Tomorrow we’re scheduled to begin our two-week vacation, so it’s no surprise that the washer broke just as I started the first load of the gigantic mound that accumulated while I was in Maine.  I was very lucky to get GE to send a service tech tomorrow, but since he’s coming sometime between 8 and 5, I get to hang around the house all day waiting for him to show.  I guess that makes this the optimal day for my car to start making a horrible creaking sound.  I just left it at Firestone since I’ll be housebound tomorrow anyway.

So now I’m wondering what Bad Thing #3 is going to be, since everyone knows that Bad Things happen in 3’s.  The garbage disposal stopped working last weekend, and today I noticed that the toilet has a problem.  So that’s 4 broken things.  Does that mean that I have 2 more broken things coming in the days ahead?  Or maybe there were other broken things that made the garbage disposal #3 and the toilet, washer, and car are another 3-some.  The dryer was broken but when the service guy came it turned out to be lint in the animal screen on the vent, so that’s only a Bad Thing if you consider paying a guy $80 to take the lint out of your screen a Bad Thing. Maybe the kids broke something and hid it from me, or maybe Bad Thing #3 was when someone peed in my bed this morning.  That really sucked.

I guess I could hide under the covers (now clean and dry) and worry about what Bad Thing #3 is, or do what I usually do and press on, oblivious to the fact that a black cat crossed my path right before I walked under the ladder and right after I stepped on a crack.  I’ll be watching for Bad Thing #3 but until it hits, there’s a half-pint of Ben & Jerry’s and a great book (The Help) calling my name.  Nightie-night all.