I’ve been having a rough couple weeks. My house (to steal a phrase from my nephew) is a bizaster. First came the painting in which every upstairs room had a furniture migration to the middle of the floor…for a week. Then came the storage room purge. I won’t even tell you what that looked like. But I’ll show you!
This was day two and roughly fifteen hours before I found out my father-in-law was coming to spend the night on his way to a business trip. Talk about a mad scramble to sort, trash and repack. Every item in every box that has been stored for nearly eight years was touched by me personally in two days. The after picture is amazing. You’ll have to trust me on that.
Anywho…then came the carpet–which I prepared for on Monday by moving my boy’s beds into the master bedroom along with half their toys and putting the rest on my dining room table. Yeah, finding clothes in drawers stacked on other furniture is more fun than I can handle. Finding the floor in the basement den is impossible, as that’s where they decided to camp out until the new carpet is laid. Today the living room furniture will somehow have to squeeze into the dining room and entry way.
Next will be storing my kitchen cupboard stuff on the dining room table and the brand new carpet on the living room floor while my countertops are put in. Lord have mercy. My house is a bizaster.
Add to that baseball practices, proms, bullies and graduation menus and I’m a bizaster.
And my internet pooped out on me. Again. So, after an I’m-sorry-we’re-experiencing-longer-than-normal-delays-in-answering-your-call-please-stay-on-the-line service call to the cable company, I decided to clean out the 47 spam messages before tackling the living room shuffle.
This one made my day: “Your website is the electronic Swiss army knife of the cyber world.”
Aaaah.
I needed that, even if it was spam.
But sometimes it doesn’t matter where the message comes from or how it reaches us. A tiny hug that lets you know you’re on the right path at just the right moment can give you a much-needed boost.
So today, as I sort through the bizaster of my house, I shall loudly proclaim myself The Swiss Army Knife. I can. I will. I shall.
Dear readers, what kinds of unexpected messages have you received? Have you ever said or done something so small you thought nothing of it until someone later told you it made a difference in his life? Can we plan these spam messages to boost others around us, or is there some kind of cosmic force that delivers them at the right time to the right people?
Curious minds want to know.
If only I’d had my Swiss Army Knife complete with built-in turbo shovel for the storage room…
Words from the Woods 