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My Plunger Meltdown
Things can get ugly when a single mom doesn't get her beauty sleep! You try to juggle everything on your own, and you're doing simply fine. You’re killing it! Your sanity is intact. Then, a tiny glitch happens, ruining your well-oiled machinery of a perfectly planned morning.
This morning started out just horrible! Horrible! I got off work, after a 10-hour shift, at 8am (I am a crazy third shifter), rushed home to feed the fat cat, and I took doggo outside to do his doody. I cleaned the well-fed, said cat's litterbox, and checked that the garbage had been taken out, by my son.
I then ran upstairs, to take a shower and change, into comfortable mom clothes(sweats), ran back downstairs to wolf down a bowl of vanilla and almond Special K (So good when you are starving!) Gulped a chocolate Ensure (need vitamins) then, ran back upstairs to my bedroom. My bed looked so inviting! I fell onto it.
The cat always lays with me, so he jumped his big 15 lbs. butt up there, beside me. We snuggled up and I smiled dreamily, so cozy… so snuggly…I started drifting off, my cat snoring already, right in my face. Suddenly, knock knock! on the bedroom door. Huh? My eyes fluttered open, confused.
“Mom, I think the toilet is plugged up,” my sons soft voice, knowing what waking me up might mean. All I could muster was “Plunger?”
Silence. “Yea, I tried that…
