Casualties of the dog

Last night, in a humane effort towards our dog Goose, we let the dog sleep inside the enclosed garage. I went through the entire garage looking for anything food related (or that would smell like food, even if it wasn't food) and thought I had found everything--a box of Cheerios.

Goose was excited to come inside and it all started out nicely enough. In fact, after an initial round of sniff the place down, he laid down by the door and conked out. We went to bed.

Apparently that is when the party began. By morning, the following casualties were found strewn all over the garage floor:

• 4 cans of organic tea, 1 opened and the other 3 salvageable.
• The remains of either a mini Oreos or Chips Ahoy travel container--all that was left was the white package and the lid. No cookies or wrapper to be found.
• A completely empty bag of cough drops, missing one side of the bag.
• Countless papers and some shipping size envelopes
• 2 sweaters that had been in the "donate" pile--don't know if he tried to wear them or not.
• Various other piece of plastic and paper remains that were too small to identify
• A partially opened box for an automatic air freshner (maybe he was trying to hide the scent of his sins?)
• 5 travel baby wipes packages, 3 of which were opened (maybe he tried to clean up the mess?)

Needless to say, I was NOT HAPPY with the mess. However, I did say a thankful prayer that after ingesting or trying to ingest all of that....there was not any OTHER type of dog messes to be found. However, I am pretty sure that his stomach was giving him fits because he pretty much bolted out the door and the entire garage smelled like a herd of teenage boys had been there about an hour after eating loads of pepperoni pizza.

He may get a stark reminder of what is like to be CRATED tonight, because it will once again be too cold for him to stay outside.

PS...ANYONE NEED A DOG????

Seriously, it was NOT ME!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Well, lets just get right to the point...

It was Not Me who stayed in her pajamas all day yesterday, including when I made a quick trip around the corner to the local store to buy some extra papers.

It was Not Me who went sans bra for that above mentioned endeavor either!

It was Not Me who ventured out in the cold to buy several extra papers because I am addicted to using/trading coupons and there were some GREAT coupons in the paper!

It was Not Me who did a happy dance in the bed this morning that would make any school age kid proud after I realized that work was cancelled today because of snow.

It also was Not Me who went outside on the deck for a few minutes this morning in only my pajamas while also toting along my 2 year old in only his pajamas, just so we could holler (nice stuff) at the neighbor girls about the snow. However, it was me that giggled with my son when the flakes were hitting us gently on the face.

It was Not Me who forgot to give our son one of his Christmas presents and finally realized the mistake this morning. It was me who promptly gave him the gift and helped him learn all the ways to make it work.

It was Not Me who wanted to kick my husband out of the house when he got a little stir crazy over the weekend.

It really was Not Me who cleaned the bathroom over the weekend using a cleaner that demands using a vented fan (which we don't have) or opening a window while it was less than 38 degrees outside.

Thus, it also was Not Me who turned our bathroom and bedroom into a freezer. (at least it was clean!)

And, um, errr, it also was Not Me who forgot to pick up the one item my husband requested from the store. It also was Not Me who knew I should have gone to get that item as soon as he called to request it because I knew I would forget to walk across the store for it later.

It is snowing! (sort of)

It is snowing here. In case you don't know, this doesn't happen in Arkansas very often. When it does snow here, we never know if we will get the good wet accumulating make a snowman type of snow or if we will get the its pretty to watch fall but doesn't accumulate or make a snowball at all snow. For the past 12 hours or so, we have been getting the latter. Some areas north of us got the other kind. They are throwing snowballs and making snowmen. We are just watching it fall wishing we could make snowballs and snowmen. I can't complain though. The place where I work has a liberal policy about inclement weather. When the school district closes, we are closed. So, today, when the local school districs chose to not take a chance of buses, kids, and parents sliding into school....I got a snow day as well. I call these types of snow days a bonus day. We can't go out and enjoy the snow, but we do get to stay home and enjoy an unexpected day to relax, play, and cross things off the "to do" list. Oh, and I get paid like I am sitting at my desk at work....BONUS! (Yes, I know this is a true blessing and I am grateful for it!)

My dear husband (who had to go to work) asked what Kale and I would do today. So far we have opened/played with a Christmas gift (Little People Construction) that I forgot to give Kale, ate raisin toast with "budder", and I made a list of tasks to get completed today.