Yuppers, that’s right, the tote bag came in today! See:

This is their small size and Mom’s laptop barely fits it sideways. So Mom will probably not be carrying her laptop in it, but books yes and other stuffs too. Over all I likes it. The print quality came out pretty good, although I am bummed that the border on the pictures in the logo isn’t checkered like the image Mom submitted,but solid. Guess it was too fine a detail for them to see? But really, for a free bag, this is awesome.

That wasn’t all that came in the mail today! Mom also got a second catalogs from Red Envelope advertising their corporate holiday gift ideas. We’re still not sure how she got on their mailing list. It would make sense if Grandma was getting it, ’cause she gets a lot of magazines and catalogs for businesses and supplies and stuffs, but not Mom. Most of the stuff there is just really out of Mom’s price range to be giving as “business gifts” too. But, it does have pretty stuff and Mom gives it to Grandma so she can get ideas.

The other real gem in the mailbox was a letter from a friend of Mom. The human-woman seems nice, I only met her once briefly ’cause she lives out of town. But anyway, she won a free gift card to Petco from a raffle she entered, and since she no have furry-friends, she gave it to Mom! Mom was happy to get the letter ’cause she hasn’t heard from her friend in a while and it had pictures in it. I was happy with the giftcard – free food!!! I can’t wait ’till Mom goes shopping again.

Mom has used Vistaprint to order address labels, a mouse pad, and business cards for herself. She’s also bought a deposit ink stamper, personalized magnets, t-shirts, and pens for Grandma’s business too. Right nows, they have a special going on where you can get everything (that’s part of the promo)for $0 and you just pay the shipping. Inbox Dollars members get $5 for ordering. You can picks from pens, tote bags, mouse pads, business cards, calendars, invitations, and more right now. And of course, if your shipping is less then $5, well then you pretty much gots it for free, right? Right.

Mommy decided to get herself a new tote bag and she used the logo she had made for the blog (’cause Mom’s advertised us a few times with fellow furry-bloggers ’round here!) and the logo has both a picture of me and my sister. Here’s a shrunk down version of the logo:

Now, when Mom goes out somewhere she’ll have both me and my sister with her. Isn’t that awesome? The tote bag should arrive in a week or so. When it does I’ll be sure to take pictures and post here!

ETA: Mom would like me say that she really likes Vistaprint and Inbox Dollars, and if any of your humans have questions about either, please feel free to post ‘em here or email us and she’ll answer ‘em for you if she can.

But today Mom took me! And it was so exciting because she took me with her to Petco, a place I’ve actually always wanted to goes before but never got to. The reason I’ve always wanted ta go with Mom before is ’cause they have treats that they give to the furbabies that come with their Moms and Dads. Today was my first times going and it was very fun and the treats I got were so yummy too.

The trip was almost ruined though by this crazy-nosey human who thought it was her business to tell my Mom what she should and should nots be feeding me. And no, she was not a worker there. She commented on Mom’s food choice (which I like just fines, thank you very much), saying that she should find something more healthy for me that had muscle builder stuff (don’t only dogs have to worry about that anyway?) and how she should put me on a diet. Then she made comments about how MY MOM must not care that much about me if she didn’t even knows better then to buy the brand of food she was buying. That was just not nice. And she called me FAT! Grrr!

Mom thanked her very nicely for her, as Mom said, “unsolicited opinion” – I’m not really sure what that meant, but boy did that human’s face turn a funny color – and then Mom told her that “she would like to return the favor” and Mom advised the human that she “might want to consider avoiding offering her opinions where they are not wanted, lest she find herself on the receiving end of a more physical response”. The rude human turned a little pale and looked like she was gonna say or do something nasty so I let out a little growl at her and she backed up and left me and Mom alone after that.

When we were leaving the store we saw her annoying some other lady who had a little doggy with her. She had pamphlets and was waving them in the woman’s face. I hope the store people stopped her and kicked her out after that.

Mom says she can’t go anywheres without running into weirdos. I thinks she may be right about that after all.

You see, she had a bunch of coupons to make grocery shopping easier, but she’s run into a bit of a problem. It seems like a lot of stores aren’t accepting or honoring coupons, even if they come from the merchant. Mommy had coupons chips, drinks, breakfast meat stuff, cereal, and a lot of other stuff. They’re all legitimate, even have barcodes so the cashier can run them over their barcode scanner, and come from signing up from online members clubs and stuff. Well, for some reason a lot stores aren’t taking them. Albertson’s grocery store will take some, but mostly just coupons they issue from their ads and stuff.

Wal-Mart seems to be the only place Mommy can get to accept coupons anymore.

Thankfully, the ones she had for canned cat food and some dry cat food were accepted. They’re from Special Kitty and Purina, and the Purina ones aren’t being accepted at Petco, Albertson’s, K-Mart, or Target around here either.

Poor Mommy, she tries to save some money and her efforts are being hampered. Some other humans on Twitter have mentioned having the same problems as well. Are any of your humans running into this?

When we went out shopping I managed to sneak a few pictures of things I wanted. Mommy’s camera card did something funny though and most of the pictures were lost. Including the pictures I took of the light displays we saw on the way home! But the picture I took of one outfit I really want was still there thankfully:

It was so soft and warm. And it has a hood and, you can’t see it, but there is this cute little fluff-ball on top of the hood that I thought would be fun to play with. I really want it! Another outfit I saw, which you can kinda see in this picture, was pink and had skulls, lightening bolts and said “Rock Star”. So cute! I’m cute, Mommy will buy it for me, right?

There were lots of other things too that I saw that were cute. There was this one set that had leg warmers and a scarf for pets. I wanted one and I think Mommy planned on buying it right then and there for me too but she couldn’t find a small enough size for me. If I’d tried to wear the smallest size they had there they would have looked like breeches on me. There was a size perfect for Denali, but Denali hates things on her paws and legs so she wouldn’t have worn them.

Mommy bundled me up in a nice warm sweater of mine and got me some blankets and off we went to do some shopping. I would have taken pictures of the sights we saw but with all the rain everything looked very gloomy.

First stop was the grocery store where Mommy failed to buy anything that was warm, ready to eat, and smelled yummy. How she could fail in this I do not understand as Albertson’s has very yummy-nummy chicken there and I love chicken. But she failed this task.

Next she went to this place called The Dollar General which is a very odd name to me. Here she bought more stuff, none of which smelled at all interesting. One bag though jingled. It made sounds just like some of our mousie-toys! When I tried to get into the bag to investigate I was scolded and placed back in the front passenger seat while the bag got put in the backseat. Mommy said “Bad Isis, not until Christmas”. So I think whatever is in the bag is my Christmas present! What do you all think Mommy got me this year? Toy mice, toys stuffed with catnip, little balls? Whatever it is it has bells on them! Oh, I can’t wait to see what it is!

On the way home Mommy took the “freeway” so we would get home faster. There were some new (to me) billboards up. Billboards are those big signs on the roads that humans use to tell traveling humans the strangest things. There was one that said “….something…medical travel Mexico…something something”. I didn’t get to catch it all because of the other humans blocking my view and the speed Mommy was going. I just thought it was silly given all of the bad things that humans are doing in Ciudad-Juarez, Mexico right now. We hear about them all the time on the news. Scary place that. Kitties, do not go to Juarez right now, it’s just not safe for anyone.

Ugh, unfortunately I can’t take full credit for that awesome song. Teh original is about a doggie and is called “That Doggie in the Window“.

For the past week, one of the Old Man’s friends has been coming by every single day and mooching off of teh humans. Mom makes a lunch that he invites himself to and then he gets the Old Man to take him places. Today he had to go food shopping. Yesterday it was stuff for his horses. Yeah, he made the Old Man take him to get horse supplies. And it wasn’t just a little bit of stuff neither. It was a lot of stuff, that’s why he wanted the Old Man to take him. ‘Cause he has a big truck.

I still don’t know why the Old Man is doing all this stuff for teh Moocher though. It confuses me. He has a car and sometimes someone brings him here. So why?

Today he saw Isis sitting in the window and said she looked pretty. Isis loved that. She started purring loud enough to be heard outside. So not fair. When he saw me he tried to chase me off the property. Said I looked like a stray! Isis just laughed.

She laughed until he asked teh Old Man if he was willing to get rid of her. He wanted to know if Isis was for sale! I think the Old Man was considering it too, ’cause sometimes Isis is really snooty with him, but Mom came out. He asked Mom if she wanted to get rid of Isis.

Her reaction was scary. The sky got all dark and Mom’s voice was all sinister and evil sounding. And her eyes. *shivers* Mom’s scary. I’ll never get her mad again.

He should have asked me. I’d have let him take Isis. More food for me!

I might have missed her a little wittle bit, maybe. Don’t tell Isis that though. She’s spooked thinking people want to sell her!