Black Cats, Ladders, Mirrors…

Lately I have been breaking things – glass things!!

Last week I was helping Jordan get some stuff out of his room that he doesn’t want anymore and I had his old Lava lamp –

I was trying to put it in the ever-growing garage sale pile. What I didn’t know is that the glass part isn’t really attached to the base. Umm….it was a huge slimy mess with glass mixed in!!!

Yesterday morning I was helping some friends who are moving into a new house this weekend. They are trying to get everything but the furniture and heavy boxes done before Saturday (we will help them load the U-Haul Saturday). This morning we did all the kitchen stuff.

Instead of wrapping everything, we just filled laundry baskets and plastic bins – drove them to the new house – unpacked and went back for more.

Nothing broke in transit but I was loading a cabinet with drinking glasses, water bottles and coffee mugs.

I was adjusting one of the shelves with the little metal brackets –

I already had some glasses on the bottom of the cabinet – the shelf I was moving sort of slipped and crushed 2 stacked juice glasses. Pretty much this is what happened –

Then the worst break happened last night at a wedding change-over. Jordan, Chris and I were flipping the set-up from ceremony seating to reception set-up. Everything was going great and we would have been done in less than 15 minutes until several of the guests decided they could “help” us.

Well, when 10 people are going in and out of a small space working around decorations and stuff, bad things happen.

A tall glass vase – had a square mirror on it with a tall metal “thing” on that and then a lit candle.

Rolling out the final table (I was doing it for Jordan), the leg popped out and hit the structure and the entire thing toppled in slow motion! Glass and candle wax went everywhere – not cool!!!

So, on the way home Jordan asked me if I had seen any black cats lately or walked under an ladders.