Enjoying My Misfortune
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 9:57AM 
A little string of bad luck has left me no choice, but to sit back and enjoy the coming of spring...
First, and the saddest thing to me is, I dropped my netbook and shattered the screen. My system for photo editing has always been kind of a pain…We have an old, clunky monitor for our desktop and no amount of button pushing changes the color or the resolution, so I was always uploading my photos on the desktop and then sending certain ones to my email or Picnik or Photobucket, and then looking at them with my netbook to see what they really looked like. Now, I have no idea what it is that you see, so if it’s crap, I’m sorry. I have to say “Oh well” to the whole situation, or I’ll lie in bed and cry for days. :)
To make matters worse, whatever it is I don’t really see on my crappy monitor, I can only see with one eye today. Yesterday, I was cleaning my bathroom ceiling and I got a drop of bleach in my eye. I went to the ER and had my eye flushed out, and came home with a tube of antibiotic ointment and a corneal abrasion. Ouch! I can still see (thank goodness), and today I feel more wrecked by the intense eye flushing and the tetanus shot I got in my arm, than I do from the pain in my left eye.
I’m not complaining. It’s actually a good thing that I feel all floppy and lifeless today. I can’t give a second thought to the mountain of laundry growing in the hallway, because my washing machine broke on Saturday, too. So, what’s a floppy, one-eyed girl like me to do without the ability to edit photos or do laundry…? I guess I’ll just have to sit back and enjoy the nice weather and the coming of spring, right?
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Reader Comments (5)
Oh my!!! Too many things in too few days. I hope your eye is already feeling better and I hope you find solutions and fixes to your broken stuff!! Great excuse not to do laundry tho. I will take any excuse I can get. Beautiful poem and pictures. :)
Oh Kelly!!! What a few days... but those flowers make me smile... hope they're doing the same for you :)
Oh dear sweet Kelly-I hope your eye heals really fast! That must have been soooo painful...and scary! Well...your pics are stunning...so sad that you can't see them now but...they are! I hope you feel better soon...about everything. at least you have your very optimistic attitude:) Worth more than gold that. Big hugs okay. If I were there I would come over and make you some hot tea and...take care of you. Seriously:) xxx
Oh, Kelly! Well, you are certainly the funnest floppy one eyed girl I know!
What a string of events you've had. Goodness. Your outlook is truly amazing though. I'm impressed!
Oh, and your flowers look gorgeous on my professionally calibrated monitor, by the way.
Hope you are back to your old self very soon, friend!
Teresa
Dear sweet Kelly-just stopping by to send you lots of love, hugs and healing thoughts. I hope you get some rest this weekend and that your eye is on the way to a speedy recovery:) xxx Soraya