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Okay, so I’ve always tried to live by the motto, “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff”.    I’ve been doing fairly well with this.  But I have a question.  By ‘small stuff’, what does that actually mean????   I mean, like…is ‘small stuff” under $50? $100?(i.e. repairs, unexpected expenses, a bill?, what?  what is small stuff?)  And what happens if there’s a bunch of small stuff that, for instance, occurs in a relatively short amount of time.  Say….two days. Three?  

Let’s just say that, oh, I don’t know….let’s throw something wild and wacky out there….k?  Let’s say….I made an error in a bank account I rarely use.  An error as in failing to record one little intsy transaction.  And that costs me two, count um’ two…bounced check fees of $25 each.  Now.  Normally…the bank would waive these since I’ve never bounced one…but…seems like the banks…you know…since they are ‘struggling’ and all…well, they’re no longer waiving fees.  It was my fault anyhow, so okay.  That’s small stuff. 

But the next day, I spend 2 hours scanning my wedding photos that are now 20 years old (better late than never)…only to discover when I got all 90 scanned…apparently the scanner glass was NOT cleaned and had little white specks all over it.  Uhhhhh!  Re-do! Re-do!  But…don’t sweat the small stuff. 

Shortly after the scanner incident, my Middle Child…lovely little girl she is…decided finally to pick the clothes up off her bedroom floor (apparently she ran out of clean stuff?) and wash them.  Huh!  Turns out, she may have been a little on the lazy side, because she stuffed an entire overstuffed hamper full of clothes into the washer, which fried the motor or something.  Something that smelled really…really…bad.  And it stopped draining.  Bottom line?  Need new washer.  $325.  (yes, I’m going cheap.  Times are tough, don’t judge me!  lol)

All this made pulling that tooth pick out of the vacuum hose look very silly.  Yes, someone used the hose to vacuum something and sucked up a tooth pick, which punctured the hose.  (Of course that ‘someone’ was me….because wtf else vaccums around here????)  Of course, I didn’t see the stinkin’ toothpick until I took apart the whole vacuum cleaner looking for the problem.  Finally something in my day wasn’t sucking.   LOL.  So I methodically and surgically removed said toothpick using tweezers. 

How about the fact that Shane’s booth at the Home and Garden show was right next to (literally up against…)the traveling animal zoo.  And every time one of those cute deer, or camels, or the kangaroo would circle it’s pen or take a jog….it would kick up filthy brown dust alllllll over our green.  And the pee was seeping through the ‘fence’ into our base.  Hmmmm?  Small stuff?  Maybe.  The grounds people tried to help after customers and vendors complained of the stench and worked dilegently to control the smell and urine/feces ‘debris’.

So I ask you.  What exactly IS small stuff?  lol.  Sometimes I wonder if I am being tested.  Maybe I was some rich dude in another life and I am experiencing karma for something I did.  Maybe, just maybe.  Murphy’s Law?  I dunno.  My only thought at this very moment is wtf is small stuff, really?   And funny, I intended this post to be small.  How ironic.