That's Just Me

About a month or two ago, while climbing into the car, I whacked the car door into my forehead. Yep. I hit myself in the face with a car door. I actually cut my forehead and earned a pretty decent bump for a few days due to the incident, and if it wasn't for Mederma I'm pretty sure I would have earned a scar! All because I couldn't open a door.

A couple weeks ago my husband and I were shopping in a department store. On my way over to find him in the men's area I passed through the fragrances. I'm quite content with inexpensive body sprays and whatever winds up with my stocking at Christmas, but I decided it would be fun to try out a few expensive ones. There were no tester strips, and I didn't want to smell like a bouquet of perfume, so I was spraying them in the air and sniffing them out. I picked up another pretty bottle, sprayed, and got myself right in the eye. My reflexes weren't too good, and my eyelid didn't close quickly enough. I must have been staring straight at that thing when I sprayed it. My eye burned for the rest of the evening, and as we snuggled into bed that night, my husband said sweetly to me, "Honey, I can still smell your eye." A sentence that I'm pretty sure had never been said before.

And yesterday, on my lunch break, I walked into the gas station and well, got about two steps before I slipped on the wet floor, my feet flew out in front of me, and I landed with several thuds. The contents of my purse went spilling, and heads turned to see what the commotion was. Yeah, there's a reason they put those yellow signs out for you.

I have stubbed my toe on my dog, I can't drink a glass of anything without missing my mouth at least once, and I am terrified of when I have children and have to carry a baby up and down the steps in my house because I have fallen up and down them a lot.

I am a mess.

I am klutzy, awkward, accident-prone, and sometimes clueless and ditzy.

I have no grace and not a lot of dignity left at this point.

I'm sure I would have flunked out of charm school if I had ever gone.

I have done so many stupid things that I hardly even blush anymore when I do something utterly humiliating.

And I am delighted in.

The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17

Emily