Seven Things That Have Hit Me in the Head

Seven Things That Have Hit Me in the Head:

1. A rock – We couldn’t find the baseball
2. The bottom of a table – Didn’t know my own height
3. A plastic swing – Got stitches in the back of my head from that one.
4. A sink – Slipped when I was standing on the bathroom sink. Stitches in my chin but they don’t show.
5. A ceiling fan blade – It hurt, but not as much as you would think.
6. A tree branch – Never hike behind a city boy
7. A large chunk of asphalt –

When we built the new section of our house, we also had to re-do our driveway. It’s an ugly asphalt drive and it’s old and cracked. It had to go. The best price we could get for removal was $2,500. Well, I have a husband, two kids, and a brother nearby with a tractor. We also found a company that would recycle the asphalt. Why not do it ourselves for the price of lunch and a steel digging bar?

Everything was going well. The first half came right up and the kids invited friends over to help break up the pieces. I must mention, you have not lived until you’ve seen five little girls swinging sledgehammers! They loved it. We got everything broken up and started loading the pieces. I bent over to pick up a piece and suddenly I felt a little dizzy and my head hurt. It took a second, but I came to the conclusion that I had been hit in the forehead by a fairly large piece of asphalt. Worse yet, it was launched from the hands of my favorite and only niece. My response was “Owww”

There was ice and some time on the couch. A little reassuring my niece that I wasn’t mad and it was an accident not a fault. As of now, I have a big lump on the left side of my forehead just above my eye. It doesn’t hurt too much but it looks bad. I think it makes me look tough. Or maybe I look too stupid to get out of the way of flying asphalt. Who knows? Either way the old driveway is now in a pile at the recycling center and I didn’t have to pay $2,500 for something that took us two hours to complete. Plus, if I work it right I won’t have to fix dinner either. I think I’m starting to feel dizzy. Yes, I should go lie down…

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