Do NOT gulp your hot cocoa, no matter how cold you are. No matter how badly your hands hurt from the cold. No matter that it is 12:36pm and 57 degrees in your house and not warming up because your landlord refuses to fix the busted windows in the kitchen that broke and fell out back in August from the summer heat reaching over 100 degrees. No matter how cold these busted windows make your house and no matter how many animals you come home to IN YOUR HOUSE after being out of town because the animals discovered that they could force the taped up cardboard out of the windows and come in where it is warmER.
Nope. Do not gulp your hot cocoa.
It is not wise, even when it is unintentional because your child said something funny right as you sipped your hot cocoa and that funny thing caused a reactionary gulp that burned the top of your mouth into a huge blister resulting in a large flap of skin to dangle from the roof of your mouth. Do NOT gulp! You might also burn your teeny, tiny little taste buds until they can not taste anything giving way to a lack of desire to eat because not only does your mouth now hurt, but what’s the point in eating when you can no longer enjoy the ecstasy of the flavors which once rolled around on those (now lifeless) taste buds that used to give way to such thrilling moments of “Perfect!” and “That’s it. That hits the spot!” or the guttural “OH, that is sooo good.” Or maybe even a few flavorful bites of perfection that can only be savored with tasty moans of passion that make one cry out in perfect fantasy of food.
Even one of my favorite chocolate treats must now wait for my mouth to heal. Sigh. Do NOT gulp. Please. Save yourself.
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Dare I ask what critters spent some of the 12 days of Christmas in your house?
It’s 32 degrees outside. Alot of critters are begging to get in my house tonight. Good to here you made it home. I was going to call you in Bham, but your cell number is not in my cell address book. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGFHHHHHHHHHHHhggggggggg. Did I spell that right? JK. Right now it is too dang cold to sit in this sunroom, I use that term loosely, I’m going to go curl up in my bed.
Sounds like the landlord needs to live there for a day or two. Bet it would be fixed ASAP!
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OUCH!! Sorry to hear about your mouth. Nothing worse than a burn from something someone should be able to sit back and enjoy simply because they want to … not because they are freezing to death!
As for the landlord … I’d mention something to this effect … I took the rent money for the next couple of months to fix the windows that you refuse to fix … MY LAWYER said I had that right. Would you like to speak with him? Surely your landlord would agree that your lawyer was correct!
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Chef - cats, ones that should NOT be inside.
Holley - I tried to reach you guys while we were there, but I couldn’t get through. I’ll text you my number later. Don’t forget to save it in your phone.
MMM & Linda - yes, this is the landlord that we have had so much trouble with in the attempt to buy the house, and let us know at the last minute that he was raising the rent by $100.00, and in the new lease has said that we can’t have pets. We will fight this. I’m not getting rid of this family’s pets.