Yesterday was an interesting day!

While on sabbatical from

my duties as an

electrician's assistant,

I decided to 

putter,

nest,

and 

decorate.

I am having the Saturday Brunch Girls

over for brunch on Saturday

(that's why we call ourselves the Saturday Brunch Girls)

and since it is almost Valentine's Day

why not decorate the tables with some really girly-girly stuff?

That meant moving some of the winter-snow-village stuff

out of the way.

We had some large ceramic tiles laying around

so that we could stare at them and

instead of moving them out of the kitchen

(also tiled)

I just lined them up out of the way.

I just needed to move the snow stuff over to the bookshelf

which just happened to be where the tiles

were lined up.

Anyhoo,

I stepped on one of the display tiles

and it went scooting.

Tiles on tiles can scoot really fast.

I did not scoot...

I went Down.

Fast.

In the process I knocked over a lamp,

broke one of the snow village boys,

and took the top off one of the little houses.

As I lay on the floor

clutching the broken boy,

I thought of that TV commercial

where the old lady is on the floor

crying,

"I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Dear Children:

Do not bother to get me one of those Lifeline gadgets.

I'm fine.

I spent the rest of the morning

setting up the table for the Brunch Girls

and 

mourning the broken boy's head

and 

feeling foolish.

All those days on ladders,

at the house,

up and down

down and up

working working working 

in hazardous cold conditions,

with nary a slip...

only to find myself

injured 

putting up 

Valentine's Day decorations!

Moral of this story:

Decorating can be hazardous to your health!

also:

Ceramic tile hurts when you fall down go boom on your bum!