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Aug. 1st, 2005 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraSometimes the universe hates me.
I had one of those vaguely Victorian lamps by my bed, the sort with the marbleized glass shade and the beaded fringe. It sat on the corner of my desk, which is under a window. An open window with a very narrow (basically non-existent) sill. Something a bit too narrow for a cat to safely bug hunt in.
Yes, the cat knocked over the lamp, not for the first time. Unfortunately it was the first, and last, time it fell off toward the right. Falling to the right allowed the shade to hit the edge of the desk and break, any other direction and the base of the lamp would hit something else (which it what saved the lamp previously, I had time to catch it or it braced against something and stopped falling).
The most annoying thing? I was going to go out tomorrow and get some brackets to mount a large shelf under the window, one that would have made it impossible for the cat to fall out of the window.
The lamp was a gift too.
I'm going to go cry a bit now.
I had one of those vaguely Victorian lamps by my bed, the sort with the marbleized glass shade and the beaded fringe. It sat on the corner of my desk, which is under a window. An open window with a very narrow (basically non-existent) sill. Something a bit too narrow for a cat to safely bug hunt in.
Yes, the cat knocked over the lamp, not for the first time. Unfortunately it was the first, and last, time it fell off toward the right. Falling to the right allowed the shade to hit the edge of the desk and break, any other direction and the base of the lamp would hit something else (which it what saved the lamp previously, I had time to catch it or it braced against something and stopped falling).
The most annoying thing? I was going to go out tomorrow and get some brackets to mount a large shelf under the window, one that would have made it impossible for the cat to fall out of the window.
The lamp was a gift too.
I'm going to go cry a bit now.
