Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Absent minded much?

Today was one of those days where pretty much everything I could forget to do, I forgot to do. Maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration but here's why I say that. I went to Walmart today because my electric bill was $120 last month! I bought a fan b/c I blamed that exorbitant bill on the fact that I left my a/c running when I go to class (even though I would set it to 78 degrees). Anyway, I went to buy a fan. I purchased the fan and a few other things. The cashier had to yell after me because I walked out without my bags, quite content with my fan purchase. Then I got home and was doing hw. I fell asleep after reading maybe 5 pages. After waking up at 10:30 pm, I checked my text messages only to see that I missed my 6 pm student government meeting. I then checked my email and noticed that I received a facebook message from someone I didn't know. She identified herself as a Walmart employee writing to inform me that she found my wallet in one of the carts in the parking lot. Yeah. After I took my things out of the cart, I walked about 15 meters to place my cart carefully in the cart thingy (no idea what that's called) and I left my wallet for anyone interested to take! Needless to say, I rushed back to Walmart and collected my wallet, thanked the manager profusely and came back to my apt. The entire time, I was wondering why I was so preoccupied, causing me to forget so many things to today. Anyway, I'm awake, it's 2 am so I figure I'm going to be awake for a bit longer, why not make something to eat. I boil water, checking periodically to see when the water boiled. I placed the pasta in the water, checking periodically to see when the pasta was cooked. After I drained the pasta, I placed the cover of my pot on the burner (yeah...you see where this is going). I put pasta sauce in with some cheese. My late night snack was delish! So I'm sitting in my room and I notice that I can smell something in the kitchen. Instantly realizing what I did, I rush out to turn the stove off! The plastic lid handle had completely melted. To makes matters worse, before I could think to stop myself, I placed the lid in the sink and turned the water on. Guess what happened? Yup...it shattered. In the sink. On the side with the waste disposal. So now I have to clean up pieces of glass from the disposal before I forget and turn the thing on. Funny thing is, I was not even planning to write any of this down but upon almost burning my apt to the ground and it now being filled with smoke (I have no idea why the smoke detector did not go off and wake my roommate that I have seen once since she moved in last week). I'm pretty sure my lungs are filling with toxic smoke as I write! I guess that's what I get for eating dinner at 2 am.

3 comments:

  1. Blistered and bruised from removing glass from my sink, I think I've successfully removed all the glass and gotten the smoke out of my apt. WIN!

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  2. It's called a "cart corral", duhhhh :D

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