It’s one of those Mondays where it is challenging to think of beauty. Between the teeming rain, chilly temperature, nasty wind, and general gloom, it is more the sort of day where merely getting out of bed seems like an accomplishment. But I will try nevertheless, because I clearly I need to, given that intro.
So, here are three beautiful things from the past week:
1. My littlest nephew, H (cousin Common Loon’s 18-month-old) had pretty serious surgery on Tuesday to fix a birth defect, and came through it amazingly well. So much so, in fact, that he was running around the children’s playroom at the hospital as soon as the morphine wore off — and before they took the IV shunt out of his foot.
1. I noticed early last week that, seemingly overnight, the wild rosebushes in my neighborhood exploded into bloom, and when the azaleas are added in, my walk to the Metro was a riot of color for several days.
2. At the fundraiser I wrote about in last week’s My DC post, I managed to spill a not-insignificant quantity of red wine on my dress. Now, it was not anything fancy or expensive (from Target, about $25) but it was cute, so I was kinda pissed that I’d ruined it the first time I wore it. I decided on Saturday to see if soaking it in OxyClean — a product I love which has only ever let me down once — could get the stain out. I was not optimistic, knowing red wine’s tenacity, but it worked! My new dress will live to see another wearing.
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Hooray for OxyClean. I sense a new tagline…. Good for Target dresses; bad for handknit socks…
Hah! Yeah — the handknit socks would be the one time it let me down. And boy, was that a letdown. So sad.
OC actually salvaged my new Talbots tan shorts. While in Florida, I leaned into a sink which had apparently been wiped down with clorox(but not dried). Momentarily, I had speckled shorts. So I deliberately soaked them in way-too- much OC, and now they are a uniformly lighter tan. The fabric will probably self-destruct the next time it gets warm enough to wear shorts around here — our weather being similar to yours! Oh well, we best be careful or we’ll be hounded to do a commercial
So here’s the breakdown:
OxyClean: good for stains.
Oxycontin: good for pains.
Don’t mix up the two – it could be embarrassing.
I hesitate to type this, but what the heck: 2 dogs, 3 young boys, multiple emissions and various clean-ups…OC has tackled them ALL (and left a much more pleasing scent)! And your littlest nephew sends his love and a big, tackle-hug.
No beautiful things here:
Brother went to the hospital again last night, because he has shingles!!! Yippee! My mom, as a lovely capper to her year to date, spent her Mother’s Day night sitting in yet another ER with a family member. My family has just had the most ridiculous string of hospital stays over the past four months, I just want to scream.
DD gets up this morning with diarrhea and a fever. No day care for her today! I have the seriously huge project at work which is already overdue, so DH stays home.
Then I have a stupid stupid stupid, aggravating, infuriating day at the office. At last count, I want to kill three, possibly four coworkers. The amount of slackitude and PISS POOR ENGLISH SKILLS is seriously impacting my life, and it annoys me. I finished my part of the project, but it doesn’t mean that much because every other frickin’ part needs serious rewrites. Luckily, not my problem, because tomorrow is my day to stay home with DD. I have never been so happy about diarrhea in my life.
One idiotic trip to the food store later, and I get home. DD, thrilled to see me, only wants to sit on my lap. And somehow, she manages to completely miss her diaper and diarrhead ALL OVER ME.
I believe that makes five ugly things. I want martinis. Many martinis. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
But I’ll keep the OxyClean hint in mind.
Joanne…if misery loves company, maybe this will help you smile: when I put the anitbiotic-induced-diarrhea diaper in the diaper genie yesterday morning, the sucker exploded and my hand and arm got coated. Smells so much worse than regular poop, but rinses easier (OC will likely remove the stains on your outfit)