Well, this was a day of mixed emotions!  I received my first Christmas present EVER today… and since I’m a dog and can’t read a calendar, I went ahead and opened it (even though my master tells me Christmas is still a week away… and something about I should have been good this year if I was going to receive gifts). 

I have been doing my research on this Christmas thing.  While Thomas is at work I catch the continuous running of A Christmas Story on tv.  Did you know you can actually go tour the house where they filmed this movie in Cleveland?!  That would be a cool trip.  I wish I could go but I’m told they don’t allow pets, which is a bummer considering they let hounds run through the kitchen during the movie.  I guess these hounds ruined it for everyone… since they ate the family’s turkey they now have a no pet policy.  Anyway… like I was saying, watch the movie and then go tour the house.  It’s your regular Ohio museum/gift shop tourist trap!

So here I am, all excited and nervous to see what’s in my first Christmas present…

And here’s my reaction to what’s inside the box when I open it…

And this leads us to why I brought up the movie A Christmas Story in the first place.  Do you see that look of confusion on my face that says “Why… why would someone get me this?!”  Well, this reminded me of a scene from the movie when Ralphie is opening Christmas gifts…

Yes, that look right there… that look says it all.  (And just so people don’t think I’m stealing photos and such from other websites I would like to give credit to Flickstounge.com for having so many good photos from the movie available).

Since Ralphie had to try his pink bunny suit on, you guessed it… here’s me in my new blue (UK Wildcats blue as Rebecca would point out) rain jacket.

So for those of you out there that are doing some last minute Christmas shopping for me, I still need an umbrella to go with my new rain gear.  I would like to go ahead and publicly thank Rebecca and Jill, a couple of Thomas’ coworkers, for the Christmas gift.  You shouldn’t have!  Don’t worry, even if I don’t like it, Thomas absolutely loves it and he’s probably praying for rain all the time now so he can make me wear this thing!  For those of you that need some gift ideas for me… Beggin’ Strips are just fine by me!

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