Proud of myself because yesterday was TOUGH. My daughter woke me up at 2:30 a.m. to tell me our dog had been skunked. It turned out the dog was not skunked, but a skunk sprayed our house–it seems. The horrible skunk smell permeated the entire house and everything in it. It was very strong. Apparently, it’s skunk mating season, so it may have even been two skunks.
At least when the dog got skunked and ran into the house to rub her face on every carpet and upholstered surface in our house we knew where she had been and could clean those surfaces. But this was the ENTIRE house–every room, every surface. To make matters worse, it was very cold and raining heavily, so opening windows on the non-spray side was dicey. And then when we let the dog out in the morning, she must have rolled in the scent. After we gave her a peroxide and Dawn dish soap bath–she did it again! (She’s now going outside on a leash so we can supervise). So I came to work stinking of skunk, and continued to smell and taste skunk all day no matter what I did.
Eau du Skunk is bitter–apparently a sulphorous compound. All I could think of was something sweet to counteract it. I was dying for a piece of sweetened dark chocolate. I did drink my Good Earth Tea, which is sweet, and that helped. But OMG I wanted sweet chocolate!!!
I resisted, I won, despite the great excuse ;o) Proud of myself ;o)