See? I Haven’t Lost My Mind…Yet
Since becoming a mother, I’ve somehow developed a form of mental procrastinating. Unless something is supposed to happen within the next 24-48 hours, I’m not thinking about it.
I rarely pre-write blog posts. I usually have no idea what I’ll be writing about until the night before, or in the morning before I post. What’s for dinner? I’ll decide around 5pm.
Three weeks ago, I checked out music from our local library for Babisodes. A Wonder Pets and Backyardigans CD. On Tuesday I received an email notification stating they were due back on Thursday.
Of course, when did I start gathering the CD’s to return?
Wednesday.
I powered up our CD/DVD player and opened the disc changer.
Wonder Pets CD? Check.
Layers of dust? Check.
Backyardigans CD? … Negative.
For about an hour, I calmly searched through the few CD storage compartments in our TV cabinet. Then I moved to my car, and then my upstairs bedroom. Finally, I began interrogating Babisodes as a witness, or possible suspect.
No dice.
Okay. Time to panic.
So I tore my house apart…for hours. HOURS!
It wasn’t about the lousy $15 fine I would probably have to pay. It was the principle of losing something that didn’t belong to me. Plus, I swore it was in the disc changer. Was I losing my mind?
I had.to.find.it.
I checked everywhere, including my freezer and a potted plant.
Nada. Zip. Zilch.
* Front door opens as Dadisodes arrives home *
Me: Pleeeeaaase! HELP…ME!
Dadisodes: What? What? What? What’s wrong?
Me: I can’t find the Backyardigans CD! It’s due back tomorrow and *sniff* I can’t find it!!! They’re gonna put my picture on the wall so kids can throw darts at it! *throws face into hands*
Dadisodes: Stop it.
<Pause>
*Insert dim light bulb flickering above Dadisodes’ head*
Dadisodes: Uh…I moved the CD/DVD player on Monday.
*Walks briskly to CD/DVD player with screwdriver in hand*
And to THINK! I swooned over his mad geek skills this week; his coveted technical intelligence that keeps this blog running. You would think he had the common sense to TAKE OUT the friggin’ CD’s before moving the machine.
P.S. There were other CD’s’s wedged in there from 3 years ago…when I tore apart our previous home to find them.
Thanks for the giggle. I hope, though that your CD player is back in one piece and playing again.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:30 am
Wow! The public library back there is vindictive! Darts?!
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:02 am
Sometimes husbands do the darnedest things.
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:10 am
I did not know that the discs could fall into the machine like that. On the plus side…you got back the other missing discs.
Is that all they do to you…post a picture? I think they take you straight to jail where I live. That is why I never borrow things from the library. I was always afraid that my children would have to grow up childless!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:42 am
Muah –
!
I didn’t know CD players do that. WOW
Thanks for the laugh
November 21st, 2008 at 3:20 am
Hehe aww bless ya hun!
I am always leaving things to the last minute too – always have, and I guess I always will. >_<
Silly Dadisodes!
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:57 am
OH my…thank goodness for Geek-Dad!!!
My kids love the Backyardigans – especially the CD…sad, but I have cought myself sigining a tune from the Backyardigans while driving – ALONE!
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November 21st, 2008 at 7:14 am
send geek dad here please.
*looks around to see what she could send in return*
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November 21st, 2008 at 7:22 am
In his defense – at least he knew where to look. Some guys would just have said “tough shit!” and let it go at that. Not that I would encourage that kind of thing. That’s never the way to handle interpersonal relationships. Especially if you expect your relationship to continue to be ‘interpersonal’ (ahem, cough).
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:13 am
At least they were found. And he did save the day. Do kids really throw darts at pictures, or just stick gum on your nose and draw you a mustache?
November 21st, 2008 at 9:17 am
I am so glad my husband doesn’t tinker with electronics! Glad you found it
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am
This is why I hardly get something from the library…cause I have brain farts.
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:14 am
Well, at least he found it!
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
I have had to pay the $15 for a DVD lost in my house..and it has yet to be found.. I bet the very hungry dust bunny ate it..
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Wow…that was quite a project;)
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am
The thing I get a kick out of is imagining the photo shoot that has to happen for the post. Does Dadisodes know the photo shoot is happening and laughing it off, or is he grumbling?
I do some of the same stuff, and sometimes I feel awkward whipping out a camera to capture the moment.
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am
This is funny! Although probably not for you. I’m not real happy with the way Dadisodes talks to you, based on the last few posts, but at least he knew where to look and why. And the adorable Babisodes was innocent!
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
What’s gonna work?
TEAMWORK!
What’s gonna work?
TEAMWORK!
LOL!! Teamwork got the CD back.
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:04 am
When the woman can’t find it, you know the man did something. That’s my motto, anyway.
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am
At least he found it, right?
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Sounds like my house, except my scenario would’ve ended with husband laughing at me and telling me it WAS JUST A DVD and then he’d look nonchalantly in the fridge or something and tell me he looked but couldn’t find it. Even if he did move the dvd player and it was in there…We MIGHT find it if we ever got it serviced…in 5 years. But then again, our dvd player only plays one at a time. We are currently missing 2 DVDs that I know of and I have no clue where they could be. I’m blaming my toddler. She’s obsessed with opening and then trying to insert DVDs into the player.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!! – that was funny though!!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Wow, I didn’t realize that CD’s can jump like that! Wait a minute, we have a DVD missing from 2 years ago, maybe we need to do the same thing!
And in terms of pre-writing posts? I have taken it to the extreme for this NaBloPoMo. I’ve got posts lined up through 11/28 and from the looks of it, will have posts going up everyday while I’m on vacation the first week of December. So much for spontaneity!
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November 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
*LOL* That crazy man!!
Sad thing is…we’ve done the same thing….with Brandon’s old stereo system…yeah…but we did finally rescue them all…but that stereo was broke for good
Glad you found it, though!!
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November 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
When my now 14 year old niece was about 2 she shoved a ton of cardboard in my VCR player. It was pretty funny.
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
LOL
Damn, I did…at work! Ha!
Thanks for the chuckle…and hugs!
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
It’s amazing we find anything in our house. It’s like the Bermuda Triangle/ Congrats on finding the CD.
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Girl, I totally feel ya, I RARELY think more than 8 hours in advance anymore. And I’m sure you’re Geek still loves ya!
Too funny.
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Ok, that’s funny. I’m glad you found it, I have suffered similar moments. When you know where you put something and why would it occur to anyone else to move it? Then you freak out when it’s gone and the kids eventually own up to it days later. Been there live there some days. Great story.
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I knew the geeks were good for something!
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
You know what, I can’t help but to laugh at this. For one, I think I have definitely caught that procrastination bug that comes along with childbirth. I had a doctor’s appointment on Thursday and did not decided to look for my insurance card until Wednesday. However, I had to reschedule until next Thursday. Have I started looking for the card? As far as blogs, I recently started blogging, but I would forget to blog. I decided to write down a bunch of topics. So I would just read them and as one hits my “spirit” I will blog.
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
OMG…that is hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh as I am very nervous right now. I am about to tell my supervisor I was offered a position at another company. I love all my coworkers, but need to leave for personal advancement. Thanks again! (Although finding those CDs were probably no laughing matter to you…LOL).
November 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Hahaha that is so me & my hubby, too!
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hahaha! That is hilarious, and totally something that would happen to me. I feel your pain.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Yeah…that is the kind of thing that would happen to me too. Before my son’s party I lost the response list, so I had no idea how many kids to expect. I ended up finding the list a week after the party.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Why were they still in there? If he knew they were there he should have taken them out right then… geeze!
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November 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
OH TOO FUNNY, been there once or twice myself. But I had to throw away the dang DVD player.
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I’m not doubting you, but if you really presented your delimma to Daddisodes the way you described, hands to face -sob-, I’m surprised he would help. Around here I would have gotten an, “Oh quit being so dramatic.” The geek part of him knew where to look. I wouldn’t have.
You make me laugh.
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
At least you found it!
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:20 pm
LOL … I do love how you tell your stories and I’m glad you found the missing CD ;–)
Hugs and blessings,
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Glad you haven’t lost your mind it is such a terrible thing to loose, you haven’t found mine have you?!
Next time a DVD or CD goes missing just get a screwdriver!
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I did not know that a player could eat a CD like that. Good thing Dadisodes came home with his trusty screw driver.
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I wish I’d known I should look inside the darn things. We have lost a few of those in our times, but I never thought to look inside the CD player. This cracks me up!
I’m glad to know, too, that your procedure went as well as one could have imagined. I’ve been thinking about you.
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I don’t get it. When I move the cd player, the discs don’t get wedged in there. I’m still chuckling at checking the plant.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
Oh so frustrating! Our family loses library stuff all the time. Then, the whole family has to search for hours until it finally shows up behind the computer desk or innocently shelved between our tons of books. Each time, I swear we will never check anything out from the library ever again…but we always go back.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Oh, I could so feel the tension!
I hate losing things and I hate searching!!
Glad you found it
!!
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November 22nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
LOL! Got a kick out of this one!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Was my Monster’s Inc. DVD in there, I can’t find ours?
It’s kind of a letdown not finding something yourself after a day’s full search, isn’t it? Great story.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:18 am
oh oh funny post
hang on to your mind – you can do it
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November 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I swear, how would we survive without husbands? I know my PC and DVD player wouldn’t work, and I probably couldn’t even get the damn TV to turn on…
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November 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Glad you found it. I am also relieved that I am not the only one who refuses to think about anything for than 36 hrs. out.
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November 24th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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November 24th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hilarious post!! Glad that you eventually managed to find the missing CD!!
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