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Cream Cheese Bagels and Laptop Computers Do Not Mix!

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I’m such a dork. Look what I did yesterday –

cream cheese on keyboard

This is truly only something I could do. I’m such a spaz!

Yeah … well … I was eating breakfast while working on my laptop. Consider this a lesson learned.

I leaned over to write something down on a piece of paper and PLOP went one half of a bagel covered in cream cheese onto my keyboard. Wrong side up of course!
Ugh!

What a mess!

I took the photo that you see above after I’d swiped at the cream cheese covered keys with a paper towel. It looked much worse before I wiped it.

I quickly realized that if I continued to try to wipe the cream cheese off the keyboard that I’d probably end up pushing it into the cracks between the keys and likely under the keys as well. So I went upstairs and I got several q-tips so I could try to clean the keys without pushing the cream cheese all over the place.

My husband was home since it was his day off. He was just shaking his head at me as if I do this every day! Then he remembered that we happened to have toothpicks in the kitchen, so he brought me the box and I started using them to pick the cream cheese from between the keys.

The toothpicks worked great!

As I cleaned the keys I also discovered that there was quite a bit of dust under the keys … well more than dust – more like dust balls and surprisingly quite a bit of my very fine auburn hair! Bleh! Who knew I was losing so much hair! I sure didn’t.

Considering the fact that I ended up cleaning dust balls from the whole keyboard I’d say that it took me well over an hour – perhaps even two hours to clean the keys. I even finished up by vacuuming the laptop and keyboard to get all the fine dust that I’d loosened with the toothpicks. Then I gave the keys a swipe with a rubbing alcohol soaked cotton ball to give it a final cleaning.

After all that, the laptop looks almost brand new again! I didn’t realize how dirty it really was. Thankfully I didn’t spill liquid on the keyboard … at least the cream cheese dried out a bit and started to flake off after a while.

Oh yeah, the puppy got in on the action too once I pulled out the vacuum. She loves that thing! So she got a vacuum too. Hey … she’s shedding – I’m pretty sure I vacuumed some of the loose hairs right off her.

What’s the worst thing you’ve spilled or dropped on your keyboard? And did you manage to clean it off?





People are just klutzes! Watch this funny video

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Well it’s that time of year again when people are pulling out their bikes, teaching kids to ride tricycles or bikes with training wheels and so on.

I found a blooper reel that has a lot of funny (and sometimes painful looking) bike related bloopers. It’s got everything from kids on bikes crashing into things to adults doing dumb things with bikes and even exercise bikes.

Now I’m extremely accident prone. You might remember me taking about falling a lot a year or so ago. I had one accident where I was just walking down the street and for some reason I lost my balance and stumbled and ended up falling flat on my face – severely injuring my chin. It wasn’t funny at the time, but I know I staggered a few feet trying to stay upright and I’m sure if someone had caught it on film it would have been funny on a blooper reel.

I think the worst klutzy thing I ever did was falling down the stairs and landing on my in-laws brand new Delsey luggage. The bags were ok but I was banged up!

Anyway, if you like watching people doing stupid things or making klutzy moves here’s a funny video for you:

I’m sure there are better things to put up your nose

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The other day we ordered one of my favorite take-out foods. We ordered Greek. I just love it!

Unfortunately when I was eating my salad … actually trying to get the final bit of dressing and feta from the bottom of the container since it tasted so good – I ended up inhaling the salad dressing.

Let me tell you. Salad dressing with tiny chunks of feta cheese inhaled up your nose .. well backwards since I must have coughed it up there – is absolutely no fun.

What’s the strangest thing that you’ve accidentally snorted up your nose.

What a week!

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Wow. I can’t believe I went 6 days without writing in my blog. Blogs I should say – there’s several I haven’t done any writing in all week! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that long without writing!

Sorry! Life just got in the way.

During the first part of the week I was shopping and preparing for our trip to Las Vegas next week. Then, probably because I’ve been a lot more active lately I crashed!

I’ve been so sick from about Tuesday evening onward that I’ve barely been able to do a thing. Ain’t Crohn’s fun? Of course, this means that when I go to Vegas I’ll probably crash again while I’m there or right after I come back.

If you’re going to be at Blogworld or P0stiecon and you meet up with my husband and I, don’t let me overdo things, ok? Honestly. I can be really hyper and sometimes I need to just be told to sit down and take a break. You’ll be doing me a favor if you help make me rest. LOL Also, I’m a huge klutz so making me take it easy might save me from personal injury. Seriously!

Speaking of personal injury. The other day I was standing on the couch to pull our dark curtains shut. We’d run out of Halloween candy and shutting those dark curtains helps make our house look like no one’s home. Shhhh. Well, as I stood on the couch and stretched to reach the top of the curtain where it had become stuck I heard a pop in my right ankle. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but a few hours later my inner ankle, heel and the lower part of my calf started hurting.

I must have stretched or torn something because I’m still limping around the house a few days later! I think I really need to get me some whole life insurance or something … or wrap myself in bubble wrap as I once said I was going to do every time I went out!

I really am a class A klutz.

I was busting out on Saturday

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You know, I almost forgot that it’s my birthday today. If it hadn’t been for the flurry of “Happy Birthday” messages from sites and forums that I’m a member of I might have actually not remembered until morning.

So far I’m not bothered by this birthday.

Do you know what I mean by that? It doesn’t matter what age your turning on your birthday, if you’ve set goals for yourself and reach a certain age without achieving those goals a birthday can be a disappointing event. Well some of them are for me due to not achieving what I’d thought I would have by that time in my life.

Of course I’ve been at home for almost two years due to my illness, Crohn’s, and if I really think about it, yes, I could let this birthday get me down, but I didn’t have any specific goals for this time period in my life so I’m ok with my birthday.

Perhaps I should have a goal or treat in mind. I just remembered an embarrassing thing that happened to me not once, but three times on Saturday evening while we were on the boat.

I’d dressed for the evening in a nice blouse and pants. It’s breezy by the lake and as it turns out – on it – so I didn’t want to dress too lightly. As it was my boobs must have gotten a bit bigger or my blouse got smaller because my top literally popped open three times while I walked around the boat!

How embarrassing!

I think I caught it right away each time it happened, but all but one button would open up each time it happened so I basically had my blouse wide open each time the buttons decided to free themselves! I was busting out all over the place that night.

I’m still undecided as to whether I’ll be going to California in November, especially after what happened with one of the blogging companies yesterday, but if I do go maybe I should look into breast lift surgery in Los Angeles? LOL yeah I’m joking. I don’t need it, my top was just a little too snug on Saturday evening, but if I did that would make a great birthday present I suppose.

Ladies, have you ever had your pop top open or fall down at the worst moment?

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