Oh, the things that I'll do!

Rent-a-cat leaves in one week, and I've already started making plans for what I'll do when he does. Actually, I've been making this list ever since he got here.

• Buy more plants. He eats the ones I currently own.
  
• Put art back on the walls. If you've ever been here, you know my interpretation of "art" is pretty loose. But anyway, anything hanging on the walls with thumbtacks has since fallen down and been stored, as Rent-a-cat feels obligated to remove all thumbtacks from walls.
  
• Air the place out. I have only been able to open the two windows that Rent-a-cat can't jump out of for the past several months. And though it's not completely stanky in here, it could use a good refreshening.
  
• Get the carpet cleaned. The carpet was nasty before the cat arrived, but with him trying to drag his butt along it as toilet paper it's just unthinkably unsanitary now. This time there's no Rug Doctor from Safeway- I'm calling in the big truck with super suction power. I'll also look forward to not having to run to the bathroom to block Rent-a-cat from doing the carpet wipe from now on.