Days 58 & 59

A series of unfortunate events – WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE TRYING TO TELL ME?

In the last few days I have wrote about hurting my knee and a light bulb shattering in my hand. Okay – things happen… Wednesday my son is sick with a 24 hour stomach bug and I am home with him most of the day. During the day, I take care of him like mommies do, and I even helped a trapped bird out of my fireplace. (This was HUGE since I was scared to death that the noise was being made from a rat or a squirrel and I just knew that as soon as I opened the flue, I was going to be attacked!)

Anyway, after all that was said and done, I was able to put a little face time in at work. Hubby is out of the state on business and will not be flying back until late into the evening, so I decided that the kids and I would go out to eat. I get back from work, and get everyone ready to leave. As I push on the garage door button for it to open (the exact same door that I opened, parked and closed 15 minutes earlier) and it stops half way. I keep pushing the button and nothing is happening, then I notice the cable has come undone. Crap! Finally, after Kitty and I were sweating like the temperature and the humidity is 110 and 100% we were able to wrestle the door down (all jacked up and crooked of course).

Fine! “Let’s go out the front door, we are taking the truck.” The words were very simple to say and the idea was our only other alternative to leave… then, I open the front door and it falls off the top and middle hinges! WTH! Really!? Really!? Our front door is SOLID wood, so it is heavy! Both of the girls are trying to hold it up, so I can get a screw back into the top bracket, but it takes 4 screwdrivers, 1 electric drill, and numerous screwdriver bits before I find the one that actually works!!!!! I get a screw into the bracket so the girls could finally let go and then I finished the rest.

I turned around to go put up the tools, (mad, but I still sort of felt good because I was able to solve the problem) and then my sandal breaks! WHAT! I give up! I’m standing in the middle of the living room on the verge of tears looking up to the heavens asking “what did I do? Why me?” The kids are watching me with blank stares in their eys thinking that I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.

I change shoes, leave and get the kids fed, come home and I don’t want to move out of my bed for fear of something else happening.

THEN, yesterday, I fear the worst, so we don’t go work out, but I do get up and go to work. Everything seemed to be a lot better and I was able to accomplish and complete a lot of the work that I was behind on from the day before. Last night, the hubby treats us to dinner at Shoguns. We get through the dinner and are about to leave when we hear screams behind us. We turn to see a girl with flames all over her shoulders and what looked like flames coming out of her ears! It looked like she was sprayed somehow with the fluid during one of the tricks (trick gone bad). She was wrestled to the ground and the flames were put out, but her mom and the rest of the group, left to take her to the hospital. I didn’t see any burns on her face, but her hair was scorched and she walked out (what looked like) in shock. I pray and hope that she is okay! My stomach was so nervous and upset about the whole event. In fact, I prayed and had anxiety over what I witnessed that I couldn’t sleep last night – which means that I didn’t get up AGAIN and workout this morning. (We WILL workout tonight!)

So, I ask again – WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE TRYING TO TELL ME?