This is my first time seeing Coco since late November 2016, which is literally nine months ago. She came along with my parents to the airport when they came to pick me up from O’Hare, and she actually recognized me walking up to the car and literally leaped out of the car when I opened the door to get in.

If you can’t tell, yes, Coco is also a Yorkshire terrier, just like Mango. But, Coco is a lot older – she’s no longer a baby – so her hair has fully gone through the color-changing process, so she is tan and silver instead of black. But yes, when she was younger, she was indeed much darker.

I don’t really eat that much. I value bodily fitness, and because I don’t really move around as much as I used to, I eat proportionately less. Body fat reserves are related directly to excess calories in versus calories out, and there’s no reason for anyone to eat if they haven’t expended those calories during the day.

As a result, I’ll end up doing some insane things when I feel like I have a calorie overdose. For example, if I spend the entire day seated, I will only eat enough so that I have sufficient calories for sedentary, passive burn, and not more. If I notice that my belly is increasing in size, I’ll skip a few meals in a row in order to extract from fat reserves. I don’t abide by the conventional breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals; instead, I eat small meals whenever I’m hungry.

Ed … Ed is very much not like that.

Ed follows a very routine eating schedule of all three meals per day, at particular times throughout the day.

On the day that I took the photo above, I was meeting up with Ed to go get some food at a restaurant. Even though he had already eaten breakfast that day, he was apparently still very hungry because it was past his lunch time.

He expressed his hunger by curling up into a ball and laying on the ground. As you can see, Coco showed some concern for Ed’s well-being.

A little over half a year ago, I had to take care of my family’s Yorkshire Terrier for a week while my par­ents were out of the country on a trip. The same thing is happening again starting now for the next two weeks, which means I’ll be spending all my time with our dog Coco.

This also means that, during this time, I’ll be watching the family business on my own. We own a laundro­mat, so Coco will be in the office area a majority of the time. Laying around and doing nothing all day isn’t exactly the most healthy thing a dog can do, so I will be bringing her over to the martial arts academy next door where I train, so she’ll be able to run around.

This is Coco right before going to martial arts:

And this is Coco right after coming back from martial arts, exhausted and sleeping: