It’s been amusing around here. Meaning the drama and craptastic stuff, the stuff you just have to laugh off is in abundance. We try very hard to not give in to the woe is me attitude, life isn’t easy (for anyone) and it’s not all sunshine and roses either. Perspective is the key to shaping you reality.

We are trying our darnedest to get everything lined up and ready for our Arizona trip which is a feat in it’s self. Then we have the pet drama to contend with… Sometimes all you can do is laugh and make fun of things.

This is why I spent the morning singing my “I love vomit” song while I picked up and scrubbed up more vomit spots from the carpet. Jack at scarfed down too much food too fast again and ended up projectile vomiting across about two feet of living room space this morning. He managed to hit one of E’s non-washable toys as well as a pile of N’s reading material and the white carpet.

N joked that we spend more time cleaning up cat vomit than we do cleaning any other part of the house… “Hey I think I’ll mop the floor- Oh, wait someone just vomited again.”

First we have to pick up the chunky vomit pieces, then we get out the bucket of Borax and scrub the yucky spot good, then we grab the carpet cleaner that only sucks up water and we get the wet, dirty, vomit/ borax water off the carpet.

Sometimes we even have to repeat the scrub and suck steps until the carpet is back to white. It’s no quick chore and every time someone vomits it’s right after we had just succeeded in getting the carpets clean again. So I used humor and sarcasm to get through my fish smelling, cat vomit clean up this morning.

I love vomit, yes I do.

I love vomit, how ’bout you?

I love vomit, it is free.

I love vomit, makes me hap-py.

We spoke with the mechanic in Arizona whose putting a new engine in our good car. I haven’t told you this yet but when it arrived at the shop they opened it up and discovered the entire engine compartment had been transformed in to a pack rat nest. Much like this:

That’s what leaving your car in the Arizona desert for a year does for ya, makes it a pack rat nest. Luckily the whole engine needed to be replaced anyway so the pack rat didn’t damage anything we didn’t already need to have fixed.

The mechanic said once they started cleaning it all out a huge rat jummped out and hid in the shop… It’s still on the loose weeks later. If you want to know more about pack rats in cars you can read this.

Animals are constant sources of madness! Pack rats in cars, cat’s ruining the carpet… Oh yeah, can’t forget how Gabby just swallowed a needle!

It’s true, whenever we have something big coming the animals really liven things up for us! Remember last year when Maybelle and Boner made babies? Our pet sitter even had to be warned about the possibility of discovering dead baby bunnies about a year ago. *Sigh*

Never a dull moment around here thanks to our zoo. For more pet drama recap check out these older posts:

• Pets are adjusted, I think. Hell has frozen over!
• … and the special continues…
• Got some plants on the way and some animal drama for my birthday.
• Weekly drama recap…

You can also peruse my Animals & Pets blog category if you are bored and need more drama!