got me a new dog

'twas only a week since i had access to the internet, but it feels much longer. especially when your inbox says 210 unread messages. whadda?! most of the egroups mails, i just deleted since i have not the time to mull over them. which left me with 51 more to read. not to mention other blogs to visit and friendster messages to look over.

the fun thing is, there have been a lot of happenings the past week too. it was strange being seriously busy and not just busy-busyhan. but then, being a true slacker and whammy, even during the times i was supposed to be really busy, i was still the pasaway that i am. (reading that over with this headache hardly makes much sense but i don't want to bother editing myself)

we got ourselves a new pup, just a little over a month old. askal, as most pinoy dogs are. but this one has a touch of class as part of its lineage is terrier. not that i have seen a real terrier up close. but it's like saying, i'm part spanish. one of these days, when vanilla meets another dog, she'd go, "hi, i'm vanilla. i'm part terrier." and the others would go, "wow, sosy."

so how did we come up with her name?
at first, jan and i tried to think up of other powerpuff girls name to go with our old trusty dog, mojo. even ended up wanting to name vanilla, mojicia, who once was mojo jojo's love interest (in the manner of john lennon-beatles-yoko ono love triangle). but the name is too out of this world for my family, even for a dog.

jan suggested fly, as in mojo-fly. it seemed like a cool name. especially since the dog in babe (the pig movie) is called fly. when i told my mom, she went "fly?!" with this sort of disbelieving look on her face that says "what crazy name is that?"

so i had to think of something else. the dog's name didn't come to me like a flash the way tasha's (my digicam) name did. i tried to use the age-old formula of calling the dog names until it responded. and so after five or six names, when i shouted vanilla, it walked towards me. or more like fell from jan's lap. which i took to be the sign that it is the name she wants. so our white pup has been christened vanilla (my favorite plain flavored ice cream.)

and we've been good friends ever since. (sometimes i'm more excited to come home to see her than my mom. but that's our secret)