Sigh

Somebody up there hates me.  Recently in these last months I feel like I’m a walking Murphy’s Law, and that everything that could possibly go wrong for me will.  Today, it was all because of a key.

Normally I keep a spare house key in my jacket pocket for when I walk the dog.  This way I don’t have to carry my huge key … conglomeration with me all the time.  I always have it in my jacket pocket, or in my pants pocket when I don’t wear a jacket.  So imagine my surprise when I’m standing outside my door at 7:30 this morning, having come back from Teddy’s morning walk, and there’s no key in my pocket.  Or in any pocket.  In fact the only thing in my pockets is a small paper clip.  So now I’m locked out of my house, with my dog, and I have to leave for work in 5 minutes.  I didn’t even have my cell phone, not that it would have helped terribly since it would probably have taken forever for my roommate to get home with her key.  As you can imagine, I was pretty low at this point.

I threw myself at the front door, cursing it for those many times where it didn’t shut all the way and I could just push it open again.   Of course today was not one of those days.  I tried to pick the lock with the tiny paperclip, which of course didn’t work.  Figuring I had no other options, I decided that I was going to have to find a way to break into my own house.  Luckily Teddy’s tie out was outside so I clipped it onto his collar so he wouldn’t be able to run away while I found a way inside.  Not to go into too much detail (some of you know where I live! :P) I managed to MacGyver sideways through a small window and then throw myself against a door until the latch worked its way loose.  Once back inside I went out and got Teddy (who was surprisingly sitting patiently on the lawn) and brought him back in.  I managed to only be about 10 minutes late for work, where the other teachers gave me a motherly, ‘wow, you’re having a rough time’ reaction when I told them the latest happenings in my life.

I swear that if I listed out everything that’s happened in the last few months, I think even homeless people would agree that I’ve been having a tough time.  But what can you do but put your nose down and keep going, right?  And keep hoping that things will improve.  I guess that’s all I can do.  Sigh.