Possessions

Ok, as a parent, I should know not to hold onto anything too tightly because it will most likely end up being broken by one of my two children.

However...

No one expects their daughter to cause a 17" iMac to go tumbling off the desk and the innocent cup of water that has been sitting ever so inconspicuously on the desk to come crashing down right on top, splashing it in unholy wetness!!!  I saw my beautiful Mac hang off my desk, upside down by the 3-4 USB cables hanging out the back of it like some broken bird

I saw my daughter's life flash before my eyes.

I'm sure she had the same out-of-body experience as well...as in, she saw her life flash in front of my eyes

There is water swishing inside of my iMac.

There should NEVER be water swishing inside such a beautiful machine.  I would say "who cares" if it were a PC because 1. they are cheap and easy to replace and 2. I'd be used to it crashing as Windows has got to be the most craptastic operating system known to man.

I have never encountered the "blue screen of death" on Mac... until today.

My heart sunk...

My soul broke into a million pieces..

My entire being shriveled up.

That is, until we turned it back off and then on again and all was right with the world.

My daughter's soul reentered her body since it knew I would rip it right out of her should my Mac fail to return to full operational capacity. 

Is it wrong for me to expect to keep something nice for myself in a household shared w/ two young children (aka semi-demons...yes, all small children are semi-demons and God is ROFL at us as we try to raise what are essentially crazy and irrational small people.  You can't reason with a child because they don't think logically...in fact, they just don't think; therefore they are crazy, manic and potentially schizophrenic, especially teenagers...but I digress)?

Well, now that the scare of a lifetime has passed, I can sleep...

Not so fast sweet checks... my spouse is currently tinkering with it in order to get the remaining portions of that poisonous liquid out of it.  I can hear a sucking/pulling type noise as he separates the screen from the casing...it sounds scary

I hope the tinkering doesn't lead to a divorce if my Mac comes back jacked!

**I Keeed, I Keeed**