A complicated way to get a new dog

As you are all aware, the Sisters live in the desert. It’s hot here and sunny. Very sunny. Which causes us to put dark screens on all of our windows. You actual forget they’re there until you take them all down to paint your house. Then, the fact that the sun is a ball of fire is driven home to you in the most uncomfortable way. The Sisters don’t like the sun, we don’t like it to touch us, and therefore, we don’t like to be reminded that it exists.

I finally got to sleep in on Sunday morning. I was hoping to sleep until at least 9ish. That dream was interrupted by the most obnoxious occurrence ever – the sun rising and shining in my bathroom.

Me to Ed: “What the hell is that?!”

Ed: (Mumbling because he was sort of asleep.) “What the hell is what?!”

Me: “That light!”

Ed: “You mean the SUN?”

Me: “There is no way all that light is coming from the sun. Ra the sun god must be in our bathroom. You need to go in there and tell him to leave.”

Ed: (Deep sigh.) “You’re crazy. Ra is not in our bathroom. Go back to sleep for Ra’s sake, it’s barely 6 o’clock!”

At this point, Ed throws himself out of bed and shuts the bathroom door. A bit loudly, if you ask me.

Me: “Now was that so hard? I’ll bet you’ll think twice the next time you decide to remove the anti-Egyptian god barriers from the windows.”

Ed: “They’re called screens, Ava. Screens. Now go back to sleep before Cerberus arrives. I took down the anti-River Styx barrier, which normal people call a gate, from the side of the house to paint the wall.

Honestly, I don’t think a painted house is worth it, do you? But then again if it gets me a new dog…