Highlighters, My Stinkin' Dogs & Martha Stewart

This morning I woke up and got ready for my day then went downstairs.  It was just like any other morning, except I found this:

That's right.  That's my couch.  And that's bright orange highlighter (I threw the chewed up highlighter away before taking the pic but it was lying right smack in the middle of the couch).

Okay, so it doesn't look too bad I figure.  So I grab some damp towels and start frantically scrubbing:

Oh LOOK! Highlighter SMEARS!  Grrrrrr...

Lemme just say this.  I own Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home.  My mother got it for me for Christmas the year that I bought my house.  I think it was a hint.  In fact, when I think of it, she got me some cookbooks when she was trying to convince me (after 6 months) to stop cooking out of an electric skillet and buy a stove.  And, now that I think about all the other books she has gotten me on landscaping, cooking, housekeeping, and interior design/home improvement... I'm pretty friggin positive it was a big hint.

I will say, this actually is a pretty nice book to own.  I have used it alot when it comes to laundry.  There's a huge section on laundry that tells what you actually can and cannot launder, how to launder unusual things like down comforters and things marked "dry clean" at home (I don't like paying for dry cleaning), and also has a nice section on removing certain stains.  Let me just say, this:  MARTHA DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW TO REMOVE HIGHLIGHTER FROM UPHOLSTERY!  What the crap?

I went to the basement and looked around. My choices for stain removal were "Goop" or "Spray n' Wash".  I grabbed the Spray N' Wash.  Seemed like it would be easier and a little less messy than the former.  Anyway, after oranging up 6 rags and a lot of scrubbing, I was left with a light orange area.  It actually worked pretty well; pretty well because we have a brown couch.  I shudder to think what it would have looked like had it been white.

I noticed afterwards that there were little orange footprints all over the wood floor and the kitchen floor.  If that wasn't enough evidence as to who the culprit was:

Mr. Dayglow Himself

Please allow me to to summarize the above with one final statement:  MARTHA DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW TO REMOVE HIGHLIGHTER FROM PUGS!  (He's gonna have this new hairdo for a while)