the good, the bad and the very ugly

When you are cleaning things out....and packing up in my case....you find many things, both good and bad. I was very happy to find both pairs of my sunglasses that I thought I had lost. They were both under my bed, more than likely stolen by the ol' under-the-bed and eat-all-your-stuff monster. So I was pretty excited about that. Now like I said you also find things that are bad and more often than not those bad things are found in your refrigerator. The dreaded task of cleaning out that beastly monster. Warning to all reading: I grow more things in my refrigerator than my grandma grows in her garden.

So I finally decided to attack that foul beast and just get it over with. I figured tonight would be better than tomorrow morning. But now I realize it was a bad idea because I am will probably have nightmares from what I found. It was all going well. Nothing too bad. Some fuzz on my strawberries. Some icky, who knows what dried to the bottom of my sour cream. Even some rank smelling yogurt. All of these things I can stomach. What I found that was probably the most disturbing thing I have ever seen was in the most unexpected place.....the bottom of our Brita filter. Now mind you we haven't used that filter in months, which is probably why this growth was there. It had a little water in it that had sat for months and the filter was just long enough to sit in the water.

There are 4 little circle filter thingys. Three of them had some definite spotty mold growing on them. Or possibly mildew. Which is gross in itself, but I could handle that compared to what was on the fourth. It was a jelly like slime that covered the filter and was oozy. Sick! It gives me chills just thinking about it.

It scared me so bad that I decided to take a picture to share it with all of you! :)



Gross, huh? Anyways....I hope it's ok with you Whitney, but I threw the entire thing away. I am willing to just invest in an entirely new one....or maybe just NEVER AGAIN!