This Saturday Stephanie and I are getting a puppy!  It’s at my parents’ house right now.  Here’s a picture of Stephanie playing with her.  What Stephanie really wanted was a Norfolk Terrier or a Yorkshire Terrier.  We don’t know for sure what kind of puppy she is, but from looking at a book that has pictures of puppies of every breed of dog, we’re pretty sure that she is predominantly one of those two, which is amazing! :-)

We were thinking about names for her tonight.  I personally suck at naming things.  Last Valentine’s Day I built Stephanie a bear at Build-A-Bear Workshop.  When you’re done building your bear, you go to a computer and enter information, including the name of the bear.  I sat at that machine for at least thirty minutes.  I finally settled on “Mr. Hugs.”  Meanwhile about ten kids came through the computer terminals, thinking of names just fine.  They probably wondered what this old guy was doing just sitting at the computers in Build-A-Bear workshop.  And their parents were probably very unnerved by it too.

Back to the topic of puppy names.  We have narrowed it down to (in no particular order): August, D’arcy, and Pepper.  August because we are getting her in August, and because we started dating and got engaged in August.  D’arcy because: a) it is the name of a member of my favorite band (D’arcy Wretzky, bass player of The Smashing Pumpkins), and b) it is the name of Stephanie’s favorite male character in her favorite book (Mr. D’arcy from Pride And Prejudice).  And Pepper because Stephanie likes the idea of using the name of a spice/herb, and this was our mutual favorite.