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[penguinfaery]

My dogs managed to lock themselves in my mom's room.

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We had to saw away part of her door. I'm not even fucking kidding.

(They were locked in after the book incident. they managed to knock over my mom's keyboard and barricade themselves inside.)

*sigh*

In other news, I may be mailing out people's cards and presents in time :D However, Ju has most the present packages so unless your Chag, you won't get your till after Christmas.

Comments

[usagi-no-hime.livejournal.com]

LOL at fail dogs! Omg, whats up with them lately?

[submit-yourself.livejournal.com]

I believe "WOOOOOOW" is the only fitting reaspons to that...

[torowa.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they're stir crazy. Has your mom been able to walk them a lot recently? I know she hasn't been well and that the weather is fail.

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

That... might explain why every interior door in my own house (a) has deadbolts on the *outside* and (b) has had at least one, usually more, panels kicked out.

I'd originally thought it was just because the man was a semipsychotic drug addict who left his stash in the furnace, but he also had a Rottweiler, and "keeping the dog shut in" makes a marginally better explanation for the outside-the-door-locks than "keeping the teenagers shut in," though he only had the one Rottweiler and wouldn't have needed to force-latch that many doors, and, er. XD

My cat has gotten himself lodged in the plumbing and under the deck, but I'm lucky he's never managed to close me out of a room yet. (Of course, given that the door panels are currently held together with clear mailing tape, I probably wouldn't have to get a saw to get him out. He's also figured out how to open every door that doesn't have a deadbolt -- and these are slippery round 1926 doorknobs, not the push-down handle type. I swear the little brat must have retractable thumbs that he uses when I've got my back turned...)

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

Darling, HOW is your house still datnging?

As from what I know of it, it seems to be held together with Duct Tape and a lot of prayer.

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, duct tape makes the world go round. That plus the $12K of de-sewaging and repairs that went into the basement this summer. .__.

I swear it's a darn good thing I've got a theater tech degree, because when something goes spoinggg I have about a 50-50 chance of being able to fix it -- I replaced my thermostat just last week, for example... the basement was just plain above and beyond the call of the theater tech skills, which involve things like "slap up a temporary wall and paint it pretty" or "tear down thin painted boards that aren't a toxic waste dump," NOT things like "removing 800 square feet of sewage-soaked carpeting and associated walls" or " functional and up-to-code plumbing diversion to repair the lack of two backflow valves that were never installed in the Basement Bathroom From Hell that started the whole flood mess".

...And of course I bought my house in May 2006, right at the height of the real estate bubble, and I don't dare get my house reappraised to lower the property taxes because if I did I wouldn't have enough equity left to avoid paying PMI. (sigh.)

Aaaaanyhow - yeah, I totally feel your pain on the 'unexpected things you never figured you'd have to do to your house' front! Taking a saw to an inside door really is up there on the WTF chart.

[darkangel-wings.livejournal.com]

Wow. The joys of having pets, seriously. They manage to do the dumbest things...

[effluency.livejournal.com]

Awww, do you have like a keyhole of any kind on that door?

When I was little I used to lock my sister in our downstairs bathroom all the time (I don't know why? I'd tell her to lock the door and then she couldn't seem to take the directions to open it) and my mom would just stick a coathanger in the keyhole and basically pick the lock rofl.