Year End Top 10

Nearly everyone that keeps a blog is doing a year in review post. I will make two, but they'll be a little different than most.

I've always said that I think there's a circus tent over our house. Weird things just seem to happen to us. I mean seriously, we ended up driving a dead cat's head 20 miles. Ok, fine, I might have a little bit to do with some of this......

Top 10 Stupid Things I've done in 2009

10. This is more something that's happened to me instead of something I've done, but still pretty bizarre. In September as I was on my way to the car when all of a sudden I feel something hit me between my eyes and hurt so badly that it knocked me to my knees and left me feeling dizzy and faint for several minutes. I still don't know if it was a branch, stick, rock or maybe one of the two forks that we haven't been able to find for a year. Whatever it was it left a black mark on the bridge of my nose.

9. Thinking that having wrist surgery would be a walk in the park. I was wrong, it has turned out to be more painful than the last one I had.

8. Insisting on going running outside in 2o degree weather after a couple days of thawing. This one should probably be further up on the list. Not only did I do all those things above, but I did it at 4:30a with no one around. I had just started my run when I slid on the ice, I saved myself and felt pretty cocky about it so I continued to run. I slid again, only I couldn't save myself this time. I fell directly on my butt, bracing myself with my left hand. Once I finally came to a stop, I laid there for a minute or so, then realized that I was in the middle of the road and better get up. On the up side, I realized how well my under armour tights worked. They kept me warm and dry! I was so sore, it hurt to put my shoes on for a week.

7. A few days into Wayne's hospital stay, I decided(like an idiot) that I needed to shave my legs. So I went down to one of the visitor shower areas and shaved with a disposable razor about as sharp as a plastic butter knife. That doesn't sound too bad right. Well, I forgot to mention that the Dr. was due in about 30 minutes and it takes me at least 45 minutes to transform from Creature from the Black Lagoon to sleep deprived, worried, frightened, loving wife that's been living in a hospital for a week. During my hurried shower I cut my upper thigh. Of course I didn't have a band-aid so I finished getting ready, tried to stop the bleeding with a paper towel and went downstairs to his room thinking I could steal some gauze and tape. As I got off the elevator I saw Dr. Joudi rounding the corner to the room so I ran in there not thinking about it. He checked Wayne's incision and all the tubes and hoses and as he was leaving he looked up at me and said "are you okay?" I told him that I was tired but doing alright, he nodded politely and pointed at my leg. I looked down and there was a blood spot the size of a quarter on my leg. Needless to say I waited until we got home to shave my legs again.

6. Shoveling snow less than a month after wrist surgery, then telling my Mom that I did it.

5. Wearing flip-flops and blue jeans rolled up to my knees while repairing fencing in the back yard after 2 straight days of rain. It turns out rubber boots would have been a better option, I left mud prints everywhere I walked for a week.

4. This is another one that happened to me, but it was pretty funny. I got a couple dark blue streaks in my hair. Anyone that's ever dyed their hair red knows that it "bleeds" a bit the first few times you wash your hair. The first time I washed my hair after getting my hair done, I had shampoo on my head when the phone rang. I happened to look in the mirror and saw that there were blue suds all over my head. Then I turned around and it looked like I murdered a smurf in my shower. There was blue hair dye everywhere, looking exactly like smurfy blood splatter.

3. Forgetting the ham on Thanksgiving. Anna came over the day before Thanksgiving to prepare food for the boys' birthday party on Friday. We put it in a large roaster pan in the basement refrigerator. I then prepared the ham for Thanksgiving, placed it in another roaster pan in the same refrigerator. You can see where this is going, can't you? I wish I had. On Thursday we loaded the car, drove an hour to my parent's house and upon unloading everything I noticed that the roaster pan we brought was the BBQ meat and not the ham. A few minor breakdowns, 2 boxes of tissues and 4 tantrums later we decided to just go to the local grocery store and buy another ham. I was so upset and emotional about it that this is the first time that some of my family are hearing about this little faux-pas.

2.When we lived in the other house, I would wake up at about 7am, put the dogs out and start my car while getting ready to go to the gym. On one particular February morning I did just that only I decided not to go to the gym that day. As I was putting my makeup on at 2pm I realized that the car was still running. That's right, I had left my car running for 7 hours.....I wish I could say that was the first time I've ever done that.....I wish I could say that was the longest amount of time I've ever done that........

and the number 1 dumbest thing I've done in 2009 (insert drum roll here please).........

1.Re-hashing all these things with you. You (and everyone else I've told) would probably have forgotten all about these momentary lapses of sanity. Why start exercising restraint now, right?!