Here are the next two installments of Your Daily Siddhartha, the daily video diary that our friend Adam made while Jenn and I were on a vacation in Europe back in April of 2010 (For more backstory, please check out the post for Days 1 and 2). FYI, Adam is also the genius that came up with the caption for each video.
Day 5: Sid respects your personal space while you are in the bathroom.
Day 6: Sid celebrates a dump with his version of the Running Man.
After a month of waking up to Sid sleeping on my back, in my bed, where he definitely does not belong, I finally had enough. But, Sid, ever the fighter, refused to sleep in his own bed, on the floor.
It was then that Brian and I knew that it was time to reconstruct one of the most important inventions ever created by man, the pinnacle of humankind’s collective intelligence and creativity, and, therefore, certainly the best idea Brian and I have ever, and will ever, come up with:
The Ela-bed.
Yes, it was just over a year ago, back when we were still taking care of Sid and two other dogs at our old house in Glendale, California, that Brian and I combined a Rubbermaid bin and a dog bed to create the amazing elevated dog bed, which we coined “the Ela-bed.”
This recent spell of cold weather in Pug Slope has kept us from taking any new exciting photos of everyone’s favorite little turkey. Gone are the long afternoons of meandering through Prospect Park. On Sid’s walks he now stays strictly to the “business” at hand (can I get a rimshot?). He’s very content to curl up indoors and since his Snuggie apparently wasn’t cutting it, he decided to commandeer Jenn’s.
Yes, he did take over the whole darn thing.
He’s also taken to popping up into our bed in the middle of the night – although we can’t complain. Since the radiators in the apartment churn out too much heat (and the one in the bedroom is about 6 inches from my head) we often turn off the one in the bedroom at night. So when it does get a little chilly, what folks commonly refer to as a “One Dog Night”, Sid fits the role perfectly.
Here are the next two Your Daily Siddhartha videos that our friend Adam made while Jenn and I were on a vacation in Europe (For more backstory, please check out the post for Days 1 and 2). The 4th is one of my personal favorites!
Day 3: Getting pet just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be.
Day 4: A day full of eating and sleeping has left Sid all tuckered out. Bless him.
In April of 2010, while we were still living in Glendale, CA, Jenn and I took an amazing two-week trip to Europe.
This was the first time we had been away from Sid for this long, so we enlisted our good friend Adam to watch over and supervise the little bugger.
Adam is a good sport, and despite dealing with the exhaustive list of Sid’s daily duties (e.g., 7am breakfast, confidence shirts, twice-a-day walks, letting the little gremlin sleep in the bed, etc.) he also managed to film a short video each day we were away. All the places we stayed in Europe had internet access so we were able to keep up with the enigma that is Sid. Yes, I know, we’re obsessed about the little dude.
Adam clearly has a knack for this sort of thing, and these videos far outshine any video Jenn and I have made to date, so we wanted to share them with you. Here are the first two days (more to come this month):
Day 1: Sid takes his morning’s pee
Day 2: Sid heads downstairs to greet the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmO–R1ljhg
After Sid’s Christmas 2010 “Blizzard of Toys” (parts 1 and 2), you’d think we would take a break from spoiling the little dude and let our bank account recover. We’ll, you’d be wrong.
Whenever we order stuff from Amazon, we always wind up tacking a dog toy or seven onto the order. So when Jenn ordered her 2011 desk calendar on December 22nd, we added on a few items for the Sid-man. Whether it was the blizzard, the free super-saver shipping, or the general holiday craziness, we’ll never know, but our package wound up getting severely delayed.
It finally showed up today.
Remember the baby frog that Sid got from Grandma Demski back in October? Well, he had practically worn the thing out from chewing and licking and other forms of man-handling, so he was practically floored when a brand spanking new one showed up today in the package from Amazon.
After a swipe with his deft hand, Sid knocked Frog 2.0™ to the floor and began the process of attacking it via a method referred to as “death by saliva”.
Get your own hard-copy of the mini comic starring Sid. Only $1 (which includes 50¢ for shipping). 8 pages long in assorted rainbow colors!
