girlfiend

Last night, just as I was getting ready to put my very tired Fiendling to bed and relax with Boyfiend, I managed to spill an entire glass of red wine everywhere. I put the Fiendling on the floor where he immediately began to crawl away and cry and ran into the bathroom where Boyfiend was taking a shower. I ripped off my shirts, which were wine soaked, and threw them into the shower with B, grabbed a towel and started blotting. Everywhere. Boyfiend rinsed out my shirts, grabbed a towel for himself, scooped up the Fiendling and got dressed while I ran downstairs, topless, in front of our many, many windows, and filled a bucket with warm water (should I have used cold? I never remember temperature wise what sets and what dissolves stains)and a scoop of oxyclean. I went under the sink and got a few rags then ran back up the stairs, bucket sloshing, and began to scrub furiously.

At some point, forgetting it’s down and sheds feathers like crazy, I thought it’d be a good idea to remove a sofa cushion from it’s upholstery and scrub it that way.  Feathers everywhere. Wine everywhere. Boyfiend returned with our fussy baby as I finished scrubbing the seat cushions and back cushions of the couch, so I sat and fed the Fiendling praying he’d fall asleep quickly  so I could finish getting wine off of the beige couch, wondering why’d I’d never gotten around to having a slipcover made.

Boyfiend gave everything another scrub and the Fiendling went off to bed. He used a dustpan and brush to sweep up the feathers despite my desire to vacuum because running the dyson with a sleeping baby would’ve been foolish. The oxyclean did its job and the sofa cushions are wine free. Except for the enormous spot we missed that I noticed as soon as I walked into the room this morning.  Fuck. Hopefully the oxyclean will work as well the morning after- that stuff’s amazing.

This is unrelated, but it’s a product recommendation so I’ll throw it in anyway. If you have one of those electric toothbrushes and you have to buy those outrageously expensive replacement heads don’t under any circumstances buy the CVS store brand replacements. I saw them and they were new and $5 less and I couldn’t resist and I’ve been cursing myself ever since. They do not fit. At all. They fall off constantly midbrush.