did you forget about me?

hi everyone.

i. am. a. bad. dog.

its been well over a year since i posted on my blog. a lot of things have been going on and i just got distracted. where do i begin? i suppose the first life-altering event was MY MOVE. i'm a yankee dog now! i moved to pennsylvania with my mom because she is now at Villanova University.

i like my new digs; but ill always love gainesville, the land of my puppyhood! you can take the boy out of the south but you can't take the south out of the boy!

my second life-altering event was getting a BROTHER. well, if we get technical about it, he is really my uncle. my grandmom and grandpop rescued a bichon - rather than referring to him as my uncle we thought this might be easier. his name is sammy! here is a picture of him being irresistible:

well, i have a lot to fill you in on! but this was the big stuff. i'll post some more updates later. i missed y'all!

-bandy

a traditional (and non traditional) st. patrick's day celebration!

i am just a puppy, so i don't have a job. (unless being cute is a job!) but grandmom and grandpop and kiki do, so we decided to celebrate st. patrick's day this past weekend! we decorated the dining room festively and made some traditional (and non-traditional) irish food. i took some pictures to share!

a festive setting! balloons and shamrocks, how fun!

the ever-traditional irish brown bread. freshly baked by kiki, scrumptious!

the semi-traditional irish shrimp salad. usually, baby shrimp are served. and NEVER EVER cocktail sauce. always russian dressing. try it some time..

very non-traditional irish potato candies. sickeningly sweet..

the extremely non-traditional, yet very fitting, key lime pies...

we also had some traditional irish vegetable soup and some NON-TRADITIONAL corned beef and cabbage. however, i was just tooooo excited to take a picture before i gobbled them both up!

i hope all of you enjoy your st. patrick's day. i'm hoping to get my paws on a bottle of smithwick's before the day ends. ; )

affenpinscher??

that kind of looks like me doesn't it? just one more possibility in the lifelong quest for my roots...

a day in the life of a lab...

...im glad by full-time job is just "being cute" ; )

i think punxsutawney phil was wrong...

what a beautiful day in the neighborhood! (oh i just love me some mr. rogers) almost a month ago, punxsutawney phil saw his shadow on groundhog day and so i thought we would have another six weeks of winter. but i have some photos taken just minutes ago to prove silly phil wrong. i mean, he has been doing this an awful long time - maybe he needs to think about retirement.

have you seen these?

obviously i have been watching a lot of tv. but how fitting of me to post some commercials on super bowl sunday!!

for your viewing pleasure : )

as you all know, i will not cannot upload pictures on my blog without my mom's help. this is becoming problematic because this semester she has school EVERYDAY!!! i miss the days when tuesdays and thursdays were bandy day! its been like that my whole life : (

so i finally got her to help me on another post! : ) (not the writing part, just the uploading part)

sleepy bandy

...in this one i refused to be photographed. lol

the puparazzi!!!

merry christmas friends! its been a while since i've blogged because the internet in NJ is painstakingly slow. but i've finally gathered up enough patience to make a post.

how was everyone's christmas? mine was just swell!!! santie paws was good to me! i got some rawhides and chicken liver treats in my stocking and many new toys. a frisbee, a TALKING treat ball, a new hot dog man to replace the one i destroyed and much more!

does anyone else find christmas overwhelming?? on christmas morning i couldn't stop crying! it was 1/2 tears of joy and 1/2 tears of turmoil because of all the commotion. i tried to bury myself in a gift bag to calm myself down - it turned out to be too small.

mom got a brand new professional-grade camera. needless to say, she has been photographing me ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!!! it is like a puparazzi!!! here are some of the photos she's taken. hope ya'll had a great christmas. ; )

a profile shot.

looking a little sleepy. lol.

playing!

this is a little creepy.

playing with the gift auntie elly got me : )

some lost footage..

i'm sure you remember me mentioning that mom's camera is finally up and running (which does not mean to terminate her "wish" of a D5000 on her christmas wishlist...in case any of you were wondering...)

anyway she came across this charming photo (i'm being facetious). i asked her not to SHOW IT TO THE WORLD, but she said she must. i'm embarrassed.

this was taken on 5/13 and we all know what day that is! i'm sure now you understand what was going on! lol.

p.s. please expect a blogging hiatus as i will be away from my computer this week. enjoy your thanksgiving. i sure will : ) WOOF!

a sassy ____poo

you fill in the blank. no one knows for sure what breed i am, but everyone agrees i'm half poodle. so fill in the blank for me!!! mom thinks i'm a lhasa apso-poo and grandmom thinks i'm a bichon-poo. what do ya'll think!?!

anyway i got my hair cut. i'm sure you can see the enthusiasm radiating off me.

obviously, i couldn't have been bothered because i was much more interested in playing with fox's tail!

no matter what i happen to be mixed with, my haircut makes me one sassy poodle. (or so mom says).

P.S. to those who have been wondering, mom has found her camera charger and is now taking pictures of me incessantly! ugh. grr..

RIP Fox...

now before you jump to conclusions, yes, that is fox's tail hanging out of my mouth. but that doesn't mean i ATE HIM!!!

on the contrary, i just...dismantled him.

yes, i ripped fox's tail off. i am guilty. but right before this was about to happen:

mom heard a yelp. yes, that was from me. mommy please don't throw away the tail, that's my favorite part!!!!! she let me keep it : )

grandpop gave me fox for my birthday which was almost 4 months ago. mom is happy because this is the longest time it's ever taken me to destroy a toy. it's usually more like a week or two. she gets mad because she has to buy me more!! i'm glad i accomplished my mission. now onto my next:

football

i love football. i have been having so much fun this season, the gators are #1!!! (literally)

here is a picture of me enjoying the pride of the sunshine, our marching band! this was at our last home game... vs. vandy.

a pizza loving pup

so you may remember me having pizza for lunch the other day. it was soooooooo yummy i can't think of anything else!!

chinese!

mom got chinese, this was her fortune. she told me it was about me!!! 0:-)

the most wonderful time of the year

its almost christmastime!! gotta think about my list to santa!!

puppy pants

i've been waiting rather PATIENTLY for kiki to make me a pair of pants. i'm always exposed!!! well it's been about a year so i just decided to BUY some jeans....

books part 2

mom would like you to know all the great deals she got at the semi-annual friends of the library sale!!! (remember a similar post last time??) unfortunately, she could not find any books written in italian for me...it seems the folks in central florida don't speak much ITALIANO!!

Nicholas Sparks - The Lucky One

Janet Fitch - White Oleander

Kristin Hannah - Firefly Lane

P. D. James - The Murder Room

P. D. James - The Lighthouse

Alexander McCall Smith - Tears of the Giraffe

Alexander McCall Smith - Morality for Beautiful Girls

she wants to know if any of you "bookies" have any suggestions about what she should read first! oh yes, and she only spent $15!!! that means she has more money to buy me toys!!!!! : )

pizza

ok ok, i'll admit. the world from down here has shifted to the back burner as my mom is SUCH A COMPUTER HOG!!! she claims she needs the computer for school, but i've seen her playing the sims when she thinks i'm not looking!!! well i'm going to put my paw down...

what have i been doing? well last weekend grandmom & grandpop fitz came down to visit. mom kept it a secret so when they knocked on the door i had to try SO HARD not to pee pee in excitement!! (i did so successfully!!) they brought me a HASHBROWN, it was just like old times in NJ when i used to have hashbrown sunday!! mom decided to discontinue that tradition because she claims:

"bandit, if that is not good for my arteries, than it is most definitely not good for your little arteries."

just to prove a point, i decided to make myself a pizza for lunch yesterday. mom, it doesn't always have to be good for you!!

i'm sure you all know of my mom's OBSESSIVE ORGANIZATION...it's verging on diagnosable OCD. anyhow, she purchased a label maker, labeled everything she could think of and then some....

what's my fave toy these days? it's actually a webkinz (meaning it's meant for CHILDREN) mom and aunt elly call him my le tigre. i just loveeeee him!!!!

i'll be updating soon! don't youse worry!! but for now, i think ill just take a nap ; )

(mom says i sleep on my back a lot!!)

costumes?

halloween is coming!! last year i was too little to get dressed up, but not this year!!!!!! me and mom have narrowed it down to two costumes. tell me what you think..

elvis?

captain jack sparrow

i just can't wait to trick-or-treat!! hopefully they will have milkbones instead of milk chocolate!!