Carpet Cleaners Suck

With the puppy, and three cats, my lady decided to have the carpets in my house professionally cleaned.  She goes about her research, selects one who is offering a pet package, and all is good.  A good price on 7 rooms (something like $200) and all this talk of getting up pet stains and that stink that puppies generate.  So they show up at around 6, and from jump street are trying to upsell us on extra crap.  After increasing irritation, it's "do the pet package as quoted, or leave".  They start cleaning. It didn't take them long to do. They pack up and leave, and don't offer a walkthrough.  After they leave, we start walking through, and it looks like nothing was cleaned.  Same stains, small debris, and cat hair still in the carpet.  My lady is livid at this point.  She even complained about the assistant (a comely young lady) wearing booty shorts, to which I respond "that was the best part woman!". 

She calls the carpet cleaners today, makes a big stink.  They aren't too interested and say she should have bought the extras.

So now, a different carpet cleaning company is coming over tomorrow to repeat the process.  This has me concerned, as my cats freaked the hell out at the cleaning, as if they haven't been neurotic enough lately.  This morning, I wake up and I don't have my pillow.  I reach down to the floor and pick it up.  I gingerly lay my weary head back down, and notice something is not quite right.  It stinks of cat pee, and is soaking wet.  One of the cats must have been freaked out by the carpet still being wet or something and didn't want to walk over to their room to use the litterbox.  Never happened before.  I hope it's not the start of a trend.

As for my previous blog post about my lady and two thumb games, I went to Toys R Us the other night and raided their $20 or less rack.  Picked up Brave: A Warrior's Tale, Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon, Ratatouille, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise.  Sadly, this may have been an exercise in futility.  From what I can understand, Brave is a pretty easy 1000.  My girl's take on it?  "I couldn't figure out what to do on Brave".  She's moved on to Destroy All Humans, but has problems with the 2 thumbs.  She does get a kick out of the anal probe though.

In related news, I'm sleeping on my back now.