Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Has this ever happened to you?

I was up late last night spring cleaning. I 'forgot' the last two years; so now it's a really big job consisting of taking everything out of a room, washing everything, throwing about a third away and then putting it back in. I think it's going to take me a week if I do the cellar. It seems kind of dumb to have empty shelves, but I've got a thing about clean closets. My rooms might be messy, but you could eat in the closets—although I don't want to give the impression that I do that—because I don't. I digress:

I got up tired and I wanted that cup of coffee. I put the coffee in the filter and grabbed the jug of water out of the fridge. It seemed lighter than I remembered, but who keeps track of stuff like that? Right? I poured it in the coffee maker and realized it was the milk that I had just poured in there. Crap! I poured the milk right back out again into a cup because I needed it for the coffee, causing the coffee grinds in the front of the coffee maker to pour out at the same time, into the milk and all over the counter and sink and floor.

Now I really NEED the cup of coffee so I poured the milk through a strainer, put on the teapot and used a Melita filter to make the cup of coffee. It didn't taste right. Not enough milk either. Blah. No joy.

Now it's really late for lunch and I'm hungry, but I'm afraid to go back in there. Anything could happen. Someone could get hurt. It's all fun and games until you put your eye out with a sandwich or something…

1 comment:

  1. Nance- you just described beautifully why- no matter how tired I am at night- I set up my coffee maker the night before. Tired is one thing- but coffee-deprived in the morning, stumbling around the kitchen is a complete other thing!

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