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Show If Thingsgo Wrong.... Blame iton the Eclipse PAROWAN - Did you watch the eclipse of the sun? They say the only safe way to really watch it was thorugh a number 14 welders mask, and I just didn't happen to have one of those on hand. So I did like most everyone else, fixed a cardboard box with a pinhole, got bored with it and tried to sneak glaces at the real thing while pretending to look somewhere else. ' It was an erie feeling when things darkened, it seemed like it kind of set the mood for the whole day. Some people believe the position of the moon affects all our lives, and some of the school teachers I talked to said the kids were all wired up for the rest of the day, seeming to lose all interest in reading writin' and rithmetic. I kind of had the same problem. When I did the breakfast dishes I broke two cups, left milk rings in three glasses and stabbed my hand on a dull fork. My grandson was ok, he acted normally, he poured his milk in his orange juice, and washed his hair with his cereal. I however, just couldn't seem to get going. After I begged and pleaded with myself for hours to please get dressed, I stabbed myself in the eye with a mascara brush, and then in my resulting blindness knocked by eyebrow pencil off the counter and down the bathroom drain. My eyebrows don't show at all so I had to go around with a blank look for most of the day. You've maybe heard of the cute little make-up tip where you burn the end of a match and wet it to use for eyebrow pencil, well don't try it. It is painful, and does not work really well, makes you look sort of like a match book cover. Anyway, when I finally got organized, gathered up the baby in his coat and me in my coat, his diaper bag and my giant purse, I puffed my way out the door and was greeted by a flat tire, and that was only the beginning. As the day progressed, the washer got off balance and wouldn't spin and when I struggled out to' hang the clothes on the line, I stubbed my big toe on a bike frozen into the ground. , The cake I baked to cheer me up fell in the middle, but I was calm about the whole thing. I smiled sweetly, even thing. I smiled sesweetly, even when my 10 year old grandson added up how old I'll be for the next eclipse. I just quietly went outside, closed the door and kicked the cat across the lawn. (Don't write letters, I really didnt' kick her, just gave her a little lift, out from under my feet and as I said "across the lawn"). |