotting out of Kant, Husserl, and Tolstoy, all the while ignoring structure, plot, depth of character, generosity, and what she thinks of as "the higher intelligence of fiction" that transforms instead of justifies pettiness. What a waste of some good sentences. Not to mention there's a beautiful and kind sister who had been "seduced by the son of a rich man" and left to die, wronged and with child, crowbarred in at the 11th hour to add reason to resentment. I kid you not. No, no, it's set firmly in the 20th to 21st centuries.

Yes, from the infamous Christmas stash that brought us The Da Vinci Code.