@Annie – thanks and glad to have you as a subscriber!

@ChristianPF – Thanks, I believe it too, I’ve seen it happen too many times to not believe it.

@Erin – Thanks! Guessing my arm is pretty close to that one though, just closer to the wrist.

Booo to Murphy!

And YAHOO! on the advertiser and # of visitors. Way to go.

Hoping that you have a swift recovery I’m an RSS subscriber, so I won’t be removing you from my reading if you miss a few weeks of posting due to excess of Murphy!

Murphy lives at my place. I’m sure of it. In almost 13 years of marriage: one flooded house (six months after we married, no flood insurance), one flooded sister’s house, day after she bought it. Two houses to rebuild on a shoestring. One very unmechanical husband who belongs to the “never use a screwdriver when a sledgehammer will do the trick” school of home maintenance.

While rebuilding: a) husband sets bathroom on fire while sweating pipes (upside, we get to meet the neighbors when the fire alarms go off and we find out we have an outside strobe light and not one but two air horns we weren’t aware of when we moved in…which require cutting the wires to turn off, since we also don’t have the code for it). Hmmm. b) add in husband’s rusty nail punctures and serious cut while rebuilding. Then four miscarriages, a job loss the day we found we were pregnant with the one that actually took, six operations (one for my daughter and five (eek) for me). Two blown engines, two car accidents (his). Then Hurricane Katrina–sis’s house floods again and a tree nails the roof. Our best friends move in for a year with us, while hubby works from home and daughter goes half-days to school for a year so we can share our school with the one that was wiped out. Oh, there were also five foreign exchange students and numerous friends who needed a place to land for a while, in between all these things.

It’s actually kind of funny. I swear, you can’t make this stuff up. The sig line on my email reads: ‘And on the eighth day, God said, “Okay, Murphy, you take over!”‘

Just keep telling yourself “this, too, shall pass.” I tell myself that a lot. Sometimes while knocking my head against the wall…..

I’ll keep you in my prayers!

@Yinac – I sure do. Can’t imagine how much this would cost without it.

@SGM – Thanks!