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when brendan and i were first married, he felt that i used too many drinking glasses. this especially bothered him because he washed the dishes. so he told me to pick one glass to be my water glass. so i picked my biggest glass – a coca cola cup that held 2 cups of water. i can't remember where i got the glass, but it was probably a gift from my early 20 days when i drank a lot of pop (specifically coke). eventually, i bought a metal straw to with my drinking glass, and together i was able to down 2 cups of water in less than a minute.

i don't know about you, but glassware tends to break around our house. and i've often worried that my water glass could meet an unfortunate end. several times it got knocked over, but always sustained the fall. i was relieved.

last night, at 4 in the morning i was awoken by the sound of glass breaking. i shot up in bed. brendan on the other hand, slept right thru it (even though he's a light sleeper, he becomes quite disoriented in his slumber and doesn't register sounds or talking). almost instinctively, i knew what it was. my loyal water glass had met it's end. and sure enough, when i came thru to the den, i found it shattered on the ground. our diabetic cat had struck again. often when pekoe's water bowl is empty, he'll go searching for other water sources and frequently finds my water glass. and now he's gone and broken it. yet another reason why i'm annoyed at his existence. first he made our basement floor his personal toilet, and now this.

i suppose that if i'd thought to check his water supply before bed, this wouldn't have happened. because when i returned to bed (planning on cleaning up the mess in the morning), i could hear him drinking the spilled water. so i got up and filled his bowl, which then meant i had to lie there listening to him drink the entire bowl for the next 20 minutes.

to be fair, the glass was poorly designed because it was top heavy (having the coke bottle shape). and sometimes i found that 2 cups of water isn't enough. i've recently seen even bigger water glasses, which got me wishing mine was larger. so today i'll go to value village to scower their glasswares section in search of a replacement water carrying vessel :S

did you push us when we fell?