March 27, 2008

• Thursday Thirteen #17

  Thirteen Things THAT DIDN’T GO SO WELL Lest anyone look at my recent lists of accomplishments and think I’ve been boasting; I will list 13 things of an imperfect nature that ALSO happened to me! 1.  To save money, I attempted to use a new recipe when making biscuits from scratch.  Rock hard with an “interesting” taste was the result.  I had to throw the leftovers (a lot of them!!!) away.  So much for saving money. 2.  I moved my desk and file cabinet down the wall to make room for the second file cabinet (that I never got around to purchasing this week).  It took me forever to figure out why the printer was “disabled” and I found that I had unplugged it from the CPU when scooting things around.  A waste of precious time! 3.  Stephanie & JanaLyn were here Saturday and I fixed enough dinner (barely) for all of us.  Rob came to get JanaLyn right as we were sitting down.  I fixed an extra place at the table for him and rallied everyone into the kitchen.  I hissed into my immediate family’s ears as food was being put onto the plates, “Don’t be a pig.  Don’t take too much food, so there will be enough for Rob!”  No one took seconds and there was PLENTY of food put in the refrigerator afterwards!  I wonder if anyone was still hungry, but too afraid to say so? 4.  I decided to make a point of remembering my dear friend’s (Tina) birthday on the 24th.  All day, on the 24th, I was bothered that it was someone’s birthday and kept telling myself, my brother’s birthday was the 23rd and I was getting so old I was confusing the dates.  I totally forgot Tina! 5.  We let Stormy (the cat) out before we went to bed.  She rarely stays out long and is definitely an indoor, cuddling in a bed, type of cat.  I forgot about her and the next morning there was a very disgruntled Stormy at the door, who was freezing because the weather had changed to COLD.  6.  I let Sampson out the same morning Stormy came in and forgot about him.  He was out almost all day in the cold temperatures.  No fur, always freezing, and no bark since Jesse-boy died.  I FELT HORRIBLE when I heard his pathetic whining at the back door. 7.  I cleaned the drip pans under my gas burners and had the stove nice and sparkling clean.  That evening, my potatoes boiled over and then my gravy did the same.  So much for “clean” drip pans. 8.  I washed the WHITE table cloth from our formal dining room table and threw my woven place mats in at the same time.  The place mats look like little woven rugs.  I opened the washer to find a BLUE table cloth and matted woven place mats.  I put the place mats in the dryer and rewashed the table cloth with bleach, praying for the best.  I opened the dryer and fuzz exploded from the inside.  My place mats had shriveled into “smaller size rugs” and there was lint EVERYWHERE.  Fortunately, my white table cloth had been restored to its original white color.  But, the newly swept kitchen floors had blue lint bouncing everywhere and that was carried onto the carpet everywhere in the house. 9.  I placed frozen meat (Angus cube steaks) out to thaw for dinner and proceeded with my daily chores.  Perfect dinner: steak and a salad – easy, too.  At meal time, the steaks were still frozen together in one big block, so Jesse picked up chicken at the truck stop, when he filled my car up with gas.  I attempted to fix the steaks the next night and found the meat had gone bad in the freezer.  So, once again, Jesse picked up burgers from Burger King. (sigh) 10.  One night while washing dishes, I exclaimed in horror, “Oh no!  My Grandma’s ring is gone!” as I looked at my bare left hand.  Then I remembered my ring was on my other hand (and has been for 12 years!!!!). 11.  I paid ALL of our bills and got that nasty task out of the way.  I cleaned up my desk,  put away my checkbook, debit card, and sighed a sigh of relief that  the bills were ALL paid and statements filed.  I felt very smug until I realized I had forgotten two bills and they were the ones that were due the soonest! 12.  I took our old bath tub shower caddy shelf down and opened the box of the new one.  I allowed 20 minutes to take down the old caddy, clean the tub, and put up the new caddy.  An hour later I was still messing with poles and washers and little shelves to get them the correct height for the tub to ceiling gap.  I finally threw away the new poles and put the new washers and shelves on the OLD pole (that was rusted and corroded at the bottom) and installed the whole thing.  Of course it was the right height . . . but, an HOUR of my precious time??? 13.  Yesterday, I talked about the scarf valance in the formal living room.  I tackled the second rod and scarf and NOTHING went well.  The scarf continually unraveled from the rod where I had draped it.  The rod came out of its brackets more times than I can count and fell to the floor.  THEN, the rod that was already finished from the day before, fell to the ground.  Another hour, of reaching above my head and sweating, gone!  Today, I have to tackle the first rod again and get the valance up on that side.  I finally tied the second valance in a knot at both ends of the rod and that’s what I’ll attempt to do today.

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