Bella Safe and Alice Approved!

I'm having a hard time deciding on the title for this blog. I have several ideas:

1. Ladies use duct tape too!
2. Just call me Mc-frickin-Gyver.
3. Who the hell stuffed a sock in my vacuum hose?
4. What can you do with a broken arrow, a broken paper clip and 6 inches of duct tape?


hmm... they just keep getting longer and longer. 


Really though, this all started when I decided to clean my house (cause I thought Karen was coming over and I know how much dust bothers her) and I was vacuuming my carpet, went to put the vacuum away and decided that it would be a good idea to check under the couch cushions.


This is what I found:


1. Nerds.  The sweet candy kind, not computer savvy white kids who will inevitably make more money than me when they grow up.  I blame this finding on Quuuuuuuue.  He was eating Nerds on my couch a couple of weeks ago while watching movies.

2. A tag from a Strawberry/Apple Pucker bottle. This actually embarrasses me a little because the last time we would have had Sour Apple Pucker in my house would have been New Year's Eve which indicatively shows the last time that I could have possibly vacuumed under the cushions on my couch... This I blame on Dallas.  He drinks that stuff a lot.

3. Doritos. Nothing really to say about Doritos except that my kid has been eating a lot of junk while I sleep. It's getting expensive.  I attribute the Doritos to Austin.


4. Dirt, Sand, A Leaf (brown crunchy), a couple of rocks.   DAMN DOGS.


5. a Pair of Socks (matching).... which is the initial purpose of this blog... cause I want to show just how uber cool and ... wait... really? "uber" isn't a word? It just red lined "uber".  *shrugs* whatever... I'm still using it.  So like I was saying...


... I was vacuuming under the couch cushions and I accidentally sucked up one of the socks in the hose. My vacuum starts convulsing and making this nnnnnnnneeeeeerrrrrrr sound.  So I turn it off and attempt to correct the issue. and this is where the story gets good. 


I had to remove the hose to determine where the sock was lodged. Then tried to stick the broom in there to push it through /fail #1.  Tried digging it out with a stick /fail #2. and just when I thought it couldn't be done, I began channeling McGyver's spirit and made this:

 

As you can see... it's a broken arrow with a paper clip taped to the end with Duct Tape... I stuck it down into the vacuum hose and very easily pulled the mischievous sock out.  You can also see the sock's mate laying in the floor holding the screws that attach the hose to the vacuum cleaner... 

and I completed the task... the couches are now Bella safe and Alice approved!