Shmoopy
Friday, October 15 2004
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I held the left side of the camera and Jon held the right side and pressed the button, so technically he took this photo. This was taken right before we left the honeymoon lodge, after champagne.
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1. Michelle S. said:
May the newly renewed, happily champagned couple please smile for the camera. It is great to see that you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend...you deserved it so much!
2. anna said:
Wooooo! Kissin'! Purty trees! A smokin' husband!
Nothing more than you deserve, my dear.
3. Angie said:
Looks like the end sequence of a very romantic movie, although I'm sure it was actually the start of some very enjoyable procedures!
4. Liz said:
Terribly sweet.
5. Anne said:
Aw, shucks. I finally got caught up on your story through the archives and I'm glad things are getting better. Looks like a well-deserved respite for you two.
I'll have to check out the Nikon D70. Or you guys must have long arms, because there's none of that blurry, fish-eye look about this self-portrait.
6. patricia said:
Why is it that otherwise sensible people who know its impolite to offer unsolicited advice irl think its ok when its flooding your inbox?
7. kEma said:
Lovely picturesque scenery, dooce! wink wink
You both deserved some rest. I am glad you had fun :)
8. Chloe said:
But... did you know about bitter apple spray??? Hee. You got a lot of unsolicited advice in your comments too, I generally read through all of them when I see the daily picture (unless there's, like, 30 bazillion of them). I can only imagine the inbox onslought (did I spell that right?).
Anyway, awwww. You can tell john has longer arms than you because the picture is pulled slightly towards him. Or, it's just from when he pushed the button. Either way, awwwww.
9. espressocrazedboy said:
It looks like you two are on the roof!!!
10. Carrie said:
So cute. And the scenery is unbelievable.
11. Karen said:
You and John look so HAPPY!!!
12. stella said:
What a fucking fabulous picture of two people who are fucking brilliant and beautiful, inside and out.
I was going to write yesterday and say my dog does the exact. same. thing. only she strews the tissues Everywhere. fuck all those motherfuckers with their advice.
and no, I don't live in a truckstop with all of that swearing (although you'd never know)
13. Heather said:
I'm guilty of sending an email but it was just a word of warning about Leta getting big enough to rampage and destroy through the house with Chuck, just like I used to do with my childhood puppy. Good times.
14. Shana said:
what a sweet photo!
the funny thing is that just as I was clicking on this photo, love shack came on in the mashup I'm listening to.
15. Fish said:
Dooce, you gotta stop putting pictures of your husband on this thing for a little while. It's for your own protection--haven't you noticed all of the sex-starved women that are not-so-secretly lusting after him?
16. Michael said:
Champagne is good. Now cut out all the folderol, go right on home, and wipe that baby's nose! You'll get the hang of it with enough practice.
17. LT said:
OK, what are you doing to me, here? You're making me miss Utah.
18. coolbeans said:
What a sweet and romantic picture. You're totally adorable.
19. the mighty jimbo said:
dammit. i'm jealous. my self-portraits never include any tongue action.
20. kim said:
i want my man, too. i haven't had the chance to kiss him since january.. i want kisses!! and as far as i'm concerned utah would be just fine..
21. penelope said:
Muchas schmoochas. You guys look very much in love.
22. Melissa said:
Funny - we spell it Schmoopie at our house.
23. Lisa said:
Funny, I had a dream last night that I would email some tips from my dog trainer, but then I woke up thinking, Dooce won't want any unsolicited advice. Amazing how all things doggly creep into my subconscious/unconscious.
On the subject at hand, this is a beautiful picture of a beautiful couple (with an awesome dog and baby girl)!
24. Daniel said:
Get a room!
Daniel
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25. shaunacat said:
Glad to see that someone else also takes self portraits of themselves while smooching. Hubby and I are soooo guilty of this. What can I say? I like pictures where I'm being kissed by a hottie. Sheesh!
26. Michelle said:
Gorgeous!
My 18-month-old daughter screams bloody murder every time I dress her. This morning I told her to "get used to it" because she would be enduring this particular torture for the rest of my life.
I hope I don't get unsolicited advice about this cruel treatment of my child.
27. Laurel825 said:
That is the kind of picture everyone hopes to find one day of their parents or grandparents. ;)
28. Michelle said:
I meant the rest of *her* life. Freudian slip?
29. hayley said:
sometimes jon looks like david duchovney (sp?). a furrier version, though.
30. Julie said:
What? Drinking and kissing in broad daylight? What awful parents you are! This can only lead to . . . dancing.
31. red said:
so cute. i want to clone him.
32. midwifegoddessannie said:
Fish you are right.. I never realised how sex starved I am until I kept seeing pictures of Jon....
Jon are you coming to Australia any time soon?
We NEED more computer geeks with proven bloodlines over here!!
33. Mary said:
Lovely.
34. Cora's mommy said:
That picture just screams, "love".
Very nice.
35. Gabriel Mihalache said:
Oh! No! My innocent eyes! Now I'm forever scared by this authentic display of emotion...
It's nice to find a site rated PIL (for "people in love" ;)
36. Mike said:
Great photo and Seinfeld reference!
37. Insanity Infusion said:
Isn't it nice to find time for a real kiss, albeit even if you're taking a picture of it for the Internet, where you don't have to worry about a crying baby interrupting it? or having it delayed because you've got to do x, y, or z either with the baby or around the house because the baby was sleeping?
But when you do get that good kiss in, you can live off that energy and the memory of that kiss for hours, like you just drank a gallon of espresso.
38. Laurie said:
"No you're shmoopy!"
"No YOU'RE shmoopy!"
I miss Seinfeld....
Laurie
39. sab said:
Love is in the air, everywhere I look around.....
40. jennifer said:
its hard to have both people looking good in a kissing photo without accidental tongue or cross eyes. you have triumphed!
41. Sara said:
Didn't mean to overstep boundries or rub folks the wrong way with my UNSOLICITED "advice" about Chuck. I work with dogs so I shot off without thinking.... apologies abound! (I was absent the day they covered blogging ettiquette.) Open mouth, insert foot, swallow knee..... translated as "I'll shut up now"
42. Jazzy said:
The love exudes from that photo. Keep on keepin on! You guys are awesome.
43. Heatheranne said:
That's a great picture. I have a picture like that with my hubby and me kissing by the ocean, except I look like a total dork. You look good.
44. Carrie said:
Ohhhhh! Lovin'! Yeah! That is such a sweet picture! :)
45. julie said:
I have a similar picture of my boyfriend and I we took ontop of the eiffel tower :) i love photos like that
46. SuMMer said:
Whenever my gf and I take kissy-face pictures, we always manage to cut off the top of my head. I'm tall for a girl(5'10"), and she's 5'3". I guess it would make more sense for the taller person to hold the camera...
ANYWAY...you guys warm the heart on such a cold day. And screw all of those people with their unsolicited advice. You seem like you've raised a mighty fine dog AND a mighty fine baby so far.
47. Michael said:
That's a very neat idea to both hold the camera to take the picture. I'll have to try that with my wife, or maybe I'll use a tripod. Now that's an idea! Let's see, now where can I find a neat background with cool trees and stuff. Hmmmm. ;O)
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48. di said:
awesome shot! my husband and i take photos like this all the time and this just makes me want to travel somewhere and take another!
49. Sarah said:
I think part of the reason that they have such great success with the self-photo is that they're fantastically tall people and thus have long arms with which to distance the camera. Not at all like my own little sticks that produce lovely self-portraits of my nose.
50. sarcastic journalist said:
I did that and then a baby popped out.
51. Shiz said:
Beautiful!
My husband was in SLC recently and with his photos and stories I want to go now, too!
52. Emily said:
Awwww. Now I want a weekend away!
And a new camera.
53. Romi said:
you guys are so awesomely awesome.
54. Lovisa said:
What a lovely picture!
55. merleb said:
wait, right AFTER you had champagne, but BEFORE you left the lodge -- as in "driving?" Looks nice, but you are going to get drinking/driving hate mail.
56. katy said:
My cat does the same thing with the bathroom tissue when I leave him alone all day and go to work. So, I feel for you. I always figured it was my cat's way of telling me he didn't much appreciate being left behind. I liked the Chuck story; it made me laugh.
57. Darcie said:
Leta's going to love that photo someday.
I'm right with you on the period/meds issue. When I have PMS, I always think I'm sliding back into PPD darkness and then, ta-da! Soon as my period is gone, I'm back to "normal."
58. Lindsey said:
Awwwwwwwwe!
59. heathabee said:
i can't handle the cuteness!
60. Andreah said:
Oh, that unsolicited advice is called assvice. You got a whole lotta assvice.
Anyhoo, lovely picture, you are totally sucking face because you are totally in love. Nice.
61. Wendy said:
I don't have a husband or a baby or a dog. Yet this makes me uniquely qualified to offer you unsolicited advice- so here goes:
Drink bourbon and watch jeopardy, yell at kleenex and stuffed animals, put clothes on your child, kiss your husband, eat doritos, wrap spaghetti around your dogs nose, and for gods sakes woman, document all of it in words and pictures!
Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, comments and email to Dooce are a priviledge that have been taken away before.
So to you all know-it-alls out there ask yourselves this question before you fire off an unsolicited missive: Would I really want someone I don't know flooding my email with "helpful" scolding and advice?
Rock on, Dooce. Rock on!
62. amy said:
Ahh, but people love you and feel they are part of your world, giving wisdom or advice comes naturally I'm afraid. They just care.
Hear you on the PMS stuff.. this month was not pretty over here either.
63. Amy said:
I'm sorry about my advice from yesterday, about the peanut-butter kong and bitter apple--I'll refrain from giving any in the future! Just wanted to help. We used to have a dog that destroyed things, and I know how frustrating it can be.
Lovely photo today!
64. ella's ma said:
I love smoochie pics! This makes me wish more than ever that I was no longer breastfeeding and the hubby and I could enjoy a weekend alone in San Francisco.
Oh the reconvention that would be done....
65. tiffany said:
Last night between the hours of 2 and 4 am, my dog and my toddler took turns in a coordinated attack on my sanity. First, the baby cried because his "diaper spilled", so I stumbled to his room and changed him. Then the dog started having a seizure. Then the baby cried for a bottle even though he hasn't needed a bottle in the middle of the night for months. I got him a sippy cup and went to check on the dog, who crawled into my lap and puked all over my nightgown. As I was changing clothes and trying not to barf from the smell, the baby caught on that I had given him water instead of milk. I managed to wash my hands and find a clean bottle to put milk into, just in time for the dog have another seizure, being the selfish, inconsiderate epileptic that he is. Then the baby wanted a blanket, or as we call it at 3 am, a goddamned motherfucking blanket. I got him a blanket and crawled back to bed, but had a hard time falling asleep because the dog spent the next 45 minutes making horrible licky, mmmm yum I just vomitted so I'm going to lick my lips for fourty-five minutes noise.
I was almost asleep - O sleep! - when I heard my husband say, in a clearly annoyed voice: "What was all THAT about?"
Stab stab stab.
66. beachgal said:
I don't think dooce minded the advice in the comments as much as she did all the email she apparantly got. I'm thinking people were getting rude with some of the things she described as doing, and I don't recall that so much in the comments.
Anywho....wonderful picture....You guys are obviously so in love.
67. mrs.jack said:
Big ups (I feel so urban) on not getting a mammoth amount of arm in your self picture. Mr. Jack and I always seem to have the bottom of our faces and gargantuan amounts of arm in ours. I'm glad you both were able to reconnect with nature, each other, and being in love. I think when seeking peace and reassurance, time away is almost as good as looking at things retrospect.
P.S. I so agree with the unwanted advice. It was actually a good reminder to me (who has recently developed the habit of believing she KNOWS all) that our opinion isn't always necessary or needed. So thanks! Because of your #13 I might actually NOT give my opinion to the next person. (We can only hope!)
Have a good weekend.
68. Dez said:
Damn, yelling at the chewed up things works? Wish I would have known that when my parents' dogs chewed up all the underwear out of the laundry. File that for when we get a dog.
Sandy and Tipsy (above mentioned underwear bandits) used to chew entire rolls of toilet paper off the roll, not just out of the garbage. My stepdad worked from home and they were horribly spoiled about being with him 95% of the time, so when he had to go somewhere he couldn't take them, they got awfully bitter. Trust me, people who are saying Dooce is a bad Dogmommy, they all do it when they get pissed off at you. I don't think it happens as much if they're used to being left while you're at work all day. But if someone's almost always at home, being left is a bit more of a big deal.
69. Dana said:
Hard to believe such a nice looking couple can be so cruel to innocent animals and children.
[kidding...kidding]
my dogs have chewed everything we own practically.
70. jenn said:
what a great picture. it is so wonderful to see how strong you two are with all that has been going on in your lives. You are truly blessed!
71. ck said:
do you by any chance have a twin sister who lives in columbus, oh? i just saw a dooce body double at chipotle. cah-razy. i wish i had had my camera with me!
nice pic btw!
72. Elizabeth said:
Actually, I went to a Chris Zink seminar (author of some great dog training books) and she demonstrated this yelling thing for correcting dogs who were too lazy to jump bar jumps cleanly -- getting down on the floor and scolding the living daylights out of the fallen bar. Or, for dogs that would like to lay down on sit-stays, to prop up a stuffed animal on the dog and when the dog lies down, (it should be sitting) the stuffed animal falls over -- then you go and scold the stuffed animal for breaking position, rather than the dog. And basically, the dog thinks that it would just be better not to see you have a nutty and take it out on poor defenseless pieces of equipment or stuffed animals. I haven't had to try it myself, but it's definitely a classic training method. So, no advice, just adding a round of applause to your chosen method of dealing.
73. Carny Asada said:
It's true: There *is* porn on the Internet!
Something for everyone in this picture: Those who love guys, those who love girls, those who love trees, and those who love drinkin'.
74. maxigumee said:
OH my gosh. You guys are so CUTE!
75. nikki said:
There's just no way the sky can actually be that color. It almost makes everything I hate about Utah melt away. Almost.
76. Mindy said:
2 Points:
#1 Hubba Hubba!!
#2 Do people not ready that you really really do not want any advice???
77. jenn said:
anything for cats that puke trails when pissed (certainly better than the reverse)? i'm sure it's the result of pure provocation (all tests scream "otherwise healthy"). great photo, great site.
78. thesoulofhope said:
Aw!
79. Peter Hentges said:
Hey! Knock it off! We want to know what George is up to!
80. Gordon said:
*Barf*
81. Beverly said:
Great picture! I'm loving your hair.
82. Margi said:
Keep THAT sort of shenanigans up and you'll end up with another one!
Just kiddin'.
Quit looking at me like that!
83. Mish said:
just looking at you two fills me w/ love and a wee little bit of jealousy b/c you are both so damn hot together!!
84. DeAnn said:
That picture is love. Seriously. You just look at it and know that it says love, what with the joint picture taking and the snuggliness of it all.
85. Aspenchick said:
The cutest of all cuteness.
86. suey said:
'mon-- isn't Leta ready to be a big sister ;)
87. Leon said:
Am I the only person that finds it impossible to take a picture of myself with a camera and not look as though the rocket boosters affixed to my butt have just been ignited?
.....perhaps it's just bitterness because my purdy girl won't submit to having her picture taken with me whilst making with the smooch
grr grr grumble grumble
88. 3xMommy said:
Oh my gosh, that is sooo romantic! It reminds me of the time (how long ago? lol) that my husband (he *still* gives me tingles) surprised me and came home early from work (on a thursday no less) to whisk me away (literally) on a hot air balloon ride, complete with champagne, that he had secretly arranged without my even suspecting (with three kids to chase after I'm not usually thinking romance) We had such a wonderful time. He even arranged for his parents to take the kids for the weekend so when the balloon landed and my heart was out of my throat we could go to this darling bed and breakfast nestled in the catskills. So decadent! I hope you had a wonderful time getting to know each other again after the baby. It is so important to find the time to do things like that. I'm not just talking about extravagant balloon rides but also small things, indeed like sharing a pop tart in the morning or a bottle and a half of Makers Mark (lol) at the end of a long day.
89. DG said:
Leon! Arf! :)
90. Kim said:
and sometime AFTER reconvening the procedure some more!
91. Liz said:
Shmoopy! No, you're shmoopy! No, you're shmoopy!
92. cassandra said:
You are truly a kick. I love that you leave your daughter alone in a burning room with sharp objects and porn, with vodka, and your pictures are great. I wish you nothing but effortless bowel movements in the future and keep up the good work.
93. ksea said:
My gosh you're such a pretty couple.