Uh. Hi. I feel a little raw and exposed after my last post. More than that, though, I feel honored that so many of you shared your stories and let me know I wasn’t alone. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
So. *clap, clap* I’m feeling much better now! How about you?
Actually I’m feeling better about the whole “bad day” thing from yesterday (oh alright, the past 2 1/2 years), but in the last 48 hours I’ve somehow managed to break three different pieces of machinery and I’m feeling rather irritated.
Maybe it’s my magnetism that causes these things to break? Am I giving off some sort of “break right now you silly machine” vibe?
1. Washing machine. Broke. Full of water and towels. Couldn’t be drained. I tried putting it on the spin cycle just so it would drain. I did! I tried.
Washing machine repairman walked in, turned the dial to the spin cycle and it drained. He looked at me like I was a DUMBASS.
“I, uh, DID that. It didn’t drain for me.”
He looked at me again like I was a dumbass. “It would have drained.”
“But it didn’t.”
“It would have.”
I’d have kicked him in the family jewels for arguing with me like a three-year-old, but I really wanted him to fix my washing machine. He fixed it, costing less than I’d expected.
I felt smug.
“HA! You can’t get me Universe! I win.”
Just a mere four hours later…
2. Laptop. Broken. Wouldn’t even turn on. Went to sleep mode and didn’t wake up.
Universe? Suck it.
Without a computer, I’m cut-off from the world. I don’t even HAVE a phone book to look up a number for a computer repair person.
Nearly 24 hours after going into a coma, it miraculously starts. I’m now too afraid to let it go asleep again. Thank God for blogs and Twitter, they’ll keep my computer’s brain waves from flatlining.
“Universe? What’s going on?”
Just this morning…
3. Computer printer at BMV. Suddenly broken. Working fine until I sit down to request to take the driver’s exam to get an Indiana driver’s license.
One child is screaming in her stroller. The other child just took a poop and I forgot to bring wipes.
“Keep smiling at the BMV worker,” I tell myself. “Don’t scream at her to PLEASE OH PLEASE HURRY and just print the test at a different computer. Oh yeah, Universe? Leave. Me. Alone. I’m NOT talking to you.”
The BMV worker calls another BMV office to try to figure out the printer’s major malfunction. Answers the same question several times. Turns printer off and on and on and off. Over and over and over.
Printer still not working.
I keep smiling. I’m not smiling on the inside, in fact I’m gagging a little from the stench coming from the boy child’s ass.
Eventually an angel appears from another printer with my test. I sing Hallelujah and thank Carson for helping speed up the process.
(If you don’t hear from me for several days, you’ll know the computer is on the fritz. Or that my magnetism broke some more appliances/electronics/machines.)
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I am right with you in the last post and with the broken things. My laptop is broken as is my air conditioner and the main toilet. Life is good.
By Shamelessly Sassy
on 09.04.08 2:17 pm | Permalink
I’m glad you have a little sunshine after your last post.
2 things - why is it called BMV?? And, did you ask your boy to do his job on command or he was just that good?
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By Teri
on 09.04.08 2:29 pm | Permalink
Ye Gads love. Sending you huge hugs and ‘no breaky’ vibes!!!
Screaming kids are definitely good for some things
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By rachel
on 09.04.08 2:31 pm | Permalink
@Teri: Apparently the “B” stands for “Bureau.” This is so dumb. Why can’t Indiana be like every other state and just call it the “D”MV???
I don’t know why the “B” MV annoys me so much, it just does! It made me giggle that you noticed the “B”!
By Jennifer
on 09.04.08 2:32 pm | Permalink
@Teri: Oh yeah…he just pooped on his own. I’m so proud! His timing was PERFECT!
By Jennifer
on 09.04.08 2:34 pm | Permalink
I was wondering what the BMV was too — at first I thought it was a typo, but when you used it more than once I was all sorts of confused.
But if there is anything more annoying than the DMV on principle, it’s the BMV…because that is just silly.
Just think, with all the rotten luck you have recently had, you’re about due to win the lottery, don’t you think?
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By Maggie
on 09.04.08 2:44 pm | Permalink
It’s the other way around for me. Our Users call for help. I walk over. It works. I look at them like the Washing Machine Guy looked at you. What they don’t know is .. there’s a panic circuit built into our computers so that whenever I approach - they work. Gotta love that magnetism stuff.
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By lceel
on 09.04.08 2:46 pm | Permalink
I’m so glad it’s better today. Yesterday was the single worst day of parenting for me, ever, so I totally understood your pain. Good luck with the extra static electricity that’s causing the breaking.
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By Anglophile Football Fanatic
on 09.04.08 2:52 pm | Permalink
Dontcha just love how shit happens in like thirteens or something?
I swear old man murphy has been living in our house for WEEKS.
Let’s hope your streak is over. Oy.
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By MamaGeek
on 09.04.08 2:54 pm | Permalink
With me, it’s cars. Things that should never go wrong with a car go wrong when I’m driving it. The biggest, craziest one: my power steering pump FELL OFF while I was driving. I was, of course, alone and far from home, and no one would believe me when I told them on the phone that it was gone. Lots of people apologized to me for not believing me.
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By the dragonfly
on 09.04.08 3:03 pm | Permalink
okay this comment is NOT that interesting but…
My washer broke about 2 months ago. And I got in a car accident the same day. SUCKS TO BE ME.
Anyway, the washer was just like yours ‘cept it would. not. drain. no. matter. what.
Turns out, the thingie on the inside that gets pushed in when the lid goes down, to let the machine know the lid is down, well it broke off. So the machine thought the lid was up when it was not. So, I had a neighbor and a friend look at it, (did I mention my hubs was also out of town going on the third week?) and they jerry-rigged it with a cable tie. Now it works okey fine boss.
I hope yours isn’t on the fritz long term but if it is, look for the lid-latch-thingie. I believe that is the technical term.
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By Texan Mama
on 09.04.08 3:03 pm | Permalink
I love your posts!!! I just got to read your posts….all of them and I am in the same boat!!! Hubby gone, truck breaks, my car window cracks, dishwasher breaks and dryer won’t dry. I have a 2 almost 3 year old with horrible temper tantrums when I’m trying to do something and a 1 year old. I wish there was an easy button for our life sometimes!
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By Jessica Mc
on 09.04.08 3:04 pm | Permalink
@the dragonfly: Ha! I’d believe you…That happened to me, too!! My dad couldn’t believe it really happened.
By Jennifer
on 09.04.08 3:05 pm | Permalink
@Texan Mama: Funny you should mention that lid latch thingie. It broke about 9 mos ago. Our washer can run with the lid open or closed now. The repairman gave me a long lecture about how unsafe it was and that I needed to have that fixed.
It was hard not to roll my eyes at him.
By Jennifer
on 09.04.08 3:06 pm | Permalink
@Jessica Mc: If you find an easy button, let me know!!
By Jennifer
on 09.04.08 3:07 pm | Permalink
you poor thing! glad things are working again for you!
my in laws are notorious for screwing up all things electronic - there was one year when we seriously replaced their cordless phone like 5 times. and don’t get me started on them and computers! phew!
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By pgoodness
on 09.04.08 3:13 pm | Permalink
if it can be broken, i assure you, i will break it
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By ali
on 09.04.08 3:17 pm | Permalink
They say everything happens in threes, so you should be good by now, or pregnant. I might not be helping.
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By Megan
on 09.04.08 3:36 pm | Permalink
ha!
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By Devan
on 09.04.08 5:23 pm | Permalink
Yea..sleep mode is actually bad for some reason. Many computer geeks that I know of will always say never use it…just turn it off…does something to the hard disks. Next time try to hold in the power button until it turns off then turn it back on.
Anyway, You must have burned off some bad karma and now have some good karma happenin.
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By Sandy
on 09.04.08 5:25 pm | Permalink
Ooh. That sucks. I used to have that same washing machine phenomenon happen, only it was with my dad and the piece o’ crap car I had to drive in high school. Hopefully things will look up from here!
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By Molly's Mom
on 09.04.08 5:52 pm | Permalink
The EXACT same thing happened to me and my washer. I have never been so mad in my whole life.
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By Mr Lady
on 09.04.08 6:37 pm | Permalink
I’ve just recently found your blog, and I love you! Thank you for being just like me.
And I have to tell you, the fact that you forgot wipes, and poop was emanating from your boy, so made me feel not alone - that ALWAYS happens to me. If my daughter is constipated, all I have to do is go out in public without wipes, and voila! poo!
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By Jenny Henny
on 09.04.08 6:43 pm | Permalink
I so have had those days. With the laptop, mine was having issues and then I realized that for whatever reason the brightness was off. (because at this point I was randomly pushing buttons trying to make anything work) it came back on. So every now and again when it goes wonky I check that first. Even though I KNOW I didnt’ touch a damn thing.
HUGS! Glad today is much better. Here, well….stupid wrist is still broke, but I think I can somehow blame it on Sarah Palin….LOL.
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By Heather~Domestic Extraordinaire
on 09.04.08 7:11 pm | Permalink
I would take the washing machine thing as a sign that the washing machine doesn’t like you…and Tate should be responsible for all laundry from this point forward.
Besides…you’re gonna be awfully busy keeping your laptop awake from now on!
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By Slacker Mama
on 09.04.08 8:05 pm | Permalink
ugh. What a bad few days. My printer is also broken. I think it will be number 5 in the last 2 years.
And in NJ, we aren’t even the DMV anymore. We have the MVC - Motor Vehicle Commission. Seriously. What was wrong with the DMV?
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By Beach Mama
on 09.04.08 8:37 pm | Permalink
OMG! I don’t know what I’d do if my laptop flatlined. I’m pretty sure that I too would go into cardiac arrest. Then I’d hammer the crap out of it.
One other thing? I want to thank you for distracting the Universe for a while… it’s been kind of nice having things work around here!
Now if you could magically/magnetically turn my son’s teacher into a sweet motherly type, I’d pay you. A lot.
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By Kia
on 09.04.08 9:56 pm | Permalink
Yeah, ditto what someone else said. That sleep mode is EVIL! Better to either just let it be on screen saver after like 15 minutes or turn it off every night!
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By Krista
on 09.04.08 11:12 pm | Permalink
Ugh - must be something going around the blogosphere lately. We just had our refrigerator quit over the past weekend - after a large grocery shopping trip no less… Sigh.
I hope the laptop keeps cooperating for you!
By Deb - Mom of 3 Girls
on 09.05.08 12:41 am | Permalink
WHY oh why is the Universe such a fickle friend? Maybe friend is too nice a word. Acquaintance? I digress. I noted the B in BMV too and was all “wtf really?” when you responded with the explanation. Indiana is WEIRD. Sorry.
I hope to God my laptop doesn’t catch a cold or something, whatever yours had. It’s new, so it shouldn’t, but I tend to break things like it’s going out of style. Ahem.
Hope nothing else breaks on ya
By flickrlovr
on 09.05.08 2:26 am | Permalink
@Megan: You better watch your mouth ;)!!!
I am quite certain I couldn’t handle a third child. At least not without sedatives.
By Jennifer
on 09.05.08 7:59 am | Permalink
You need to let Tate handle the kiddos for the weekend, while you only leave bed for hot baths; food (delivered from a restaurant or prepared by him!) and pitchers of margaritas!
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By Devilish Southern Belle
on 09.05.08 9:19 am | Permalink
Sorry but I had to laugh at the washmachine part where it wouldn’t drain! I go through similar with my car. Dang thing just stopped. I have it towed in for 50.00 and they say…well..it started just fine for us…nothing wrong with it. I also wanted to kick said grease monkey in jewels for speaking to me like a 3 year old. lol. Turned out I’m not nuts..was distributor cap….600.00 later.
By Pat
on 09.05.08 9:53 pm | Permalink
I hate it when that happens! When it rains, it pours.
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By dysfunctional mom
on 09.07.08 6:41 pm | Permalink
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