If J reads this I'm gonna get a (well deserved) scolding ...
Last week I was rushing around like mad trying to get myself out the door for the speech at the college class. I showered, flat ironed my hair, fed Bennett, prepared his things for my mom, all in a rush with a nervous stomach.
The next day I went upstairs to pack my bag for our weekend away. I picked up the pile of new dresses, which I had set on top of the dresser. "Hmm," I thought, "they're warm, that's odd."
I reached inside the dresser for a tank top. "Woah, the whole inside of the top drawer is hot!" I pulled my hand out and looked around. My flat iron was switched on. I gingerly picked it up. "Hot, hot, hot!!" I dropped it on the dresser, pressed the off button, waved my fingers around.
I picked up my new!! clothes and searched through them frantically. No burn holes. I ran my fingers over the top of the warm dresser, no scorch marks. After my flat iron had cooled I picked it up, switched it on. It still works fine.
I hope, hope, hope I didn't leave it on from Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon, but I'm kinda afraid I did.
I thought my flat iron would turn itself off after an hour if left on. Now I know that wasn't actually part of the instruction manual, I just made it up in my head.
How could I forget to turn it off??
What if I had burned holes in $80.00 worth of new dresses??
What if the house caught fire??
I need to be more careful, slow down, think things through. I've been forgetting a lot lately, skipping steps, missing important details.
I cannot believe how disorganized and forgetful I've become. I used to be SO put together, quick to start and finish projects. Now it's a good week if I manage to respond to all my emails and keep the family (and house) intact.
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6 comments:
I'm very glad that your house is still standing and that there are no scorch marks on anything.
You have 2 babies worth of baby brain happening. (And there's the "grief brain" on top of that.) My husband didn't believe me that baby brain existed, then he googled it and discovered it is a real physical thing that happens during and after pregnancy. Now he knows better than to mock me when I mix up words and forget to do things 3 days in a row. It will get better, eventually, I hope.
Mine does actually turn itself off after a certain amount of time.
I'm glad everything turned out okay.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I almost caught my parents' house on fire once. With the dryer. I'm still not sure how it happened. I put a load of clothes in there, and I thought it smelled kinda funny but didn't think anything about it. I turned it on and left the house. When my mom woke up, there was smoke billowing from the dryer and the laundry room, and the wall was scorched around the plug-in. Oops.
That's why you unplug EVERYTHING after you use it.
I had to haul both kids to the doctor yesterday (Juliet is sick) and I got in the car and got half way home when I realised I had no idea where my handbag was. I was sure I'd left it on the roof. Pulled over quick smart to find it on the floor under Juliet's car seat. I have no recollection of putting it there, as I never put it there.
Yeah, so I get ya! Scatter brain central here!
Glad this story ended well though. And as someone else said, the grief doesn't help either.
xo
Welcome to being a mom of a busy baby. I am always forgetting things too. I have learned from lots of mistakes! Consider this post your "talking to" and move on. Thank G-d nothing major happened.
I agree with Kara - I unplug anything I use after I'm done - that way if it's still on - it's unplugged at least so it can't hurt anything. SO glad all is well!!!
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