“Did you shoot the cat?”…and other things heard around my house.

Yeah, I know. It’s Friday.
Where’s the Friday Favorites post, you ask?
Due to the shortened week and the migraine I suffered most of Tuesday that may or may not have been a direct result of the second grape martini I poured myself at midnight on New Year’s Eve, the disastrous explosion of Christmas decorations that I waded through just to get to my office this morning and the day I have ahead of putting them all ( + 2 trees) away, I can’t seem to think of any favorites today.
Except maybe the nap I’m going to take at about noon but lie about if anyone asks.

So instead I’m going to break out a new feature on YMFT that I’ll use when my brain is too frazzled to think of anything witty or introspective to write about.
It’s totally original and something I just came up with, so don’t steal it.
I’m calling it “Top 10 Lists”.
I think I might be on to something with this one.

Top 10 things heard in my house more than occasionally (every day).
10. Who tooted?
Sometimes I think I live with 10 boys.

9. When you get home you are cleaning this room, sister.
Yeah, I say that just about every day. Somehow that message isn’t getting received.
8. Pick up your crap on the stairs*
(*may be substituted with kitchen tablefamily room floorbar, car…)
7.  If I find one. more g*d damned hairband on the floor….
6. WHOSE SOCKS ARE THESE?
Swear. to. God. If I had a dollar for every sock and hairband I find around this house I could build myself a panic room where I could go every time I find a sock or hairband.
5. Did you shoot the cat?
Before you go crazy and call PETA, one of our cats is diabetic and needs insulin injections twice a day. Since there are 3 of us who know how to give her the shot and she’d die if she got double the dose, I always have to ask. However, because I shoot her 99% of the time and the answer I get is always no, it’s a pretty hilarious question. Much like #6. 
4.  I like your face.
Thing 1’s favorite saying.  Makes me smile every time.
3. Watching those British Boys ain’t gonna get you into college, sweetheart.
I’m gonna assume she’s not a fan of my face when I say things like that.
2. Can someone bring mama her bottle of wine?
Usually shouted when mama’s butt is planted firmly on basement couch, television on, snuggie situated just perfectly, and bottle of wine is all the way in upstairs fridge.  Or just out of reach.
~and the number 1 thing heard in my house more than occasionally~
 1. You’re my favorite today.
Ever wonder where the blog title comes from? It’s a phrase I use all the time, but only to whichever daughter is my real favorite that day. Which may or may not have a direct correlation to whichever daughter listened to #s 9, 8 and (most importantly) #2.
That’s all I got for ya today, kids.
Refer to yesterday’s photo and comment.
It will explain a lot.

Happy weekend!

9 Comments

  1. Lindsey on January 4, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    Haha, love it.

  2. Kenya @ Life with Giggles on January 4, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    I find socks all the time everywhere. And i just have a husband. You would think in our tiny apartment they would make their way into the laundry basket. NOT. freaking husband.

    • Michelle on January 4, 2013 at 8:12 pm

      Oh, many of the socks I find are definitely my husband’s. If he wore hairbands I’d really be in trouble.

  3. Dyanne @ I Want Backsies on January 4, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    #5-#10 would be on MY list, if I made one. Only the “did you shoot the cat” in this case refers to the idiotic purchase of a nerf gun (I’m the idiot) for my 17 year old son.

    • Michelle on January 4, 2013 at 8:13 pm

      Does he use the nerf gun to shoot the cat?? Sad. Or hilarious.

    • Dyanne @ I Want Backsies on January 5, 2013 at 8:21 pm

      A little of both. He shoots very near them. VERY near. They usually bail out of the room as soon as they hear him cock the stupid thing. Still kicking myself over that purchase. (He never owned a toy gun before, having anti-gun parents, and he’s making up for lost time, I guess….)

  4. Teri Biebel on January 4, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    You have somehow placed a video recorder in my house, haven’t you? Let’s run down the list shall we?
    #10 – Usually this is either hubby or one of the dogs (both boys, go figure)
    #9 – EVERYDAY thing that comes out of my mouth. EVERYDAY it’s ignored
    #8 – Here’s it’s “get your stuff off the couch/stairs/table/counter/dog and bring it to your room”
    #7 – For me it’s 15’s clothes on the bathroom floor. Every. Single Day.
    #6 – This isn’t as much of an issue since I gave birth 13 years ago to Sasquatch. I know her socks from everyone else’s because they double as dog sweaters for my 70 lb. dogs.
    #5 – Ok you’ve got me here. But I do ask everyday “Did you feed the dogs?” which is a pointless question because apparently no one else in my house has EVER fed nor do they know HOW to feed a dog.
    #4 – For us it’s Love You. Gotta hear it all the time.
    #3 – Ditto sister.
    #2 – Ditto, minus the Snuggie
    #1 – YOU, ma’am, are my favorite today.

    • Michelle on January 4, 2013 at 8:15 pm

      1. I’d like to see a photo of the sock/dog sweater pronto.
      2. I totally should’ve/could’ve added the “Did you FEED the cats” question as well.
      3. Knew you’d ‘get’ the British Boys one…
      and
      4. Thank you!! I like your face.

  5. Kimmyyy83 on January 4, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    I am linking up to the other list thing tomorrow because I am a loser!!!!

    Mine are almost the same as yours but can we give the damn bobby pins a shout out? Damn them they are EVERYWHERE, I found one in the FRIDGE the other day!

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