For years we’ve begged the WSA to give us a puppy. Our budget always read something like this:

$10 – Pens, Legal Pads
$25 – Sorority Boys DVD
$300 – Tropical Fruit Gushers
$57 – PUPPY!!! pleasepleaseplease

The SBC would always say we didn’t know what kind of responsibility a puppy is. Who was going to feed him twice a day? They said we would lose interest like with the Slip ‘n’ Slide and the Megazord and leave them to clean up when it shit all over the living room and they just had the carpet shampooed and had a hard day at the office and didn’t need another thing to drink about.

At budget hearings, we refined our argument: “We’ll takes real good care of him! We’ll walk him every day we pwomise!!!” Then Ted would usually stamp around for about 10 minutes.

Well, we finally wore them down. The Ampersand got a puppy. WE NAMED HIM GRUFFLES. Here’s what Gruffles and us did this week.

The happiest boy and girl in the world,

Katie and Johann