It was a bit of a crazy end of year for us again - ended up getting an extra few days off of school due to terrible weather and roads again! I got quite a bit done but it never seems like enough for some reason, and we had family and friends over at New Years Eve and we had lots of fun.
We survived the Hub and Bub of Christmas and the New Year, but when the snow and ice finally settled, we did not survive Ike and Brix first day home alone!!
It had been about a month since the "boys" had been left alone for any length of time - maybe an hour here or there - but not for a whole day. Brix does fine no matter - Ike not so much!
I had called Hubby to see if he got home or if I needed to come let dogs out between my work and my hockey game? "If you want to be happy wherever you are going, do not come home!"
I asked how bad it was? Ill clean it up when I get home I said. "Days! It will take days for you to get it cleaned up!"
I was greeted with this:
Ike has learned to open the paddle handle doors that we have all over the house and he likes to "play" with my things!
He dragged all of the extra cushions and storage items out from under the bed. Chewed up a few of them.
That is an entire "my Pillow" (not the small ones) that he chewed up and left all strewn over the stairs and the living room! The fillling in this pillow took the longest to clean up! It sticks to everything! Great pillows though!
And a chair that he had to pull out from behind the door and another chair?!?
And.... all of my reading and writing materials, notes, notebooks....etc
That in the bottom of the above picture is a brand new window shade (luckily not an expensive one) that I had leaned against the wall ready to install! Trashed!
I am working on putting my writing prompts and some of my gardening information that I had saved, back together in some semblance of order. There is a lot missing, and hopefully my old brain will remember what I needed for each folder/project!
There is plenty left to keep me busy working on for about my whole lifetime in this box still. It started out as two boxes. I guess he maybe was doing me a favor by making me go through some of this stuff, but.... wasnt ready to see some of it again yet.
But the very worst part - the absolute worst is this:
Yes - those are teeth marks on my laptop! My one year old laptop!!!
And one of the hinge covers is gone and Im not chasing poop to get it back! I havent found but two small pieces of the mouse that went with this! Pretty sure he ate the rest!
And there it is.... not even the spinning wheel of death! Just the poor sad Dell insignia and the obvious broken screen! Pretty sure he used his giant front paws and jumped up and down on the top of it! I can totally see him doing that!
I have had a few people ask if the dog is still alive? He is.
Trying to change the sheets on the bed after most of the mess was cleaned up. Ike tries to help.
It did not take me days to clean it all up - other than the paperwork that I had to go through. I was up until midnight on a work night getting it some semblance though. It did take me a few days to calm down and to see that the "baby dog" really still is a baby dog and he just got started and couldnt stop!
Fortunately, the laptop that I replaced with this one, that had just froze and didn't seem to be able to be unfrozen, I tried to turn it on and it came on and did a giant update and I am using it now as I type! I had to make a few changes to it but it has just about everytiug that was on the dead one and so far so good!
I hope that your New Year is prosperous and everything you need it to be, and if you have messes to clean I hope they are easy.
Blessed be and mess free be!
