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Anybody who has ever lived with me (or near me) knows that I have the uncanny ability to make anything with wires stop working for no clear reason. And normally this wouldn’t bother me. I happened to marry someone with the much-appreciated ability to fix things with wires. But I just don’t understand how it happens! If I could understand what I was doing wrong, I’d be able to avoid it in the future. But, no such luck. I hit the ‘on’ button and BLAMO!

Today I broke the food processor. I took it out of the pantry, plugged it in and nothing happened. I took apart all the pieces, put it back together, plugged it in…still nothing happened. I eventually gave up and sliced the apples for the pie by hand. I just can’t understand how I broke it. And, what’s worse, the past few times I have broken things, it has happened in sets of 3.  Most recently, I got the xbox, my laptop, and garage door to stop working all in one day. So, now I am sitting in my living room, carefully  considering how likely I am to break the tv remote and how expensive it would be to replace if I do permanent damage (my laptop has survived this before, so I have faith that it can handle my bad luck today). For the next 24 hours I am going to try to avoid touching anything too expensive (no coffee for me!) and hopefully I won’t break anything else. Thank goodness I have such a forgiving husband