May or May Not Monday

May or May-Not Monday: Where you can divulge the secrets of life's mishaps without feeling like a failure. So go on... own up. I may have...

I may or may not have cried at the dentist this week. I had a cleaning that was so brutal that I couldn't eat anything but liquids for three days.  I had no cavities or really much to take off, but came away with my gums full of cuts from the scraping utensil and from the polisher tool putting the polish on my gums, not just my teeth. Followed up by a flossing with that so rough her arm muscles were flexing like it was a workout. They have lost this customer.

I may or may not have finally found a pair of pants to fit me! Rejoice & a big sigh of relief. I may or may not be thrilled that the pants are two sizes bigger than I normally wear. I really like Chico's concept for sizing: 0, 1, 2, 3 & 4. It definitely takes the sting out of shopping for clothing.

I may or may not have felt like I live in a third world country this week. We have had two blackouts. One for five hours and two days later it was out again for an hour and a half. Not a big deal when it's 100 degrees out. Our house was up to 87* during the five hour outage. 

I may or may not have a working oven because of a power surge. The surge shorted out our oven control sensors. It is not able to maintain a proper temperature and just overheats. I may or may not have a blown bulb in my fridge because of the same surge. All our computers and tv made it through the surge. Apparently, we needed to unplug our appliances too.

There is a section in our tiny library for books that haven't been checked out in three years. At least I believe that's the time frame for making the tippy toppest shelf placed spine down. I may or may not feel that this is unfair treatment of books. As if they have feelings and are personified. I haven't lived here very long and maybe I would check them out if I could see them. I was informed by one new libraian that they are not for checking out. But oops or haha I already have liberated some of them! So on my tippy toes and my longest reach, I search through them with my movement "Save the Books!" to get them good ones back on the normal shelves for circulation. I may or may not have liberated four today.

We may or may not have bought our subi three years ago and specifically got a moon roof so that we could get more light in gloomy Oregon. That same moon roof remains closed for the majority of the year here in brilliantly sunny Idaho. Once a year it gets guaranteed use. That use may or may not be for littles to pop their little heads through the roof to watch fireworks!

I may or may not have read Jane Eyre in two days. It may have been because I was dreading it and thought I could just renew it until I was in the mood to read it, but it was requested and I couldn't renew it. So I had to get through 450 pages of verbose descriptions and a morose plot. In the end I was disappointed the book was over, but it was tedious to get that book done. Never a book I would have read on my own accord, book club was the instigator. 

"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

Jane Austen

I may or may not have what I am calling book arm because I have read too many heavy books in the last two weeks. Wrist, forearm and shoulder are killing me from overuse of holding a book. I switched sides and the other is flaring up. What the obvious choice is to quit reading for a bit, I cannot do. So book arm will continue to pain me for I love stories so much I cannot go a day without them.