am I lucky or unlucky? you decide. [View all]
xmas morning I made two pecan pies from homegrown pecans that I spent a couple hours shelling the day before. I sat down in a shitty plastic chair next to the stove and was in the process of putting the pies in to bake. I heard a crack and thought uh oh there goes the chair. but it didn't fall so I thought it might have just been the back or something. I open the oven door and take the first pie off the table, turn to place it in the oven and WHAM the chair crashes to the ground, I colapse down on a bad knee, drop the pie all over the hot oven, burn my hand and proceed to writhe around on the floor for 10 minutes yelling and freaking the pets out. Ouch. sore knee and ankle but I can still hobble around.
next day, dog gets hit by a skunk so I had the fun time of trying out a new formula to get rid of skunk stench on a dog (works good, too - ask me for details later) but it does require the bath tub. Between the sore leg and trying to keep the dog in the tub I pinched something in my back so now that is out too. ouch, again!
so last night I am sitting by the fire trying to keep warm (difficult in this old house) and I feel something on my ankle - the one that got hurt on xmas day. at first I think it is just the nerves acting up, but I reach down and scratch/rub and feel something! eek, kind of kick and flick a god damned scorpion. In the middle of winter. must have been on the wood. at least it didn't sting me, right? so I am lucky, yes? 
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