Showing posts with label omen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label omen. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Omen....the sequel


I wonder if it's some kind of omen when you go to the bathroom in the morning and when it's time to reach for the toilet paper, you can't find the end of the paper?  You spin it and spin it and spin it and the end piece of paper never flaps free so you can carefully pull off an appropriate length.  So you spin and spin and spin it the other direction, and still no apparent end piece of paper.  Shouldn't this qualify as a justifiable reason to just go back to bed?  Well, except that you still, somehow, have to find that damn end piece. 


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Then there's the current family turmoil centered around grape juice.  Seems yesterday K was cleaning out the refrigerator and way in the back she found a half-full plastic jug of Welch's Grape Juice.  She was going to throw it out but I leaped to the defense of the poor defenseless GJ and forbade it. "I'm sure there are thirsty kids somewhere in the world who would love this, and since we can't actually ship it to them, I'll drink it in their honor."  (When I was a kid those other kids were always in China, but I hear they're doing better these days.)

Now I'm having to drink this nasty stuff.  It's so old I think it's turned into wine.  Really bad wine.  Is that even possible?


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I have an old football injury that really began giving me fits yesterday.  It dates from last year when, on several occasions, I sat in my chair and watched football on TV so long my left butt cheek went to sleep.  That somehow irritated the nerve in that region and pinched it.  It hurt so bad it was difficult to sit, and get up, and walk, and climbing stairs was just excruciating.  Combining the opening weekend of college football this year with a 3-day holiday has wreaked havoc on me....again.  TMF....oh, but I love it so!

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All right K.  If you read this, you win.  I'm tossing the grape juice.  It's really nasty.  I need to go scrape my tongue.  YUCK!

S


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Do you believe in omens?

I'm starting this new day with trepidation.  By all rights this should be a slam-dunk day.  All I have to do is wait for one building inspector this morning, and then just make my rounds the rest of the day.  The inspection should pass handily, no known crisis looming....easy day.  Maybe too easy.


Apparently I have the coordination of a monkey playing basketball this morning.  I reached in to the refrigerator to get my jug of grape juice and I knocked over an entire LARGE bowl of grapes and they spilled all over the floor, rolling into places I didn't even know we had.  (We pull them off the vine individually and wash them....it's easier to just grab a few for a snack that way.)   The dog thought it was surely Christmas as there were "presents" rolling everywhere, which we couldn't let her have because grapes are supposedly poison to dogs.  I'm afraid the ones I couldn't find will soon lead us to having a good crop of raisins.


Is this an omen?  What else will happen today?    Will I have a flat tire?  Can I drive from Point A to Point B without bouncing off something?  Will I get drafted to run for President?


S