Things I Really, Truly Never Thought I'd Hear Myself Say

"Christ on a crab shell you guys are annoying tonight!"

I think that the part of my brain that is actually good with language meant to say "Christ on a clam shell" which evokes something nice, sort of a Jesus at the Mermaid Parade sort of an image.
However, that part of my brain was trumped by the part that was trying to get an actual life sustaining amount of food in the cats' bowls despite the fact that the aforementioned cats shoved their furry little noggins all the way into the bowls until their noses were smashed the second the first fume hit the air.