My entertaining evening

[malibu]

Last night, as I was cleaning up the dinner dishes, I heard DD running behind me with a cat close behind. Turns out she'd decided to drag the gerbil out of his cage without supervision, and was running with him while one of the cats followed. Naturally, the gerbil freaked at bit her. She drops the gerbil, I have to go grab him before he becomes dinner, put him back, then deal with my screaming, bleeding child. As I'm doing that, the cat hops up where the cage is and knocks a candle off, so now there's glass shattered all over the floor. Finish cleaning up DD, drag out the Shop Vac, and clean up the broken glass.

So then I thought, OK, I need exercise and a few minutes to myself, so I went out to mow the lawn. I actually enjoy mowing.

Then this happened. Seriously, how does this even happen? (Sorry for the FB repeat!) I just wanted to mow the lawn!!

The engine popped off the base. Kind of glad I didn't wind up losing a limb or get decapitated somehow. It was the weirdest night.

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[lilac05]

What a night! I hope today is better!

[malibu]

H came out and was like "Man, that lawnmower HATES you!" It has broken in some way or other every time I've mowed this summer.

[mrsukyankee]

Damn.

[FastHands]

Aaaaaadmit it, you going to vent your frustration by "mowing the lawn" looked a liiiiittle something like this:

[malibu]

Ha FastHands I probably should have. In reality, I was inspecting it to see if it was even possible to somehow finish the 1/4 of the yard that was left while laughing hysterically. The thought of duct tape crossed my mind at one point. The few lines of unmowed grass makes me crazy!

[franklin]

so your DD had a near fatal run in with the gerbil?

ETA: i hope today goes better for you!

[Eagles]

This is truly a situation that calls for a poor poodle. I'm sorry. I hope today is going much better!

[malibu]

Eagles It is! It wasn't even a horrible night, just many out of the ordinary events, but I was pretty much ready to go to bed at about 8:30. LOL.

[malibu]

Jul 16, 2015 11:32:22 GMT -5 franklin said:

so your DD had a near fatal run in with the gerbil?

ETA: i hope today goes better for you!

More like the gerbil had a near fatal run in with the cat, after DD dropped him right in front of her!

[Eagles]

Jul 16, 2015 11:35:27 GMT -5 malibu said:

Eagles It is! It wasn't even a horrible night, just many out of the ordinary events, but I was pretty much ready to go to bed at about 8:30. LOL.

I hate that!  It's like "how many more weird things can go wrong today? Fuck it, I'm going to sleep."    

[bonquiqui]

❤️

[malibu]

bonquiqui the lawnmower broke when I was 317 steps away from goal! I think that was seriously the thing I was most annoyed about! HA!