EXCUSES.. EXCUSES..

I know what you are thinking…. “What? No blog post from Gentry this Thursday? Something must be wrong? Did she temporally lose the function of her pointer fingers due to a severe paper cut making it difficult for her to type? Did she get poked in both eyes and can’t see? Does she have food poisoning? Did she run out of things to say....? haha that’s just crazy… she will never shut up!! Well what happened?!” 

Well yes you were right. I got a stage 5 paper cut on my finger making it extremely difficult to type. They thought they were going to have to amputate but we were able to save it and I’ve spent the last week nursing my badly injured finger back to health. What…? You don’t believe that!? It could happen I work with A LOT of paper!! 

Ok fine the truth is I sprained my finger. I didn’t want to tell you I sprained it because I was embarrassed about how it happened. I was eating a grilled cheese sandwich and I…well I probably don’t need to explain anymore I’m sure you can see how I did it while eating a grilled cheese sandwich. But I’ve spend the week with regular visits to physical therapy getting it back functioning. You don’t believe that one either? Come on that was a good one!!

Ok Ok what really happened is you were right about the food poisoning… It was not safe for me to leave the bathroom and I tried bringing my computer in the bathroom with me so I wouldn’t disappoint my fans but it died and there was nothing I could do. 

Ok so the food poisoning may gain me some sympathy but that isn’t what happened. The truth is we are running a little low on cash so I devised a plan to sit outside my house Friday morning waiting for someone to come throw eggs. My plan was to sit out there until an egg came a flying then I would sacrifice my body by jumping in front of it before it hit the house. I would then be “severely” hurt mentally and physically by this abuse and sue the egg thrower for damages. 

Ok so yes we are low on cash but it wasn’t me I was going to sacrifice. I knew Andy took Friday off to put up the Christmas lights and was hoping someone would do a drive by while he was up on the latter so he would be the one to have to actually endure the brutal egg attack and we could sue for damages. I didn't mention this plan to him, I thought the element of surprise would play out quite well for us.

You don’t believe me?? Ok fine! The REAL truth is I lost 3 fingers in a paper shredding accident… OK FINE THAT’S NOT TRUE EITHER!! The truth is I just got really busy!! I am battling yet another cold/cough so good sleep has been tough, I’ve had a lot projects to finish at work before the holidays. I’ve been missing my boys a little with me being back at work and spending weekends studying so at night I just wanted to cuddle them instead of staying up late writing. I’ve fallen behind a little on my studying so I spent my lunch breaks trying to get caught back up, and I’ve just ran out of things to say!! Haha JK Ya'll know that's not true! Silence is a very uncomfortable place for me! 

An excuse is an excuse no matter which way you tell it the truth or a crazy made up lie, but when giving an excuse just be honest about what happened. People don’t really want to hear excuses as it is, so they surely don’t want to hear made up ones and have to catch you in a lie as well! Because (I’m hoping at least :-) ) when you tell the truth people are much more likely to 1) believe you and 2) forgive you! 

I absolutely love writing, being creative, trying to inspire, taking about motherhood and trying to make people laugh but it is a hobby for me right now!! Maybe someday I could work on something greater than my little ol once a week blog but today I’m a mom first, working mom second, CPA candidate third, and a blog writer fourth (I guess wife should be in there somewhere too)!! Lo siento my bargain egg shoppin’, empty threat making, hostile readers. 

I think I have a good one for next week though!! ;-)