Last Saturday morning I was getting myself primped and polished before our day in Salem with the Lassens. Primping and polishing, for me, does not usually involve an especially lengthy amount of time because I’ve reached that point where I’m pretty sure no one cares what I look like and I’ve almost convinced myself that I don’t either. So it’s not like I was working hard to get ready. I think my primping involved a hair dryer and my polishing was pretty much wrinkle cream and mascara.
Hang on a minute. I need to cry a little over how pathetic that is.
Alright, I’m okay now.
Just as I was finishing up, I knocked a coffee mug off the counter and guess where it landed? If you’ve been paying attention to The Clumsy Adventures of Jen, you know that it landed right on my foot. Two of my toes almost immediately turned a beautiful shade of eggplant.
The other thing about this that should not be surprising is that it was not my coffee mug that fell, but my husband’s. And it was one of those large and very heavy 20-ounce Starbucks city mugs. (Now do you believe he’s trying to kill me?)
Don’t worry; I’ve already planned out my revenge. I scrubbed the shower today, top to bottom, and it is so freakin’ slippery I almost got revenge on myself. So, yeah. Victor will be sorry he left that mug on the counter. And laughed when I showed him my swollen foot. And married someone with too much time on her hands.
Aug. 20: My bruises will acquit me
Aug. 24: Week in review
- Theo's sixth birthday party pictures were added to The Lassen Family page
- Paula (Hunt) O'Neal sent me a picture months ago and I've just finally created a page for their family
- Sage Nicholson's 5-month pictures are adorable!
- I added a recent picture of Elissa and Brianna (Vic's cousins)
- A new Gwennie picture
I have yet again injured my piggies. The whole thing is a little fuzzy but I'm pretty sure it involved my typical selfless determination to rescue kittens from a sinking yacht because it most certainly did not involve me tripping over a chair just before the class I taught on Wednesday. Doctor says I pretty much re-fractured the foot I first broke back in 1995. Oh yes, I am the clumsiest person you know. I'm actually doing well, statistically speaking, because I haven't had a serious foot injury for more than two years. I know!
Katie will be coming back tomorrow after a week at Grandma Mary's. She's had a ball at the petting zoo, Donna's pool, Elaine's farm, the children's museum, dressing up in her new tutu, and playing at Lithia Park. Today she's busily assembling a scrapbook of memories of this very special week.
Last night Vic and I saw Spamalot. It was fab-u-lous. If it's coming to your city and you loved Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you should definitely go.
Darlene and Wellington are now on their annual get-away-from-Vic-and-Jen trip in which they leave the country for entirely too long. We all hate when they're gone; the kids miss being spoiled rotten, Vic and I miss hanging out at their house, and the dogs miss having people to bark at. If I say much more I'll start blubbering, so no more words.
Some people I know don't update their blogs for two weeks. This makes other people very upset. I'm just sayin'...
—Jen