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Kitchen Floor Nurse

We all have that one location that solves all of our problems.

Every dish in my house is clean.

Every pot and every pan in my house is clean. Even the ones that started out clean are even cleaner after this weekend.

And we have Honeydew to blame.

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On Thursday, my new foster dog broke with Kennel Cough. If you’ve ever heard a tiny puppy with this, you know it’s the most heart breaking sound. On Friday, we went to the vet. Her cough gets better with the medicine, and Saturday night we were all able to sleep for the first time since Wednesday.

There’s little you can do for Kennel Cough aside from waiting it out. They told me to turn the shower on high heat, get my bathroom all steamy and put her inside with the door shut. That works pretty well, but she doesn’t like being in there alone. Also, I have a big bathroom that doesn’t steam up as well as some of them.

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What does work is the dishwasher. I spent most of this weekend Patching from the kitchen floor with a puppy in my arms. The steam from the dishwasher makes her cough stop.

Thus the reason all my dishes are clean.

This isn’t the first time my problems have been solved in the kitchen. My college roommate and I used to make chicken salad, eat it out of the bowl with Triscuits and sit on the kitchen counter when we had a problem.

Even now when I’m feeling down, I make the same chicken salad, sit on my kitchen counter and call her.

What’s worse is that I stress bake. Every time I go through a break up, my apartment looks like the Godiva store. Then, of course, I never feel like eating any of it. My neighbors are probably thrilled that I go through a lot of break ups.

Here’s my question: Where is the one place you go to solve your problems?

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