If you see me walking down the street today you would be well advised to cross over to the other side of the street. Don't make eye contact.
I have a major, and I mean MAJOR, case of the klutzes these days.
It started out last night - I decided I would make grilled chicken Caesar salad for dinner. I had all the ingredients for the dressing so while the chicken was grilling on the cook-top I plugged in the blender and started putting in the ingredients. A little olive oil, some vinegar, the juice of a lemon, minced garlic, Dijon mustard. I boiled the egg for just minute and when it was done I cracked it into the blender, slapped on the lid and started it up, forgetting the metal spoon was still in there.
There was an instant explosion of glass, olive oil, mostly raw egg and the rest of the dressing.
It flat out shocked me but my first thought wasn't 'what the heck just happened' but 'oh crap - that was my last lemon.' Then I looked around and could see that was the least of my worries. Every single surface in the kitchen was covered in the mess and the broken glass had made it into three adjoining rooms. My hands had itty bitty cuts and there was even a teeny cut on my lip. It was a miracle the glass didn't make it into my eyes.
I really just wanted to go lay down and hope it all went away. I had to toss the chicken that was cooking because there was glass in the pan. I swept up and mopped up the best that I could but we were still cleaning up congealed dressing off of the cupboards this morning.
This morning I was making my customary piece of toast for breakfast. I got out our toaster. Put in the bread and pushed it down. I sat at the table while it was toasting and when I heard it pop up I went over to the counter and the toaster was empty. I looked on the counter; no toast there. I looked around on the floor and didn't see it - I even briefly looked up towards the ceiling. I finally found it under the cupboards by the toe-kick. I've never had our toaster do that before. It flung that toast out but good.
Then I'm printing some images for an ATC project and the output tray on my printer leapt off and went crashing to the ground. This is when Rick started slowly backing away from me.
It probably wasn't wise to get on the road but I had some errands to do and while I was out I pulled into a fast food drive in for a Diet Coke - when the girl handed my extra jumbo drink I dropped the straw on the ground - while I was distracted I looked away as she was handing me my drink and I managed to whack it against the top of the door jamb, knocking the top off and dumping half of it on the inside of my door and lap. Wow that was cold. When I asked the girl for some extra napkins she handed me ONE.
Later, at home, I was rinsing out the sink and I grabbed the sprayer and managed to get it backwards in my hand, drenching the entire front of my shirt.
Dare devil that I am I did get out my rotary cutter and X-Acto knives to work on my ATC. I've never made one before but I signed up for a swap and wanted to do a few practice ones. I like the way this one turned out. I think I need to rethink my backing though. I think it is too thick and stiff for an ATC. I don't want to come out of the gate looking like an ATC imbecile so those of that have made these send me your tips.