In My Shoes...

The strangest, most frustrating things happen to me. I swear that I must be jinxed, have a hex on me, or just have plain bad luck. I’m not a superstitious person, but maybe I should be. Today was no exception, as I was unable to avoid this uninvited curse once again!

I get online this morning, just like I do most days. It is important I get on the internet today because for my birthday, Justin hooked me up with the goodies I needed for the 7-Eleven/Farmville promotion. For those who don’t know, Farmville is an online game that teamed up with 7-Eleven to offer products with codes that are redeemable for prizes within the game. If you get enough codes, and you plant the right crop on Farmville enough times, you get a super-huge prize!

So, I’m on Farmville, waiting to harvest my Goji berries, when I realize the internet is no longer connected. I’m on a deadline people! I go to check on things and the power is off on the modem/router. Everything is properly plugged in, and there’s no change after a few tests to try to get it back up and running. Justin and I find out that the modem/router has gone kaput with no warning. Lucky for us, this happens right before we hope to move and aren’t sure if whatever we replace it with will even work where we move to. Nothing makes me happier than wasting money (insert sarcasm). Like, really? Do these crazy things happen to other people?

Justin, being an electrician, comes home and begins investigating things. Come to find out, our Wii isn’t working either; as in, our very expensive, hardly used video game console just so happens not to be working at the same time the modem goes out. I begin to get very angry because this just ain’t right‼ We’re not certain that the Wii doesn’t work; it could just be the power pack, which is still odd. Sometime in the future, I guess we’ll get our hands on a functioning power pack to test it, but until then we’re more concerned with getting the internet working…

I’m sure I’ll go crazy trying to figure out why this has happened. You will never convince me this is a coincidence. I’m sure eventually I’ll just have to chalk it up to my bad luck. However, I have a theory that the government flew some kind of giant magnet over my house, surged the power in random plugged-in electronics, and ruined my day‼

Be happy you don’t have to walk in my shoes; I’m sure you’d blow out a flip-flop, step on a pop top, and cut your heel. Where’s my margarita?...