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Monday Morning Mojo No. 46

Filed under: Bulldog on Monday, August 21, 2006

WHAT: Laminate flooring underlay

HOW: Hubby wanted a bulldog.

Okay, that’s the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version.

MORE DETAILED VERSION OF HOW: Hubby wanted a bulldog and I said okay, but only if we got rid of the wall-to-wall carpeting and put in a solid floor. He agreed.

I should’ve had an attorney look at our contract. How was I to know my own husband would wiggle through a loophole?

About half way through the job, Hubby decided that “putting in a floor” doesn’t include “finishing the baseboards.” So half our floors have a bit of Combi floor underlay sticking out, the part you normally trim off when you install the baseboards.

If I want finished baseboards, I’ve got to agree to a second bulldog.

Can you say “blackmail”?

  1. that is a bargain i would definitely take him up on! but you already know i’m a sucker :) baseboards + another bullie??? sounds like a great deal.

    mojo looks like he is inspecting his work in that picture!

    Comment by susan — 8/21/2006 @ 3:30 am

  2. Like Everest…it was there…

    Comment by Bernita — 8/21/2006 @ 3:33 am

  3. I think mojo wants a companion and your hubby wants another dog… I think they got together and came up with a plan… Those two are in kahoots. Definitely.

    Comment by kelly — 8/21/2006 @ 8:37 am

  4. lol, yeah…I’d have to say it is a win win situation, but then I’m a sucker for dogs. :D

    Comment by James Goodman — 8/21/2006 @ 10:13 am

  5. Mojo withdrawal averted. Whew! :D Mojo is so darn cute in that last photo.

    Sounds just like Dawg lobbying for a left slipper to the right slipper known as Queen B.

    And I’m still waiting on baseboards, too.

    Bonnie, let’s sneak out, have a drink or two and plot how to get baseboards without new dogs attached. ;)

    Comment by Kristen — 8/21/2006 @ 11:04 am

  6. One bulldog at a time for me, Susan! The vet bills are enormous! I mean, they’re cute and all, but awfully expensive—we’ve got two kids headed for college. At least I HOPE they’re headed for college.

    Bernita, I was thinking more along the lines of, “I came, I saw, I ate it.”

    We’re on the same page, Kelly. I think both of them are conspiring against me.

    I love dogs, too, James, but dang! Have you ever slept in the same room with a bulldog? Peeeeew!

    Kristen, that’s the best suggestion I’ve heard all month! And now I don’t feel so bad about my baseboards, since you don’t have any, either.

    Comment by Bonnie Wren — 8/21/2006 @ 1:10 pm

  7. Hehehehehe!

    Comment by Michelle — 8/21/2006 @ 2:30 pm

  8. I told hubs if he wanted to marry me, he had to get rid of his beautiful black, white-bellied, white-pawed, purebred Akita. I was allergic to dogs at the time. Kinda miss that big pup - he humped everything in sight. I wish I had studded him out and used the money to replace the carpets I have now.

    Comment by dana — 8/21/2006 @ 4:25 pm

  9. lol, my Boston Terrier snores like a banshee and is by far the gassiest dog I’ve ever owned. Having said that, when I wanted to by a bulldog (about a month or so ago) my wife warned me that it would be much worse than the tiny gasball I have now.

    Comment by James Goodman — 8/21/2006 @ 7:36 pm

  10. Poor Mojo. He looked sincerely regretful in the last shot.

    You haven’t known gas until you’ve owned a boxer. The bottle of doggie Gas-x has a picture of a boxer on it if that tells you anything.

    Comment by Jaye Wells — 8/21/2006 @ 9:48 pm

  11. Nah, let him keep eating…LOL…Mojo will trim it off for you…LOL!

    Comment by Bonnie Calhoun — 8/21/2006 @ 11:05 pm

  12. I agree with everyone that Mojo looks so cute in that last photo. Wouldn’t he be jealous of another dog? After all, he thinks you bought all the flooring, furniture, etc., especially for HIM to chew up! [You did, didn't you?!]

    Comment by Welshcakes Limoncello — 8/22/2006 @ 8:50 am

  13. doggie dental floss?!?!?!

    Comment by Dennie ~ — 8/23/2006 @ 3:34 pm

  14. You don’t need another bulldog…you need a matadordog to keep the bulldog occupied.

    Comment by Dave Pearson — 8/25/2006 @ 1:45 am

  15. What an utterly charming bulldog! Coco wants to meet him, and she’s in heat. I think a svelte and slim pit bull might be just the match for Mojo.

    Comment by Eric Scheie — 8/28/2006 @ 1:29 pm

  16. Heh, Eric! I’ve got three words for you:

    “Snip, snip, snip.”

    But I must say Mojo has long admired Coco from afar. Perhaps she’ll settle for a platonic relationship?

    Comment by Bonnie Wren — 8/28/2006 @ 3:17 pm

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