Well, for those of you who didn't already know, CC has finally returned from her Dallas trip. She and a group from her office went to Dallas to go through the training process for their new client. The idea is that once they've gone through training, they can then adapt that training for their workers in the Philippines. Unfortunately, that meant CC had to be in Dallas for a month and may still have to go to Manila in the future to impliment this training.
Anyway, I've been here by myself for almost a month. Yes, I have the dogs, but dogs, no matter how they behave, are not people. And while CC did manage to make it home twice during the month, she was only here for a day or two and I didn't get to see her nearly as much as I would have liked.
Naturally after being alone for a month, some of my habits shifted and now need to shift back. For example, the first night she was home I actually smacked her twice in the head rolling over. Just thumped my hand down on what was usually an empty pillow (dont' worry, she didn't wake up). Then a third time I rolled over, my hand landed in her hair. For the past month that's meant that a dog was sleeping there so what did I do? I scratched her head, gave it a pat and rolled back over (she didn't feel that either).
You should have SEEN the mountain of laundry we had this weekend. My clothes plus her clothes is usually plenty but neither of us has been doing laundry as regularly as before so we both had larger than normal loads. There was a good 3 foot high pile of it waiting for our attention. On the plus side though, CC's going to do the ironing. Bless her heart, I HATE ironing. So good to have her back :-)
Dishes are now getting used up. With me working and her not home most of the dishes were cereal bowls and spoons. I tended to eat leftovers and that didn't always mean using dishes. If I had a sandwich for lunch/dinner at work it was usually too big so I cut it in half and have the rest later. That doesn't really require a dish.
Anyway we're all much happier having her home. Yes it will take a little time to adjust to sharing the apartment again but it's a whole lot less lonely now. Even the dogs are a little happier. They'll be even happier still when they realize tomorrow that they won't have to wait until 9 at night for their evening walk. :-)
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We hired the new bather at the shop and she's been trained. You know what that means? TREE DAY WEEKENDS! That's right, with the new bather on the schedule it means we're going to 4 day work weeks. Let me tell you, 3 day weekends ROCK. Usually at least one full day of the weekend gets eaten up by things you HAVE to do. There are just too many chores that build up through the work week and you never have time to do them except on the weekend. That's pretty normal. That leaves you with just one day for leisure right? Just one day to spend time with the family or see a movie or whatever. Ah, but with a three day weekend, you can have it all :-) One day for chores, one day for family and one day to just goof off and do whatever you want. Got to love that :-)
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You will recall from the last post that our vacuum cleaner broke. Learned about that design flaw with the pet hair. What a pain in the butt. Well, not to worry, I went out and got a new vacuum cleaner. Spent quite a bit of time on it in fact. I went through every cleaner in my price range, turned them over and checked the bar to see how well it was capped. I don't want a repeat of what happened with the Dirt Devil.
Saw some really nice machines that were WAY too expensive. Some of these things look so powerful you could use them to vacuum the parking lot. Maybe one day we'll get one like that and not have to worry about replacing it. But for now, back to reality :-)
Picked up a vacuum by Euro Pro. They're the folks who make The Shark, that little rechargable carpet sweeper thing. So far it works great and has some pretty nice features. The handle telescopes which makes it perfect for shorter people like CC and I. You can just adjust the handle to fit you. The canister on it is also easier to empty. It's got a bottom hatch instead of just the usual top opening so all that dust that goes flying everywhere just sinks down into the garbage can instead. And the filters are less likely to clog with pet hair beacuse they've got a mesh screen over them.
In addition to all these nice features, our new machine also came with one of those little Shark carpet sweepers. So it was like getting two for one. We'll use the little one on the floors in the laundry room and bathroom and kitchen and the bigger one on the carpets. So far it's working out great. :-)
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