I then flipped Roomba upside down and figured out that the problem was probably the fact that he'd eaten a big ol' plastic water bottle cap, and it was lodged between his brushes and his waste bin. I got that out and gave him a thorough cleaning, and he seemed much happier.
Leia came over a short while later (while Roomba was still running around—in fact, Roomba tried to eat the chain off of the easel on the corner of the front room shortly after Leia got there). I gave Leia one of the extra I Love Egg things, and she seemed pretty happy with it.
Leia of course wanted to watch some Veronica Mars
, but—Oh No—Carrie and I had loaned it to Laura only last week! So I called Laura to see if I could "borrow it back" for the day, but she wasn't at her house. Good thing I called her cell phone, huh? Laura taught me over the phone how to (I kid you not) break into her house, so Leia & I drove down there and did just that, picking up the DVDs and then coming back to my house, where we proceeded to watch the third disc and to paint. Leia painted a bird that she wasn't too happy with, although she did paint a giant egg next to it with an I Love Egg face in it. I painted this, my final Painting of the Week:
I call it "WonderBot." I like it. I'm going to give it to Laura (shh... don't tell). Carrie came home loaded with groceries (she'd gone to Trader Joe's directly from work), and quickly set about making an absolutely fan-f*cking-tastic spaghetti dinner: She made a sausage/mushroom marinara sauce, then she made an honest-to-goodness pesto (with basil, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper—the classic recipe). She spread the pesto on pieces of bread that she then put in the oven to toast up. She also very lightly tossed the spaghetti in the pesto before having me serve it up by scooping heaping helpfuls of marinara sauce all over it. The three of us ate the sh*t out of it. Leia seemed a little bit in awe of how good a chef Carrie is. Food is love!
Unfortunately, the amazing dinner provided Carrie with an incredible case of food coma (what do they call it on The Boondocks? I forget), so she fell asleep in the bedroom shortly after dinner. Leia & I watched a couple more episodes of Veronica Mars before she left. Then in the evening there was a special two-hour episode of Mythbusters, so I was all set.
