| Too Much Excitement for One DayThis was probably the least exciting thing that happened yesterday: 
Link to large version That's a panoramic stitch of three photos. The tree falling was the least exciting thing, because it had already been half-murdered by our landlord, and was likely to fall anyway. Winds from the thunderstorm yesterday evening were what knocked it down. Still, I'm not too happy with the landlord -- what if it had been a windy-but-sunny day, and someone had been outside at the time? Higher up on the list of exciting things, was Reed pulling our CD tower down on top of himself (just bruised his forehead is all), but that also included breaking a glass lampshade. Fortunately, the compact fluorescent lightbulb did not break, or there would've been mercury all over the floor in our apartment, not just shards of glass! While trying to deal with the broken glass situation in the living room, I took something down from the closet in the hallway, somehow dislodging a package of -- are you ready? -- lightbulbs (incandescent, fortunately). And one of those broke. So, with a toddler, we had glass shards in the living room, glass shards in the hallway by the closet and -- wait for it -- no vacuum cleaner, and no "dustbuster." Our vacuum cleaner was killed by an errant strand of carpet (we told our landlord about the carpet unraveling along a seam, his solution was to trim the part that had unraveled, well, there was still enough to jam our vacuum cleaner, alright, well, then the landlord replaced the carpet with tile....), and our dustbuster was no longer holding a charge. So, we kept the toddler out of the glass by restricting him from entering either the hallway or the living room. Then, after I got off work, we went out to buy a vacuum cleaner. During which trip, the Jeep's rearview mirror fell off. We didn't find the vacuum cleaner we wanted, but we did buy a Dirt Devil brand 'hand vac' (dustbuster), cleaned up the glass, and so on. Aargh. |
