I'm in love...

Not with another man, but a machine. It's name is Bissel SpotBot.

Oh SpotBot. You totally know how to clean my carpets.

I bought Bissel to make me sane. A month or so ago, Ollie regressed in his house training and started to urinate on our carpet ... in the middle of the night. After he was done, Ollie would wake me up to bring me over to the newly made stain. Thanks bud. Really, thanks.

To tackle this, we had found a new pet odor/stain remover, which--oddly enough--has an overpowering smell of baby powder. On most of the stains the remover worked, but on Ollies last 'release' -- not so much. His last accident was super concentrated. My eyes teared-up when approaching it. Mix that with the smell baby powder and.. well.. can you feel my pain?

A couple of weeks have gone by since Ollie's last accident and I still can't get the smell out of my nose. I have to fix this if we ever plan on having guests again. So, during lunch I did a little investigating into hand-held steam cleaners (thanks to the advice from my chiropractor -- a fellow dog owner). Purusing Target (because I refuse to shop at Walmart and Target is close to home), I came across the Bissel SpotBot® Handsfree Compact Deep Cleaner. 5 stars. No bad reviews. This is too good to be true. Better do some comparison shopping. 5 minutes later (I'm a fast shopper) and I'm sold on the Spotbot.

After grabbing some grub, I went to work. There is one particular feature that really sold me on this particular "hand-held" cleaner -- hands-free cleaning. Wha??? How could this be? Technology my friend. Bissel technology.

Off I go. Add my mix of cleansers, plug in ol' Spotbot, place the circular-brush-suction do-hicky thing over the nasty stain, and press "Set-in Stain". 6 minutes later, Spotbot informs me that it has completed its job by beeping. and beeping. How do I stop this beeping? Oh.. hit the "Stop" button. Oops. I remove Spotbot from the stain and *gasp* what's this? NO MORE STAIN. My heart skips a beat and I became all goose-pimpley. I take in a deep breath -- cleanliness. I smell cleanliness. No more Ollie goodness mixed with baby powder. I LOVE YOU BISSEL.

18 minutes later, 3 additional stains are removed and I can't stop giggling. Oh yeah, I'm in love.