Chinese Food for Dogs

Yesterday was the day after the New Year. Husband, baby, dogs and I went ventured out to the suburban Home Depot to see if we could afford to retile the guest bathroom as a stopgap to gutting the entire thing until our bank account recovers from actually buying our new mostlikelyamoneypitold house. The short answer? Not really. Too much of everything needs to be replaced which would affect the tiling and the tiling is too expensive to rip it back out in a couple of years.

Damn Home Depot for making tiling installation sound so cheap until you start putting in all the add-on costs like ripping out the old floor. And damn Husband and I for having expensive tastes in everything. We would rather let our bathroom look like cat vomit under a leaky shower than put in crap. Or...what we would consider to be crap and most of America would consider to be just fine and no we are not part of the 1% or we would have hired an interior decorator and contract company and renovated the whole house before we moved in. Actually, we wouldn't have bought this house but one that is already nice.

But yes, we are grateful to be able to afford the house at all.

Grumpily hungry, we returned to the city and stopped by the nearest Trader Joe's to stock up on food. We have one car and my office is many lightyears away from our house with no convenient public transportation between the two. This means Husband and Baby are car-less for much of the workweek, so we try to keep the fridge full.

But Trader Joe's was closed on New Year's. This means that on the day after New Year's, there was a line to the lines at TJ's. And grumpy and hungry Family would never stand in a line to get to the lines for something so plebeian as grocery shopping. What were we to do?

Chinese food for everyone, I say. Order enough for 3 days.

And the dogs? Husband asks. Even they have no food.

Order them Chinese food too.

And now Black Doggy is staring at me wanting here Kung Pao Chicken for breakfast.