Blasting Evil-Doers with Borax

Bought my husband a Mac Mini, and an iPod photo. He says that he loves them even though he hasn't written anything about it on his site. He uses them both every waking hour possible so I guess that is proof enough for me.

Had my very first Take Your Kids To Work Day without any kids left home with me today. It only lasted two glorious hours though. The first part of the morning was spent getting pills from the vet for Marley. As soon as the kids went back to work with Terry at lunch I went and baked myself in some lovely smelling tanning oil pool-side. Nothing but my iPod, my bikini (yeah I wore it even though my belly is hideous, fuck it. I didn't do all that time in the hospital trying to stay alive so I could not have a tan on my belly because some assholes might think I am less than attractive for it), and a very large Iced Chai Latte. It looked like a Corona commercial for a glorious two hours. No snorkel adjustments, no hysterical crying when said snorkel adjustments aren't perfect, no breaking up fights, no "mom, they are splashing me!" No nothing. I SO deserve to get to do that more often. After all being me is hard work. I am working hard. Fighting off evil-doer fleas and creditors and dirty dishes, n' stuff is hard work. (that was my B*sh impression incase you haven't lived with me long enough to just automatically understand my jokes the way Terry does.)

So, I came back to the real world from that little wonderful vacation and spent the rest of the afternoon treating my carpets for fleas that may or may not be in my apartment. We saw two on Marley yesterday and are now on Red Alert for evil-doers. I am just a little freaked out over the concept of fleas so even though I hate the idea of giving the dogs chemicals to keep them bug free Marley has not only been treated with Frontline but now is also medicated with Capstar and bathed and bathed some more. Jake has a magic chemical force field we have carefully cultivated for the last eight months with timely Frontline applications, so he is cool. The whole house has now been dusted with some sort of all natural powdery Earth stuff and a whole box of Borax and I will be vacuuming at dawn. Well...not dawn actually. You know me better than that! We are on South Florida time, remember?

Meanwhile, Marley peed in the house twice today. This after she had been accident free for one whole day. She went once on the carpet after having eaten a half dozen ice cubes out on the balcony which was super funny and once in her crate after I pitched her in there so I could shampoo the carpet where she went. The girl just cannot hold her fluids. I swear to God if I hadn't just spent two hours becoming One with myself again I would have blown my fucking lid this afternoon.

Speaking of outrage, after all that, the president totally takes over The OC hour. One of the two exclusive hours per week I watch television. Pain in the ass.

Posted by gwendolyn on April 28, 2005 at 10:57 PM