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Another day, another gloomy topic from the Daily Post. What gives? Is there no positivity to be had anymore?
In today’s prompt, we examine the charred remains of what we didn’t rescue from our burning houses yesterday. Yay. I shall tackle this topic with as much enthusiasm and excitement as Ben Stein would, though, cause I’m cool like that.
Wow.
Okay, lets first start off by recounting what I saved yesterday. I saved my external hard drive, my smart phone, my armor, my wallet, and Blunt Life Coach™. Everything else I own perished in the fire, presumably.
It’s too bad I couldn’t escape without you. Why couldn’t you go down with the ship like a good captain?
Nice.
I’ll address the first part of today’s prompt first, because OCD. Most of my belongings are in storage right now since I’m not really living in my own place, so I didn’t really lose all that much. I lost a couple of laptops, a couple of TVs, our bedroom furniture, and an Xbox 360. Oh, and all of our clothes, sheets, and towels. All things that are replaceable with the insurance money we’d receive. Well, provided we’d receive anything. They could find out that BLC™ burned down the house purposefully just to get to me. I don’t trust that guy…
Who? Me? What did I do?
And now to the second part. What, of the things that are left and burnt to a crisp, do I wish I could’ve taken? Well…I honestly can’t think of one thing that I wasn’t able to get out of the house yesterday that can’t be replaced. The furniture can be replaced. The electronics can be replaced. Our clothes can be replaced. The bed sheets and…well, you get the idea. Anything that perished is replaceable.
Kozo, jokingly I think, asked about my fuzzy Yoda. I actually do have an interactive Yoda toy, but he’s not fuzzy. And he’s in storage so he was absent during the hypothetical fire. Thank you for your concern, Kozo, but Master Yoda is safe and sound and still able to make that horrible stew that tastes so…yuck.
Safe, I am. Your concern, touching it is.
So, I guess now that I’ve drawn this out about as long as I can, there really is nothing that I wish I could’ve taken with me.
Update:
There were, unfortunately, no outtakes in the making of this post. Unless you count me unsuccessfully looking for a quick YouTube video of Ben Stein dispassionately saying, “Wooow.” But, I couldn’t so, yeah. That really would’ve made the post so much better. Oh well.
Anyhow, after months and months of nothing but horrible news to report, I finally have something positive to report. My wifey got a job finally!! Woot, woot! Congrats, Superbitch!
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Congrats to your wife!! And thanks for the Ben Stein reference…his voice will be in my head all morning!
You’re quite welcome.
Regardless of the topic, your work alwways leaves me smiling, buddy!
Good to hear! Glad I can help in whatever small way I can.
Sure, all your stuph (that you hadn’t saved the day before) can be replaced… but that takes time and energy and effort. Aren’t you busy as a storm trooper (and occasional blunt life coach)? Hmm, and now that I think about that, wouldn’t you have some cool gadget as a storm trooper to have helped you put the fire out in the first place?
Sadly, no. We’re viewed as expendible by the Empire. Go figure.
Rude… I feel like if you organized and formed a union you could probably get some better working conditions and benefits.
And die by force lightening. No thanks. I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
Such are the choices we make in life…
Yeah, tell me about it…
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Awesome! Congrats to the wife! And as I said yesterday as well, I don’t think I would ultimately miss anything I don’t take, well except the heirlooms. They’re valueless but irreplaceable. Much love as always.
I thought I replied to this earlier, but apparently I didn’t. Ugh. Thanks!!
Congrats to Superbitch! That is good news.
Yes, yes it is.
I do hope the good news keeps coming. One step at a time, but it’d be nice to see you guys back in your own home again.
That’s next on the agenda.
Woo-hoo!
You took the word right from me!! Seriously. Give it back. That’s my word.
Well, maybe…how about I go with yip yip yippidy! and you get woo-hoo!
As long as I get to keep my word…
Seems to me you are working pretty hard to keep the word that matters, the “Superbitch and Twindaddy forever” word. I won’t begrudge you a woo-hoo for that.
That’s quite a compound word. What a mouthful.
That’s what she said…badabum tcsh
I was hoping you’d say that. I left it out there for ya!
Glad I didn’t disappoint.
Not at all. Well done.
Congrats to the wife. Now you can buy more Star Wars Collectables. I think Yoda will be worth his weight in gold after Disney releases a CG masterpiece in 2015.
P.S.
Yoda says, “Stew is. ‘Yuck’ in your mind is.”
Yeah. I’ll just starve. That stuff was nasty.
WTG on the job. My husband is out of work right now so I feel the pain of your past. You’re a funny guy.
x,
Becca
Thanks!
That is really great about your wife. Have you seen the whoo hoo GIF? It was funny and my fave when we could have GIFs.
Congratulations to you wife!
The people over at the Daily post sound so sad. I think somebody needs a hug. Naked blog hugs.
*your wife.
Darn typos.
I get excited just thinking about it.
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