The Origins

Hello Puggies and People!
I have a lot of news. The computer at home seems to be working now and mom is posting this from there. The pictures are from the phone because mom has little time since she has been busy helping one of the kids with a school project. It was a fun homework and I will tell you about it later. I also wanted to tell you about yesterday's pug meetup but mom said it was kind of embarassing... I will just say that I got confused and sniffed and kissed a cat's face and I also pooped all around mom (180º) while she was sitting on the floor petting other pugs.




I also behaved very bad while in the car, fighting with mom because I wanted to be on her lap. Mom doesn't like that, specially because she has to drive through 5 (yes, five) different highways for an hour to get to the pug meetup from the house.





Mom, dad and the kids went yesterday to the beach. It was an ugly beach since it was not pet friendly. While mom was there, she read that some of our friends wanted us to translate my nicknames.

Mom asked dad: How do you say this and that in english?
Dad said: What do you want that for? Those names are so weird!
Mom said: Why didn't you tell me this before? I keep calling Coco these names!
Dad said: Because you do so when we are at home and nobody is listening.

Mom blushed. And finally understood. Daddy has probably been too busy watching TV or playing XBox while his only son was growing up and earning his right to deserve funny/silly nicknames. Let me share the origins with you friends...

Mom is shy. While she was living on dad's mother's house she never sang on the shower. When she moved out the first song that came to her mind was the theme of a Mexican telenovela that broadcasted in 1987, called Rosa Salvaje (Wild Rose). It is a contagious melody and mom found out it was perfect to be sung for me. So she started modifying the lyrics... since I am not a Rose or a girl called Rose.
First, she sang: Cosa Salvaje (Wild thing) (I am the thing). But then it was changed to Coso Salvaje (coso doesn't have a meaning, it is just a funny way to say cosa - it sounds more masculine). That's how she started calling me Coso.
Then she continued changing the lyrics. In honor to my shedding capabilities (which has made mom dependant on an allergy medicine for life, and has sent dad to the surgery room due to a severe sinus problem) mom started singing Cosa Peluda (hairy thing) instead of Rosa Salvaje. When I am smelly and dirty, she sings Cochinada Peluda (Dirty hairy thing). When I behave good she sings Preciosura Salvaje (Wild precious). Now you get the idea, it could be anything that fits with the music of the song.
Mom also calls me Piojo (flea) or Piojito (little flea) when I start jumping and dancing. The obvious ones are Jefecito (little chief or boss) and Belleza (Cutie or beautiful).

Daddy calls me Paps (isn't that english?), Papa (dad), papito (daddy) and Coconut which is the english word for Coco. Yes, daddy named me after the tropical fruit. And he said I was a little monster because of my looks. I didn't get that one.

Me, In Spanish

Hello friends, still from the cellphone!
Many of my beloved friends have had their birthdays this past days. If you haven't heard from me lately, it's because I can't post comments on your blog! Specially if it was your birthday... I am so sorry to be absent! Mom's laptop is still at the hospital and mom said she would try to fix the internet connection at home - since apparently it stopped working when she was changing the settings - to use the big computer to blog.

So today I will share some of the nicknames I have (as suggested by Suki). Please let me know if you need a translation. Dad speaks to me in english and mom speaks to me in spanish, that means I am fluent in both languages ; P

Dad calls me:

- Paps (mom thought it was "pops" but daddy corrected her)
- Papa
- Papito
- Coconut
- Yesterday he called me little monster

Mom calls me:

- Coso
- Cosa peluda
- Cochinada peluda
- Piojo or Piojito
- Jefecito
- Preciosura salvaje
- Belleza
- 1000 other silly names she can't remember right now.

Have fun!

Wordless Wednesday

What happens if you open the cold box. It could be in my house, your house, your office, anywhere. Beware!

Working With The Snuggle Puggle

Boss,
On Sunday I had to drive mom and dad to their favorite place for breakfast. I know work is work, but it was mother's day not mother-and-father's day!
Look at mom, all relaxed in the car. Daddy was even snoring in the back seat. If it is mom who drives, daddy and I have to be 100% alert to prevent a disaster.
I am a hard worker but sometimes I think that the responsibility laying up on my shoulders is just too much. I need a raise.
Sincerely,
Coco

Happy Mother's Day!

Friend's Mom's,
I want to wish you all a happy mother's day! I hope your kids and puppies give you lots of kisses today and specially they behave well today. Tomorrow is another story ;P
Love,
Coco (mom says hi, too).

Smoke Signal From Far, Far Away

Dear Bloggie Friends and Maybe One or Two Friends That I Know In Person,
Thank you so much for your support now that we are having "tech" problems. Mom's brain worked for five minutes today - not that she is not thinking the rest of the time, but this 5 minutes were actually worth it... Ok, so the last few days mom has been using her phone to post. Did you know that you can create an e-mail address, write to it - attaching pictures if you want - and whatever you wrote gets automatically published on your blog when you send it? Mom has some old pictures saved on her work computer and since she has to send e-mails normally while at work... hehe... she is posting this from the office! The only thing she doesn't like too much is that the pictures appear in the beginning of the post and she can't re-arrange them. So she will be posting from her phone (with crappy new pictures) or her work computer (with nice old pictures) using this method for a while.
Now she needs to find out why she can't comment on some of your blogs. She wants ALL of our friends to know that she is reading all your blogs. And I wanted to send an e-kiss to my dear Clemmie and an e-hug to my friend Winston. Their mom wrote a very sweet post about me on her blog, my heart melted when mom read it to me! Thank you Rachel!
I hope you all have great plans for mother's day. Mom asked dad to take us to Key West on Sunday but he can't. Due to his job, he can't go too far away this weekend : (
I am sure mom will come up with another plan for us to share her special day together! Stay tuned!

Identity Crisis

Pugs and other doggies,
I am worried that mom is going to make a sudden drastic decision. She is about to pack my toys and my medicine and move with me to a remote place. She says that it just can't be a coincidence... today her laptop crashed! Well, we don't know if it can be saved yet, but it happened after mom finished uploading pictures for my blog and left the laptop on to write a little bit later. So... now we don't have internet at home, we don't have a laptop to take to work to blog from there, we can't blog from work's computer because there is a camera watching us and we can't comment on some of our friend's blogs from this phone because... we don't know why. Mom says maybe destiny is telling her that we should forget about technology and move far, far away, to a place where only smoke signals are available to communicate. I just hope there's a fridge over there to keep my veggies fresh.

Troubled And Not Wordless Wednesday

Friends,
The internet connection at home is not working very well. Mom is posting from her cellphone in the meantime. She will probably bring her laptop to the office tomorrow so she can do it during lunch time. I have been trying to post some comments on your blogs but they don't seem to publish!
Many days ago mom thought that she had lots of pictures on her phone and then realized there were none. She thought that her NEW phone had broken. Then, after a week or so a message appeared: "unsafe to remove card". Mmmmm... what could that mean? Next day, mom dropped the phone on the floor - accidentally, of course, just like every single time she has dropped it before (almost everyday). And the card juumped outside of the phone! Mom pushed it in place. A few days later, mom realized that she can save pics from the web on her phone. She saved the Teletubbies picture that Emmitt took while at his house. When mom was about to send the picture by email... Mmmmmm... how did all of this old pictures appeared again??? Duhhh mom!!! The card was not in place for almost a month!!! So the pictures from yesterday and today's posts are OLD.
I am sharing today a visit to West Elm, our favorite furniture store. Mom likes the style and colors, I like the fact that almost everything there is low enough for me to jump on. This store is not in a pet friendly mall but we were there already, and mom thought that if I can't go in, she would figure it out when someone from the store tells her so. I was proud of her because she is usually afraid to do that. Of course, nobody said a word. Either I am super charming, or the store is pet friendly indeed.

Working With The Snuggle Puggle

Boss,
This pictures may give the impression that I am not behaving good at work. That is not the case. My mother recently bought biodegradable poop bags for me. I thought, why not complete the whole recycle process? I now collect and process toilet paper, recycle it and finally make sure it ends up in a biodegradable package.

Wild Life

Hi Friends!
I know it is almost useless to post something today, since it's easier if I just tell you all this in person, but with all the fun going on at the Emmitt's house, I'd rather have you read this once you get back home.
BUT if you are reading this right now, please turn off your computer, get your swimsuit ready and tell your parents that you are going to "obedience school" NOW. Did you know that today's Harry's birthday? Don't feel sorry for him celebrating his birthday at school... hehe.

Friends, look at my new award! Nevis was so sweet to choose me, along with Salinger, as the cutest pugs around! Thank you! Now I have to choose two cute pugs. This is too hard!!! All of you are cute for me and my mother! But, if I still have to choose... mmmm... I will choose the couple of pug girls that are sun tanning with their colorful bikinis right now on Emmitt's backyard ! Let me get closer so I can sniff* who they are... :P



... It's Clemmie and Tweedles! Please make sure you click on their names, the link goes to my favorite picture of each of them, plus Tweedles' link has some details of what is going on right now in Colorado! Oh, did I mention that Clemmie is going to be a TV star tomorrow?

And before I forget, Tweedles was very kind to create an award a while ago and she told us that we could take it! Thank you Tweedles!



And speaking of cuteness, head over Dawn and Hera's blog. They played with us Pay it Forward, and I am completely sure that she will send super cute things your way if you play with them!

Well this post was going to be about something mom and dad did last weekend, but apparently I couldn't focus on the main subject - Hey Pearly-girly, another margarita? - and I don't even know if the title fits anymore... but who cares? So stay tuned for another post about wild life!

* some of my newest friends didn't know about my eyes... read my story on the side bar! Right there <------ under "My Life". But PLEASE don't feel sorry for me, I couldn't be any happier!