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| Wed, 03-10-2004 - 7:01pm |
My morning started out with me looking into the mirror only to see this big and I mean big zit on my face. A zit, I have not had a zit in years and at my age!!!! Then my pants would not fit right today so I had to find a pair of sweats to wear. Some months you sure can tell when that time of the month is coming and some months you do not.
The little ones where bugging me for breakfast so I went into the kitchen and remembered that I did not do the dishes from last night. Our oldest daughter and her husband had come down last night to have my husband help them with their taxes. We had visited most of the evening and I was to tired last night to do them and how they where staring me in the face. I sat the little ones down to a bowl of cereal while I started to do the dishes by hand. I have been doing the dished by hand for years now. We have a portable dishwasher in fact it is the one that my husband had bought for me when we where first married. I had used it in the house that we sold up until we replaced it with a new one that we bought when we remodeled, but I had not used this dishwasher for a long time. I rinsed the dishes off and filled the dishwasher, I found some automatic dish soap that we had from along time ago and I hooked up the dishwasher to start it. Well I guess the dishwasher must have thought I was in need of a shower for the hose attached to the faucet began to spray me with water. I reach over, shut off the water, and again reattached the hose and yet again, I receive another shower. I tried again and this time I put a dishrag over the faucet in hopes of containing the spray if any. Wella, I got the connection right this time and there was only a small amount of water dripping from the faucet. I had forgotten that the dishwasher was very persnickadee about its hookup. This is why I did the dishes by hand. I started the dishwasher and I turned to answer the rapidly fired questions from my son. He had to know everything about the dishwasher. After a while the question started to irritate, me and I tried to find another subject to talk about when I relied that the dishwasher had quit. Okay I restarted the dishwasher and returned my attention to the little ones once again. My youngest daughter decided that throwing her cereal was great fun. Off the table came the bowl of cereal before she could put it on the floor or so I thought. I notice that the dishwasher had stopped yet again. Once again, I restarted it while thinking that maybe; using the dishwasher was not such a good idea. Then I decided to take a closer look at the dishwasher’s buttons sure enough the rinse and hold button was depressed. With the dishwasher problem fix I turn my attention to feeding me.
I did not want anything big just a poached egg and an English muffin. I start with poaching the egg and then got the English muffin ready for the toaster. Into the toaster, the muffin went and as I depress the lever, I feel something sticky. Oh man!!! Someone left honey on the lever. After washing my hands and the lever, I turned my attention to the little ones to answer some more questions when I heard the toaster pop. The muffin was barely warm and I like mine toasted. I tried to restart the toaster and as I am sure you know you can not immediately restart a toaster, it bussed at me causing me to jump. Okay put the toaster button to dark and try again. This time the muffin was barely toasted on the edges. I said I like mine TOASTED. This time I turn that baby up to burn and of course, what happens the little ones start fighting I walked over to take the toy away that they were fighting over when I felt something squishy under foot. Oh icky, it was the cereal that made it on the floor before I took the bowl away from my daughter. I just got the situation under control when the smoke detector goes off you know that muffin I wanted TOASTED. Well it was TOASTED all right. So here I sit eating poach egg on burnt English muffin and trying to think of a way to soothe my irritated nerves.
What do you do when your day is not going well and you have a headache and all the stuff that goes with getting ready for that time of the month? I would love to go for a walk but the little ones have the sniffles. I think that I will just lay on the cough and watch TV with the little ones. I think it maybe safer.
Warn Regards,
RainydaysArgon

((((((((((HUGS))))))))))) to you.
Dona
Mommy to CJ {03.21.03}& Chantel {08.10.95} Step~Mom to Carrington {08.12.92}
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I know you didn't mean to be funny with your post, but once again you did such a wonderful job of describing things, I could just see you with the dishwasher spraying you in the face and the toasted english muffin, ceral on the floor.
(((((((Rainy))))))), you've done it again!
As with Trac I know that you were not meaning to be funny, but I am sorry the way you describe the situation it made me giggle.....
I am sorry your day started out that way, I get days like that and to be honest I just laugh at myself and it usually makes it seem less bad and it helps you put it into persepective...
I like tracs idea about going back to bed for 30 minutes and getting back up and starting all over that sounds like something that I need to try sometime.
Well I hope that things get better for you.
Erin
((((((Rainy)))))), I'm sorry if I blew you off.
Well there is no rest for the wicked, as I lay in the bed our youngest daughter felt the need to be close. This would have been okay but she insisted on playing “The princess and the Pea.” You see here I sat in bed propped up on my pillow with this ridicules purple tiara on my head and my daughter proceeded to cover me with toys. On and off went the toys and the tiara for at least and hour, thank God my husband did not think about the camera I mean that would have been a picture that would have haunted me for ages.
However, today is a brand new day and with it comes relieve of a nasty headache.
Dona, you had some wonderful suggestions I will have to print them and keep them for next time.
Trac, what a good idea to return to bed for a half and hour more but knowing my luck I would have repeat the same scenario over again just like a nightmare that keeps return. I hear you about the pond in the dinning room, one of our six cats would always tip the water dish over and we were for ever having wet socks too.
Erin, I am glad to hear that you giggled. It makes me happy to know that maybe for a few minutes that you were with me and saw the humor in my day because I too laughed as I read my post today.
Barb, You did not blow me off, I just forgot to stop and reread my post immediately so that I too could see the humor. Thank you for reminding me to stop and look and thank you for always be here for me and the others it really does make mine day.
Warmest Regards,
RainydaysArgon