Whatever can go wrong, usually does

For a week now, my life has started to crumble. Just in small things, and nothing really serious. Last night, though, when the large glass coffee pot tilted out of the dish drainer and smashed on the floor, I stopped to ponder how the infrastructure is failing at my house.

A week ago I brought home a small fan from my mom's apartment which had been turned on for who knows how long, but wasn't actually turning. It was so hot that I'm surprised it hadn't shorted out. In any case, I took it apart, and armed with the housewife's friend, WD-40, I tried to fix it. WRONG! When I put the propeller back on the shaft and pushed a bit to try to seat it, the whole assembly crumbled in my hands. Into the trash with the whole thing.

An hour or so later, I was opening a can of tuna fish to make lunch, and as I was holding down the lever thingie to make the can turn , the lever broke off in my hand. Hmmmm, another broken item.

On Wednesday morning, I was in a hurry to clean the upstairs bathroom before company arrived, and as I scrubbed the top of the soap dish which was grouted into the tile in the NEW bathroom, it fell right off the wall and into the tub. Huh? I called the builder and left a message that I needed an emergency repair. Yeah, right. He did come over, but discovered a crack in a line of grout above the soap dish, and wet grout, made the more so by all the humidity. So - upstairs shower out of commission until the whole area dries, he replaces the bad grout and re-cements the soap dish.

Moving right along, Sun. night comes and I break the coffee pot at about 10:00 p.m. I sew the seam binding on Emily's skirt wrong, and so, it came as no surprise that this morning, a tree service arrived at the house next door and has semi-denuded the landscape between my screen porch and their garage; along the street and alongside the boundary line on the far side of their house. Earlier this week a backhoe came and levelled out the far side of their yard, and then built it up so that water will now all run off into my back yard so they can put a shed over there to put their bikes in.

Ah yes, and my bone density is becoming less dense, and who knows, I may, myself crumble into dust......time to up the calcium and do some weight lifting. I would be happy if the karma around here would shift just the tiniest bit!!