My life........

as I know it.........

I hope you all had a very nice Valentine's Day:)

I certainly did............

We had a nice romantic dinner at King's Fish House. The Lobster Crunchy Roll was devine. It was so relaxing. Probably because we left kids at home with $30 to rent movies and go to Panera:) We had a drink, talked about stuff that really had no bearing on anything but was just fun. Because I gotta tell you I am sick of talking about PROM!! And algebra homework. I think those two things alone make me want to hide in my closet!!!

Anyhow just a very nice evening and I do believe we are never taking the children out to dinner again lol:)

Just kidding...........

Kinda..........

So we get home to our said teenagers plus friends, watching Final Destination 5 and eating Panera on the couch.

You know it's a great evening when you don't even care:)

Being that we didn't want to watch Final Destination 5 we went upstairs...........

And left them to all that screaming and carrying on............

About an hour later the screaming turned up a pitch and was then followed by MOM!!! DAD!!!!!..........

Excuse me but WTF!!

Well apparently the power had went out and Frank nor I had noticed;)

Take from that what you will.............

Which for most people the power going out is no biggie, whatever right??

In this house the power going out means only one thing..............

THE 60 GALLON SALTWATER FISH TANK IS DRAINING!!!!!!!!!!

Which prompted Tyler's next words, THE FISH TANK IS FLOODING!!!!

Up and out of bed running downstairs in the dark although I have no idea why, you can't stop it. Get to the end of my kitchen counter and there I am stepping in a huge puddle of water. And imagine if you will draining your bathtub on the floor because that is pretty much what it sounds like and feels like only this is saltwater so it's even more special:( Then imagine 3 kids standing there in the dark with their iPhone flashlights on you in a sheer panic.

Then I get the dreaded question..........

Where's dad???

Uhhhhhh............

uhhhhhh...........

uhhhhhh..........

in the bathroom??

I couldn't say he is somewhat incapacitated at the moment!!!!

Although they are teenagers and not stupid:)

Finally Frank comes down with a trail of "f" words...........

He tells Tyler get my bucket, I tell Lindsay get all the pool towels and we get to work...........

By flashlight we are trying to dry all the floor and equipment. The couch has been pushed to one end of the room. We went thru 15 pool towels in like 10 minutes and it was still wet. Frank kept pushing on the hardwood and it was all squishy. I wanted to yell STOP IT!! I get it Captain Obvious the floor will have to come up! And I couldn't just leave the towels on the floor so one by one I was throwing them in the washing machine, dripping water the whole way to the laundry room. We finally had to start using bath towels to finish mopping up. And meanwhile the poor fish:(

Then we all went to bed............

I mean they all went to bed. I stayed up til the power went back on so that I could at least turn on the emergency pump so their water could move a little. Fish die in still water. But there was no way in HELL I was turning on that tank so that was going to have to do.

And this morning they are all still alive (even though the tank lost a third of it's water and their heater isn't on), my living room is DISASTER and I am going to have a busy morning cleaning up and making phone calls.

So there you have it my "perfect" romantic life lol:)

Anyone want a fish tank??

Seriously.

 

 

Comments

[Terry Frias]

You are so funny, I could actually visualize all of that happening! Your life is never dull. ;o)

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