JFF - ;) Dumb Things I've Done

Today I took my kids to the Chick-fil-a drive through. Gave the guy at the window my money, said thanks and drove off! Without the food! LOL!

Stayed in a 10 yr relationship ,all my 20s, with a man I didn't love.
Got a few loans I really didn't need.
Had a sex one night stand with a rock star when I was young lol without a condom (what a bimbo) ,running around next day looking for morning after pill.
Getting very drunk and lost in the red light district in Amsterdam.

Oh they were the days

Now I am a settled wife and mother but still have a little twinkle in my eye lol
xBernie k

I decided to walk to the store the other day to buy a gallon of milk because we were out, and Hubby had taken the car to work.

Did I mention that it's about a 30 minute walk, and it was 104 out?

Yeah... By the time I dragged my sweaty, exhausted, about to pass-out stupid a$$ back into my house, the milk had spoiled. IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING! *sob*

Pure stupidity on my part.

ETA! I forgot my awesomeness from about 6 years ago... We went camping in the mountains during July. My friend and I spent that entire time on horseback, wearing jeans and bikini tops. (we figured we would work on our tans....) We used NO sunscreen, and NO insect repellent... After about 4 days of this, we went home...

Oh yes. We were HORRIBLY sunburned (I still have a few scars from some of the blisters I had) and bug-bit on top of it! I swear, the pain from scratching those bites was worse than giving birth!!! OOOH, I went sooo crazy trying not to scratch!

Turned on Nick Jr. during "Yo Gabba Gabba" . Now my daughter is hooked and I want to pull my hair out! For some reason that show is like nails on a chalkboard to me. :)

This morning, I started the coffee pot and after 5 minutes wondered why it wasn't brewing. I hadn't poured the water into the canister, it was still in the pot.

So I poured the water in restarted it, shaking my head that I could be so ditzy.

After another 5 min of brewing, the water was still clear. WTH??

Yeah. I hadn't actually put any GROUNDS in the filter. SMH.

Is it Monday??

Hi R.-

I sub teach.

One morning got a call from a 'farther' away school to sub...they were desperate, so I quickly got dressed...and gave 'garmin' the address.

It wasn't until lunch in the cafeteria that I realized I had on two suede clogs...only ONE was navy...the OTHER was black!

Best Luck!
michele/cat

* Tearing off the wallpaper from 3 of our 4 bathrooms without having any clue of what I was going to do afterwards, and no budget. It's been 3 years with no wallpaper, and different paint samples up on the walls. Looks terrible!

* Paying my husband's zero balance Macy's card, instead of mine that DID have a balance. Whoops! Did that one twice.

* Brewed a pot of baby formula instead of coffee. Afterwards I found a new place to keep the baby formula, rather than right next to the coffee grounds.

* Had a HUGE box of medication samples to send to my FIL. Set it on top of my van while I loaded the kids, but forgot to take it down when I left the garage. 1/2 a mile away from home I saw something flying out my back window, realized it was the medications, and then watched as a semi rolled over the box, scattering the contents across the road.

* Some oldies, but goodies: hit my husband's car in my own driveway. He should have been at work already! Also ran over 1) a newspaper, 2) a garden hose with my snowblower.

* after a First Communion, we drove to Target so I could buy a gift bag & card. My son came in with me and I got distracted looking for snacks for the kids, and came out the car, without the giftbag. Back in I went.

hmmmm
this week i wore pants that wouldnt stay zippered because i was in a rush out the door...i figured i'd wear a long sweater i have at work...doh! it was the once a year outdoor game day with my bosses...yup 100+ heat with my in long pants in a sweater running around outdoors

most brilliant divorce move was buying a 8 week old puppy while the ex and i were living together to distract M. and my daughter from the fact that our lives were changing...hmmmmm one 3 year olds lip torn in half and stitches later, followed by a 2 week quarantne for the puppy because we had foxes in our yard that week, and we finally got to return her to the store

-Kept the 2 year old up way past her bedtime last night. Still paying for that. Took 4 times to put her down for a much needed nap. We started this game at 9:30 a.m. when she asked for a nap. She is finally sleeping.

-Took the family TENT camping in Nashville, TN last week during 100 degree temps. We only lasted 3 nights out of 5. I don't know if we were smart for finally giving it up after 3 nights, or dumb for going all together.

A couple years back, I walked to the park, laid down on my tummy and proceeded to read a book with my music blaring in my ears. Well, about 4 hours later I woke up. The back of my legs were cremated! The sun had burned them so badly I already had blisters and the skin was tighter than leather! I had to then climb the security fence because I forgot the pass key. I was in so much pain I couldn't bend or straighten my legs completely for 3 weeks!

I got a payday loan. That was pretty dumb.

Gave my kids chocolate before dinner - seriously, no one ate anything and then both had growling tummies before bed - totally my fault:( Fail. LOL!

ate chipotle knowing well what the outcome will be (TMI)

knowing future me will drink a little more than I plan on tomorrow knowing that I have to work on Thursday.

I've got too many dumb things that I probably do on a daily basis but it keeps life entertaining.

I try to do too many things at once and realized today I've probably thrown some of my guy's dirty clothes away. I'm doing laundry today and some of his underwear, a pair of shorts, and a tank top are missing...I thought about it and remembered having some dirty clothes in my hand and a bag of trash in the other, I went to the trash and dumped something but just found the bag of trash. So I get to sift through the two tall cans of trash we have out by the garage...guess it's a good thing it doesn't get picked up until Friday, or this week Saturday :-/

Right after we bought our new vehicle (Tahoe) I was backing slowly out of the garage when my passenger side mirror hit the side of the garage - I then proceeded to stop the truck and pull back into the garage hitting it again! LOL I seriously had to laugh at myself for that one =)

in a rush forgot my flip flops and still had my slippers on, not to run errands, but to go out to eat!

yesterday, my friend sent me a text of a view of water off of a balcony, I knew she was visiting michigan so i figured it was lake michigan. Nope, it was hawaii, i never noticed the big palm trees in the pic and actually had to go back and check it.

Just looked at the sun.. doh! I'm seeing spots!

Thanks to you, dearest R., I will be painting my kitchen (and fireplace - well, we'll see, I might go in for the fireplace even though I KNOW it's a bad idea) NEXT summer rather than this one. Sometimes, you really don't realize how clever you are, and more than once you have inadvertently saved my hiney by sharing one anecdote or the other.

Stupid things I've done:

- Quit smoking three weeks ago. Now I don't want to go backwards and it wouldn't do the trick even if I were to start again, but I desperately want some sort of crutch to help me through the next few months. Hopefully I will not be kicking myself once I start school and have access to the pool. The whole point was to make it so that I could swim again without gasping for air by lap three.

My wild cat won't come to me anymore either. She knew she could come and get love while I was smoking (I assume she'd smell it and come to search me out), and that I wouldn't try to catch her to put her inside. Now she steers clear, scared that she'll (Bum, bum, bum) get caught even when I have zero intention of doing so.

Maybe 60 year old Ephie will thank me?

- I taught my girls the joy of chasing seagulls on the beach before I realized that I grew up doing so in Oregon...where cars aren't allowed on the beach.

Also forgot to bring them a spare pair of shoes. Heeeello? Did I really think their boots would stay dry?

- Overdrew the bank account yesterday. Blarg and drat. I was even in town TO deposit a dang check and completely forgot. Yay me.

- Super not awesome: was mean to my mama :-( when we were both feeling spun out. Drat. I've apologized one thousand times, but I still feel like a complete turd.

Oooh...this is a good one!

-Let the kids put sunscreen on one another.

-Dog-sat my bestie's little dog for the weekend. This was an excellent reminder of why we're cat-people. Now the kids want a dog. Argh!

-Tried to keep the grass green in a drought ($70 water bill last month!).

Missed our quarterly health insurance payment (we pay out of pocket since neither one of us can get affordable full-family coverage through work) by over a month and got sent a cancellation notice. Was able to call and get it reinstated.

I bought a boat large enough to go water skiing. My wife and I went out on a lake with another couple and had a wonderful time. We had a delightful picnic lunch and just laid out on the beach. Both ladies were wearing one piece suits that they untied the straps from around their necks so they could get a tan with no strap tan lines.

We got back in the boat for some more water skiing. My wife got the ski rope and put on the ski's. I was the spotter and the other guy was the driver. My wife got up fine, then failed to clear a boat's wake and fell down. She didn't release the ski rope and she was dragged by the boat through the water as the other guy cut the engine. The ski's were pulled off her feet AND her bathing suit was pulled off her body. She forgot to tie her top's strings back in place. She is swimming nude while we are looking for her suit. We never did find her suit. So she had to climb in the boat nude while the other guy turned away. (Yeah right!, but I was helping my wife.) She covered up with two towels, but that wasn't quite enough. The other lady dove into the lake to bring the ski's to the boat and her top came down, but she didn't loose her suit and was able to pull her suit back up and THEN she tied the strings around her neck. But not before everyone in the boat saw everything she tried to cover with the top of her suit.

It was an interesting day. 8~))

I did a really dumb thing the other day. We were under a severe weather warning, and when it started to hail I took my kids to the bathroom for shelter. It was dinner time and my son was having pancakes so I let him take his pancakes with us. We are sitting in the tub and I have to pee so I lay my 5mnth old down on a towel I have in the tub, next to my son, and climb out of the tub. Well my baby takes that 10 seconds to try and shove a fist full of her brothers pancakes in her mouth. I grabbed them from her before she could choke or anything, but I can't believe I laid her down right next to them with out relizing she would do that!

I listened to Herman Cain subbing for Sean Hannity on his radio show yesterday....