Oh No!

I got up today and actually got on the treadmill. Woo-hoo for me! Another day down...check! I thought I'd get my stinky, sweaty self into the shower so that I could get ready in time to haul the 4 year old to pre-school. So I went to my dresser and pulled open the drawer...crap! No undies! Now what? Ah-hah! I remembered that I'm a procrastinator and that, maybe, this time it might have been to my advantage. I skipped up the stairs to the laundry room. (Okay, so I didn't really 'skip', it's more like I trudged...but still.) There were 2 baskets of clean laundry just waiting to be folded with another still in the dryer. (This is where I crossed my fingers AND toes for good luck.) Surely there will be a clean pair of unders crumpled in the wrinkled mess somewhere, right? "Might as well fold while I'm up here", I thought. So I folded. And folded. And folded some more. All the while I was eyeing the over-flowing basket under the counter that had a million and three pairs of under-roos. "Hmmm...probably I should just throw those into the washer while I'm up here." So I started the water. More folding. Do you ever get that pang of fear right about where your sternum is? You know, when you almost fall down because you're a klutz or when you think you're about to get into trouble? Yep, that's what I was feeling as I continued to fold. No undies. In all three loads of wrinkled laundry. What now? Do I take the kid to pre-school in all my stinky glory and just apologize for letting the smell waft into the room? Do I take a shower anyway and then go commando for the hour or so it'll take for the clothes to finish? All of a sudden, *PING!* a brilliant idea struck! "Amy! You have a secret drawer of old undies that are either too small or ready for the garbage truck that you haven't done anything with! Maybe there's a pair in there that aren't too bad!" Now I RAN down the stairs to see if maybe, just maybe I was in luck. (Really, this time I ran.) Whoopidee doo dah! There they were! A gleaming white pair of unders that had been long neglected! I showered and maybe I lingered a little longer than necessary, hoping that they weren't TOO small... They fit! YESSSSS!!!! Now I'm clean and I don't have to go commando after-all! Whew!