Guess what kind of day I am about to have? It is six in the morning, I am sitting in my bed, I am about to watch crazy screaming black people and trashy mouthy white ones on really bad tv, I am eating breakfast in bed and I do believe I will be still wearing these pj's tonite. That's right…Spod, bless his heart, is off to Vancouver yet again and I have a home alone day. What a guy. April needs help getting a load off to the dump.
She has now got the house all ready for the final packing and cleaning. The moving truck comes on Wednesday so Bill is taking over boxes and taking a final run to the dump for her. Also, he has the dogs with him.
Molly, yet again, needs her anal glands cleaned (?) squeezed (?) or something. If we don't get it done she gets horrible infections. And…she drags her butt all over the place. (shovel list) When we checked out what it would cost to do that and get their shots here in Victoria at a vets, compared to Atlas in Vancouver, we found the difference to be so great that its cheaper to take a ferry over and back. Seriously! Atlas is so cheap and fast and really really kind to the dogs. Plus the dogs know them and don't get so scared.
Well we moved a mountain in the garage. I will take some pictures. I emptied a whole metal shelf, threw out a ton and found my knives, uggs and a tiny tv. Its funny, each time I took the knife to slice open the tape on a new unopened box, I would feel excited, like opening a present, to find what was in the box. My labelling on the outside was sadly lacking and uninformative. I never knew what I would find. It was fun. Its such a good feeling to empty boxes. Anyway we emptied the truck and filled the shelf with April's things.
I sat down yesterday and gave this some thought. Right now, for the past 7 days we have had nobody living in our house except us. And when I thought back this is the very first time in all our 26 years, Spod and I are living all by ourselves in our house. We have never ever lived alone before. Now its only for a week and a half, but its a really strange experience!
We can do things that we have never ever done before….like I can walk naked from the bedroom, through the house to my bathroom. Naked! This is NOT something I would ever do when people are in the house…even if they weren't home! And when I do this even I close my eyes. And I can leave the bathroom door open whilst in use…to talk to Spod at the same time (Spod isn't allowed to do that though). I can keep the heat in the house at the level I like and not think about anyone else. We can thump and bang on the floor to our hearts content. We can yell at each other as loud and meanly as we like and not worry about upsetting the 'kids'. I can play my music as loud as possible without being judged on my selections.
But, all in all, I prefer having one of them downstairs. Its just more natural to me to have a kid around. And over the years of having one or the other living downstairs, we have learned how to leave each other alone at the right times.
There is one thing I do believe we will have to address. Spod drops things, on purpose. He can't bend over very far so anything he is 'placing' on the floor gets dropped from about four feet up. And because he is deaf, he has no idea how loud that is (nor does he particularly care…the darkside of Spod). Thus…we need to get a rug, a really big rug to put down on the bedroom floor. April's bedroom is right beneath us. As such, I have been not allowing Parker in the bedroom…to cut down on dog hairage. We have no carpet/rug anywhere in our houses because of that endless clouds of dog hair. But because we paid a fair amount for the wood flooring in here, Spod doesn't want to cover it. I mean really! If he was quiet, and didn't get up to go to the john five times a night, thumping all the way, it would be okay. So, Spod, I know you read this, I had a convo with April and we voted and you lost. Sorry! We will be rugging the bedroom…soon! You will love it though…it will be warm on your feet and you like that.
So I shall post this. Its getting too long. Next post I shall put in some pictures of the garage and also new ones of the living room. I finally caved in and embraced the native….things are very different in there now and I shall show that next post! TTYL
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