I got mom’s attention again tonight and told her in no uncertain barks that she needs to let me start barking in my blark again … it’s been MONTHS … and that’s not in doggie time either, that’s in real human time so you can imagine how long it’s been for me in doggie time!

I’ve got lots of news to tell everybody about the things I did last summer and how much fun I had chasing those silly squirrels! Not it’s cold and snowy again and I don’t even like going outside. I went today to do my business and my little feet and tummy got so cold I could hardly get back in the house! Mom picked me up and wrapped me in a blanky until I was warm again. I HATE the snow and cold!

Last summer Mattie and me and our human sister Dede and mom went on our first road trip!  It was very exciting and mom said she couldn’t believe Mattie and me are such good little travelers! Actually the driving part was not exciting, it was just long. We went all the way to another state, I think mom said it’s called North Dakota and we went all the way to Bismarck! Mom stopped a couple of times along the way so Mattie and I could jump out of our crates and do our business and she would offer us a little water, and then we’d jump back in the crates and we’d start driving again. When we got to Bismarck we stayed at mom’s sister’s house and she has a nice big back yard that’s completely fenced so we didn’t have to be on leashes when we were outside! That was so cool! I really almost caught a silly squirrel the next morning because I wasn’t on that stooopid leash but that silly squirrel was still faster than I was and it ran right up a tree in front of me! I was always sure that I’d be able to catch a silly squirrel if I was free but those silly squirrels are a lot faster than I ever imagined! We only stayed in Bismarck for two nights and then we started home again … I was happy to be going home because I luv my home with Mattie and mom. But then mom stopped in a town called Jamestown and we met a lady there with a dog! He looked a little bit like my boyfriend Scooby Doo but he was a little taller and didn’t have so much black color. I couldn’t believe it when mom and Dede put him in the car with us! They told Mattie and me that his name was Boo Boo and he was going to have a new home in Minnesota because his mom in North Dakota didn’t want him anymore. Boo Boo told me that he is 10 years old and he’d been living with his North Dakota mom since he was a pup. I couldn’t understand why she would send him away … but Boo Boo said that last year around Christmas time his mom had given him to a shelter and he had been there about 2 months waiting for someone to adopt him. One day in February his mom had come back in to the shelter and saw that Boo Boo was still there. I guess she felt bad then for giving him away because she took him back! Boo Boo said that he was so sad about being given away that his face had turned so gray that his mom hardly even recognized him! So he lived with him mom again for awhile and then she decided to give him away again and my human sister Dede had just happened to see a picture of him and sent it to my mom. My mom has a coworker who was looking for a little dog, so she said she would take Boo Boo. So that’s why Boo Boo ended up in the car with us. When we got home, Boo Boo stayed with us for two nights and then went to his new home. Mom says Boo Boo has a very nice home with a mom who takes him to to vet when he needs to go, gets his nails trimmed every month, and buys him all kinds of new clothes for the winter. I’m glad Boo Boo has a nice home because I didn’t want him to stay with us … he tried to play with my toys and I can’t have that happening! EVER! BOL!!!  Boo Boo’s psycho North Dakota mom then changed her mind again and wanted him back! She was going to come all the way to Minnesota to get him even though she had no idea where he is. Mom said she told Dede that Boo Boo is very happy where he is and has a much better life now that he’s living with people who really love him so there’s no way that psycho lady is getting Boo Boo back just to give him away again in a few months!!

Hey, guess what … I haven’t barked in my blark for so long, I’m already getting tired! I need a little chicken stick for a bedtime snack now and then I’m going to tell mom it’s time for bed. (Yes, I’m still in control of this household and that’s just the way it’s always going to be!)

Happy New Year to all my friends and MY resolution is to make mom help me bark in my blark more often! Ok, chicken stick, ready or not, here I come!!!

Mom got the mail today and was she surprised! There were FIVE Christmas cards for me from other dogs who belong to the Dogs With Blogs website. They were from all over the country and two were even from Mexico!

Mom said that the Christmas card score is: Kismet – 5, Mom – 0. Bark, bark, bark, I just have to bark out loud at that! It’s so funny!

Mom says that now we have to get busy and start sending out cards too so that’s probably what we’ll be doing this weekend. I can’t wait! It’ll be so much fun to send out Christmas cards! I’ve never done that before even though this will be my fifth Christmas with mom since I rescued her … I know it’s just because I told mom I want a blark so now I’m just making friends all over the world! This is SO exciting!

Mom and I were working on a special project most of the night so this blark will be pretty short. I’m not going to tell you what it is but it’s very exciting and I think you’ll see it on my blark next week! You’ll be VERY impressed!

Mattie and I are ready for bed now so we’re going to go hang out by the chicken stick bag to wait for our slow mom to be ready too … Barks to all my friends!

Mom was telling me tonight about one of her friends, Michael, who is very sick with throat cancer and is undergoing treatment for it. He still has lots of treatments left and he’s feeling pretty sick so mom is feeling sad for her friend. Mattie and I feel sad too when mom feels sad. I told mom to tell Michael that Pouncer, Mattie, and I want to meet him so he needs to get well so he can come over and see us sometime. Mom said she would tell him and she also said she told him about my blark so if he feels well enough, he can read it and know that we’re all thinking of him. So, if you’re reading this Michael, GET WELL!

This was a short weekend because mom had to work part of the day on Friday so we didn’t have as much time together as we usually do … we did get to go for a couple of walks even though it was sort of cold out and sometimes it was even snowing a little bit. Mattie likes snow but I hate it! My little legs aren’t tall enough to keep my tummy out of the cold grass so I get cold and wet real fast! But it was really funny this morning when mom took us for a walk … we were walking down a little hill and mom’s foot slipped on the wet grass and she fell down! It was so funny!  She even dropped Mattie’s leash and Mattie ran out on the road but when mom called her, she came right back. We were all really glad there were no cars on the street just then! Then we all just sat in the grass and laughed at our silly mom … finally mom untangled her legs (they weren’t even broken!) and we got down the hill and went back to the house. Mom was telling us about some guy on her caseload at work who was telling her a story about how some other guy attacked him (so he says but mom’s not so sure about that!) and when he was defending himself, the guy fell down a hill and was dead. So we’re really glad that didn’t happen to mom when she fell down the hill!

If anyone read my last blark about my wearing my ears inside out … I started to do it again a couple of times this weekend but mom won’t let me do that anymore. She says that’s just ‘ho-ish’ behavior and she won’t let me look like that. I don’t know exactly what that means but I guess if mom doesn’t want me to wear my ears like that I won’t do it … except during the day when she’s at that icky job and we’re home alone!! Bark, bark, bark … I think that’s just so funny! Mom doesn’t know what we do during the day so she can’t stop me!

Ok, I’m done blarking for tonight … everybody send good thoughts to mom’s friend, Michael … and I’m going to tell Mattie that she has to ask for a chicken stick!

Oops, forgot to say hi to Mutchy and Lola. I’m still waiting for Mutchy to let Lola do a blark like me!

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I’ve been wearing my ears inside out all night and mom keeps telling me to fix them … but I like to wear them this way and I don’t think my mom should be able to tell me what to do! It’s MY life! She says it makes me look like I’ve got a ‘tude, and I don’t even know what that means, but I think she should just keep her opinions to herself and let me wear MY ears the way I want! It’s NONE of her business how I wear my ears and I’ll wear them the way I WANT! She’s not the boss of me! I HATE her! Uh oh, here she comes and she looks like she’s going to do something to my ears … STOP it mom, leave my ears alone! 

Well, she flipped my ears over and she says I look much better now. Actually I guess I might even feel a little better because I’ve decided I love my mom again. I wonder why I was so mad at her a few seconds ago … I don’t even remember so I guess it wasn’t important.

So now that I feel better, I’m thinking we should go to bed soon so Mattie and I can have our good night, sleep tight, chicken sticks. But before I go, I want to tell all my friends that I found a new friend today all by myself … his name is Mr. T-Bone Beasley and he has a blog too. I made my mom read it to me and he’s a very cool blogger with a lot of interesting stories … I asked mom to put a link to his blog on my blark and she did that so everybody can read about his life with his mom who is almost as wondermus as my own mom.

Hi to Mutchy! I haven’t heard much about you for a few days except my mom said that you and she had a conversation about something today that you both decided you will never speak of again. She wouldn’t tell me what it was about so I’m just going to have to guess that it was about the “blark” … but what could it be?? I guess I’ll never know …

Mom’s headed for the chicken stick bag … gotta go!

Mom says today is a very special day … a day in which we honor all the people who are serving or who have served in the military. Mom says that without all the veterans keeping our country safe, we wouldn’t be able to vote or go where we want to go without being afraid so we’re all very grateful to everyone who has ever been a member of the military. I would never want mom to be afraid to go to the store to get us chicken sticks so being safe is a very good thing! (I’d make mom go to the store no matter what because Mattie and I canNOT live without chicken sticks!)

Mom was home all day today and we went out for one short little walk. I don’t think mom even wanted to go out with us but about noon today, I was laying on mom’s lap and Mattie was upstairs sleeping in the bed when I decided I’d tell Mattie to ask mom to go out. So I jumped off her lap and ran upstairs and got Mattie to come down and tell mom we need to go out. I just sat on the landing of the stairs looking very innocent when mom asked me if I was the one who got Mattie up to say she wants to go out. But we got to go outside so my plan worked! It was a lot colder than I had thought it would be though and there were some little icy pellets coming down so the grass was real cold. When we had walked about a block, my left front foot got so cold I couldn’t stand on it anymore so I stopped walking and held it up; I know if I hold up one of my feet and look pathetic, mom will pick me up and carry  me. She usually puts her hand around my little frozen foot too so it gets warm again. Of course, that’s exactly what she did and she carried me most of the way back to the house! I love it when mom does that! After my foot was a little warmer again, she put me down and I ran the rest of the way to the house where it felt really warm after being outside. Guess what happened then?? You guessed it, we got a chicken stick! I love it when we get extra chicken sticks during the day!

Later in the afternoon, mom was on the computer. She’s got some kind of thing she does called “Twitter” and she asked Mattie and me if WE wanted to have a Twitter account! Of course, we said YES so now Mattie and I are on Twitter too! Our Twitter name is Kismet_Mattie and mom even put a little Twitter button on my blark so my friends will know that we’re seriously cool dogs with our own Twitter name and they can follow our updates! Go check it out and if you get a Twitter account, we’ll follow you too!

Stay tuned for more blarking another time! I think I’m going to ask for another chicken stick right now so I’ll get one now and one more when we go to bed! (Mom is such a pushover … don’t tell her that I said that though)

Mom says the weekend is almost over and she says I’m getting lazy again (I hate it when she says things like that because I am NOT lazy … I just get so exhausted from napping that I have take another nap!) and that I need to blark in my blark tonight. So blarking it is!

It was cold and wet so Mattie and I didn’t get to go for very many walks, but we did go out for short walk this afternoon … I’ve decided mom is sort of a wuss because she thought it was real cold but Mattie and I didn’t think it was so bad and we had our “zoomers” on but didn’t get to zoom around too long because mom said we had to go in. I don’t understand why she thought it was cold, she shouldn’t be as cold as Mattie and me because she’s taller so she’s closer to the sun than we are and we weren’t really cold at all. It just makes no sense to me.

Mom did watch a couple of movies this weekend; she finally watched the movie that Mutchy loaned her, “Office Space.” Mutchy told her it was one of the funniest movies ever and mom said it was okay but it wasn’t anything like “Very Bad Things” because there just wasn’t any mutilation or murder or burying bodies in the desert and then digging them up again or trying to drown someone in a toilet so it wasn’t quite as funny as “Very Bad Things”.  I thought it was a better movie because “Very Bad Things” scared me …

Mom was home with us all weekend except for a few hours on Saturday morning when she went out to breakfast with a “friend” … I really can’t believe mom has any human friends since she has Mattie and me to be her friends so I don’t know why she even has to go out on the weekends EVER! But she did go out and when she came home she told us that she’d had some wonderful things called “Mimosas”. I have no idea what they are but she didn’t bring Mattie and Pouncer and me any Mimosas so we were mad at her for a little while. But THEN she gave Mattie and me a chicken stick so we were all done being mad at our wonderful mom … bark, bark, bark. I just have to bark out loud sometimes when I bark something so funny …

Also this weekend, I made another new friend, Happy. Happy has a blog too and I told mom to put a link to Happy’s blog on my blark. I LOVE making new friends!

Ok, we’re off to chicken stick dreamland. First we have to get a real chicken stick though … Mattie and I are starting to give mom the “stare” so she’ll get the hint.

Blarks to all my friends!

How do you like my new sign? I think it’s just SO cool and my blark is the perfect place for it! I know that it’s true that WIENERS RULE because they’ve even changed the HOLLYWOOD sign in honor of the RULING WIENER! I hope they never change the sign back to that “HOLLYWOOD” nonsense. This is just so much better!

Mom says her friend Mutchy told her that they changed the HOLLYWOOD sign to MY new sign and I’m so happy she did. It almost makes up for the fact that Mutchy won’t let Lola do a blog bark (or a blark) like me, but not quite. Bark, bark, bark. That makes me laugh because I’m just kidding … it TOTALLY makes up for Lola not doing a blark … but I’m going to tell mom to keep working on Mutchy because I know that Lola really wants a blark of her own.

Mom says the elections are over and she’s glad they are even though she didn’t get to use the Tequila Vote to vote for her candidates. She told me the Democrat won the Presidency on Tuesday but she doesn’t understand how that could have happened … she said she heard that the Democrats were supposed to vote on Wednesday so the Republican should have been elected since only the Republicans were supposed to vote on Tuesday. She thinks there’s been a mistake and someone will figure it out soon and then the Republican will be President. I don’t care who was elected as long as they don’t stop chickens from being born and turning into … you guessed it … chicken sticks!

Speaking of chicken sticks … I haven’t had one yet since mom came home. I think I need to remind her that  I need one immediately … she usually lets me have one when I start having my meltdown in the middle of the living room … It’ SO good to be in charge of the house!

Enjoy my sign … I’ll blark again soon!

Mom got home tonight and it was a lot darker than it usually is. I don’t know what happened but I like it better when mom gets home in the light so we can go for a long walk. So tonight we just had a short walk in the dark … mom said it was really nice outside for November but I don’t know what that means, Mattie and I just enjoyed the warm (and very dark which we didn’t enjoy so much!) afternoon walk. Mom says she’s going to have to find my little “blinker” to put on my collar again now. I’m so dark that she’s afraid I’ll slip out of my harness and get away and she won’t see me in the darkness … I know if I ever see a silly squirrel while we’re out walking in the dark, I’m going to try to get away and catch it and tear it apart!

Tomorrow is something mom is calling “election day” which probably doesn’t have anything to do with Mattie and me but mom sounds like she’s really, really glad that day has finally come! She says she’s going to “vote’ in the morning … she tried to explain it to me and it sounds like if I want chicken sticks, I’m going to need to “vote” to get one. I’m going to “vote” early and often like they do in Chicago … I’ll get LOTS of chicken sticks! I think I like voting!  Mom says when she was a bartender, they would sometimes play a little game called “Tequila Vote” … the customers would start buying shots of Tequila and drinking them and mom would keep track of how many each person had and when somebody found something to vote on (like locking somebody in the bathroom or some philosophical idea), they would yell, “Let’s VOTE!” … and then each person would have the same number of votes as the number of shots of Tequila they drank! It was a Tequilaocracy! Mom’s wondering if maybe she could try a Tequila Vote tomorrow instead of a regular vote … I know I’d try a Chicken Stick Vote if anyone wanted me to vote on anything!

All this talk of chicken sticks has really gotten me hungry again … I’m going to have to try to persuade mom that it’s a good idea to go to bed now … I wonder how I can do that … I know … Let’s VOTE!

Blarks to my buddy, Mutchy!

I’m blarking tonight and it’s really really dark. Mom tried to explain something to me about how the time changes and now it’s going to be really really dark really really early, but I don’t understand much about how time works so I didn’t know what she was talking about. Mattie and I only have two things we understand about time … now and never. When mom’s home, the time is all about now and when she’s not home it’s never. We like the now part of time much better than the never time.

Anyway, that’s why it’s so dark already tonight and I’m almost ready for bed even though it’s still early (mom says.)

This weekend wasn’t very much fun. Mom was sick on Friday and Saturday. This isn’t ALL bad since we got to lay around on the bed with mom for two whole days, but we didn’t get to go outside at all for our afternoon walk on Saturday. We did have a little walk in the morning but in the afternoon when it was time to go out and we were sitting up and looking at mom expectantly … mom kept saying something about not being able to take us for a walk. At first I thought she was just teasing us but then it got dark and mom didn’t get out of bed so we finally gave up and laid down.  I even used my most pleading Doxie voice to try to convince her we wanted to go outside for a walk really bad but mom just asked me not to beg and that we wouldn’t be going outside. It was very sad for us.

Mom and I didn’t even get to watch the very funny movie (as Mutchy says) that Mutchy loaned to mom last week. So I still don’t know if mom will think “Office Space” is funnier than “Very Bad Things” … I hope we get to watch it soon.

One good thing that happened this weekend is that I made a new friend! A miniature long-haired Doxie named Ruby read my blark and wrote a comment on it! I LOVE it when other Doxies write to me! Mom showed me Ruby’s blog and it’s very cool … it has videos of Ruby playing with other dogs and also playing by herself in the yard doing “crazy 8’s”. I sat on mom’s lap and watched the videos and got so excited at seeing the dogs playing, I started barking and trying to get into the computer to play with them! I told mom she has to put videos of Mattie and Pouncer and ME on my blark and she said she would. I hope she does because it looks like Ruby’s mom really put a lot of work into Ruby’s blog … LOTS more than mom has done for ME and I don’t like it! Mom put a link to Ruby’s blog onto my blark so everybody can see Ruby too … you have to promise to always read MY blark first though before you go to read Ruby’s even if hers is (temporarily) much more fun than mine!

I need to sign off now. I can almost taste the chicken stick aleady! I’m sure mom is going to want to go to bed early since she’s still not feeling well and she has to get up and go to the “icky job” tomorrow!

Caio For Naio! (I know that’s not German but I heard mom say that once so I thought I would say it too!)

It’s Thursday! My favorite (well, next to Friday, Satuday, & Sunday) day of the week! Mom’s home tonight and she doesn’t have to go to that “icky job” tomorrow so we can flop around under the covers as long as we want to in the morning. I LOVE flopping around!

Mom said Mutchy gave her a movie to watch over the weekend. It’s called “Office Space” I think and Mutchy told mom that it’s a MUCH BETTER movie than “Very Bad Things.” Mom’s not sure that any movie could ever be funnier than “Very Bad Things” because it’s got lots of murder and killing and all kinds of blood and gore and mom says it’s the funniest movie EVER (next to “Borat”) and she doesn’t think “Office Space” has ANY of those really funny things like murder and stuff … so we’ll see how funny she thinks it is. I’m going to watch it with her so when I see Mutchy again I can tell her if we really liked it or not!

It was SO nice tonight when Mattie and I went for our walk with mom. There was a silly rabbit sitting right by the shed and when the silly rabbit saw Mattie and me, it just hopped right under the shed and hid! Mattie and I tried to get it out but it wouldn’t come out … I think that silly rabbit is just a big weenie. Not a wienie dog like me but a big cowardly weenie. It should have come out and let us grab it and tear it apart! I’m pretty sure Mattie and I will catch it tomorrow so by tomorrow night we’ll have a rabbit fur blanket! I can’t wait!

Mom’s yawning again so I suppose she wants me to stop blarking now … I think she’s just pulling my short little Doxie leg because that silly show she watches on Thursday nights is almost on and she wants me to stop so she can watch that silly show. Of course that just means I’ll get a chicken stick now so I guess I can be persuaded to stop!

Mom says I should tell Mutchy to have a good day at work on Friday because Mutchy says she reads my blark every day. So sic ‘em, Mutchy!  Mom also says to ask Mutchy if she’s sure we need a court order … (I don’t know what that means because mom is just so silly sometimes … )

I’m off to chicken stick heaven!