Ever have one of those days?

[anyanka_eg]

The ones where you realize you have the hand eye coordination of someone registered blind who has no hands? The ones where you're as graceless as a hippo on rollerblades?

While I was cleaning the house today (because quite frankly it was really grim) I walked in to everything I own that was pointy or solid or level with a sensitive bits of my anatomy. I have a fairly spectacular bruise on the side of my left knee from the radiator drying wrack I crashed into. Everything a stood near fell over. Picture on top of the tv in the bedroom must have fallen on the floor about eight times. The mop fell over every time I leaned it against anything. The hose of the hoover kept dropping into sections for no apparent reason. I kept banging the same toe on things. Oh, and playing on the Nintendo Wii yesterday seems to have damaged my knee. Not sure how that one happened mind you. It wasn't a vigorous game but kneeling down seems to be horribly painful now.

On the plus side dying my hair this morning was surprisingly free of collateral damage to the bathroom. Maybe the run of being as stumpy as fuck started after lunch.

Comments

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

That happens to me all the time! I'm the only person I know who has managed to twist my ankle while getting up from a chair. Not to mention all those sharp corners I know are there but still walks into over and over again. The world is out to get us...

[anyanka-eg.livejournal.com]

I already had a bruise on my high where the bed jumped out and got me the other morning as I stumbled towards the shower.

When I was doing my PhD they put and extra bench in the lab and it kind of jutted out into the direct path I used to walk and I knew I was going to bang into it and it was right at hip bone level. So I stuck bubble wrap on the corner to pad it and covered it with a whole load of yellow tape as a visual warning. It did seem to do the trick. Maybe I should do it to all te surfaces in my house.

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

We had a corner like that in our lab too! But we took half a tennis-ball and glued it there instead. Looked ridiculous, but it worked :-)

[anyanka-eg.livejournal.com]

See...genius is what you are. A tennis ball makes loads of sense. Bubble wrap and biohazard tape did us. And I still walked into it of course :-)

[sulien77.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I definitely know what you mean about being a klutz, my Mom still teases me that it's a good thing she didn't name me Grace. I made sure that I bought a round kitchen table and living room tables with rounded edges, but I still find bruises that I have no idea how I got. :-p

[anyanka-eg.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, yes, being called Grace would be a bugger if you're a klutz. The only Grace I know is very graceful, very pretty and very lovely. I hate her :-)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I hate those sorts of days. {{hugs}}

[anyanka-eg.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It caried on today when I stuck my foot in the bin at work and flicked the contents everywhere. And I broke my little finger nail...just such a klutz.