Me: I came over to visit my schnooky puppy an’ snuddle her little puppy self and kiss her puppy nose.
Mumsy: Why are you like this?
Me: Oh, hey, Mumsy, you should do a guest review on my blog!
Mumsy: No.
Me: Yes! Mumsy, you should! What about all those reviews you do on GoodReads and LibraryThing? I could just–
Mumsy: No! They’re no good!
Me: Oh, Mumsy. The bar that has been set by me is oh so very very low.
Mumsy: Oh I don’t want to.
Me: Come on! It’ll be fun! I’ll be all, Heeeeeeere’s Mumsy! And that’ll be you, you’re Mumsy! I could post your review of the leper colony book.
Mumsy: Did you want to read that, by the way?
Me: No. I hate lepers.
Mumsy: *moment of thinking I’m serious*
Me: I’m going to talk baby talk to the puppy until you agree to do a guest review on my blog. Ready? Oh, she be a snuddly puppy, I puts her on my lap and I snuddles her affeshonately, cause she have a puppy face and she sniff me wid her puppy nose. She likes it when I rubs her belly meat. I sit wid the baby and I rub her belly meat cause that’s when she be happy. Oh she’s so–
Mumsy: I’m leaving.
Me: And I loves to scoop up the baby puppy – holy crap this dog is heavy – and follow my mommy around her house. Cause we likes our mommy, doesn’t we, baby puppy, cause she have pretty curly hair and she–
Mumsy: I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU TO MOVE AWAY.
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Haha! Poor Mumsy. 🙂 But yay for us who get to read the guest post!
Well, I asked her before to do it, and she wouldn’t agree. I wouldn’t have had to break out the big guns if she’d just agreed to it straightaway.
You crack me up 😀
I always enjoy the comments your mother leaves you (and felt honoured that I got a Mumsy comment of my own on my EBB & EB post!) and can’t wait for the guest review.
I LOVE Nymeth’s blog. I’m just sayin’.
My mumsy loves EBB & RB. Every two months or so since I introduced those letters to her, she’s read through them all over again. She cannot resist them. 🙂
Mumsy – Everybody loves her blog. She is agreed by many to be an Extremely Detrimental Blog to those of us trying to winnow down our TBR lists.
Bwahahaha! Oh, I needed that this afternoon, thank you. I’m excited for (and jealous of) the guest review; I think it would take miles more badgering than just continuous puppy-voice to get either of my parents to write a review.
You say that now, but you have not heard my puppy voice. In addition to saying really nauseating things, as you see, I talk in a really nauseating voice. Its annoying qualities cannot be appreciated on the words alone. Plus, my mother already writes reviews, and she posts them on LibraryThing, so I think the fact of them being around already makes it easy for her to do a guest review.
She’s not exagerrating at all. Seriously, I only heard her puppy voice when she was first beginning to develop it, and it was pretty awful then. And I have great confidence in her ability to make it even more nauseating. Her skills at making her voice nauseating are very impressive.
Too funny! I am looking forward to a Mumsy guest post. Do you think if we leave enough comments here that would encourage her to do it sooner?
YES! Well, it depends. She said I can go through her LibraryThing reviews and pick my favorite (I picked a favorite but haven’t told her yet), but I am also hoping she will write one special just for us. We’ll see!
You and your powers of persuasion. Looking forward to the guest post!
Yeah, I’m pretty persuasive when I go for the hard sell. 😀
Jen? Your baby-talk to the puppy (which, btw, how big is she now?) is disturbingly similar to Gollum. Just sayin’
also: belly meat? Seriously? Belly meat? Why couldn’t you just go with bobbums, or something?
She’s pretty big. She’s nearly as big as Brenna. And my puppy-talk only looks like it sounds like Gollum. My puppy-voice is completely unlike Gollum’s. And I didn’t make up “belly meat”! Ms. Trish did! I was trying to be as bad as possible, but in my defense, I did not invent the phrase “belly meat”.
Hee hee hee! Now I miss my dog.
Aw! 😦 I am going to miss this puppy when I go away for the summer.
Mumsy sounds a bit cold. I like that. 😀
Hahahahaha, but I know that she will secretly miss me when I go away. I’m totally her favorite daughter.
So fun! 🙂
I certainly enjoyed it. *evil grin*
😀
I love the comment about Gollum! Very apt!
No but really, if you could hear my puppy voice – I have a special puppy voice as well as the puppy baby talk – you would see, it hardly sounds like Gollum at all. Though I will grant you the syntax is similar. 😛
Mumsy definitely needs to do a guest review!
She has agreed! At first I was just going to take one she’d already written for LibraryThing (I may still do that TOO), but last time we talked she said she might write a whole new one. 🙂
I could totally see my mom and I having a conversation like this. Thanks for brightening my day!
You’re welcome! Though I suspect the puppy voice would not have worked if my mother didn’t already secretly yearn to do a guest review on my blog. (YES YOU DID MUMSY DO NOT DENY IT xoxo love your favorite daughter Jenny)
Man, I love your conversations! And that you call your mum Mumsy. I call mine Mumsie; same pronunciation (I assume), but a slightly different spelling.
Do you really? I thought I was the only one! We do it because my friend had this British friend in high school, and he got frustrated with American stereotypes of Brits, I guess? And he told her “It’s not all teacakes in the garden with Mumsy and James the Butler, you know!” I thought it was funny and started calling her that all the time. 😉
My reason is less awesome, unfortunately. I just like to give people silly nicknames. I call my mother Mumsie and my father Padre. Collectively, I call them Family. As in, “Hola, Family, what are y’all doing tomorrow?”
LOL I want your mom to do a guest post! I call my mom so many different things…mumsy, mamochka, mamacita, etc., etc.
She’s making noises about reviewing one of her cool theology books. She got a master’s degree in pastoral theology and has loads of interesting books about women and feminism and religion. I’m hoping she’ll do it, she is so full of interesting knowledge. 🙂
Ha! I just had a flashback to my sister bugging my mom for something when we were kids— mom, mommy, ma, mama… Ah, memories. 🙂
Mm, yeah, my sisters and I sort of still do that. Sometimes! A bit! But only because my mother acts like she’s listening and then tunes us out! 😛
Hilarious! Your mother put up a good fight, didn’t she? But she probably knew it was all up quite early in… I usually know with my son. 🙂
I think she secretly wanted to do a guest review. And was shy. Or possibly she really has only agreed to this so I will stop pestering her. It’s difficult to say.
SO looking forward to Mumsy’s review! Yea MUMSY!!
Bonus: From what she’s said (she may change her mind), I’m anticipating it will be a review of a very good Women Unbound sort of book. Yay, I love that challenge and I feel like I have been neglecting it this month.
LOL – that is awesome! 😀
Haha, thanks! 🙂
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Oooh, thanks for the new phrases of the baby-talk language. I’m going to try them out on the cat, who gets her share of silly baby-talk.
More importantly, I never though of using this language “motivationally” on third parties! Brilliant!
You are WELCOME. The word “snuddle” is my own invention, but the puppy voice and most of its phrases came from a family friend. I jokingly imitated her puppy voice for so long it became my default way of talking to puppies. Whoops.
nice.. very nice 🙂