Don't scare me like that, Martha!

Matt brought in the mail and placed my share--bills, offers, a magazine--beside me on the couch. Hooray! A magazine! Ooh, the spine tells me it's the November issue of Martha Stewart Living. I've been waiting for this! Yipp--AURGH WHATTHEHELL?!



A freaking chow! *shiver* I know their owners love them and they love their owners, but I have spent enough time with chow chows to know we do not get along. At least not as friends or roommates. I've had my feet, ankles, and trousers bitten more than I like. I love dogs, but chows are little bastards.

Of course I'm quite thick, so I really thought this was her cover choice for November. It took me much longer than I'm willing to admit to realize that oh, maybe pets wouldn't be the focal point of the November issue of a home magazine--there might be more, let's say "seasonal" subjects to address. Yeah, duh, it's just one of those fancy upside-down back covers, to make the special pet section even more special. As if it has its very own devoted issue of Martha Stewart Living instead of a few pages. Martha knows her chows will be impossible to live with if she doesn't kiss up to them in print once in a while. Fortunately, dogs are not geniuses, and they are easily fooled by the upside-down back cover trick. For much longer than I am, so just shutup okay?

Fortunately my giant human brain figured out the cover illusion (eventually). So now I'm super excited to dig into the issue dedicated (mostly) to my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. Thanks, Martha! Chow Chow crisis: overcome.