A Comedy of Errors

**EDIT** How could I forget?? There's more to the story!! After all that, I looked in the fridge, and some extra beef I had set in there to stay cool until I could divide it into meal-sized servings for freezing had leaked (okay, gross coming up) blood all over the shelf it was on and then dripped down and underneath the veggie bin. It was disgusting!!! I mean, seriously. It took me a long time to clean up, and it just was so gross. Then I guess I twisted my foot funny when getting back up from cleaning the fridge, and I split my big toe nail!! It's split/torn far enough into the nail that if I try to clip it or anything, it will go to the quick. So anyway, there's the rest of the evening's events from yesterday...**

Sorry the last post was just pictures. I'll go back and add captions if necessary. Most of them were pretty self-explanatory. I wasn't particularly in the mood for typing up a post after our interesting evening. Nothing awful, but mishap after mishap.

It all started when....

Matt was sweetly retrieving the spaghetti sauce from the pantry for me while I browned the beef. I heard him say, "Shoot!" and looked over just in time to see the glass jar of spaghetti sauce go crashing to the floor. It splattered all over the walls, the door, Sammy's crate, Matt's clothes, the tiles, the grout (the FRESHLY CLEANED GROUT!!!), the table and chairs... you get the idea. I was aghast! It was such a mess, I didn't even know where to begin! I had Matt turn off the stove where the meat had been ready and waiting so it wouldn't burn. Then I got a dark kitchen towel, dampened it, and I set to work wiping down the walls and trim first, as I didn't want little red dots staining the paint. Next, He gave me some cardboard that had been in the trash, and I used that to scoop the majority of the tomato sauce and large glass jar pieces into the trash. After that, it was wiping up all the tomato sauce. It took a l-o-n-g time. I tried to rinse out the grout several times. I haven't yet determined if it will need any more recourse. In living here just over a year, Matt has now exploded a bottle of orange soda and a jar of spaghetti sauce all over the kitchen walls!! Then, as I was trying to wipe up some glass shards in the pantry entryway, I lost my balance and fell onto Sammy's water bowl on my way to the floor. You guessed it, all of her water spilled onto the floor annnnnnd soaked up into my clothes. I was laying flat on my back by this point, and there was dead silence. I started to laugh/cry and Matt asked if I was laughing or crying. I laughed, "I don't know!" and then the tears came. I cried. And cried some more. He told me to go change; I told him that was my only clean pair of jeans. He told me to go ahead and put pjs on and he'd clean up the rest. I cut my foot on the glass while cleaning the floor, and then in trying to catch myself during my fall, my finger got sliced (the size of a bad paper cut) in two places. I was a mess.

Then, twice last night Matt knocked over materials where I was working on stamping cards. We ended up about 0-4... every near mishap turned into a spill by the end of the night.

Today has been better. I am excited about some sewing books I requested a "hold" for at the library, including the new Bend the Rules Sewing. I really stopped by to pick up a reserved copy of The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When they handed to me yesterday, I realized it was the teacher's guide I had reserved! Which is great, but now I still need to go check out a copy of the actual novel.

Today I made some more cards, which I'll post later. Matt and I also had lunch with our pastors to brainstorm ideas for renewing the usher/greeter team for the next 6 months. And that is about it. Matt's probably working until 7 or so, since we had the lunch today with Rob and Frank. I think we're having either soft or fractured tacos if he ever gets home. :)

Sammy has been a sleepy head all day. All that commotion last night must have really worn her out!

Oh yeah, and Matt's party! Matt's birthday was July 1, and we celebrated it with each of our families during our vacation the beginning of July. But then we came home, caught up from that trip/prepped for Matt's next trip, he went to Portland for a week, and then it was Kids Camp. This was kind of our first opportunity to celebrate just the two of us. Last summer we saw Pirates II with Jamie and Mark, and Matt and Mark were both really excited about a Transformers preview that we saw at the time. I immediately ordered Transformers party gear from birthdayexpress.com thinking we'd have Jamie and Mark over for Matt's birthday this year. Fast-forward to December when Jamie and Mark moved to ATL. No more Transformers party. I finally had to tell Matt I had Transformers themed goodies and ask him to think if there was anyone here who wouldn't think it was totally kooky-weird to have a party like that. We couldn't come up with anyone. :) So, instead, we had a Transformers party just the two of us. I had even ordered stickers to make invites... but I guess I'll scrapbook his party with them instead. He picked steak and baked potatoes for dinner, so I picked that up during my grocery shopping on Monday. I'd honestly been able to scrounge with what we had, so I hadn't gone to the grocery store in 2-3 weeks. It was restocking time. :) I also got some yummy fresh romaine lettuce for a birthday salad, yummy fresh-from-the-bakery rolls, AND I tried a from scratch red velvet cake (thank you Kris and Bob Johnson--it was from the recipe book they gave us for our wedding). It's supposed to be the same recipe at the Waldorf Astoria uses. It was a really pretty cake and yummy batter. Unfortunately, our oven cooks kinda hot and with a brand new recipe, it can be hard to judge "done-ness." So , you could say the cake's a little on the dry side. But, at least I tried. :( I gave him a movie he wanted and an accessory for the 360. Lastly, ever since we got married, Matt has raved about cool globes we've seen at various stores. I saw one was on sale at Pier 1, and I went for it. He was realllly surprised, and it's really fun! We've both looked up lots of places. You know how you'll have a general idea of where something is, but it's fun to find it exactly. I looked up places in Mongolia (for Amy D.) and Australia (for Ashley). What does my husband look for? Dutch Harbor (gold stars if you know what tv show that references). I cracked up at that. :) "OH LOOK, honey!! I found Dutch Harbor!!" For now, we have it placed in a front corner of the living room. It's wrought iron stand and "old world" look are quite masculine and handsome, so says my hubby. :) And it fits nicely in there. We have several wrought iron accents throughout the house, so it's a perfect "model" for us. He wanted it somewhere with a light ("a soft light"), so people wouldn't have to strain their eyes if they wanted to look for something. :) He's SO CUTE!!!! Anyway, if you go on a world tour or even just a hop, skip, and a jump away, you can bet there are some people in Gainesville looking up your vacation destination! :)

I guess that's about all for now... Yea for play days before school starts!

Love,
Becca