Thursday, October 16, 2008

It is on

The battle against random flea spottings is in full force. I am a complete bugaphobe, therefore the thought of them hiding in the sheets, carpet or on the cat gives me the eeby-jeebies. I'm trying to keep this "crisis" in perspective. Religious war, fleas, homelessness, fleas, and so on. It's not really working out. After the cat bath, another cat bath, multiple medicine applications, all kinds of carpet and furniture spraying and 2 of the grossest pills that make the fleas literally fall off dead, I decided to call in the big guns - Cooks Pest Control.

Michael, our lovely Cooks guy, said everything had to be off the floor for him to spray (not bomb). Clearly he's never been too far inside my house. Let's have a look:

Georgia's room before picking up. This looks good for her room actually.


Let's move on to Maggie's room. She is the master at making messes. Again, this looks good for her too.


There's her softball glove for all the playing catch we do in her room.

Off to the bonus room. I wish I'd taken a 'before' picture, but the 'after' should give you some idea of the magnitude of toys.
And my favorite, the coat/catch all closet upstairs. I didn't even bother here.

Back downstairs to the den. It wouldn't be a room in my house if miscellaneous junk wasn't everywhere.

It took forever to get this mess off the floor. Plus, we all -including the cat- had to leave for 2 hours for the spray. Instead of risking additional fleas at the vet, Kiki hung out at Brad's office. We dropped her off and split. Kind-of rude I know, but it was lunchtime - we had to eat.

The Cooks guy was only here for 20 minutes!! It took hours of cleaning up for a 20 minute visit. I forgot to mention I had to vacuum the entire house too. You know how often I vacuum the whole house at once? Never.

While I was at it I had Kiki shaved. Those little boogers weren't going to hide in her hair. Georgia lost her mind when she saw her. It was a great opportunity to talk about loving people (cats) for who they are on the inside vs the outside and blah, blah, blah, you know the rest.

Notice random item in floor - Cooks guy wasn't here that day.