ahh, memories

someone once told me that it takes a lifetime to make memories, i believe mom and i made at least 3 if not more yesterday.  i know that it is a day that will go down in history for both of us.  but we lived....see the story below!!! 

*begin dramatic theme music*

it was finally a bright and sunshiny thursday, with a slight breeze.  i get to mom's and i hear the garage beckoning for us to come and clean it!  so we obeyed the voice that we heard.

at first it wasn't so bad, just sorta "get in there and get it done" sorta deal.  a little scary not know what we would find in there after 8 years, but ya know, not to bad.  mom and i are tearing up stuff, throwing tons (literally it felt like tons) of stuff away.  bags full, shovels full, a team lift full, but we were getting it done.

one of my big things that i wanted to find was my clarinet from high school.  i even remembered what it was in and everything, so i thought no problem finding right?  wrong!  i didn't count on the container to be broken down into a million pieces, but mom spotted it.  good eye mom!  so i go and i'm really excited about it, but there is all this stuff on top of it, and well, i was a little nervous about moving everything with my hand so i got a pvc pipe and was moving all the debris off.  and i saw this big ugly creepy bug with like a bazillion legs (okay, maybe i'm exaggerating just a little) anyway, it was creepy and i screamed and ran out of the garage.  mom thought i was just so excited to see my clarinet that i screamed, but after she saw me running she thought maybe there was something more to it, so i told her about the big ugly creepy bug.  i asked if she would be the most wonderful mom in the world and clean it off for me so i could see inside, and she did.  and she is the most wonderful mom in the world.  anyway, i was a little wigged out so she opened the case for me.  the clarinet was in sad shape, i hope we can get it fixed.

so we get past that little escapade and about an hour or so later we are trying to move some big cabinet thing.  one that had drawers in it too.  it was big, maybe 7 or 8 foot long, so the first project is to get the counter off.  both of us go to pull it off, and a leaf moves and mom freaks out because she thinks it's a mouse, but false alarm.  the counter is  way to heavy for us to heeve-ho it over the dumpster.  by the time we got it most of the way off, it was at an angle and we thought we could break it, wrong by a long shot.  so  i think, "I'm gonna have some fun with this!"  so i told mom to stand still so she could be my brace 'cause i was going to karate kick it in 2 right?  wrong, i kicked it like 5 times and never even broke it.

so here we are at a stand still trying to figure out what to do, i'm determined to get this in the dumpster so it would look like we did something!  mom says something about a sledge hammer!  alright!  deconstruction!  i like that.  mom goes to pick up the hammer and the handle it rotted off, so it's just the sledge part.  i thought okay, i can work with that, so i throw the sledge at the counter top like 10 times to finally break it (it must of been very well built!)  anyway, we finally get the counter top broken down and in the dumpster.

and we finally have a chance to look, and in the first drawer, there is this nest lookin' thing, and boy is it big!  so we talk about it and mom says "I hope it's not a rat" and it's time for another break.  so mom is sitting for a few min. and i'm taking out the drawers b/c the whole thing would be to heavy for us to carry, so i take out 2 drawers, i leave the one with the nest in it until last so i could muster up the courage to move it.  and i get to the second to last drawer.  man, it was hard to get unstuck.  it was so warped that i had to brace myself against something to get the drawer out. 

 

finally it comes out, and i see this big pink pointy nose with whiskers wiggling at me!!!!!

i totally freaked out!  i was screaming and running, and i guess i scream real loud and run real fast when i'm scared.  mom was in hot pursuit right behind me, and she didn't even know what it was at the time!!!!  i'm out in the road still screaming and shaking and trying to catch my breath and mom finally asked me what it was, and i told her a rat!  i said "i'm done, i'm done, i'm done, i'm done!"  that was all i could say!!!!  and when i finally quit screaming i was laughing!  and yet panting for breath.   

we then stood in the road and talked about how stupid that thing was because it just sat there.  with all the noise we'd been making and me throwing a sludge about 4 feet away from where it was, it never moved, never came out or anything, just wiggled it's long whiskers and bright pink nose at me.  did i mention this thing looked as big as a large house cat?  anyway, i was freaked out.  

once we got into the house, mom and i were laughing about it, and i could only say that i was glad it was me and not mom.  she would of passed out on the floor.  mom told me she wouldn't have passed out, but we would of been selling the house because she would of had a heart attack!  anyway, we were laughing about it then.  mom said if it would of came out after us, we would have been running to Keokuk!

i was on my way home and mom called me and said that she'd talked to her sister and her sister thought it was a possum because of how big it was and the fact that it didn't move.  rats would have come running out after us or something.  once i found out it was a possum and not a rat, i was able to calm down so much better.  i didn't even dream about it!

so there are more memories in the making.  hope you enjoyed!