“Murphy was an optimist….”

Posted on February 18, 2008 by gigglepotamus

I came across this quote recently from O’Toole’s Commentary, & chuckled. 

Later that day, this happened:

In one fell swoop, I managed to break my blender, my favorite coffee mug, and put a good couple of nicks in our brand new counter top:

 Nice....

  Nice…

Not only that, I had to throw away all of the scrambled eggs & pancake batter I had just mixed for fear my little ones would be eating shards of glass for dinner (one actually landed in the frying pan).

I’m not sure what was going on in my universe at that particular moment, but all I have to say is, thank goodness I wasn’t driving at the time…  :)

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12 Responses

  1. William, on February 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm Said:

    I was wondering why my pancakes tasted a bit crunchy.

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  2. teri, on February 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pm Said:

    damn. will you be getting a new counter?

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  3. Susie, on February 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm Said:

    Whoa. That looks like a do-over kind of day. But, see, this is the best thing about blogging. Who but a blogger takes a photograph of such things? Blogging turns disaster into story. With pictures. Glad you’re here. :)

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  4. Susie Q, on February 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm Said:

    I’m glad you weren’t driving with a blender and coffee pot and pancake mix too. :-)

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  5. Ali, on February 19th, 2008 at 12:56 am Said:

    Was that the NEW blender?

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  6. gigglepotamus, on February 19th, 2008 at 1:15 am Said:

    No, but it WAS the reason for hubby’s new one :)

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  7. micie66, on February 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am Said:

    Aw man, that stinks! Especially the counter top! Easy to replace a blender and coffee mug, not so much that new counter in your new and lovely kitchen!

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  8. SarahC, on February 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pm Said:

    WOAH! Lucky you have a new one. Bummer about needing to do prep dinner again and the new counter top OH NO :(

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  9. Julie, on February 19th, 2008 at 6:19 pm Said:

    Ha! I broke my blender on the same day. I was trying to get the big soup pot out from behind it in the cupboard without moving it (brilliant, i know) and it fell like an inch to the floor and broke into about 55 pieces. There were 3 members of my family in the house and after the deafening crash, NOBODY came to see if i was ok. I just realized that, so thats why i’m mentioning it now. LOL

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  10. Joanna, on February 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm Said:

    Uh oh! That is really terrible about the new countertop. We just got new ones a few weeks ago, so I can imagine how you would feel!

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  11. sister-in-law3, on February 20th, 2008 at 4:12 am Said:

    I love the blog. Can’t wait to read more!

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  12. Bogart in P-Towne, on February 21st, 2008 at 6:38 pm Said:

    What an awful start to the day…but at least you know that you don’t really have anywhere to go but up from there!

    Came from Poop and Boogies…don’t you just love William?

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