a shabby calamity

shabby_calamity

the year is drawin' to an end and unless someone pops up at the last minute to challenge me for the crown, looks like i'll carry the title o' calamity cowgirl for one more year.

i was really doin' pretty well 'til right after i last visited here back in october i believe it was...it may have even happened that same night...no...guess since it was after midnight it would be considered the day AFTER that last blog. oh GET ON WITH IT i can hear you thinkin' so i will continue tappin' out my shabby calamity for you...not for your pity of course. just had so many people hear i had an accident and then worry - since i've been away so long - that it was somethin' worse than causin' pain in every single part o' my body and the loss o' some teeth...

it was after midnight and i walked outta the doo dad den into the upstairs landin' - real fast cause i always head here and there real fast...i had only taken two or three steps when i ran into somethin' that was about waist high but not too solid...so as i tried to get around it, it sorta' went with me. somehow i ended up kinda flyin' over the top o' this waist-high-not-too-solid thing, smashed my mouth on the arm o' the couch and then slammed, knees first, into the rug - one o' those wool, rough, thick threaded rugs. this rug is so rough and thick threaded that it peeled away all the skin from both o' my knees.

at first i was just sorta shocked...i run in and outta that door a zillion times a day without anything hurlin' me across the upstairs foyer so i felt as if i had been attacked...that lasted only a few seconds...then the pain set in and i just laid there and howled. coco and tink came to my rescue but once again - like when that rat chased me upstairs - both of us screaming all the way - my family slept right through my latest accident.

next thing i knew jo was wakin' me up on the couch back in the doo dad den. everything hurt too much to sit up and though jo was jabberin' away as usual, i didn't hear a word she said...'TIL she asked me if i was practicin' my halloween costume and what a good job i had done makin' it look like some o' my teeth were missin'. sure enough, when i peered into the lookin' glass, i found that along with losin' the skin off my knees - and elbows - i had lost some teeth. seems this latest calamity o' mine was a big one...the biggest in quite some time.

the cause o' my late night trippin' can be seen in the photo posted along with this painful blog....that pretty green wire planter though multiplied and stacked. mini's daddy bought them for me one weekend in santa barbara and i have crammed them full o' flowers ever since. they have always made me happy....'til i asked that they be located cause i was thinkin' they needed a fresh coat o' paint. someone indeed located them and to prove it placed them in a neat stack RIGHT outside the door o' the den. i guess locatin' them was supposed to be a surprise of some sort and some sort o' surprise it certainly was.

i have since spent waaay too many hours in the dentist's chair and have many more ahead o' me. i'm hopin' i remain calamity free at least until ALL my teeth and knee skin are back in place.

if you know of a worthy contender for the crown, let me know...i am more than willin' to pass it on to someone else - for at least a year. i have lots o' catchin' up to do and sure could use the time off.