$10 Whoopsies

It seems $10 is not my amount lately.

I was thinking how bored I would be in a hospital room for 5-7 days, on a liquid diet no less. I don't have a laptop computer, I don't have a smart phone, TV gets pretty old pretty fast, and you can only read for so long before your eyes get tired. But, if I could find an adapter so I could recharge my MP3 player (it is USB chargeable), then I could listen to music, books, the Bible, etc. So I looked around and found a nice adapter/charger for $25. It even has a cable to charge and I-phone so my son-in-law can stop panicking when he comes over and forgets his charger. You'd think a dead phone was his own death sentence the way he reacts sometimes. (Yes honey, I know you need it for work.) Shortly thereafter, I found a charger with twice as many ports for $10 less. I decided not to bother running around to return the first and buy the second. $10 whoops #1

I bought some new pants. They have wide, soft waistbands that don't bind when I bend. They look nice enough to wear to work. And they are soft enough to be comfortable to lounge around in. I spent a lot of time finding three pairs in different colors in the right size. A size smaller than my usual, which felt even better. When I put my brown pair on, I didn't think about how they fit; I was running late and had to get out the door. I soon realized they were a bit too unbinding; they were falling down. I had accidentally put back the size I wanted and purchased the too big pair. $10 whoops #2.

While at the store with the second charger, I picked up a jump stick from the clearance table for...$10. I needed a cheap one to use to transfer files to church. I do PowerPoint song slides for the service and someone misplaced the one I had been using. I took it home, worked up the slides, added some sermon notes for my husband (yup, he's the preacher), tested it, and went to church the next morning. I powered up the church computer, plugged in the jump drive, and got a message..."please insert disc" I ran around trying three other computers (during the running around I discovered whoops #2, my pants kept sliding down), only to get the same error message. The drive had failed somehow, completely. $10 whoops #3.

After church I got a bonus whoops for free. I had the PowerPoint presentation on another jump drive all along. I forgot I had saved it to the old one before buying the new one and copying over the files. And the missing jump drive I wanted to replace was found.

So, I'm keeping the too big pants to wear after the surgery. I'm keeping the more expensive charger. And my husband returned the jump stick, and kept the $10.