Anyone find a finger in the kitchen?

So it is Monday. Wonderful, lovely Monday. I am at the coast store today and still nursing a little bit of a headache from the rake whack.
Yesterday we got together with my best friend, Tina, and her husband, Steve. It was Steve's birthday so we went out to the rooftop (in the heat!) and had a great late lunch and drinks. After that we strolled down to La Rambla for dessert and drinks. It was quite lovely.
Of course, my day wouldn't be complete without a little drama or hecticness, now would it? I mean, I am a magnet for the little things in life that get completely out of hand.
While I was biting into my seared Ahi steak my cell phone rang. It was Sonya. Jordan, the young man who was babysitting my kids for a couple of hours while we were out and also Sonya's son, cut himself and it wouldn't stop bleeding. So she took him to the ER and dropped the kids at her house with her husband.
He was alright after all, he did nick off the pad of one his digits so the fingerprint will never be the same again I am sure, but the bleeding stopped and he will live to play soccer and basketball and use his finger to do God knows what in the future. So all is well.
He even told his mom that I didn't have to pay him for the time he did spend with the kids. How sweet is that? Sure, come over to my house, loose a body part and then tell me I don't have to pay you for working. It is a sweet little system I have going over here. Anyone want to do some yardwork with a tempermental rotatiller or weedwhacker? I will provide free transportation to the ER if you happen to loose your foot or a couple of toes. And whatever you got done before the offing is for my benefit, so don't expect to get paid.
Of course, I am sure he is at his attorney's this morning giving a deposition about how we carelessly laid some really sharp scissors around our house in the hopes of having an accident in our family now that we have signed up for Aflac. But it isn't true!!!! I swear it isn't so!!
I will give Jordan his due pay sometime this week. And I am not heartless, geez, I just have to make light of all the whacky things that happen in my life. It is just not normal, but for some reason it is for me. So I am happy as a little clam in my world of chaos, so here is wishing you a wonderful week as well.

Aug. 28, 2006