Don't go in the mists!

Super foggy this morning. Really foggy! This week the news has announced that we are having a freak warm spell. How warm? High 70's this week. I love it. Well I love the afternoon about 1pm to about 5pm. It's warm, but I'm not sweaty, I'm not shivering. It's all good for this baby bear. So what happens when you get a freak warm spell? Well you spend the first 2 hours after you drop your kid off at school vacuuming the living room, until you pull up only carpet fuzz, and no dust. Then you pull out the steam cleaner and have go at. Use up all the Bissel cleaning solution until you have no choice, but to use Simple Green, and not the industrial stuff, because that really needs to be diluted. Bitch out your significant other for using boiling water at the last cleaning session, causing the spout to the inner bladder melt off. Find a vac repair shop that has the inner bladder. Finish rinsing the soap out of the carpet, rinse the container out well, no one wants to see the dirt from your carpet. Head out to the shop, get the guy to switch the bladder for you, head over to the Asian market and get some Gailan. Head back home, and watch your container fall off the counter as you put the clementines away. Wait for the kid to get back from school, head back to the repair shop. Thank the guy profusely as he switches the cracked container free of charge. Head back home, and spend an hour vacuuming the kid's room. (Why the kid can't figure out how to vacuum along the baseboards is another issue.) Make dinner and plan to steam the kid's bedroom. Thank goodness for Dyson. I don't care that Goof thinks it's overrated. It's not. Sucker works, as long as your significant other doesn't use it to suck up drywall or wood dust. Then it's back to the repair shop for maintenance. Oh and the roller brush doesn't get caught up with half your head of 2 + feet of hair. I'm tired of shedding.

Now it's morning and I'm waiting for the temperature to rise slightly. When it gets to 65* I'll start steam cleaning. Oh the hard part of the night? Blocking the entry ways into the living room, so your sweet dumb dogs don't run in and roll around on your clean slightly damp carpet. I don't have 6 baby gates. Maybe that should be an investment I make. Otherwise it was cases of soda, laundry baskets and a ripped up rolling duffel bag.