more crazy things

4) Erica now has a big puffy eye w/ a red gash on her eyelid. Again, i'm not completely sure what happened. we were at a big luncheon, and she was running around w/ the other kids. all of a sudden i hear "ahhhhhh!" I think she ran into a table, b/c thats the same height as where her marks are.

these next things make me MAD! its as if life is out to get me...

5) Saturday night we heard a big "boom, crash" and didnt know what it was. i looked around but couldnt find the source, so we figured it came from outside. well, when we went upstairs to get ready for sleep, we gasped as we saw our closet... One of the shelves had completely gell down to the ground. [Here's a picture of part of our closet. there are those wire shelves all around the walls.] What i cant figure out is WHY it fell. was there just too much stuff hanging and stacked on it? If thats the reason, well, it makes no sense. b/c awhile ago, andrew asked me to get rid of all the clothes i dont wear... and then let me buy some new things. but, i got rid of a LOT more than what i bought.

anyway. Saturday, i remember placing one thing up there that hadn't been previously... and that was just our extra bed sheets. not that heavy at all. but maybe that was the final straw...

6) argghhh... my morning has been miserable b/c of this next crazy thing...

for awhile now, our TV has been "dying." The red doesnt work anymore. so everything is shades of blue, yellow, and green. [Strawberry shortcake's berries are blue, not red.] It was a bit annoying... but i could live with it. Well, yesterday our DVD player bit the dust. Whenever we put a DVD in, it just makes clicking sounds and then a message pops up that says there's an error.

well, erica loves her strawberry shortcake movies. i dont let her watch them all day long, but at least once or twice. this morning, she wanted to watch it, but didnt understand when i said: "its broken." she screamed and screamed. So, i got out all of her DVDs, and one by one we put them in and she saw that it wouldnt work. I think it then dawned on her that it was broken. So she's been a bit better since then.

oh well...

Maybe we'll go out somewhere today. Just to get out. I dont really know where to go; amost everything consists of spending $$$ [too cold to go to the park or walk around the neighborhood for a long extended period of time.]