from the depth of my reasoning Tweet

1. When you don't hear the water running on the chicken wings in the kitchen sink it's neither because it stopped, nor because you're too captivated by the feeds you're reading. It's because the water runs softly through your apartment and, perhaps, your neighbour's. I should know, it happened before.

2. When you delay potting the flowers you've just bought, there may be a better reason than procrastination: you may discover that you need to give away some pot-able flowers.

3. When you're out of dirty dishes, dirty clothes, dirty pots, dirty shoes, and all the other potentially dirty objects and finally get a great manicure, expect something else to threaten it. Like (1) above. If you wash your car, it will rain; but you can't live in fear, can you?

4. In the unlikely event that 1 to 3 above happen to you, too, here's what to do: stop the water. Open a bottle of wine. Pour yourself the first glass. Sit down, light a cigarette, blog about your mishaps. Twitter them. Call your family, chat with your love, and take a break to meet your accountant downstairs and tell him, too. Get back, light another cigarette, sip more wine, and take a deep breath for the long unplanned gym evening to follow. Play a good samba and start dancing on cloths and towels that you displayed nicely on top of the carpet. Enjoy yourself. When both water and wine are gone, you'll be fit and in the mood to cook the damn chicken wings for one belated dinner--during which you can get the second manicure in a day. I bet you'll also be bloody happy that you needn't pot flowers at midnight. Then sleep like a fed, exhausted baby.