The Household COO

The hubby once commented that my cooking is very much like my temperament - unpredictable.  Some days we’re great, other days, we’re bad.

Well, I’ve discovered that the problem lies in the fact that I get these sudden bursts of inspiration that I have a habit of implementing on the spot without giving it too much due consideration.  When what seemed like a simple idea goes awfully wrong, instead of starting all over again, I try to fix the problem and somehow it never seems to resolve itself.

As my SIL says, “Zero multiplied by anything is still zero.”

It seems this problem of mine extends beyond the boundaries of the kitchen, too.

I had this great idea of revamping my business website and everything was going wonderfully until I had one of those brilliant flashes of inspiration that turned out not to be so brilliant after all.  To say that it was a little mistake would have been an understatement because two simple clicks of my mouse destroyed hours of work spent tweaking my website.

What I should have done was reinstall the whole platform from scratch, but no, I had to try to salvage the situation with a quick fix that was nearly the death of me.  And as Streamyx would have it, the connection had to go all flaky on me just when I needed it to work at its optimum.  That little annoyance added to my frustration to no end when none of the websites I needed to load were loading properly.  Funny how the connection’s back to normal now that I’ve managed to fix everything…

I’m glad to say, however, that everything worked out in the end.  All the time I spent trying to figure out how to fix it did eventually produce an even better idea than the one I started with.  Since it worked out even better in the end, I guess it wasn’t such a bad thing that happened after all.  All I lost was several extra hours of sleep and a few strands of hair.

Although I think in future I’ll think twice before implementing one of my “brilliant” ideas.

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