Two Left Feet

My second oldest sister also has a pug and one of our favorite discussion topics is our dogs (obviously). One day she asked me if either Sunny or Rosy ever walked with legs on the same side moving in the same direction because her pug walks funny like that. Actually she said it in a way less clear manner and I just thought she was talking crazy talk. It was only a few weeks later as I was walking my dogs and watching Sunny sashay down the sidewalk that I realized what my sister meant. Sunny walks normally sometimes but most of the times she does this rolling sashay that is caused by her walking with her left and right legs moving in the same direction on each side. My mom calls it Sunny's "sexy walk."

All dogs have two left feet of course, but some just move in different ways! Sashay, Shantay!

The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side

Sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side.  And it just needs some pug pee on it to kill the grass and turn it yellow.

I am having fun with the sketchbook app again.  In some ways it's easier than doing it on paper but in other ways it's harder and takes longer.

Beat Me To The Punch

This is the idiom I mangled the worst and I did this at work too! I started to say this idiom but at the same time my brain was shouting, "Whoa! Stop! You don't know how this sentence ends!" And yet I stumbled forward and mumbled, "Oh, you beat me to the...uh...the um...time...frame? Yeah, not even close. And this was in a voice message so the recipient of this horrible message can replay it over and over again while laughing and mocking my stupidity.

This is a perfect example of how I keep forgetting idioms and yet as I'm talking my tongue is trying to let them slip out but my brain just isn't fast enough to stop it.

This idiom is weird anyways. Why would you want to beat me to the punch? Unless we're talking about fruit punch. With some chips and cookies.

Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth

And now I'm back to doing idioms. As in my conversations with other people, I can never resist an idiom that pops into my head. But unlike in my conversations, I usually don't mangle the idioms in my drawings (mostly because I Google them beforehand to make sure I got them right).

So here's putting your foot in your mouth, which I do all too often, but slightly less as I get older and try to think more before speaking. Sunny also puts her foot (paw) in her mouth all the time. Literally. These late summer allergies have her licking her paws a lot.

Lend Me A Hand

Any time my pug is sleepy (which is 80% of the time) if my hand or arm strays anywhere near her chin she will plop her chin down and trap me as her chin rest. Of course since I'm wrapped around her little paw I will stay frozen as her chin rest until she moves usually.

Peeping Pug

Sometimes when I'm getting changed Sunny comes into my room and just watches me. She's my little peeping Tom pug, see?

My little stalker watches my every step...

Two Pugs Passing in The Night

Today Sunny and I ran into another pug during our evening walk.  They spotted each other about 20 feet apart and both stood and stared at the other, with one paw frozen mid-air.  This lasted for a few minutes and then Sunny started moving forward in slow motion.  Step.  Step.  Step.  Finally, Sunny ended the stare-off and sprinted towards the other pug and they did their intros (aka butt sniffs).  This is how Sunny approaches all dogs she's intrigued by (especially pugs), but I loved seeing another pug do the exact same thing at the same time!  I knew I had to draw this and then the phrase "two ships passing in the night" just popped into my head.  So here are two pugs passing in the night, each doing the frozen stop and stare, with a paw up.

Dog Days of Summer

Holy moly this east coast heat wave is killing me and Sunny!  Neither of us handles heat very well and so we're just trying to stay in air conditioning as much as possible until it gets a teensy bit cooler later this week. 

On The Fence

This lil pug is on the fence about something.  I'm sure she'll pick whichever side has more food.

No Room to Swing a Cat

Pug is testing the room size.  She wants to make sure she has enough room to swing a cat.  If she doesn't, then that would be bad news for that poor cat suspended in air, so let's hope she's in a spacious area.

Apple of My Eye

It's been a while since I've done an idiom drawing.  In the meantime, I have mangled many just in my day to day conversations with people (why do I keep trying to use them when I know I always mess them up?).  Anyways, today I wanted to draw the apple of my eye - my lil pug!

When Pugs Fly

You know that saying, "when pigs fly"? How much awesomer would it be if it were when pugs fly? Just replace the "i" with a "u"! If that ever happened in real life I would so be out there with the largest net I could find and capture as many flying pugs as I could!

Oh and because this is also for this week's Illustration Friday theme (vocal), I added some pug sound effects (which interestingly is probably very similar to the noises pigs make).

Out On A Limb

I don't think pug is so comfortable up in a tree.

Piece of Cake!

It's a piece of cake!  Of course a piece of cake is easy.  Just a little slice.  The real challenge is the rest of the cake.  Eating it or resisting it.  Both are hard and yet rewarding in their own way.

I'm Keeping An Eye On You

Oh Sunny and bunny.  I don't think you quite get this idiom.

Cat Got Your Tongue?

Yeth.

It Takes Two To Tango

Drink Like A Fish

These fish yielded to temptation. Temptation of the bottle. You know technically in real life fish don't drink alcohol.  I just wanted to make that perfectly clear.  But if they did, I bet they'd be mean drunks.  

Driving Someone Up A Wall

Driving someone up a wall!  I get this.  Lots of things and people frustrate and annoy me.  I'm pleasant like that.  For some reason anytime I think of a kid or animal driving a car, my mind immediately jumps to the Phantom Tollbooth car.  I LOVED that book as a kid.  

Head Over Heels

I always thought the phrase "head over heels" odd.  Our heads are always over our heels!  In that case, I am always head over heels.  Head over heels for all!