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My Polka-Dot Piano is a Martyr For this Site
So I’ve been working pretty much nonstop on this here site the past few days. Jenny and I pretty much GO GO GO all the time and our human chill machine has gone on vacation. We’ve sent dozens of emails, IMs, text messages, voice mails, other things that make us sound technie, blah blah blah, back and forth since Sunday night and we finally got together in person for a geek fest today.
While we were holed up in the nerdery with the laptops, the kids went off to play in the living room. Soon Laylee ran up to me with her arm dripping wet. “Mom, mom. We’re being SO nice to the fish! We’re petting him and playing with him!”
So there was some running and in the living room I found Jenny’s son CJ with his arms in the fishbowl up to his elbows, water splashing everywhere. We keep the fish on top of the piano because we are a collective moron and Magoo was kneeling on top of it grinning, his pants soaked with the scummy water that was cascading off the back and down the front of the piano. Does anyone know how to get those milky-white water spots out of wood?
I think I may need to get back to a little bit of housekeeping around here and a lot more cuddling and regulating with the kids. WeDoNotManhandleFish! Now gimme a squidge!
And I’m totally procrastinating my paying gigs to work on this site… and watch So You Think You Can Dance. This is just way more fun and you guys rock! Thanks for the great response. I’ll get your bios up as soon as possible. Keep em coming.
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Lesson of the day: All pets are NOT for petting.
Also: do not keep large open vessels of water on pianos.
AND: best not to ignore small children for extended periods of time.
Well we are grateful for all that you are doing, but you don’t have to murder your poor fish in the process
!! I hope it is still swimming and not floating tomorrow.
I sent my bio in today. Of course I had to bug you lots so I sent in lots of different emails
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Sleep well!
Someday, when your kids are bigger, you’ll have a fish TANK. And then they’ll dump the whole can of fish flakes in it and you’ll have to clean it because it is just too big a job for an 8 & 10 year old! That’ll be even better than cleaning up water spots on a piano.
I wish I had better advice for you . . . maybe a little Pledge will do the trick?
In my house, we must inform our 15-month-old that pets are not for body-slamming.