Cats… Ah ah chooooo! October 15, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , trackback This weekend turned out to be quite the time. Yesterday, we helped Crazy H’s husband, Kobayashi paint their house.
The Crazy H house hold has been slowly working on their house. When their oldest, who is 27 months old, was an infant, they removed a chimney from the house and redid the living room. Before they moved in, they destroyed the small bathroom to make something a little more useable, given it is a one bath house.
The latest adventure has been painting. Kobayashi, and Crazy H started the painting last fall. They bought the paint. Two sides of the house were scraped, and we had a painting party and painted the two sides of the house. Then H got pregnant. So, Skip the spring painting. Other projects (like giving birth and oh, sleeping) were finished. Yesterday we returned to help paint.
Soleil insisted on helping. She decided to paint all of the little shingles she could reach. This means any partial shingles around the house were painted. It was very cute looking and once Kobayashi got over the mess a 4 year old makes, he didn’t mind the "help". She got bored after 20 minutes and ran inside. Jay, Kobayashi and I continued painting. Crazy H was off somewhere and K’s mother in law was watching 4 kids! Yikes!
We actually got one side of the house (the larger side) completely done and about 1/3 of the back done. Fortunately, the back is a) shorter in height than the side, b) shorter in length than the side and c) is interrupted by a window, a door , a chimney and a basement walkout. This will make this a quick finish job.
Now, where do the cats come in? Well, I am deathly allergic to cats. I want one of these. I was calming Luna, who missed mommy and daddy. She was resting on my lap with her precious blankie that I STUPIDLY allowed her to bring in. K&H have 3 cats. Her blankie spent 4 hours getting covered with cat hair. I could hardly breathe after holding her for 5 minutes. I got out of the house and froze at the temps had dropped with the sun. I was wheezing and had a horrible burning in my chest.
Tonight, I discovered that even after we washed the blankie last night (taken away after someone fell asleep), it still has cat hairs on it. I am in oxygen deprivation again..sigh..
PS. Kobayashi did live up to his name last night. We went out to dinner at Bugaboo Creek. The wait was 25 minutes long even with a call ahead. I suggested the pancake place across the street. They could seat us immediately. So we switched. Crazy H had developed a headache, so she was resting at home. She gave K strict instructions not to call until we were seated. So he chose not to call her when we changed venue. Then, after we sat down, he called and got no answer. We figured she fell asleep. About 10 minutes later, my phone rang. It was H. She was wandering around Bugaboo looking for us. She was angry that we hadn’t told her that we were changing restaurants.
Poor Kobayashi…
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