comedy of errors

I want to tell you about my adventures yesterday, just trying to have a snack. I filled the cup of my magic bullet and opened my shake packet.  Next I needed to mix metamucil into the powder before adding it to my water.  My shake packet was on one counter and the metamucil on the other.  In the process of moving one to the other, I realized that the lid was loose on the metamucil, and as I attempted to catch it before it spilled, I knocked over the water, and the container of metamucil fell anyway.  So now I had water and metamucil on the counter, floor and splashed everywhere it could reach.  I threw towels on the biggest sections of water and started thinking.  I figured as a lot of the metamucil was not in the water yet, maybe I could vacuum it before the dogs mixed it all together and dragged it everywhere.  Good idea, eh?  I realized that the vacuum was full, emptied it, put it back together, and voila, started sucking up all the dry powder.  I was doing really well too, until I started to see a cloud, looked behind me and it was spewing out of the vacuum vent as fast as I was sucking it up the other end.  Yup, you guessed it, I forgot to put the filter back in!  So now I had spread the sticky powder all over the place and the stuff in the water was congealing, just like it should.  I thought about rinsing out the towels and laying them again, but thought about my recently un-clogged drain and just wasn't sure what a half container of metamucil would do to it.  I threw out the sink mat, threw out the towels, got a garbage bag and a box of disposable swiffer sheets, put the vacuum together properly, vacuummed what I could (I had to replace and clean the filter 3 times!) and started mopping.  I used at least a dozen swiffer sheets and had to go outside to scrape the bottom of my crocs twice to get the clumps off the bottom so I wasn't slip sliding all over the place.  The cupboards and fridge are still splashed, but the floor is reasonably clean.  I think I might leave the splashes until it dries out again to see if it will just fall off??

I remember a time when I would have just sat down and cried, but I actually laughed out loud at least a half a dozen times as I worked through it.  If it gives you even a little pleasure, it will please me even more!

Love , elly

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."  Jim Rohn 

I really like this one!

"Being a family in general is a comedy of errors."  Shannon Woodward