Have you ever had one of those days when the events just come together in a gooey mess of Murphy's Law Fantasticness?

So early yesterday evening I decide that it is time to water the plants in the front yard. Before I went outside I had put on a pot of rice on the stove for dinner - 15 minutes, perfect timing.

As I was watering plants and tackling one of the many giant banana trees I realize it is about that time to go inside and take the rice off the burner. I put the hose down and mosey up the sidewalk JUST in time to watch the giant metal screen door swing SHUT in front of me. And the handle was on auto-lock - who the HELL put it on auto-lock?!?! As I'm digging around in the planters near the front door praying there is a spare key in there somewhere, I start to smell smoke.

Time for desperate measures. I took the scissors I had used to prune the banana trees and pried the screen off my bedroom window. THANKFULLY the window was still halfway open from showing the house earlier that day.

And I'm sure that by this point you're imagining me breaking into my own &*#* house... Trust me, the neighbors thought it was plenty funny.

I got in with just enough time to race into the kitchen, snatch up the pot with smoke pouring out of it, race out the back to drop the pot into an empty metal trash can, race back IN the house to open all the windows and turn all the ceiling fans on full blast, and go BACK outside to take my sweet time weeding some plants while the house aired out.

Yep, I am a dumba$$.