Did you really open the umbrella in doors?!

I have never really been superstitious, actually I'm mostly a skeptic when it comes to certain things.

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So last weekend we were working on the upstairs bathroom. It's been crazy here with our basic day to day activities in addition to redecorating and home improvement. Truly my husband has done an amazing job with my brother-in-law George on the flooring and new fixtures (commode and vanity with sink) but I don't want him to feel like he's not getting any help from me so I decided I would get in on the action today...remember what I said above.

After work I came home and went to work! I was going to be the awesome wife that started with sealing the grout on the floor. Easy enough? I mean this is a simple bottle of clear liquid with a brush top that fits perfectly into the grooves of the grout between the tiles. (Or so I thought)...

This is about the time that I break in with some information on me. I'm a mixed race baby. Yes, half polish and half african american (aa)...well not exactly half of each because I have a touch of Lithuanian and Serbian but really I'm mostly Polish and AA. Sometimes I kid that I'm more Polish than anything else because I'm so clumsy...well that's been the running joke in my family since I was old enough to remember. Fall on your face-it's because your Polish! (I'm guessing you know where this is going, but you only are thinking about half of the story. Just wait for it...)

So I opened the bottle of sealer and noticed there was a rubbery plug...at first I thought okay I need to get this plug out right? Well the plug was just that, plugging the bottle and it did a darn good job because it was seriously stuck on there. So I began to think (dangerously) maybe there's a little hole I just cannot see. Yes, this thought seriously crossed my mind. Maybe I just need to squeeze it and then I will see this "magically invisible hole" and I will be able to put the top back on and go to town being the Amazing Grout Sealing Queen. So I give the bottle a little squeeze and...

*POP*

The grout sealer plug hit me in the face, the liquid splattered out of the bottle into my face, right eye, hair and down my shirt. SERIOUSLY????!! I ran into the bathroom and quickly bathed my face, eye and hair because I had at least had the common sense to read the directions and emergency information before attempting to bathe in the sealer. In the midst of this madness I find my squish Em has Bath and Body Works soap next to the sink and I quickly lather it up and coat my face and hair...oh and I managed to coat my EYE too!! LET THE BURNING COMMENCE NOW! My eye was on fire...30 minutes later after my eye stopped burning I went back to work. 

After finishing the grout sealing I let it dry and went to the family room to paint. I'm actually pretty happy with the results of the paint. I have also placed tape on the walls to see what the boarders of my wall base will look like. Awesome right?

Once I was done touching up the wall downstairs I moved back into the bathroom upstairs and decided that it was time to paint the baseboards white. Happily I skipped downstairs picked up my brush, can of paint and skipped back upstairs to paint. After preparing my space (without a cloth) I shook the three fourths full can of paint...you will never guess what happened next. 

*POP AND GUSH*

The can opened, yes it opened. I'm not sure how because it was sealed very well...how can I even say that when it opened obviously I should say it appeared to be sealed very well. Needless to say half a can of paint gushed out of the can, amazingly the lid did not budge much, you would never have guessed though with puddle of white paint thick and congealing on my leg and about a two foot area of my bedroom floor. OH MY PAINT!!!! SERIOUSLY "THE SEQUEL" (It just doesn't get any better). Sometimes I think we are challenged in life every now in again to be tested to see how much we can take. Today my number was obviously up for bad luck. 

So again I'm back in the bathroom and thank God I'm quick on my feet because really there was so much paint where do you start. I tore my pants off and threw them into the shower and started the hot water. Then a grabbed a towel and ran back into my bedroom quickly absorbing the paint and running a marathon back and forth cleaning the floor and my pants. During this crazy time when I'm almost done my honey comes home and just looked shocked. He quickly decided he should run an errand based on the look on my face and so I finished cleaning and threw my pants in the dryer and believe it or not I went back to painting. (I will say that I think the carpet is good to go. We actually purchased this all purpose cleaner from a door to door salesperson about two weeks ago and that stuff worked miracles). 

After my painting was finished it was time to have some dinner. Rolf picked up something quick since we were working on the house. So what do I do?? - I knocked my whole soda over on the carpet...no I'm not joking and no a black cat has not crossed my path..although after today I began to think so! 

Nothing else has happened this evening (yes, I just knocked on wood)... I was proud though that although I seemed to have the worst luck in the world I didn't give up...much like when I was a child growing up...

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill 

...So about two weeks ago we went to Wal-Mart and I opened an umbrella in the store...Rolf and squishies were shocked and said I gave myself bad luck. I laughed...

NO LONGER LAUGHING!

Vacation Anyone?!

We want to take a summer vacation and so my suggestion was let's go to South Dakota...I mean isn't that the first idea that pops into everyones mind when they think of vacation? Or maybe it's the 10 million times I saw the "Great Places, Great Faces...South Dakota" commercial and dreamt of the jingle.

So I did the most rational thing anyone would do that wants to go to SD. I ordered a massive tourist magazine from their tourism bureau..(I'm not joking when I say this thing is massive). And what comes with a massive tourism guide, too many darn decisions on where to go, what we "must see" and how to map this out in a four day trip with two kids and the hubs.

I am sure there are the "must see" places...Mount Rushmore...Mount Rushmore...black hills and a cave oh and the carhenge thing...is that even in SD? But we haven't decided which of the 18 different "caves/gold mining" locations we actually want to go to. 

I actually hit a roadblock with exploring earlier and started looking at Hawaii (not going this year but it was a thought that crossed my mind). So back to the planning pages we will go...

Earlier we took a great weekend getaway to KC (of course we did WOF/OFF) it was great. I want to make sure the squishies get to travel to see the country because I did not have that growing up...that is what has led me to SD...

I have three weeks before we depart so hopefully we will have this trip planner tool completed before then or we might just aimlessly drive around and visit all the rest stops in Western Nebraska...Giddy up!