WE GET READY FOR THE BIG DAY!!

It's just the day the new carpeting gets put in.  The crew is supposed to be here at 8:30am and this room is not quite ready.  Although I emptied my desk pretty much, the desk itself needs to be moved and we haven't moved the recliner out of here just yet.  There's just not room in the living room for us to be trying to move around all this stuff for any length of time.  It looks like there are a couple hoarders living here.  I kid you not!!!  LOL

The Beast DID grab the TV out of here earlier and unhooked it from the satellite wiring.  It ticked me off because I did have a couple shows I wanted to watch but he doesn't care about MY comforts.

He went to bed and I moved out some of the blankets that are in plastic bags and the drawers from my desk here and a few other things to make it THAT much easier.  I know the Beast and he will vacuum this rug before those guys get here.  Who does he think he's fooling?  LOL  

Anyway, the Beast suddenly bursts in here and says to me, **That dog HAS to go outside!**  It wasn't two seconds and I could tell you why he was up and why he said it.  The SMELL was just awful.  At first, I thought our septic tank had backed up but it was the dog, farting.  I mean the stench traveled from the bedroom, clinging to the Beast and then rolled into my computer room.  OMG!   I said to the Beast, * Do you plan on leaving him out there all night or what???*  But he just wanted Baron to defecate so that the farting would (hopefully) stop.

Chewlee got a smiley face (so far, so good) today.  When I wanted her to sit down and then copy the words for her spelling test at the end of the week, she had a request.  Normally, I write each of the words and leave lines enough for her to copy the words five times.  Then I have her spell each of them for me.  If she can't spell them correctly, I make her write the words she can't spell 10 times.  Her mother does the same thing.  But Chewlee said to me today, *Can I just write the words by myself?*  I told her she had to write each word five times and she told me, *I know that, Grandma*.  So, I let her.  The teacher had given them a pretest of sorts so that was how I had the list of words.  The Princess had emailed me a picture of the word list and vocabulary words but I had the list here already.  I remembered most of the words from yesterday (which actually is amazing).  My memory for many things just sucks.

After Chewlee took her bath and was nice and relaxed, we worked on her vocabulary.  I had her spell the word and then make up a sentence using it.  She actually did quite well and only had a problem with the word *here*.  She kept thinking it was *hear* and then she wanted to do rhyming words but I told her we could do those another day.  She will be going home *very early* as Chewlee says since her mother doesn't work tomorrow or the next day.  Chewlee barely has time to run in and get a pickle before her mother is here to get her.  Makes Chewlee very unhappy because she (like we all do) likes her routine but she also loves spending time with her mother.  Poor kid is going to need counseling when she gets older....LOL

We are supposed to have rain tomorrow afternoon...just wonderful with a new rug, right?  Somehow that figures.  But, since Chewlee won't be underfoot, I can work on getting my computer room back in shape.  I would kill for some Mudslide right now but I am so broke, the tooth fairy's contribution would feel like a treasure.

Love you all.  Stay dry and cool.  Enjoy your *hump day* and see you tomorrow.