Gale learned this formula for disaster:
Backbends on the balance ball
plus
Lots of wine bottles on a tile floor
equals
one bad combination!
She lucked out this time and there were no casualties, just lots and lots of noise!
Lesson learned: Give the wine some space, if you value it!
Although I always tell people that if I had a whistle-less teakettle (like my mother-in-law’s) I would probably burn my house down. And my family bought me a wonderful electric espresso maker after my fear that I would do the same with my stove-top model for that. Yet, if I forget to close the whistle/cover on my teakettle, I’m in the same scary boat and the water boils out and it’s not a pretty thing. Or a safe one.
Lesson learned again today: always always ALWAYS close the whistle on the kettle!
P.S. I know that one of my beloved blog-followers is going to hate this. But I’m sure she would rather I posted and learned! Right?
I learned that my Boston Express bus (at least the model I was on yesterday) has little labels way up high above the seats, on the luggage compartments, to indicate which seats have electrical outlets available. There are very few but it turns out they are well marked.
Now if I can remember to have the cord with the electronic item (an OFTEN-learned lesson of 2010), I’ll be all set!
I am wrapping up a year of lessons with this gem from my cousin, Susan:
“Be careful what you wish for, because the wish genie is a literal bastard. For example, wishing for abundance in the new year did not mean I’d like to grow the biggest ass east of the Mississippi. Oops. Maybe if I write this here I’ll remember that being specific is so very important when setting goals…”
It seems fitting that, at the end of a year of learning and recording lessons, I would have to re-learn and re-post something learned only one week ago!
December 30 seems like a few-commuter day, right? And 3:30 is a nice early time to leave the city, even a really big city like New York, right?
Wrong!
January 30 is New Year’s Eve Eve, so even if a smaller number of people are leaving the city for the holiday weekend, they ALL leave at the same time! Which, apparently, is about 3:30!
I have learned, I really hope for the last time, to treat these days as high commute days and get out really really early, or very late!
I learned that it is very difficult to walk (or even step) backwards on snowshoes.
Kat and I learned that you can, indeed, find your Facebook Wall Photos on the Blackberry, if you look in the right place.
Of course, if you don’t figure that out, it’s also great to have friends who are willing to go online for you and look up pictures from a year and half ago and find the photo/name/phone number of that great diner. Thanks, Dott! And Gale, who was ready to do the same!
From Rosemarie:
” When you are at the gas station filling up, use that occasion to not only clean your windshields, but also your headlights so you can see better when driving at night. While you’re at it, do your back lights and license number.”
I have learned that Christmas Eve Eve is NOT a good commute day.
OK, it seemed like low-commuter day, and it was on the way in – record time.
But although the city worker crowd may have been relatively small, apparently they ALL leave at the same time on a day before a holiday. resulting in really bad home-bound traffic.
Also from Barbara:
“Two words for crafters: Glue Tape! One of the best inventions I’ve tried in a long while. Less mess and more control than traditional glue. Just as adhesive.”
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