Balance

I had a great day yesterday visiting with my family, smoochin' on the younguns, and eating yummy stuff. It was a better than average day and I really enjoyed myself. This morning though, or more correctly, last night, the universe balanced the scale.

This morning I woke up thinking again how nice it is to not have to listen to an alarm clock. How much more balanced and in control my life feels when I'm not racing out the door to a job that I just don't really think needs me most days.

I got up. Both cats were circling my legs, meowing for breakfast. They were really hungry, I suppose, because Blaze brought a mouse in last night, threw it down, and I presume they spent all night chasing it. The dog was nowhere to be found though, which is unusual. I come in the living room and there's shit on the rug. The dog is laying on the loveseat looking terrorized.

Bless her heart, she's really good about not crapping in the house and she gets really upset when someone does. I put her out the front door to get her away from it and to let her know I wasn't mad at her. I was pretty sure it wasn't dog ka-ka anyway.

Then I proceeded to the kitchen. Before I made it there I discovered a dried up puddle of bile. Into the kitchen and I found a pile of lightly digested catfood. By this point I was calming myself with thoughts of some day not having cats in the house.

I opened the cabinet to get the Simple Green out and there was sawdust flung everywhere. WTF? A closer inspection revealed that one of our rodent pets had chewed through the box of Rid-X and apparently turned it into an amusement park attraction. When he got done he left me one big mouse turd on top of the can of Bar Keeper's Friend cleanser. Someone is going to die today.

I managed to get all the offal cleaned up only to discover that one of the cats had finished their marathon on the couch. The cover is in the spin cycle now, but I've still got to mix some stuff to spray the couch with. Hopefully the smell will come out. If not, there may be the added aroma of fresh cat blood. Maybe I should reserve some of that Rid-X. It looks like it would absorb fluid well.

Anyway, off to deconstruct the amusement park under the kitchen sink and figure out what we're going to do today.