Am I supposed to clean that??

Is there some master list of cleaning apparatuses that you are supposed to also clean that my mother forgot to tell me about?

Okay, this is too much...you are SUPPOSED to clean the broom that you clean with? And there isn't a 'disposable' model for my tile floor like the wet swiffer that you can only use AFTER the broom? There are not enough spoons in the entire house for this!!

The temps have been in the 90s here in Florida and the 'feel's like' is well over 100. My MS does not like hot and will throw a biggest 2-year-old-I-want-a-snack-before-dinner temper tantrum you have ever seen, if it gets above 78. Meaning, outside is off limits, completely. Even for a couple minutes. Which is bad news for the pups.

Penny doesn't care. She prefers pee pads. I spent the entire winter re-training her to go outside, but at the slightest chance, she goes on the pad. I tell myself that it is probably another health issue keeping her from holding her pee, rather than she is just a dummy and can't learn. She rarely misses a pad, so I am okay with it if she is.

Ziggy on the other hand, is an asshole. 100% since birth. Everyone says it is because I spoiled him. He never bonded with our Aussie and would go to work with me when he was little. When I got sick, he spent all day everyday with me. So he is spoiled, but still was pretty good about going outside.

When my ex departed (which is a story for another day), there was no one to take the pups out in the evenings. I tend to "crash" in the afternoon. Sometimes the 'afternoon' comes at 9am sometimes it is 7pm, but when it comes, I can't walk very well. Now that I am home alone, even with my walker, I try not to take any chances of falling. So I tried to get Ziggy to start using the pee pads too, but he said "screw you". I let them out in the morning after eat and in the evening they are relegated to the dreaded pee pads.

Ziggy picks and chooses when he wants to follow the rules. For a while he preferred laundry baskets...not dirty laundry though, only clean. So I had to rewash it and the basket. Then, this past week, he decided the brooms (for some reason I have like 5 of them that are located in various parts of the house...keep in mind I am mid-move so boxes and packing things everywhere...absolutely chaos). I didn't realize this until I went to sweep something up without my glasses on and smeared yucky morkie wee all over my tile floor. WTF?!?! So I put that broom away and went to get another. 3 brooms later, I was pretty frustrated. All my brooms were peed on. So I got a bucked with hot water and soap. OMG were my brooks disgusting!!! Then it occurred to me, was I supposed to be washing my brooms all this time??? I can barely keep up with washing the major things that need washing, I can't wash the cleaning utensils in addition! A normal person shouldn't be able to do this! More less someone who counts spoons daily.

So now I am on the hunt for disposable brooms. You know, the kind you don't have to wash, but will still get the dirt out of those dreaded grout cracks that vacuums can't seem to suck hard enough to reach. In the mean time, I am printing out a pic of a boom and taping it to the pee pad to see if Ziggy is as dumb as I think.

Until next time...

XOXO

-Meg