We all have our Lucille Ball moments that we're not proud of. Later, of course, they are hilarious. But in the moment - not so much.
I was talking to someone a week or two ago and told them that soon I would tell the tale of one of my best Lucy days.
Before I was blessed by the universe with a job that let me office at home, I used to slog to the salt mine every day. I had the same routine. Starbucks at 5:30 AM and on to the dark, empty office at 5:35 to try to get an hour or two of uninterrupted toil in before the phones started ringing.
Sometimes, I was carrying things and I had to organize myself, my stuff, my coffee, and my building access card before I shut my car door.
One morning, I got out of my car - a Yukon - and had to do this, which necessitated putting my coffee somewhere. Why my drink holder was not my first choice, I'll never know, but if I hadn't mentioned it before it was 5:35 AM.
So I chose the roof just above my driver's door. Mind you, I'm not very tall. An ankle biter, in fact, as my dad used to say.
And I started gathering my things. However, I was listening to the radio while I did this so my car was still running. That slight vibration of a V8 engine was just enough to ever-so-slightly jiggle my quad short espresso with steamed breve across the roof of the car and, just as I had all my things in my arms and was reaching up for the cup, straight down on top of my head.
Yep. A boiling hot latte lands on my head and soaks my hair and clothes and purse and papers in coffee and half and half.
Here's where I cuss. A lot. And not genteel, ladylike cussing, like "oh fudge" or "darn it all". There were some new conjunctions of cuss words created. Artfully, I might add.
And, it's also where I realize there are a lot of advantages to getting to work before everyone else. My shame (and my cussing) was my own, and I had more than two hours to go home and right myself before appearing again.
If only there had been a video of this incident, I might have been typing this blog post from an exotic island beach, my concentration broken only by the polite delivery of a mai tai by a handsome cabana boy.
What? What just happened?
Oh yeah - I spilled coffee on my head. Because that's real life people! :)
In my real life this weekend I've been organizing myself. I've archived more than 12,000 emails, (yes, you read that right) written out some cards to mail (pauses while you faint), boxed up some goodie boxes to mail to friends - long overdue - had my stamp class, pulled out my retiring stamps, worked on a project for my Dad, *sort of* cleaned my office, ordered a new water filter, threw away a bunch of post it notes that were stuck on my office cabinets and generally crossed things off lists. I might actually start Monday even, if not ahead.
Class was fun - I kept the projects simple since I am in that transition period to the new catalog, and the projects were all very bright and light and summery and easy.
The first one was a fun card with the
Mixed Bunch stamp set and the matching
Blossom punch. I saw the
tutorial for this on Julie Davison's awesome blog.
Here's what it looks like closed.
And here's how it looks open! Fun and happy, eh?
Fortunately, real life does contain some things that work out better than my Lucy moment did, like fun cardmaking classes with fun girls, some of whom, like my downline Melody, bring me sweet gifts like real fresh chicken eggs from her farm, presented in a way only a stamper would...
Now if I can just make sure not to spill them on my head....
Loveyameanitbye.
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