Flight of the Ninja

This week will be spectacularly busy. I'm going to work as much as I can stand tomorrow and the next day so that I can drive to Anchorage on Wednesday around noon (my husband's birthday, incidentally, which I'll be missing), pick up the new doggie addition to our family, and return to Fairbanks by 8am to take my little sister to her very first day of her very first real job. Then back to work on the thesis for the rest of Thursday and Friday. Then next weekend we're going to the dog shows to watch the poodles compete and meet other Alaskan poodle folks. *sigh* I'm tired just thinking about it. But the good news is, by the end of the week (cross your fingers, knock on wood, and say a little prayer, wouldja?) we'll have our very own Ninja Poodle!





Isn't he the most gorgeous dog ever? He's a spectacular black miniature poodle bred by Belinda over at Impulse Poodles. He'll have an eleven and a half hour flight up here, and then a 6-8 hour drive from Anchorage back to Fairbanks. Poor baby, I hope he isn't too traumatized by it all. If he is, I'll just baby him with liver and other yummies until he loves me forever and forgets what a long haul it was to reach me.



Yup, for those of you astute readers out there, that's the SAME Belinda who just sent me the yummy, wonderful, fabulous soap package just the other day. She's my hero - I want to be Belinda when I grow up. Go visit her blog if you don't already. Most of you probably found my blog from Belinda's though, so this may be a moot suggestion!



In other news, I've been noticing all these hits to my blog from searches for 'Alaska bird flue' - which is weird, because in my post I spelled it flu. It comes from the word influenza, folks, but it is usually written flu not flue. I'm not really very worried about bird flu anymore - I'm not going back up to my research area what with my thesis being due in three weeks, and if it makes it this far inland, I figure we're all toast. Plus, I've got a lot of other stuff on my plate.



To the person who arrived here after googling 'poodles smell after exercise' - umm, mine doesn't. He smells when he farts on my arm while we're cuddling in the computer chair or on the couch together, but after a good romp? Not so much. Sorry. Incidentally - that TV commercial with that ugly Dodge car? I think the car is called the Dodge Caliber or Calibre or something like that. Anyway, it's the one with the dog hanging his rear end out the window? When I saw it, I thought it was funnier than all get out. Mostly because since my dog went on a new diet, he's had some serious gas. And I can imagine it getting so bad inside the car that he hangs his hiney out the window. My husband had to explain to me that the dog was mooning people - I thought he was just in trouble for polluting the air in the car. *sigh* Apparently, my thought process is a little different from that of their target audience. Oh well.

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