and NO I wasn't making Cuervo cake.......

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OK, I have a bad reputation for getting injured in the kitchen while

sick, tired, or just rushed. I have had an oven blow up in my face

burning my lungs and losing all my eyelashes, eyebrows, and an inch

of hair around my face, I have poured hot oil over my hand and

severely burnt it, I have been cut too many times to count,

electrocuted, and even poured boiling hot tea down the front of my

blouse causing 2nd degree burns on m boob thtat still has a scar.

Thats only a sample of my experiences in the kitchen, (No wonder I am

NOT domestic at all!).

The other night (at 4:30 Am - go figure), I decided I wanted to make

Pumpkin bread for Christmas gifts, VERY simple, VERY easy, and VERY

fast. I ust wanted to get it the ingredients together on the

counter.....No fuss, no muss......So since I have lost almost 110

pounds, I just figured I could climb right up the counter, grab the

baking powder from the top cabinet and so I did!

I then procedded to slip and fall off the counter 4 feet to the floor

landing on the side of my left foot, the ball of my right foot, and

my left hip. Today my right foot is black and blue and after spending

all day in the ER yesterday with my son and his asthma

attack......today I had to sit in the ER and listen to Ray lecture me

about using stepstools, and asking for help and for even being IN the

damn kitchen at 4:30AM!!!

Nag, nag, nag, .........so I now have crutches (won't use 'em, darn

it!), a hairline fracture in my right foot, a severely bruised left

foot, and a sore BUTT! Not to mention the bruised pride...LOL, when

the ER form asked what brought me in to be seen, I wrote " STUPIDITY "

OK everyone, spill it...tell your dumbest or damndest kitchen mishap

during the holidays!!!! Did you forget to take the gizzards out of

the turkey? Shatter the glass lids and pyrex dishes (Aren't they

disposable?) Cut through the can opener cord and get electrocuted

(OOPS???)

I WANNA HEAR THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY DOMESTICALLY CHALLENGED WOMAN

HERE!

LOL, Thank God my ex and Ray have a sense of humor (and DANGER!), I

have not had to do laundry for 19 years, (since getting electrocuted

with a live 220 volt line) , Ray refuses to let me in the kitchen

when I am tired or sick, he mops, does dishes, dusts, and basically

my only job is to take care of the kids, the bills, and handle

household affairs! I get to cook on occasion (usually with a crock

pot!) but I thank God I am loved! Jeez, I may be a redhead, but when

God gave out brains.........

Ever seen " I love Lucy " ? Thats me in the kitchen and in life, one

crazy crisis after another! My best friend Luann and I seem to

compete for stupid accidents, LOL, she has had her eye stuck in a

vacuum hose, her arm stuck in a shop vac, her butt wedged under a

sink while cleaning a tub, and every time they had to call the Fire

Department where her DH is a Captain and he just happened to be on

duty everytime she has an accident! LOL, her latest accident mirrors

mine, she fell and broke her butt, not her tailbone, but the pelvic

bone in the rear, THEN she fell asleep on the heating pad and got 3rd

degree burns from the heating pad which proceeded to get

infected.......and 2 days later burnt it again!

OK all....can you beat OUR Lucy stories?

(WE are both redheads by the way!).

I need a smile today!!!!!

Cindee