Oh, yeah, not a day goes by without a little taste of my baby Nick. I think, he shall now become a leitmotif in my personal soundtrack.

Today brings the two promised shower caddies, of which I had to initial receipt on his apartment inventory, and another “better quality” hair filter for the shower drain. It was decided that hair drain was for M.’s shower, and there was much discussion about educating that hairy freak in its proper use.

I don’t know why but the daily discussions of house cleaning and their application to the education of M. amuse me. (Probably has nothing to do with the fact that, unbeknownst to Nick, I have the housekeeping instincts of a frat boy, except I don’t puke, defecate and whiz indiscriminately.)

I was also amused by Nick’s question as to whether Go, M.’s workout buddy and the most helpful and laid back surfer dude in the world, was staying with us for a bit. I’m assuming that Nick’s assumption was based on the fact that Go and M. both have features from the Far East.

Fortunately, since Nick explained that we are not allowed to have guests greater than 14 days cumulatively, we had only invited Go to dinner. His reward for helpfully providing his van and his muscle (again), so we could fetch our new kitchen table.

(By the way on the two-week cumulative policy, which can’t possibly be enforceable, I invite seven of you who may be reading this post to a visit of 2.5 days. I’m guessing even his all-seeing, all-knowing, every vigilant against hair in the drain, eagle eyes will fail to calculate the 3.5 day excess over the rule.)

I’m relaxed about all of these shenanigans, however. Nick even remarked today that I am quite easy going. (Ha.)

Instead of clenching an undie knot in my buttcheeks, I decided to act on a system of quid pro quo for Nick. As there is some new household danger (leaks mostly) I must monitor or tasks to which I must attend, I also give him his orders. Today, it was the smoke detector I knocked off the ceiling and de-batteried after it went off sans smoke and continued bleating past reset and removal.