Eau de Dog... a.k.a... P.U.!!

I live in a bipartisan house, with the majority of my family and friends (and husband!) leaning in a different political direction than I do. Because of that, I don't talk politics much. But seeing how such an important decision was made last night, I feel the need to say a few things now. (Mike, bear with me..) America is great for many reasons, one of those reasons being the right to freely choose who we want to lead our country. We all have different opinions of who that should be and how it should be done.. as is our right. But it comes down to this.. Only one person can be elected by the people and it is up to us to support that person and let our voices be heard, whether they are Democratic, Republican, Independent, white, black, hispanic, or asian, to unite as one and democratically resolve our differences. I personally am thrilled with the outcome of last night, I truly feel that America is headed in the right direction and that Mr. Obama has the potential to be one of our greatest leaders. I know a lot of you feel differently, and that is good! We need the difference of opinions, skepticism, and cautiousness to constantly challenge what decisions are to come. One person cannot do it alone, we need everyone to become a participant. As Mike said earlier today, we need a "check and balances", and he is right. Let us all unite behind our new president-elect, and support him for he has a daunting task ahead of him, without losing our ideals and beliefs of what is right and wrong. Let ALL our voices be heard, and lets look forward to the future and what is to come! By the way, if you didn't catch Obama's acceptance speech last night, you really should watch it.. It was amazing.

OK, I'm done with all the seriousness now.. Now on to the title of this post... the dog. Why do dogs have to stink so much? The older Fezzik gets the stinkier he becomes.. I have no idea why. His flatulence is unbelievable. Seriously, we'll be sitting there enjoying our evening when WHAMMO! out of nowhere you can't even breathe because the air becomes so foul from his gas. And the burping, incredible! He seems to take pride in coming up to your face and just as you lean down to give him a loving pat, BURP! Disgusting. In general he just stinks more. We have been giving him baths but they only seem to last a week or two... Are all dogs like this when they get older? He will be 6 in a couple months and is starting to show a few signs of age. His beard is getting grayer. He lays around a lot more. All this I expected, but the stink! It's disgusting. We are going to start to make appointments for him again at Petsmart to get bathed. Maybe the stuff they use will last longer. It's a good thing he is such an awesome dog, we love him unconditionally, stink and all. (however, it would be better if he would stop the farting! UGHH! How ironic, as I type this he just let another one fly... please excuse me while I sign off and go in the other room and gag.)