TT - Domestic Disasters in my Life

WEEK 63 - My #17

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OK first off I would like to thank everyone for all of their great movie ideas given for my last week's TT. I've decided what my #13 now is, I've got a list of movies to check out and I'm gonna start my second list of 13 favourite movies because no can do take any off the old list!!!

So drum roll please.......my #13 favourite movie is Sweet Magnolias. I just loved Weezy and Clarice in the movie and Sally Field and Julia Roberts did some great acting.

OK well now I'm going to recap my list of domestic disasters. No particular order. Let me know if you've had these close encounters of the abnormal kind. I always say misery loves empathy!

1. #1 As a kid I unknowingly refilled the sugar bowl with salt and gagged big time on my cereal.
2. #2 When I was 3 I climbed up on the dining room table and started gnawing on a solid pound of butter put out for lunch. I got about 1/3 of the way through. This probably should have gone on my list of Stupid Things I Did as a Child but I ran out of #'s!!!!

3. #3 Got electrocuted when I was washing dishes and picked up a knife and accidentally touched the metal toaster with it that was on. The electricity transferred up my arm, across my shoulders and then down my other arm to the water, water being a conductor of electricity of course. Hard way to learn my high school physics theories!!
4. #4 After I had been on a few dates with my husband and had only met his kids once, briefly. I came over one Sunday afternoon and brought some blueberry cheesecake that I made. He graciously served it. The kids each had a friend over at the time. He said to them "Isn't this great cheesecake that Deb made?" to which his daughter replied "Who's Deb?". I was standing right there in the kitchen. He was so embarrassed but we laughed and still tease DQ about that to this day. She was eight at the time. hee hee
5. # 5 So my regular readers already know of my Ireland bathtub cleaning disaster blogged about under Monday Memories.
6. # 6 Clipped my dog too short on the on one side of the head and had to keep going shorter and shorter until he was bald. I cried when my husband came home and saw him because I knew he'd be mad. I was po'd because his hair was so long and he needed a clipping badly and cheapskate dh didn't want to take him to the groomers. That's why I started clipping him on my own. Usually he does it.
7. #7 A health care aid I am not. When I was a teen my younger sister hit a lamp post on her bike and broke her fingers. While I was sitting trying to comfort her until my parents got home from work I fainted. (Her fingers looked really gross). By the time Mum and Dad got home my other sister had run up to the high school to get my bf from football practice and I was in the bathroom with my head over the toilet.
8. #8 Made my husband try seafood a second time to see if in fact he really was allergic to it. The last time he had a seafood gumbo at a really fancy restaurant but was deathly ill that night. We got a free meal out of it. (YAY!) We thought maybe the fish was bad. So he casually mentioned that he would like to have some seafood one night about two years later and I encouraged him. He was sick as a dog again. Boy did I feel bad. He can eat scallops and shrimps and fish but not mussels / oysters. I'm not sure about crab or lobster. LOL
9. #9 Cleaned the kitchen sinks with bleach so much that the rubber pieces on the sink stoppers disintegrated. Left bleach rings on the countertops, spilled bleach on the carpet, got it on my clothes at my waist. I'm the bleach Queen! Yeah!
10. #10 Cooked a few recipes and forgetting to put in a key ingredient....i.e. baking powder for a cake (rise up damn cake rise), tomato paste for spaghetti sauce (I wondered why it was so watery), walnuts in the nut garnished salad ... I'm sure there have been lots more which I have conveniently also forgotten!
11. #11 MILK disasters - Drank a few mouthfuls of milk and swallowed before I realized it was sour! Had milk come out my nose once when I laughed after taking a swig at the dinner table. Was still nursing my baby when I returned to work and had to learn to dress creatively or stop talking about my sweet baby at work lest I encourage the let down factor right before a meeting. Got milk?
12. #12 Put a gold rimmed china teacup in the microwave to warm up some tea. Sparks flew. Don't do that.
13. #13 Number 13 has been erased from my memory. I know it happened, I just can't remember what it was. Was it a sewing disaster? Terrible tasting dinner disaster? Drank too much and threw up on my guests? I do not know. But maybe if you share with me your best domestic disaster it will jog that awful but protective memory of mine and bring it back out into full view. Feel my pain, internets. Share me yours! lol