couches, etc.

okay, so i think we've nailed down the perpetrator of the couch foulness, and it's Little Brother(however he's not so little, but it's too creepy to call him Big Brother). i didn't catch him in the act but when we loaded in the new (someone's old) couch, he sniffed around it and meowed angrily. i don't know how he managed it, but he sounded really pissed off that we had removed the cat couch.

a few minutes later i went up to my room and found a completely horrible mess on my bed that, in now way, could have been left by any of our smaller cats -- there are only two cats capable of something that size, and i kishon has never done that. so yeah, little bro is pissed about the couch. but that's just too damn bad.

and we have now sprayed the couch with the "stay off the damn couch, cats" spray. we'll see what happens.

okay, to go back in time a little bit, we found a couch.
our last couch we found on twincitiesfreemarket.org, so i figured we'd check there again. i came across a listing for a free couch outside of someone's house. it was midnight when i read the listing and i know that i have sort of a instant gratification issue, so off we went to find the couch. it was dark and not a streetlight could be found. we surveyed it, a nice shape to it, and we crammed it into the subaru.

we brought it home and getting it into the house was no easy feat whatsoever. finally it was in and we saw a couch that i imagine was once a taupe color.....this still was taupe-esque, but it appeared that the previous owner was maybe a mechanice and rolled all over the couch in filty garb. it was scary and it was a lot of effort to simply put in in the car, let alone get it in the house.

so we cleaned like we've never cleaned before. first the spray-on oxyclean. then the steam cleaning machine w/bleach added. then the machine w/pure oxyclean added. then a shop vac to get out the excess liquid. by then it was nearly 3 a.m. and really, really time to sleep.

now the old stinky couch in on the porch (how white trash is that?), on its way to the garbage pick up spot for tomorrow's collection. now the "new" couch is in our living and looks pretty good. it's not the best thing in the world but know what? it was FREE.

and "mad max" is on right now. sweet.

so i'll upload a picture of aforementioned free couch and you can all weigh in your thoughts. the things we do to conserve money.

now we are up to today. and the eventual 9:40 p.m. showing of "Exorcist: The Beginning" with mr. terry walker tonight. and maybe some yummy stuff at Little Ti's in Mpls. before that.