let’s play “what color is the carpet?”
Monday, December 14th, 2009
When I got home on Friday, there was a rug doctor sitting in my living room. The eager-beaver handyman with Popeye forearms featured in the ads was nowhere to be seen. We moved all the furniture in the living room and set the kids to work vacuuming and cleaning the filthy molding. I gave Mo a soapy cloth to wash the woodwork, and she did a fantastic job up to about 3 1/2 feet.
Then we shampooed the rug, pausing every other row to empty the dirty water. Dumping this water was the most satisfying activity ever. The water was black and it felt like I was exorcising all the bad spirits from my house.
Now I can lay face down on the carpet to do the cobra pose and not have a sneezing fit.