Me: I HATE OUR STAIRS!
Matt: You love our stairs.
Me: I hate our stairs; they tried to kill me this morning! And that goofy mini landing that I said I was indifferent to last night? I changed my mind. I like it, it tried to save me. Also, I hate being thirty.
Lesson learned for the day: socks and wood treads do not mix. Especially first thing in the morning. Thankfully (?) I was slightly twisted as I went flying (falling with style?) so I didn’t bounce down on my tailbone, but rather my left butt cheek. I’m now sitting on an ice pack and Matt just pointed out we have a 3 hour car ride ahead of us this afternoon. Joy…
We also currently have a plumber in our basement replacing our main water shutoff so hopefully we can finally get our tub faucet replaced since it’s leaky as all hell. We got it into our heads to try and do it the night before we left for Europe (are we brilliant or what?) but didn’t get anywhere since there’s not a shutoff right at the tub and we couldn’t get the basement one to budge (and were concerned about breaking it since it was pretty old). Fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong since this week has been pretty beastly already.
Update: I was all disappointed because before we left I check myself out in the mirror and nothing! Not even the vaguest hint of a bruise. Sooo disappointed! If I was going to be in this much pain I wanted something to show for it! Then we went to Wausau, we weddinged it up with my family (there is now, unfortunately, photo and perhaps also video evidence of me doing the Macarena. Beware the open bar….). I couldn’t sit comfortably all night. Then we got back to our hotel room and I discovered I now had a giant-ass bruise. A giant-ass ass bruise if you will. It’s like the size of my hand and almost entirely dark purple. It’s the most impressive and horrible looking bruise I have ever gotten and I can’t even show it to anyone without being indecent! I just dissolved into giggles at this point. My sister and brother-in-law were in the hallway at this point because they had managed to lock their 2 year old in their room* and were probably wondering what in god’s name we were up to.
*Believe it not this is becoming a trend at weddings we attend. You have adjoining rooms and some well meaning parent bars the main door so the child can’t wander out when they can’t see. Child then closes the adjoining door (or babysitting grandparents go to sleep) and you can no longer get in through the main room door since the extra latch is in place. Good times.