I debated about sharing this. Honestly, there's a huge part of me that wanted to just ignore it all until I forgot about it. But then I figured, what the heck... if this isn't the perfect example of "real life" then I don't know what is!
Last Friday we got new carpet upstairs*. It was a long time coming and I was very excited about it. That doesn't mean it wasn't a gigantic hassle. It was loud and the dogs were freaked and our house was torn apart. But NEW CARPET!!!
We got through the installation and my parents came up to help make beds and get us back to "livable". We crashed for the night surrounded by the slightly nauseating smell of new carpet.
At around 4:10 AM we were woken by the tell-tale sound of a dog vomiting. We didn't even make it 12 hours. Sigh...
We got up in the morning, cursed our luck - and our dog, and drank some coffee while admiring our new carpet in the sitting area of our bedroom. We had early football (and snack duty) - and it was raining - so there was much prep work getting ready for the day. Bob brought me up a breakfast shake - chocolate (which is important) - while I was finishing up getting ready. I set my full glass of chocolate shake on the side table for a second so I could turn off the TV and proceeded to knock it over. All of it. All over the BRAND NEW CARPET. Seriously people... I can't make this up.
I was mortified. I figure maybe the only thing that would have been worse to spill on brand new greyish-beigish carpet would be red wine. It was 7:30 AM and I might have been better off with red wine. We sopped up the mess, but really didn't have time to mess with it much. I sprayed and scrubbed until I ran out of carpet cleaner, then left with a depressing gigantic brown spot smack in the middle of our new flooring. Sob.
Believe it or not today is the first evening I've had a chance to attempt to actually get the stain up. It required the purchase of a new rug scrubber. (If anyone's interested the Bissel Revolution Pet Pro is pretty awesome.)
So yeah... this is the universe's way of reminding me that I can't have nice things. And we now have the ability to scrub a wide variety of nastiness. Come to think of it, with 4 boys and 2 dogs, it now seems kind of crazy that we didn't already have a good rug scrubber, right???
Have a happy week everyone! Saturday Zane plays in his first football playoff game (lose and out) and Spencer has a lacrosse game. Then we are all heading to the part to help run a "Learn to Lacrosse" community event. Thankfully it's supposed to be in the mid-70s! Sunday is Select Lacrosse team evaluations - say a little prayer that Quinn does well. He's up for the Senior Select team this year.
*In another awesome(?) example of "things are always harder than they should be" they didn't order enough carpet for the stairs. So we have this awesome (not - at all) look going on with new carpet upstairs and nasty, dirty, gross carpet up the stairs. Safe to say we'll not be hosting Better Homes and Gardens again this month...
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