Today I am Suzy Homemaker. I've dusted, swept, vacuumed, made beds, washed, dried and folded laundry. I've replaced the toilet paper and picked up the Legos. Again. The counters are wiped, the salt, pepper, olive oil cruet and sugar are all refilled. I feel so... domestic. I have a chicken carcass simmering for soup stock, and the bread dough is rising. What on earth could shatter this vision of earth mother bliss? Well, the swearing, for one thing. Rewind 1/2 hour.
The house is clean, the far end of the kitchen floor is drying, this end is dry, so I'm over here getting that bread dough together. The mixer's running, and oops, forgot the sugar. It's over *there* but that's okay, the floor's almost dry, I'll step carefully so I don't leave footprints. I reach for the sugar, careful, careful, careful to avoid the open flour canister. The counters are all wiped and I don't want to do it again.
Wet floor.
Little slip.
it's okay, it's okay, it's okay... just a little flour on the counter.
Pick up the sugar.
Shoot, that's more than a little flour.
reach for the rag.
drop the sugar.
on the wet floor.
did I mention I had just FILLED the sugar?
damn it.
dammitdammitdammitdammitdammit.
So now the floor is washed, again. The broken sugar bowl is in the trash. Daniel is eating the marshmallows out of a bowl of Lucky Charms, and I DON'T CARE. And you wanna know the funny thing? The recipe uses HONEY!
4 comments:
Goodness girl, you are SO funny. Had to repeat the story to DH because he wanted to know what I was chuckling about!
Hope all that was damaged was the sugarbowl...and a little pride.
(Your floor is STILL cleaner than mine!)
I had to wash that &^%# floor FOUR times today. First wash was just to wash it. Second was the sugar. Third was with a kettle full of boiling water to get the "glaze" off the grout. And then at dinner, Daniel dumped his plate. Now, I'm sitting here with a cup of tea trying to get up the energy to go to bed. Tomorrow (again) is another day.
Note to self:
Don't wash kitchen floor!
*VBG*
LOL sounds like my mom in her day with nine kids. I washed the floor the other dy and the dog went a peed it right after I got it all done. I was just asking for that......
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