FML
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Marth
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- Location: London - but not by the sea. Nowhere near it in fact.
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Lily
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- Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:28 am
- Location: The Wilds
Re: FML
Where do you even find these GIFs?!
I hit my glass gerbilarium with my car door on Friday night when picking up the gerbils and smashed it. I was online until 0100 Saturday morning trying to source another one I could vaguely afford as they are NOT cheap. I found one in Devon which a friend has picked up for me and it will be transported to me in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I tried to mend the broken one having had bad dreams all night about the gerbils killing each other because they were in their very small travel cage. I got up at 0800 to go to B&Q and spent a good hour walking back and forth asking for advice and hefting timber. I got home and then had to go back to buy a saw as I got the measurements wrong
I sawed some of the wood on my kitchen worktop (which is bloody, bloody hard work) but had to use my knees as a vice for one bit which didn't work very well. At this point my parents staged an intervention - my dad rang me in a panic: "Put the saw DOWN" - and rooted around in their shed to find some alternative temporary accommodation for the gerbils. A large plastic tub was discovered: not ideal, but better than the alternative, and the broken tank taken away. We concocted a temporary lid out of cake cooling racks.
I woke up this morning to discover one of the boys is actually a girl and I have 3 babies. So now I have to move them into the travel tank - baby gerbils' lungs are too delicate for them to breathe in sawdust, and the mum is probably already pregnant again as gerbils hold onto unused 'seed' just in case they never mate again (I know how they feel) so the female can become pregnant as soon as she's given birth.
So. Now I need to source another tank.
(They are gorgeous though)
I hit my glass gerbilarium with my car door on Friday night when picking up the gerbils and smashed it. I was online until 0100 Saturday morning trying to source another one I could vaguely afford as they are NOT cheap. I found one in Devon which a friend has picked up for me and it will be transported to me in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I tried to mend the broken one having had bad dreams all night about the gerbils killing each other because they were in their very small travel cage. I got up at 0800 to go to B&Q and spent a good hour walking back and forth asking for advice and hefting timber. I got home and then had to go back to buy a saw as I got the measurements wrong
I sawed some of the wood on my kitchen worktop (which is bloody, bloody hard work) but had to use my knees as a vice for one bit which didn't work very well. At this point my parents staged an intervention - my dad rang me in a panic: "Put the saw DOWN" - and rooted around in their shed to find some alternative temporary accommodation for the gerbils. A large plastic tub was discovered: not ideal, but better than the alternative, and the broken tank taken away. We concocted a temporary lid out of cake cooling racks.I woke up this morning to discover one of the boys is actually a girl and I have 3 babies. So now I have to move them into the travel tank - baby gerbils' lungs are too delicate for them to breathe in sawdust, and the mum is probably already pregnant again as gerbils hold onto unused 'seed' just in case they never mate again (I know how they feel) so the female can become pregnant as soon as she's given birth.
So. Now I need to source another tank.
(They are gorgeous though)
"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
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Babies though! 
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Lily
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- Location: The Wilds
Re: FML
Please, for the love of God, DO. They are delicious though, and a friend wants to take them, so I don't feel so much FML anymore.
LittleMy
She is either very very early, or very very late!"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
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Margo
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Re: FML
FML... after being seduced by a foundation which looked great, good coverage etc I went through their colour choice questions and ordered a bottle which should have matched me perfectly. It arrived today, and I look Trumpy! I’m orange! Fukkit, that means a trip to the post office :(
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rosy
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Re: FML
Oh no!
I made a lined drawstring bag in sewing class today intending to pop a pair of Harry Potter slippers & pyjamas in for N for Christmas, and due to rushing and not properly checking, the back is on upside down. I didn’t notice until it was way too late so I’m going to have to make another out of different fabric. FML because that fabric was my favourite!
I made a lined drawstring bag in sewing class today intending to pop a pair of Harry Potter slippers & pyjamas in for N for Christmas, and due to rushing and not properly checking, the back is on upside down. I didn’t notice until it was way too late so I’m going to have to make another out of different fabric. FML because that fabric was my favourite!
It’s like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.