A So Cal Girl in the Desert

Those of you who know me know I'm a pretty smart girl. You also know that I'm prone to moments of complete and shocking lapses in common sense, which we call "pulling a Kristen." There are a couple of these I have pulled lately that just can't go without mentioning.

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased one of those cheapy digital watches at Target so that I would have something to time myself when I'm out walking dogs. I haven't had a digital watch since I was ten (I know, no excuses). So after wearing this plastic thing all day, it started to bug. I took it off and placed it on my desk while I worked on the computer. Then I picked it up to see what time it was, and it was broken!!!. The face read LO:E, and the seconds were counting off nonsense...ZO, LI, P8...my cheapy watch went haywire! I pushed all the buttons at random, and nothing fixed it. So I handed it to my husband and said "Honey, my watch is broken. It's making nonsense. Can you fix it please?" He simply flipped it over and handed it back to me.

Amazing, isn't it?

Then yesterday morning my husband called me on his way home from dropping our son off at school. He said he was about ten or fifteen minutes away from home. About a half an hour later, I started to get a bit worried, so I called him to make sure he was okay. "Hi Honey. It's me. Are you okay?" He laughed. "Yeah. I'm fine. But you could have just knocked on the door." Huh? "Are you home?" I said. "Where are you?" He asked if I was serious. Then I heard the bathroom door open. Apparently I was so absorbed in what I was doing that I didn't remember him coming home and talking to me before he went into the bathroom. Kinda funny, because my question "Are you okay?" was still appropriate for the situation.