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Hi everyone! Super innocent Riley here.

Well, today’s been a super crazy day fur Mommy! First she overslept and when she did figure everything out after waking up she remembered that she had to get clothes smoothers [iron] put in her fur two and a half hours and THEN she had to go with Grandma so they could get their teefs cleaned fur the next two hours!

And Mommy didn’t even get to eat between those two things so she was soo tired and cranky when she got here until she had the leftovers that Grandma offered her (but…not me?). And I’m happy that she IS here fur the rest of the day especially since she and Grandma and Grandpa have fun plans fur tonight, but in the meantime she FINALLY has an hour to rest fur the first time today!

Well, you’d think that a chance to rest would mean a chance fur puppy quality time, but ACTUALLY what she said was, and I quote:

“I love you, Riley, but I don’t want you in my room right now.”

And THEN she decided to pick me up off her bed (which I didn’t even object to since I’m so much calmer now) and put me out in the hall and close the door. So yeah, now Mommy’s getting some rest but I’m not getting Mommy snuggles and I don’t know why!

Hi everyone! Mommy made a surprise visit home today, and at first she was irritable and didn’t want to put up with my crazies, ie barking and bouncing around too much fur her to even pick me up. But finally she got me out of her room by…literally throwing a scrap of paper out into the hallway so that I could chase it and she could close the door to cool off.

Well, shortly after that she felt better and didn’t mind as much when I came back in and lied down next to her, so yaaay fur regulation! And she thought I looked cute lying next to her so she took the top part of my tax…but as she settled down more she took off her glasses and put THOSE down on the bed too, more specifically a few inches away from me!

And that made me so hungry with excitement because I remembered what an amazing chewy toy those things are, so I turned my head and now I’m staring at them! And obviously I’m the goodest girl now despite my aforementioned crazies so I’m not making any effort to bite them and Mommy doesn’t feel the need to move them, but AITC fur still having my animal wants?

Hi, everyone! Glad to have everyone [EDIT: in my family] back in Califurnia with me!

Well, earlier today Grandma was taking a nap, and I wasn’t allowed in the room…but I didn’t like that because I wanted to be WITH her! So while Mommy and Grandpa were watching TV in the den, I would keep going back to Grandma’s attached door and scratch at it because I didn’t want it to be closed. And those scratches didn’t make the door open but I had to keep trying again because maybe each new attempt WOULD work!

And one of those times, Mommy just stared at me and playfully muttered, “Definition of insanity, Riley.”

Now, I don’t know the meaning of the word “definition”, and the group of letters in “insanity” just sounds crazy together. But I do know the fourth word she said because that’s MY name! And like we all learned in puppy school, we have to look at our pawrents when they say our names so after she made those sounds I stopped the door scratches and turned to look at her!

Well, Mommy found that hilarious because she didn’t even say those words that loud but I STILL know my name! That said, AITC fur not being Einstein?

HELLO pets who I think are out there across the Internet! Long distance Riley here; I haven’t seen Mommy in eight whole days cuz she and Grandma and Grandpa decided to go to the Main[e] fur no good reason! Apparently I’ll see them again on Monday but Monday doesn’t exist right now so right now I’m sad.

Anyways, tonight my whole family was having dinner with Grandma’s sisters and my cousins (ie, Grandma’s sisters’ doggies)! Grandma’s big sister’s doggy isn’t pick up-able, but her little sister’s doggy Lucky is only a bit bigger than me so she still fits in my Mommy’s lap!

At first Lucky was in her Mommy’s lap (even though they were all at the dinner table so she wasn’t even s’pposed to be there), but since my Mommy was sitting next to Lucky’s mommy that meant that Lucky was able to go right into Mommy’s lap!

Now, usually I’d have no idea that this happened except that Grandma took a photo of Lucky on Mommy’s lap and sent it to Treat Stranger and then Treat Stranger sent Grandma a very dignified photo of me looking cute but also all alone.

Why am I all alone though? Why couldn’t I go in the Zipper Box tube last week with my humans? I want a chance to compete with my cousins fur Mommy’s attention too!

Good midnight (because 2:30 AM shouldn’t count as morning tbh) pets!

Well, Mommy is home fur tonight so yay! And she went to bed yesterday with her door open just like Grandma and Grandpa did (which is where I sleep). And a few minutes ago I was happy in dream land when I got waked up by the loudest of loud noises coming from Mommy’s Human Doggy Pad room.

Of course I went from one open door to the other to investigate the louds, and when Mommy came back to her room she heard my (less loud) jangly collar and paws which gave her good feelings because it meant I was nearby and possibly snuggle-able!

So she said my name and patted on her bed in hopes that I would jump up on it, but as far as I was concerned the Loud had disappeared so I guess it wasn’t as much of a threat anymore.

AITC fur denying Mommy her midnight snuggles once I made sure her room was nice and quiet again?

[I swear my own toilet has the loudest flush I’ve ever known.]

She has a whole year left but I also just found out a few days ago and I don’t feel like I have anywhere to talk right now unless it’s okay to do so in the general grief subreddit.

Happy Friday, Reddit! Mommy is back home fur sad reasons but I’m happy to get more times with her fur an extra few days!

So here’s what I’ve learned about flat surfaces in the past 196 days since I was borned:

First, there’s doors. BOO, doors! They just keep us away from the humans.

There’s also the mirror, which is where Yelir lives; it’s also where my big sisters would meet with Ynnep and Ybba. Mirror doggies seem threatening at first, but at least Yelir likes all the things I like so she’s not too bad!

And THEN we have the light boxes that we all know so well. They’re weird, and they make the humans ignore us except fur when they wanna take taxes of us.

(Edit: I also just remembered that there’s a fifth type in the form of giant lightboxes — that’s where humans either do their werks (also boo) or have the Zoomies with other humans (sometimes yay)!)

But today I learned more about a fourth type of flat surfaces called Win Does! I learned about it when Grandpa left earlier this afternoon and then came back with Mommy by surprise! I could see Mommy coming down the driveway from the couch in the den, so I got excited and scritched at the Win Doe like I have in the past.

But then I started thinking, “Why aren’t the scritches making this Flat Surface go away?” So then I started to press my paw up against it instead, and Mommy isn’t sure if she remembers correctly but she thinks I tried licking it after the pawings.

Anyway, unfortunately I failed to make the magic glass go away so I had to wait a few extra seconds fur her and Grandpa to open the door (BOO!) so we could be on the same side again. Which is to say, AITC fur not getting rid of the Win Does with my puppy powers?

Hey there fellow Califurnians! I’m not all that comfy here but I bet I’m not alone in that.

Earlier today I came back from a walk with Grampa, and Mommy happened to be sitting on the couch nearby so when she saw me sticking my tongue out and panting she told me in her happy Riley voice that I was a Hot Dog!

But that’s a lie, right? :( I saw these “hot dogs” a couple weeks ago and I’m nothing like them! I mean, maybe we’re both a light brown color but unlike Hot Dogs I have limbs and a face and fur and most importantly I have senty-ints!

Most importantly though, why is Mommy HAPPY that I’m a Hot Dog? Does that mean she’s gonna eat me? 😭

It’s not the kind of thing that I’m able to hide either but the last thing I want is to be stuck in the waiting room too close to our dinner reservations.

I do feel thrown off to know that they’ve actually been there this whole time, plus it’s definitely appealing given how stressful move-in day will be, but it’s just not worth the risk.

So, off to celebrate the rest of Day 457 then!

So to put it simply, my dad told me I should wait about a month to tell her, which felt like a long time. I mean, she has asked me about allergies which I don’t have, but this feels like it’s on a similar level of severity.

Anyway, for better or worse I had one just yesterday when I went to pick up the keys (since I’m the one who’s moving). Fortunately my mom was with me at the time and she said my new/future roommate responded great to it, but I don’t know if I unintentionally gave her a dealbreaker and if my dad had better instincts.

I had to get over to the drive-able Target (which meant catching an Uber) in order to buy more toilet paper which there’s zero of in my apartment. I put off going straight there and filled my cart with a bunch of groceries instead to make it look less obvious.

But finally after wandering around the pharmacy section for a while and not finding any, I got the nerve to ask the woman who was at the desk of the pharmacy area (if that makes sense) if she knew where they were. Which apparently she didn’t but she told me I should ask someone who has a red shirt.

That said, I was upset that my working up that nerve wasn’t even worth it so I found my way to the checkout instead. And now I’m waiting for a ride back with my apparently $113 worth of heavy groceries so I can put them away and then go back out to the CVS that’s in walking distance which probably would have made more sense in the first place.