Boring dog post #249

[constance]

Tonight I made myself a chicken salad sandwich for dinner, and forgot to put the bread away when I took my plate to my desk, and this omission meant that two bites after I sat down, Leory came trotting happily into the study with the bread bag in his mouth. And I fussed and took the bread away, brought it back to the kitchen, and came back to my desk to realize that he'd taken advantage of my abandonment of the aforementioned sandwich by stealing the top piece of bread. And it was then that I realized that the loaf of bread was likely just a diversionary tactic, and I relearned a lesson I learned long ago as a nanny, which is that it is hard work trying to reprove when what you really want to do is giggle.

People of livejournal: I have been had. By a dog.

Comments

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Yay for clever Leory! Were you really a nanny? I can certainly relate to the "reprove when what you really want to do is giggle"- both my sister and I have had to excuse ourselves mid-scold and go laugh our butts off in another room. (We always want to laugh during kiddie tantrums, too, which luckily dogs don't indulge in, although they can sulk like the dickens)

Woohoo- I got the coolest mail today! The mailman brought it right in the middle of an endless telephone conversation, so I couldn't even read the note properly till I'd hung up, but you'll be happy to know that you were right in assuming that I'd understand immediately how to use the contents. I had such a blast coming up with ever-snarlier facial configurations while the person on the other end of the phone droned on. I don't think the eyes came out too light at all; it all looks great. The girls were delighted, too; we had fun coming up with "fanon" and "canon" Snapes, and discovered that some of the mouths look even better upside down. (Crookeder teeth!)

Thank you so much for making my Saturday! I have a SnapeGram for you, too, which, curiously enough, has a somewhat similar theme, but it's running a tiny bit late. (And what are the chances that we'd get each other? <lj user="aubrem" says that it was total chance!) So cool!!!!!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I really was a nanny, throughout college. For one family with one baby boy, and another with (when I started) four children under the age of five. And the second boy in this Large Family, in particular, brought on many laughing/frustration fits, I have to say. Looking back, it seems as though I had to leave the room to laugh my ass off and/or punch something inanimate at least once a day, with B.

And I'm so glad you got the Snape-O-Matic and had fun with it! I can't wait to get yours! :D:D:D:D:D