It's just turned off? Really???

My biggest challenge this week was to try and figure out why my ice-maker wasn't working. I even had the nerve to be irritated! I insist on ice in my water with lemon (sometimes lime).

I waited the whole day Friday after pushing my hand around the thing, not even knowing how it worked or if I'd cut my hand on something. Then, I expected it to "wake up" and miraculously start working. When it didn't, I decided to go buy some ice trays. "Do they even still make those?" I asked myself. I was going to find out. And sure enough, there they were, at the corner drugstore. Two for a dollar. Not bad! I was feeling generous, so I bought two sets and started home.

Well, when I got home, washed the ice trays and filled them full of water, I discovered how uncoordinated I could trick myself into being! The ice trays were very thin and the weight of the water made them bend. The water seemed to leap off an imaginary diving board heading in a mad dash toward the floor. S-P-L-A-S-H! B-A-M! W-H-A-M! S-L-U-S-H! Yep-- all four of the now empty trays lie on the floor. They began to dance over the spilt water beneath them as they mocked me.

I wasn't about to let them win. "You can do this, Lena!" I told myself. It's JUST an ice tray! So I tried it again. Okay--so it took me at least four more times, but I got it! Then as I noticed a light blinking inside the freezer, I shook my head in disbelief! What time was it??? That whole adventure had whittled away three hours of my morning.

The light blinking??? "Uh-hmm, excuse me, but you turned off the ice-maker, STUPID!!!" Or at least I think that's what it said. I never learned "morse code!" I couldn't help but laugh. I flipped the switch to "on". Problem solved! Uggh--- It took another twenty-four hours to be sure, but yep- problem solved!

A funny story. But if you know my music and if you don't hopefully you will soon, you know how trivial this really is albeit very funny. I realized thinking about it that if this was the worst of my week, "I ain't got no problems!" I am so blessed in every way. As I chuckled again to myself, I said, “Sometimes it takes something silly like this to snap me back to center.”

Agree??