Tomorrow is a new day... fresh, with no mistakes in it.

I've always liked that line, paraphrased from one of the Anne of Green Gables movies. I thought of it last night when I was trying to lift Jason's spirits after a rough day. You see, yesterday he managed to provide serious proof for the idea that bad things come in threes.

We were in a funk yesterday, and we ended up heading over to the mall area in the morning to run some errands. Jason dropped me off at the mall, and then drove across the street to get cat litter. He decided to get me a surprise at Bed, Bath & Beyond (a memory foam pillow) as well, and that was when bad thing #1 happened... he locked the keys in the car. He had his phone and called me. I had a set of car keys with me, so it wasn't really a problem. It just neatly lead to bad thing #2.

After BB&B, he decided to walk across the street to the mall where I was with the keys. It had started to rain, so he ran across the street and his cell phone fell out of his pocket and was immediately run over by a car. He didn't have any of his phone numbers saved to his SIM card, and we don't have insurance on the phone. Nice. Bad thing #2 -- check!

After some other errands we got back to the car and drove to the gym on campus to get a workout in. He borrowed my Ipod shuffle and headphones to pass the time while running. After getting home he decided to start some laundry while I made dinner. Now I should note that Jason doesn't do laundry very often because I love doing it. And since he doesn't do it very often, it's not second nature for him to check all his pockets. Hence, bad thing #3... he washed my Ipod and headphones. The Ipod is dead, but the headphones still work. I am starting to realize that in our house extra insurance on electronics may not be a waste of money.

One good thing that happened since then is that I posted last night on Freecycle for an AT&T SIM card-compatible phone and by this morning Jason had a new phone and charger courtesy of Steve! I think he likes it better than his old phone, so modulo the lost numbers for people he plays tennis with, we didn't lose out much on that one.

Here's hoping that the rest of the week goes more smoothly!