{"id":140,"date":"2010-10-13T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/fleas-and-all-that-fun-stuff\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:28","slug":"fleas-and-all-that-fun-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/fleas-and-all-that-fun-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleas and all that Fun Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a lot to blog about lately.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few life lessons as of late:<\/p>\n<p>1. I shall never work in a clothing store. I volunteered at the baby consignment sale I consigned in last weekend and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d like to repeat it. I did it because it allowed me to get 80% of my sales &#8211; but man, one 4 hour day and one 8 hour day later &#8211; and many, many pieces of clothing picked up off the floor and rehung &#8211; well, let&#8217;s just say that people are not very considerate. And people STEAL things. Doesn&#8217;t that just stink?? I had a very cute Babygap beret stolen from me &#8211; a person actually removed the tape off the bag and swiped it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I did the sale&#8230;but the clientele was not quite what I expected. Not much of my &#8220;good&#8221; stuff sold, which was a huge bummer&#8230;BUT out of 4 packed bins of clothing I came home with only one, and made almost $400. I got it all out of the house, and made some cash. I was hoping to clear a grand, but the customers just weren&#8217;t buying the boutique stuff. And I guarantee you, my stuff was the best looking in the whole place! So, it&#8217;s back to eBay to recoup some Christmas spending cash.<\/p>\n<p>2. I thought we were almost out of the woods regarding sickness but then poor Baby E got the worst of it. Cough, runny nose, sneezing, etc. AND the worst rash on her face which had Vann very concerned until sweet Lauren told me not to worry &#8211; a very normal reaction to whatever virus she&#8217;s contracted. Fortunately she&#8217;s been sleeping well at night. I am praying that she is better by Friday &#8211; not only is the girl&#8217;s cousin Owen coming for a visit but we have our Christmas card photo shoot on Saturday afternoon. Poor little girl.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Bischoff house has fleas. Gross, I know. Please don&#8217;t run screaming. What we thought was a normal grooming session for Siena last week turned out to include a fleabath and some Frontline. Don&#8217;t ask me HOW she got fleas &#8211; the cat has never been out of the house. Ever. The only thing we can think of is that she must have gotten them during her stay in the &#8220;country&#8221; this summer. I didn&#8217;t even think of it when she was shedding heavily and chewing on herself a lot&#8230;just never occurred to me that she would have fleas.<\/p>\n<p>Siena is now all clear&#8230;and I&#8217;m afraid I was living in denial thinking they would just leave on their own.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this up until the point I found BITEMARKS on Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>I know.<\/p>\n<p>So, $75 later &#8211; pest control is coming tomorrow and we will hopefully be rid of these anklebiters. It&#8217;s probably not a bad idea to spray considering this is Texas and I&#8217;ve been told that bugs are just &#8220;part of it&#8221; &#8211; and we all know how I feel about invertebrates so &#8211; please, anything I can do to rid our world of bugs &#8211; so be it. But what a pain in the you know what!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a lot to blog about lately. Here are a few life lessons as of late: 1. I shall never work in a clothing store. I volunteered at the baby consignment sale I consigned in last weekend and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d like to repeat it. 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