Many Things

1. Today at 8 am our puppy Leroy went in to have his equipment dismantled. Benny has been very inquisitive as to exactly what is going on, and I refuse to tell him.

We keep having conversations like this:

Benny: Are they taking something out of him Mom?
Me: Yes.
Benny: Something he ate?
(He saw on The Dog Whisperer how some dog ate something and had to have it removed with an operation)
Me: No.
Benny: Something that's making him sick?
Me: No.
Benny: Well is he sick?
Me: Well he's going to be sick for a few days.
Benny: Why?
Me: I'm sorry, I don't want to bring this topic out into the light and dandle it on our knees. Go play with your magnets, child.

2. The man came and cleaned the carpet. Which means we can't go in the living room. The carpet is now SPARKLING AND LOVELY! All signs of puppies and children are gone. Hooray! Dan is ecstatic. He almost went so far as to have the suede chaise lounge cleaned but he isn't that much of an optimist. Not even standing in the glow of a freshly laundered carpet.

3. The man came and examined the strange nail holes that emerged in our perfectly painted den when the siding guys were hammering on the outside. Someone who plasters things is going to come tomorrow and fix it. Looks like it will have to be repainted. GREAT.

4. For mother's day I got a giant, heated, thumping machine that I can lie on and have it massage my back in the evening. It's GREAT and it doesn't even look much like a vibrator. Maybe a vibrator for a yeti. I also got a maid service! HOORAY! Not regular, but Dan will suffer them to come into the house on ONE OCCASION and clean it thoroughly, which is fine. He can't abide the thought of strangers touching our things -- I say this with complete lack of understanding or empathy, but apparently it is a real feeling that he does actually have. Whatever. They're coming AT LEAST ONCE!

5. Dan stayed home from work today because of the various exciting things going on and now we're sitting at our computers with Benny at his computer in the middle, trying to freak him out with spooky whistling. I miss when Dan worked from home.