Catch up? Catsup? Ketchup?

Yikes. Just a tip to anyone who has a reader in the family (you know who you are)-- don't give them the Twilight books. They'll disappear like, forever. That's what happened to Dad these past few weeks. Sure, he made up some excuse about needing to be up on the current "hip" things that the kids he'll be counseling are into, and he mentioned something else about two different 20-page papers he's been researching for his classes, and I think he tried to pawn off some lame excuse about final exams, but I know the real reason.

He's bored with me. *Sigh*

I'll just have to up the cute factor. Think this'll do it?


I thought so. Sweet!

Of course, the other reason is that Dad is a slacker. Always has been, always will be. According to him, he was even born late. So, remember that award I won (it seems like) years ago? Where I won the Project Dogway final and promised to show pictures of my swag when it came in? Well, it's in. It's been in. And I've already loved it all. But just to prove it, here are the pics!



I got the coolest wrapping paper ever,


A little friend to hang on the Christmas tree (although he looks like he's got the measles or mumps or something. V - E - T time for him, I say),


A totally delicious bag of treats,


and a fantastically fuzzy blue (my favie!) chew toy.


Am I a lucky pug or what? I also, even though Dad was on hiatus and refused to help me with the blogging thing, raked in some awards. Sweet!

I got the I Love Your Blog award from my Florida friends Samantha and Mr. Tigger:


And I got the Lemonade Stand award from both Sandra and Pearl and Daisy!


The Lemonade Stand award is given to bloggers who show attitude/gratitude, so I will say thank you with attitude to cover all bases:

THANX, GIRLFRIEND(S)! YOU ROCK!!!

As for passing on the love, well, I'm about ten years too late in actually receiving these awards and if you'll remember from last time picking and choosing the "pass it on" recipients kinda gives me the willies. So, I'm taking the easy way out and saying that everyone is awesome and both deserves and gets these awards. Hooray for you!

Is that it? Am I caught up? Whew!

!!UPCOMING EVENTS!!

Big-time visitors coming down soon. All Christmas week I get to schmooze with both sides of my human family, so look for lots of pictures and whatever small number of posts I can squeeze in between head scratches and family love-ins.

Happy Election Day!

OK-- Today is catch-up day for Puddleglum. I am WAY behind.

First things first, today is Election Day in the United States! Hooray for freedom and choice! With there being a possibility of the first African-American person as president of the USA, perhaps this will open the door to give us canines the vote. "Sufferage and sweet potatoes!" will be our slogan. We will promise to give every canine citizen 40 bones and a stuffie. Bark the vote!

But seriously, if you can vote, you should. Or stop complaining about anything. At least, that's what I think.

Now that that's out of the way, it is time to cover a couple of contest results I have been remiss on. First of all, there is the Pug Lover's Rescue banner voting, which ended October 31st. I did not win, but I was first runner-up! Yay for me! Even better, my good friend Clementine won in a tie! Yay for her! Everyone congratulate her. Even better yet, there was a bunch of money raised for rescued pugs. Never can have too much of that!

The second contest I was in was the Project Dogway 08 sweepstakes. I was very surprised and happy to discover that I was one of the three finalists! Now I have to get cracking on my final entry, due this Friday (yipes!). Since Clementine was judging the entries, and I spent a pretty penny on delicious canned food and bones and stuffies to send to her as br--- Ummm... I might have said too much. Moving on.

Hooray for me! OK, now moving on.

I won an award for participating in that prestigious contest!


And from Harry Pugalicious:


This lovely award is created by Crystal @ Memoirs of a Mommy in honor of Noah and the donor of his sweet little heart who ENCOURAGES us to SHARE THE LOVE ! Thanks Crystal! [Click on Memoirs of a Mommy to learn and read this special love story!] The rules for this award are to pass it along to some people whose blogs you love. They make you laugh, smile, leave encouraging comments on your blog. You would like to share some love with them because they have uplifted, inspired, encouraged or prayed for you. Please include this paragraph with the link to Memoirs of a Mommy so that everyone knows where this award originated from.

I give it to:
Pugsley the Lovely Lady Pug
Nancy and the Fatties
Pearl and Daisy
Pepe
Daisy and Oscar

Because they all are either new bloggers or are frequent commenters on my blog or have neat blogs or have not received this/other award(s) yet or live in a cool part of the world. But definitely not because everyone else is not cool enough. This giving awards thing is tricky!

Thanks to all!

And finally, I bet you were wondering how Dad's fantasy football team is doing with me as the mascot! No? Really? Not a bit of interest? Well, too bad. I'm telling you anyway. We have had a run of bad luck and are currently sitting at 4-5, despite scoring the second-most points for the season of anyone and at least partly because of having the second-most points scored against us. It's sad, but it's hardly a big deal. The good news is, there is a lot of parity in our league and we are only two games out of first place! We'll just have to suck it up and hope that Reggie Bush comes back soon! Can I hear an "Amen!" from Harry Pugalicious and his mom?

Th-th-th-th-th-that's all, folks! Go vote if you can!

Award for me!

Hey-o everydoggy! Both Winston and Clementine's mom and CoCo gave me the Kick Ass Blogger Award! Hooray for me!


And I do kick ass, as these pictures prove:



That is, at least when the opponent is a stuffie hedgehog. No more honkin' for you, Mister!

I will go ahead and pass it on to Khyra, Gus and Indy, Harry Pugalicious, Bajas, and Aunt Sandy, who are collectively the most frequent commentators on my blog who have not yet received the award. I'm like Poley and Rukia's mom: I LOVE getting comments, so I like passing on the love to my dawgs and peeps who do that kind of stuff.

Speaking of dawgs and peeps, if you like my blog don't forget to become a follower by using the links in the right-hand column appropriately labelled "My Dawgs and Peeps". C'mon-- be a follower! Everyone else is doing it!

In other news, on Sunday I get to go to the Pugs in the Park for Colorado Pug Rescue! Word has it that Emmitt and his mom Melissa will be there, as will Daisy and Oscar and their pawrents Jason and Leah! I AM SO FLIPPIN' EXCITED!!! Don't worry, Dad has learned his lesson from the Freaky Weekend incident, and will have a functional camera that will take pictures no matter what. Yay!


Finally, I am so pumped about the fall lineup of shows beginning now! I like contests, even ones that are just for bragging rights, so here's one for y'all:

Can you guess the top 5 shows that Mom and Dad are addicted to? I'll put a little blurb in the right-hand column with the answers at the end of today.

My Second Award!

Hooray! I love getting awards!

Roxy and Lucky gave me the Best Friends Forever Gold Card Award. I get this cool little plastic thingy...


(hope it's OK if I chew on it... because that's what I do to plastic)

and I have to follow some rules, so...

1.Only five people allowed.
2.Four have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3.One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4.You must link back to whoever gave you the award

Well, Roxy and Lucky are dedicated followers, so that's great. But since they gave it to me, does that count? I'm going to try to do this without double-dipping on them, but it'll be hard because I'm kinda new and don't have a whole lot of dedicated followers. But Roxy and Lucky, just know you are awesome also!

1. Winston and Clementine
2. Napoleon and Rukia
3. Gus and Indy
4. Sophie and Dixie
5. Frances Louise

Actually, that was harder than I thought. I have more friends! Yay! Everyone else, I love you too! Frances Louise, also known as "Wild Alaskan Mountain Pug" is my new and/or other part of the world blogger friend. Alaska?! For a pug?! Seriously, it might as well be Antarctica. OH WAIT, SHE'S BEEN THERE TOO! Wow. That's all I have to say.

Not much happening here with me and Big Brother. Dad is slacking off on the yard, and then Colorado got DUMPED ON with rain over the weekend, which makes the yard a veritable jungle.


I am the pug-tiger. Fear me.

Even with all that rain, the yard still looks like a 16 year-old kid trying to grow a beard. Can you tell where the sprinklers don't work so well? Or perhaps, where Snoufer and I like to run and play?


Note to Mom and Dad: I like having the pillow on top of me in my cage. Deal with it. Stop laughing at me.


More as it happens!

One final note to everydoggy who reads my blog: Thank you so much! I love doing this, even if I can't always find the time to. I think it is so much fun to hear from other furry friends out there. Could you please do me a favor to help me with this (if you haven't already)? Could you add me to your blogrolls? That way, other people can see my awesome name (as Roxy and Lucky so astutely pointed out) and click on it to find out about MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, I don't know what came over me... :)

I got an award! Well, nominated at least...

I got nominated for an award! Yeah!

Punchy, Chloe, Zoe, Rosy, and Marty nominated me for the Brilliante Weblog Award:


Which I think is brilliant(e?), because Mom used to be in pageants when she was in college, and she was in the Mrs. Colorado pageant this year. I saw her practice her "I won! face" in front of the mirror when she thought no one was looking, and I watched the Oscars this year, so I think this is what you do?...

Oh. Oh. *wave paw in front of face* Oh. *tear up more than usual* Thank you all so much! *hug the nearest loser* YOU made this happen! YOU all are the real winners! *quickly hog the microphone*

Let's see...

1. Put the link to whomever nominated you on your blog: CHECK
2. Show the picture: CHECK
3. Nominate at least seven other blogs: DOWN BELOW
4. Link to those blogs: STILL DOWN BELOW
5. Leave the nominees a message: DONE AND DONE

So... *pawroll* the nominees are:

Louise the Pug
Bajas the Cyberpug
Winston, the Grand Duke of Pugsworth (and The Stray AKA Cosette)
Raoul (AKA "The Mayor")
Ronin the Pug
Pugsley, the Lovely Lady Pug
Pyrite the Pug

I've checked; I don't think any of them has been nominated before. If they have, I'm sorry! I'll fix it, just let me know.

So let the celebration begin!

Now if only I can get tagged for a meme...