My wish for one and all is that so far your year has been better than mine, and that the rest of it be at least as good as I expect mine to be. And in the immortal words of Dave Barry, I swear, I am not making any of this up.
Today is January 6th. It is the sixth day of 2009. So far this year, I have…
- …snapped the key off in the lock (with me on the wrong side of the door) at 2 AM New Year’s Day.
- …replaced a broken thermostat.
- …woken up shivering the following morning because the furnace was also having problems.
- …stayed the following night with friends because the house was still too cold.
- …had my Christmas cold return.
- …spent two hours sitting at the car dealership only to learn that they’re not sure whether they’ve fixed the problem.
- …had the problem with the furnace turn out to be easy to fix, except they don’t have the part in stock!
My take on all of this is that I’m getting the entire year’s worth of crap out of the way at the very beginning. Once I get past this, look out! The rest of this year is going to be fantastic!!!!!
Assuming, of course, that I survive January.
Maybe you cursed yourself by hitting me with a meteorite!
Or perhaps you cursed me because I hit you with the meteorite?
Clearly your laughter wasn’t because you’d been surprised with an indoor meteor storm; you were laughing because of the doozy of a curse you’d put on me.
Well it won’t work!!! I’m gonna have a terrific year! So there! :-p