First Puggy sorry for your loss. I know you didn’t want to hear it, but that’s the way we are about stuff like this. I know you were expecting it but it still doesn’t make it any easier.
And Bobbio takes a commanding lead in the race for the coveted most TMI post of the week award !
I bought candy. Lots of candy. Not even ONE little snotnosed candy beggar showed up! Good thing I like Hershey’s minis and caramel kisses. On the up side, I don’t need to go hit the after Hallowe’en candy sales this year. Somebody got caught snoopin’ in my kitchen cabinets and drawers lookin’ for special darks. Fooled him! I hid 'em in the laundry room. HAH! But, of course, I shared anyways.
donkeybear I love the Waffle House. An order of scattered, covered and smothered is one of the greatest post drunk foods ever invented.
And in the grand tradition of the MMP, may I offer a puke post??
It’s finally light around here, and I was making my way to the bedroom to get a squirt of hand lotion. I happened to look by the loveseat in the living room and spotted something out of place.
One of our critters puked on the carpet. The light, cream-colored carpet. Dark reddish brown puke. Swell. It was quite cold, so it wasn’t a fresh deposit. So I used a paper towel to get the worst of it up, then came back with a soapy washcloth and scrubbed. Next, I got out our “Green Machine” mini carpet cleaner thingie. The squirty function doesn’t work - I think a tube may be clogged - so I took off the cleaner solution reservoir and poured a little of the stuff on the offensive area. Then I used the scrubby feature to scrub the carpet, and finally switched to the extractor function to suck up all the soapy residue I think I got it all up, but until it dries, I won’t know for sure.
Incidentally, I suspect the dog.
Gee, I hope no one was having breakfast while reading this…
Got a e-mail from my sister-in-law; she had cig-smoking, beer-breath-breathing, 6 foot tall trick or treaters last night. She gave them candy anyway - in her neighborhood she would wake up to find her tires slashed if she didn’t. What’s the cut-off age for trick or treating?
Thank you for all the condolences. This one has really knocked me for a loop. A puppy would help but Mr. Anachi would probably divorce me. He’s taking it hard, too.
We ended up with about 100 beggers before I turned out the lights. It was eight and I wanted to sit down and eat dinnner without interruptions. Plus the other dogs were darned near inside out from barking every time the doorbell rang.
This was actually down from previous years. We used to have a family a couple of doors down that did an exceptional haunted house every year but they got a divorce and sold the house. It may be that fewer people are drawn to the neighborhood now.
What is the attraction of carpeting for the pukin critters? I’ve seen mine actually move from the tile to the carpet before letting go. I use the Woolite oxy spray to clean mine and it works like a charm.
I wish I didn’t have to work today. I’d rather be lounging with a good book. Plus I’m tired for no good reason.
I miss my doggie but I am SO GLAD not to have to clean up pet puke any more!
I am sitting home alone with two heaping bags of Halloween candy. Somebody please. Help me now.
I was browsing through my photos to find one with my eyebrow up for the eyebrow thread. I found some of us on vacation, so I thought I’d share. Now that it’s winter and yucky outside, Here is Ellen and Baby Cherry on the Beach
Let’s see, swampy, before I look at your link, I know from memory that there is:
Scattered (obvious)
Covered (cheese)
Smothered (onions)
Chunked (ham)
Diced (tomatoes)
Capped (mushrooms)
Peppered (jalapenos)
and Topped (chili)
Yeah, critters like to befoul the carpet. Not even two weeks ago, our furry face kid had a sudden attack of the barfs. Our carpet is ugly enough that they could have put some in Martha Stewart’s cell for some extra psychological torment, but we don’t want to be looking at puke stains until we can afford to replace it, so we roll out the carpet cleaner.
If you have pets, I strongly recommend one of the Hoover Dual V-Power SpinScrub SteamVac (or some such collection of words!) carpet cleaners. They go for around $250-300, but just having one on hand so you can go from barf to clean and drying in ten minutes is priceless. Ours also has the added benefit of getting the carpet much dryer than “professional” services. Oddly, the Bissel “fiber cleaning” shampoo (it’s in a blue bottle) seems to work better than the Hoover stuff. But the Hoover machine is better than Bissel.
Once you have one of these machines, you’ll also be able to clean your carpets every six months and be stunned at the black muck that comes out.
On the candy front, we only had around 40 or 50 kids, so we’ve got a lot of leftover candy.
Mr. Lissar has just fainted twice at work and is being taken to the hospital. He called and told me to try not to worry. We don’t know what’s wrong, but I hope it’s just exhaustion or something. I’m waiting for him to phone and let me know if I should go up to meet him.
Prayers and good thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
Is Mr. Lissar hypoglycemic? I haven’t yet passed out from a sugar crash, but it’s come close a couple of times. Best wishes for him…
Y’all remember back in July when I went to Michigan for a job interview? Finally, just today, I got a biteme letter from them. Took them long enough, because when September closed out without an offer, I pretty much wrote them off anyway…
Has this happened to him before, LIssa? I hope he’s OK. I’m offering a prayer!
I just had some leftover pork loin with Baby Cherry for lunch. I used to be vegetarian, but I got wore out in this houseful of meateaters. I’ll go back eventually. but anyway, if you’re inclined to eat meat, and didn’t note it when I mentioned it before–marianate a pork loin in Lawry’s Steak & Chop marinade overnight and then roast it. People will swoon.
My husband will only go to Waffle House once per decade. He says it takes him that long to forget the awfulness. I think it’s sort of a good/awful, as opposed to an awful/awful, but he claims Plain Awful.
Oh and I thought ‘glazed doughnut monster’ is traceable back to the early comedy days of Bill Cosby. But: cookies for everyone, anyway!
Well, Ellensaid she had pork loin with Baby Cherry for lunch. Also, she said she was trying not to eat the leftover Halloween candy. Just sayin’ is all.
VunderBob, I think I might know what you’re referring to in the glazed doughnut arena. Sometimes bodily fluids dry in a certain way, and you start to resemble glazed pastry.
Or so I hear.
Lissla, even though you’ve got backup husbands, I hope your real one is okay.
