Today began with a strength workout from Tina’s Best Body Boot Camp plan that, yet again, incorporated five minute spurts of cardio in between supersets.
Though I stuck to the treadmill for most of the cardio, I did the mini five minute circuit from yesterday’s Beat Boredom Interval Workout as one of the quick cardio pick-me-ups and was quite humbled. That little circuit kills me!
Sexy Beast?
When Ryan and I arrive home from the gym every morning, we like to ambush Sadie. She’s typically sprawled out on our bed in her sleepy morning glory, and we love running into the bedroom and watching her continue to lay there, but with her tail rapidly beating against the bed sheets.
Ryan headed into the bedroom ahead of me today calling out, “Hey there sexy beast!”
Um, what? Sexy beast?
“What did you just call her?” I asked.
“Sadie beast.”
I laughed, explaining that I thought he called our dog a sexy beast. Admittedly, we’re a little obsessed with Sadie, but I think referring to your dog as a sexy beast is a line even we aren’t willing to cross.
Although, if we polled the male dogs from the Baldwin Park dog park, I think we would find that we do, in fact, have a sexy beast on our hands.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning began with a hot mug of coffee.
My main meal included scrambled eggs made with a splash of milk, shredded cheese, onion, leftover roasted cauliflower and avocado.
Avocado made this bowl of basic scrambled eggs feel extra special.
Question of the Morning
- Do you have any unusual nicknames for your pet?
Sadie has a million nicknames, though Sexy Beast is not one of them. Off the top of my head, we call her Pooper, Poops, Sadie Baby, Princess, Wiggle Worm, Sadie Girl, Sades, Crazy Lady, Love Machine… the list goes on and on.
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I also have a Sadie whose names include Sadie Bear, Bear Bear (not sure why it has to be said twice), Beardy Bear (WTH?), Piggy, Piggy Poo, Piggy Bear, Miss Bear, etc.
Sadie hangs with a mini dachshund named Oscar whose names include Oscar Mayer, Wienie, Wieners, Mr. Wieners, Winky, Wienus, Wienie Man, Mr. Man, Mr. Smith and my favorite Oscar Mayer Wienie Smith.
Hi Julie,
I am from Niagara Falls, Canada and I am a big fan of your blog; I found your link on Pinterest about a month ago and have been hooked ever since! Sadie is adorable, (my hound Molly and I enjoy her stories!) I also really like your recipes, it’s handy to see a real person and what they eat as healthy meals and snacks, I have been working on maintaining a healthier lifestyle and am always looking for new food ideas.
Molly gets called: Baby Dawg, Baby Girl, Miss. Molly, Miss. M, Lil’ Miss Wiggle Butt, Lil’ Hound Dawg, “Hey girlfriend!” (My Mom busts that one out Oprah style)
I saw this article today about a sweet little boy and his ailing service dog and thought you and Sadie may enjoy the read . The boy has created a “Lick it List” for his pouch and is looking to reward his a dog with “Treats from all over the world” It’s an adorable story!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/manitoba-boy-thanks-dying-dog-lick-list-155207574.html
My Beagles’ name is Biscuits
I often call him Biskey — occ. Biskey Whiskey!! Or even just Bisk……or should that be with a ‘C’?????
I have a Maltese named Lexi but I usually call her “booger wooger” or “little booger” because she’s tiny.
I have 3. Gus, Ruby and Lucy.
Gus came with a full name “Gus the Swinger”… we don’t call him that. We call him Gus, Goose, Goose-topher, Gustav, Gooser, Gussy, Gus Gus.
Ruby we call Ru, Rubies Boobies, RuBu, Ruby the tongue.
Lucy (the crazy baby!) we call Lu, Lulu, Lucifer.
and ALL MY DOGS ARE SEXY lol…
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oh, and we ALSO Gus “Snarfalufagus” b/c he’s got a short nose and snarfs real loud when he eats. Plus it has “Gus” on the end 😀
This post made me laugh out loud at work!
We call our girls “toots”, “boogies” and “momma bears”.
Bella—I call her my “portabella mushroom”, “moo-moo”
Fleur—we call her “Flower” (Fleur is french for flower) or “Eor” (she always look like Eor)
Pearl-“Black Pearl”, ‘Peardle” (pronunciation from my young niece), “Pee Pee Pearl”, “Pepe le Pearl”
I have two dogs– a chow (Toby) and weimaraner (Birdie). We call Toby, Little Man and we call Birdie, Purdy Birdie! Birdie gets soooo excited when we call her Purdy Birdy! She’ll start running around in circles like she’s going to wear a hole in the floor!
My dog’s name is Kirby. Let’s see…where do I begin?
Puppernickel
Kirb
Kirb-e-doog
Dog-a-Log
Pupperdoodle
Kirbsicle
And the list goes on and on….
We have a large, double pawed, chubby cat named Hank that we affectionately call ‘Big Sexy’ 🙂
I have tons of nicknames for my dog!
His name is Rudy but I usually call him one of these names:
1. Roo
2. Little Lovey
3. Sugar Buggy
4. Kangarudy
5. Boo Boo
Our dog’s name is Max, but one day we stared calling him smooches ( he loves to give kisses) then it turned into mooches, and now we usually say mooch or nugget, or buddy. So many names for one dog!
My dog’s name is Scout, and he’s rather vocal. Makes noises when he yawns, stretches, wines EVERY single time he wants something so I started calling him Pouty Scouty.
Our bulldog’s name is Gus. I call my My Gus or Gussy and my husband calls him Gustavos.
Our dog Somkey, named after Smokey the Bear, comes to nearly anything: Smoke, Moke, Mokey, Mr Bear, Buddy, Simba, the mere sound of chopping vegetables on the cutting board…
It’s so easy to have many nicknames for dogs. I don’t think I’d want to call mine sexy beasts either!
We have two chocolate labs, Angel and Reagan. Angel gets called Ang, Angie, Angel Face, Babester and more. Reagan gets called Ray Ray, Ray, Stinky butt ( she gets into the smelliest stuff!) and more. I also call them Ang a doodle and Ray my noodle and my sister calls them dark and milk chocolate since Angel is lighter than Reagan.
Okay those pictures of Sadie have me CRACKING up – oh my gosh.
I have a mutt named Elvis but that’s probably what we call him the least! We also call him Derp, Derpy, Derpy Puppy, Pooper, Melvis, and Melbatoast. We also have a “Melvis Voice” for him that sounds really nerdy. I think we are obsessed with him! But I wouldn’t have it any other way 🙂
My cats name is Mr. Ben Affleck (my mother had a dream we got a dog named Mr. Ben Affleck so obviously we had to name our new kitten that) so I don'[t even think he needs a crazy nickname haha.
Love reading all the dog-people replies!
Our GSD/Belgian Malinois/Rottie mix is Roxie. More often than not, I call her one or more of the following:
Monster
Rox-Monster
Red-Roxer
Rox-inator
I also have a Vizsla with many nicknames. Her name is Ginger, but she is often called Ninja, Boo-Boo, and pretty girl, just to name a few.
We have a million names for our dog (actual name is Halo) – Mr. Velvet Ears, Little Doggie in the Way, Dr. Filth, Loey McBear, Bear, Mr. Loeinstein, Mr. Bear, Wiggle Butt, Breakdance Dog, Favorite Pup, little bear, dude-ster, Lo, Bear Bear, Cute-and-Fluff, Citey Bear. I know there are more but that’s all I can think of now. We must come up with a new one every week…
Haha! Sadie is adorable! I have so many nicknames for my pup too.
Hahah lately I’ve been loving extra on my little girl- she is just the cutest little dog and I just wanna squish her with love haha! My dog’s name is Dotti (although she is not spotty at all haha) and I call her Dotti, Dot, DotDot, Dottini and bubba haha.
Sadie’s captions made me laugh so hard. She is so adorable.
Haha sexy beast? Your blog made my day today! I have a beagle basset mix and we call her Bagel sometimes. Her name is Charlie, but the closest thing to her name (for a nickname) is Charchar or Charliebear. And I sometimes call her Bubbers. When she was a puppy we’d call her Bunnyboo because her “running” was more like hopping around looking like a bunny, floppy ears and all.
My dog Laney usually gets called “Laney dog” which my fiance thinks is hilarious. He keeps joking that one of these days I’m going to start calling him “Chris Human”.
I laughed so hard at this, I’m alway calling my dog jet a sexy beast. Especially since I was mean and made him wear a doggie Hawaiian shirt we got him as a dog child present on holiday. His shaggy hair sticks out the collar of the shirt and I could just imagine his sexy hula moves to the lady dogs, he is so cute and sexy they will all have little cute jet puppies.
I call my dog “Dorkus” or “Doofus”. His name is Deuce, which evolved into that somehow, and he responds to it!
I think it has something to do with him being a 70-lb dog that doesn’t know his own size.
hahha! I’m at work and just BURST out laughing @ Sadie’s captions. And everyone around me just stared. If only animals could realllly talk, I can only imagine what they would say!
Our older Coney has a bunch of nicknames- Coney Bananas (this one is best to say in an Oprah voice/style), Scoots, Boogers, Bean, Nugget, Scrup.
Our little puppy, named Biscuit, has far fewer- little pup and little nugget are really the only ones we say frequently.