Definitely not my worst day this month…but definitely not the best.

Over the weekend, I finally decided to move our clunky, hard-to-close, space-hogging microwave down to the garage and replace it with the older, yet more convenient, one we used to collect dust. As I held tightly to the awkward appliance, I felt liquid running down my leg.

No, I hadn’t peed myself.

I had just reheated my coffee! This is something I do several times a day…almost every time I stand up I am either putting my coffee cup in or taking it out. Needless to say, it’s not a top priority of mine to remember where I put my coffee cup and, at this moment, it should have mine.

The night after the coffee spilled in the microwave and leaked all over me and the floor, my cat knocked over another cup of coffee! It went all over my desk, filling my gaming headphones that dangled over the edge before pouring into my shaggy carpet. What a mess!

The real funny part about this is that I don’t think I have spilled a cup of coffee in at least a year. In one short weekend, my coffee was spilled twice. Yes, I blame the microwave and the cat.

So, today started great. It was snowing here in Northern Colorado and I only had one errand to run: hair cut. Though I don’t get my hair done often, I do enjoy it. The wash, long-nailed hair massage, someone else brushing your hair and having some blow dry and style for you - heaven! Lately, I have been trying to save money so I went to a new salon that was half the price of where I normally went. I have never colored my hair and I don’t do anything more than a trim and layers, so I didn’t care too much about the price/quality different and I was glad that I saved the money.

Lo and behold!

When I want to save money, something always happens to make me spend money.

I drive home and notice my rear passenger tire is noticeably low. Since I saved money on the hair salon, and I needed an oil change anyways, I drove to Vasoline so they could fill my tires and advise me on what to do. While one of them are changing my oil, someone else is running through everything else that my car is needing: flush the transmission, air filter, coolant, battery and more. The list of ‘must-haves’ quickly added up to a few hundred dollars. Then, I asked about my tire.

“You need to get to Big-O right away,” the mechanic said. “You have a screw in your tire and it’s leaking air fast.”

Awesome.

I drive the few blocks to Big-O and they take pity on me. The men generously patch my tire for free, but tell me that the screw was too close to the wall and I’ll need a new tire. Of course, I live in Northern Colorado so these are my expensive winter tires.

Oh Murphy. Why would you make such a law to put our lives in turmoil thus? ;)

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