like a kitchen without any cakes

via FB-jlundberg, something all us writers can totally connect with. This may have to join the Eating of Chocolate, Stamping of Feet, and Muttering of Unpleasantries as part of my ritual whenever one of those SASEs comes home...

lessons for a saturday

1. While cleaning up a mess in the kitchen and wondering just how it's possible that the tween could've spilled stuff just as far and wide as she did without it being an intentional act of sabotage, don't put the knife holder on a precariously uneven surface while you sponge out the counter where it usually sits;

2. When knife holder starts to fall (which you knew would happen), with all its very sharp knives falling out of their slots as it goes, don't stick your hand underneath it in an attempt to catch everything.

3. ouch.

(ETA: Yes, it was a bandaidable injury.)