Hello, my name's Tiffany and I put clothes on my dog.  Seriously.  Lulu gets cold, and she hates the rain.  So I bought her a winter coat, a belly warmer, and a raincoat.  This is the belly warmer.  She likes it, and it still shows off her wrinkles!

Poor Lulu is still having a lot of problems with allergies.  She's still on the "elimination trial" for food allergies, and hopefully will get to start eating real food in the next few weeks.  But this week she has the blood allergy test that will tell us exactly what all she is allergic to.  In the meantime, she is covered in hives.  She did much better while on prednisone, but she has to be off it for a week for her allergy test.  Benadryl is just not cutting it for the poor little dog.  Hopefully soon we'll have some answers and a plan for getting her more comfortable.

One thing she's definitely allergic to?  Underwear.  Seriously.  She ATE a thong, then threw it up while Jason and I were eating dinner.  Nice.  That is a true story.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, Sunday mornings...  If it weren't for knowing that tomorrow is Monday, Sunday would be my favorite day of the week.  Sunday morning is definitely my favorite morning, though.  You know why?  Mostly because I'm alone in the apartment, snuggling with the pets, sipping coffee, and most recently, watching a TON of  Cesar Millan's "Dog Whisperer". 

Seriously.  I LOVE THIS SHOW.  Lulu has not been without her challenges.  While Pooh King was very easy to train, Lulu is proving to be a little, ummmm, stubborn with a few behaviors.  Plus, it was so long ago that Pooh was a puppy (15 years!) that it's hard to remember what having a puppy is like sometimes.  She's doing so well, especially compared to the hyper, untrained mess she was when we got her... but still, work to be done.  We've conquered not rushing the door when someone knocks, but now we're working on car chasing.  Rather, we're working on NOT car chasing.   It's a challenge.  Yes, this dog...

I guess I should finish taking down the Christmas decorations.  Jason took down the tree, and a lot of the indoor decorations, but I still need to do the porch decorations, and the things I inherited from my Gram.  It's just a little.

Christmas...

 Santa left a note.  It had to be read VERY carefully...

 Whew!  The news was good.

Jolly the Elf was very helpful this year...

 Otis

 Lulu Velma Norton would like her stocking, please.

 Our new stockings

 The Great and Powerful Oz

 The neighborhood watch...