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Possibly the most random thing ever
By Moriah on November 25th, 2008
It rained here yesterday. Which means that all the extra energy coming from the toddler population here is harder to get burned off. (Unless I take them to an indoor track or gym or something equally as boring.)
Adelaide was acting cranky so I put her down for a nap and took the big kids to the museum. It was perfect. They do have a place to climb and play, but it’s also the mental energy they expend there doing art and music and make-believe.
And for me, simply getting out of the house for a bit somehow gives me a fresh perspective.
I often struggle with that “witching hour” after the kids get up from their naps. It’s hard for me to stay home and bear the crankiness. We go to the playground sometimes, or make a quick run to the store. Or Papa John’s, if it’s Tuesday.
But yesterday evening I made myself stay home and push through. I had some projects I really wanted to get done, and it was still rainy and cold. Who wants to deal with carseat buckles in the rainy and cold?
Although, when Adelaide dumped the entire bowl of popcorn all over the living room floor, I was sorta wishing we had gone somewhere after all.
And speaking of that, the most random and painful thing happened to me while I was vacuuming up the mess. I was using the hose (attached to the front of my upright vacuum) and had craned my head down to look under the couch for the bits that had spilled under there.
All of the sudden I was jerked back by my hair, and my head was completely stuck to the bottom of the vacuum cleaner. A lock of my hair had come too close to it and got sucked into the vortex. It ripped my hair right out.
A bit dazed, I walked over to a mirror hanging on the dining room wall and checked the damage. Several inches, but it blends in to the rest of my hair fairly well so it’s not too noticeable. I can still feel a little scalp burn this morning, though.
Which totally reminds me of another story, (which is not technically mine to tell but I doubt she’d ever blog about it so I will)… My friend Nicky once was making a cake and her then-long hair got caught in the wisks of the hand mixer.
She said the batter got spattered all over her mom’s kitchen, and the wisks were stuck right next to her head, hair all tangled up and dripping with cake batter.
So now I know how she felt. Except my mom didn’t take one look at me and run for the camera.
Oh, and there was no cake batter in sight.
But other than that.
And then the second most random thing that happened to me last night: I was organizing my closet and finally getting around to unloading the box of my winter shoes that has been sitting forlornly in the hallway for weeks and driving me crazy, when I reached up to put something on the closet shelf and something rattled a little.
Whatever it was, it was making it so I couldn’t put the box flat on the shelf. I gingerly pulled the offending object down off the shelf and stared at it in horror.
It was a bone.
A BONE.
IN MY CLOSET.
EEEEEEEEEW!
(*shuddering now even thinking about it*)
I have no idea where it came from or why it was there (or how long), but I made Andy pick it up from where I dropped it and put it in the trash.
And I decided I had done enough poking around for one night and went to bed.
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Oh my word, Moriah. That is just crazy. CRAZY. I am glad your hair is okay. The bone thing is also so bizarre. I hope you are having a better day today, at least the sun is out!
OMW Moriah! That made me laugh so hard! LOL Did you end up with a bald spot, like did it come out at the root?! You poor thing!
That has to be the most bizarre post of yours ever! LOL
BTW, I gave you an award over at my blog if you want to see what it is.
Nickie’s story came to mind as you were sharing your own version. Never imagined getting hair (still attached to the head) stuck in the vacuum..yikes!
OH. MY. GOSH. Seriously, the hair in the vacuum and you being dazed is hilarious, strange, and so sad all at the same time. The witching hour strikes again…although I guess in a different fashion.
thanks for sharing my story with the world- although it was my dad who ran for the camera, not my mom- he was always bummed that we didn’t own a camcorder because he wanted to send it to America’s funniest home videos.
I also burned a chunk of hair off when sitting too close to a space heater. The vacuum thing has yet to happen though.
OMG–those hair stories made me SNORT. And I am usually very ladylike and try to avoid snorting. Today, however, it could NOT be helped.
The bone? Sick.
Hope you’re having a great day…
Happy Thanksgiving!
The bone thing might give me nightmares…seriously. When A.J. gets up in the night from a bad “thought” and says something like, “I heard something,” instead of doing the thing most moms do (gently tuck them back in)…I say “what did it sound like?” and then point to Jad (what? I don’t want to be attacked in the dark by a dull thud!).
What a freakish day!! Ripped out hair and bones! Oh my goodness! I hope today was better.
Eeeeeyyyewww, Moriah! There was almost too much to deal with in that post as a reader, so I can only IMAGINE how it was for you to deal with it all, in real life! A bone? That little tidbit is begging to be a short story. Please tell me it vaguely resembled a human bone, left mysteriously by your previous renters. Did they leave with all their appendages?
And the 2 hair scenarios – I loved just visualizing them. Both of those would make great cartoons.
No Way! You poor thing. That bone incident would give me nightmares. At least you have some good shocker conversation to add when there is a lull in conversation. :)
omg, that is so scary- being stuck to the vacuum! maybe eve’s fear of the vacuum is a good one after all!
OUCH! I have never had my hair sucked up by a vacuum cleaner but I’ve come close!
Randomness: last Christmas my then 4 yr old was helping make pancake batter, her long blonde hair got caught on the beaters and it yanked out a whole section of it. I have pictures. Glad to know she isn’t the only one :-) LOL.arrived via StumbleUpon.
Oh my gosh I don’t know where to begin! ACK! What a day. Sounds like it was definitely time to go to bed and put that day to rest! I’m glad you weren’t hurt.