unsolicited advice from the me of now to the me of 36 hours ago:for the love of god, don't feed the dogs a whole bunch of burned pancakes. they will appear to like them very much (far more than you would have thought, given the pancakes' horrid gummy burned off-puttingness), but you will not appreciate getting woken up early by a frantic pug who will proceed to vomit off and on all day.
worse, she will want to sit on your lap constantly for the first 7 hours or so and will make whimpering, snortering grunts at regular intervals and will thus break your heart.
actually, i should be giving advice to the me of even longer ago - don't make those pancakes, dummy! have you ever eaten anything from that cookbook that was good? no? why don't you go ahead and burn it. 