roo can hear! (and it thinks wiener dogs are annoying too!)

aunt lois, her friend carol, and their irish setter puppies spent the night here last night. richmond was a good halfway stopover point for their boston to florida trip for a dog show. the red dogs were sleeping in their crates downstairs in the living room and our dogs were upstairs in bed with us. i was laying in bed awake around 4 a.m. this morning (i have a cold - more about that later) thinking to myself how lucky roo is that it was able to sleep. one of the setters was rustling in its cage which caused tini the wiener dog to commence her high-pitched yapping. roo immediately kicked me hard as if to say, "mom, shut that dang dog up!" :) so having a cold when pregnant is no fun. the only cough medicine allowed is robitussin dm which doesn't seem to do anything. i can't take any of the good stuff :( i haven't gotten a good night's sleep in days since i am coughing so much. and the house situation still sucks. we got a call from our realtor today at 2:15 to see if someone could come see it in 30 minutes. jeremy and i were both asleep on the couch at the time and the house had not yet recovered from our having our overnight guests. somehow we managed to get up and get going. we got all the vacuuming done and the house in respectable condition within a half an hour - not too shabby. i'm sure we could have said no but at this point we just want to sell it so badly. it's like we're being held hostage by this house. the realtor thinks we should drop the price a bit to see if that helps. we're open to that but it just sucks to not make as much money as you hoped. the feedback we've gotten from people who have looked at the house so far has been less than helpful. most of it is stuff we can't do anything about and the other things are things people could change if they wanted. someone said they wished our kitchen cabinets were taller. someone else wished the family room was more formal. someone didn't want a newer home (???) and others are concerned about the fate of the empty lot across the street since we don't know what will go up there. we can't make our next move (buying a house in boston, moving, etc.) without selling this place so we're screwed. kinda sucks.