Wednesday October 1, 2008 at 11:34 pm
October first
October is the perfect month. While I love summer, and even though fall borders on a long and dark five or six months punctuated by an early and overwhelming holiday season, …
holiday season…
Did anyone else just shudder? Get unnerved? Anxious? I can say things like, mittens. Hot chocolate. Christmas Eve. Fine. But I hear “holiday season” and I’m running faster than I would being chased by a giant butcher on stilts wielding an obnoxiously loud chainless chainsaw through a cornfield maze which I hope to experience later this month.
Anyway, I’m not going to get into terrifying things. Like shopping lists. Replace that bloody butcher’s apron with a Santa suit and you have my ultimate nightmare.
There are a lot of good things about this month, a lot of stuff to look forward to and acknowledge. Today is Bello’s first birthday.
He’s been with me through bouts of drama, multiple residences, mixed emotions, happy times, and huge mistakes. It was a good year to have him here. He’s now fully grown and still not much bigger than a toaster.
I would love to take the day off and spend it with him, but like with any other one-year-old, I’ll push the celebration to Saturday and get through the workday as quickly as possible. I’ll find consolation in the fact that as the uppity neighborhood parents see my 22-year-old self pushing a stroller full of babies, pumping Celine Dion’s A New Day Has Come through my iPhone’s speakers for everyone to hear, they’re probably thinking, wow, that woman looks great for her age.
October is the perfect month. While I love summer, and even though fall borders on a long and dark five or six months punctuated by an early and overwhelming holiday season, …
holiday season…
Did anyone else just shudder? Get unnerved? Anxious? I can say things like, mittens. Hot chocolate. Christmas Eve. Fine. But I hear “holiday season” and I’m running faster than I would being chased by a giant butcher on stilts wielding an obnoxiously loud chainless chainsaw through a cornfield maze which I hope to experience later this month.
Anyway, I’m not going to get into terrifying things. Like shopping lists. Replace that bloody butcher’s apron with a Santa suit and you have my ultimate nightmare.
There are a lot of good things about this month, a lot of stuff to look forward to and acknowledge. Today is Bello’s first birthday.
He’s been with me through bouts of drama, multiple residences, mixed emotions, happy times, and huge mistakes. It was a good year to have him here. He’s now fully grown and still not much bigger than a toaster.
I would love to take the day off and spend it with him, but like with any other one-year-old, I’ll push the celebration to Saturday and get through the workday as quickly as possible. I’ll find consolation in the fact that as the uppity neighborhood parents see my 22-year-old self pushing a stroller full of babies, pumping Celine Dion’s A New Day Has Come through my iPhone’s speakers for everyone to hear, they’re probably thinking, wow, that woman looks great for her age.
Speaking of looking great for your age – Bello doesn’t look a day over 6 months.
I’ll do your shopping for you and you can wear all the mittens. Love holidays, hate the cold.
OMGzies want a puppy like Bello so bad.
That puppy! Is so! Damn cute!!!
happy birthday bello!
he’s so damn cute.
and i feel the same way about “the holiday season”
Look at sweet Bello, all grown up!
So, what did you get him for his birthday?
Aw, Bello and I share a birthday! Multiply his age by 25 and that’s mine!
And that first picture? TOO. FREAKING. PRECIOUS.
Happy first birthday to quite possibly the cutest little puppy dog on the face of the planet!! Love that last picture. He’s totally like … dude, it’s MY day and MY pupcake. Back off. :)
Aw! Happy Birthday Bello!
Srsly. Incredibly adorable.
Happy birthday! WoyGirl and Bello share the 1st as a birth date. :)
Is that a birthday pupcake?? I’m dying in the adorableness. Happy birthday Bello!
I haven’t been here in a while, but I had to say I get WAY too excited about the holidays WAY too early!! I was already telling Michael how much I am anticipating Christmas. And happy first bday Bello
P.S. I want that pink cosmo cupcake <3 <3 <3
That is a downright illegal level of cute.
As far as shopping lists go, I’ve found the Notes function on the iPhone to be incredibly useful in that. No sitting down and running through names, trying to think of this that or the other for my mother-in-law who doesn’t seem to like ANYTHING. Instead, when I’m out and see something that makes me think, “Hey! The Chef could use that!” I make an iPhone note, and go on my merry way. Give it a try, it’s a lot less stressful.
He’s so cute! I’d be afraid that I’d step on him though.
Your puppy is SO CUTE. I just want to hug him!
I love autumn. It’s by far my favorite season. So as it comes, holiday season and all, i’m ecstatic.
What the crap, your dog is the cutest!!
PS: I also love that song. But don’t tell anyone, or I’ll have to kill you.
That is quite possibly the cutest dog ever.
I love the fall. Life starts over, you know, when everything gets crisp in the fall.
Happy birthday Bello! Happy fall!
He is too cute! Happy Birthday Bello!
so cute! and looking very nicely groomed :D happy birthday!
Not much of a dog RACHAEL. But I’m sure BELLO’s adorable and affectionate and even cuter in the flesh, … er, the fur. (=-
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That’s my baby boy nephew! Look at that little tongue in the second picture-he better not have been sticking that out at his cousin “little cat”
Bello better not be sticking his tongue out at his cousin LC- (see picture 2) Look at that little baby boy! I think he was waiting for his Aunt Linda cousin LC to come eat that pupcake with him!!!