This is only for me to keep track of..don't bother reading.

( The list of all the cleaning I need to do this week for my own reference )

I beat the bugger into submission.

I was trying to get the battery back into the smoke detector (I neutered it on the very first day we moved in if that gives you any idea of how my roommate and I cook), and I had it about four inches from my face so that I could get the prongs on the battery to line up with those on the detector. I had just barely touched the connectors together, and the contact alone caused the bugger to squeal right in my fucking ear. It startled me so bad that I tossed the battery about three feet into the air. I tried to connect the battery a few more times, but after it screamed at me for the third or fourth time I thought fuck that. I finally got them together after drowning out the noise by burying them in a blanket. I hate smoke detectors, and they hate me.