I swear it wasn't a dead body

Giles the Greyhound is FINE! I just want to preface this post with the fact that he is FINE! That being said...

Giles LOVES to ride in the car. Since he and I have spent a large amount of quality time with daddy-o he's gotten to ride in the car with us both, together and separately. It's hilarious when we both put our shoes on and the dog dances around the house because he thinks he should go along, too.

So it was no surprise when I was going to run errands on Saturday and i asked him if he wanted to go along. Of course! We go out the back door, to the garage and in the backseat he goes. I drive across town to the bank and then I hit a drive thru for sandwiches. While sitting in the drive- thru line I see something weird on the backseat. When I turn around and closely examine the seat, I saw blood. Lots and lots of blood. All over the backseat and a fair amount on the dog himself.

After a hysterical call to dad, driving like a crazy woman to the house and dad and I going over every inch of the dog, we found he had markings that are the equivalent of  human "skinned knees" on an area that could be call the ankle- if dogs have ankles that is. The dog is fine. We cleaned his cut, added some neosporian and a bandage. We did that for a couple days and finally took on the bandages and Giles is "treating" his own wounds.

But that leaves the question of my car backseat. Which is covered with a large amount of blood. Did I mention the car interior is black fabric? And my car is a lease? I'm slightly freaked out about the blood. Daddy-O and I both looked online and found several suggestions to get the blood stains out BUT one problem is that some take out color which would be bad. I'm worried about smell and molding with the amount of liquid I'm going to have to use to get it out.

So I called the local Chevy dealership body shop to get suggestions. Conversation went something like this:
Me: Hi I'm Maggie O Sullivan. You just fixed my car a couple months ago after an accident.

Car dude: yeah, I remember!

me: So I have a question. How do I remove a large amount of blood from fabric car upholstery?

Car dude: silence...

Me: hello? are you there?

car dude: uh year. A lot of blood????

Me: yes.

car dude: more silence

Me: Oh it's not like it's human or anything, not from a dead body. *I laugh*

car dude: silence

me: My dog cut his leg and bled all over the backseat of my car.

car dude: uh- huh.

Me: no, really. It was an accident. He skinned his ankle. well, the ankle area if dogs had ankles.

car dude: ok

Me: it wasn't abuse, just an accident

car dude: well, we don't usually deal with blood stains.

Then he gave me some suggestions but he wasn't super helpful. He also recommended I call the coroner to see what he said.

In the end I called a guy who does car detailing- he got the blood out!

And so far the police haven't shown up to question me about the bloody backseat because I was pretty sure Car Dude was gonna make a report!

Mags









 

Random Stuff on a Tuesday

Got my hair trimmed because it's grown so quickly. My stylist was just chatting away with me and she ran the clippers over the back of my hair and suddenly stopped and realized we 'didn't do that last time' but it was a little late for that now. My hair is REALLY short now. Yikes! More Gennifer Goodwyn short than Katie Holmes short.

And speaking of Katie Homes, does anyone else think "it's about damn time" that she divorces Tom Cruise and gets away from his mind control whako-ness?

And speaking of clippers, my household is in an uproar looking for Daddy-O's hair clippers. Mac uses them to give himself a haircut last week and Daddy-O helped him. Mac said Daddy-O took the clippers back and Daddy-O thought he gave the clippers to Mac. We've turned the house upsidedown looking for those suckers in all the obvious places and some not.

Does anyone else just LOVE Subway?

Is anyone else going to watch the new show on CBS this fall called Sherlock?

Does anyone else just love hotel sex?

I'd love to learn how to use Pinterest. Still can't figure that sucker out.

I've been thinking it would be cool if I could operate a Mac Book laptop.

Daddy-O and I went to a Kroger Market Place which is a cool twist on the super store idea but BETTER. It has furniture and home stuff. We found a "painting" on canvas in the lobby and after I finally found a clerk and made her scan it, we found it was $30. This thing usually retails for $80, and it's about 4x5 feet and totally cool. I grabbed it and had them hold it at the cusstomer service desk; hey, with that discount it HAD to be bought!!!!

It seems the new trend in the area I live is to now NOT find out the gender of the baby. I know all these pregnant women, or women who've very recently had babies, and no one is finding out the boy or girl answer. And just a few years ago, everyone was finding out the gender as soon as it was possible. Interesting. I don't care either way, but I think trends are interesting.

I want to have a Bernese Mountain Dog instead of a baby. Naming it will be just as fun!

I don't care what anyone says; Charlie Sheen is just hot and still sexy.

Today was a super busy day at work. Since we have tomorrow until Monday off for the 4th holiday, and then I'm going to be at a conference from Monday thru Thursday and then we have our July Recess until the last day of July, I won't be back at school for a MONTH! Go me! however, this does mean I had about a million things to do today. I made a to-do list and crossed off every single item! And for the first time EVER, I have to say that every single library book was returned!!!!!!!! I didn't have to go to the kids' res halls or do locker searches. Kids brought them back. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This weather sucks and I hate it. The heat is killing me. And it's only early July; it's going to be a very long, hot, miserable summer.

My phone is telling me I have very little storage data left. I thought I'd delete stuff and there's all this Sprint shit I can't get rid of but I never use it like the football and NASCAR app. Nor do I Facebook and I can't delete it either. It's taking up valuable space and it just pisses me off that because it's part of the "phone company's promo" stuff, I can't remove them.

Mags