Have I written here before about my perpetual bad luck with watches?

No?

Well, I have really bad luck with watches.  Like epically bad luck with watches.  Like such bad luck that I have yet to own a watch longer than a year bad.

I had been doing pretty well with my last watch until, well, a certain iPhone fell into a certain apparatus that had been, um, slightly…used (thankfully not…solidly… used if you know what I’m sayin’).  And without thinking I plunged my hand in after it to get it out of said…apparatus quickly.  And the hand I plunged was my watch hand.

Now, for the record I scrubbed my hand after this.  I scrubbed my hand with antibacterial soap in water so hot I gave myself burn blisters (seriously I had a few of them I used water so hot).  Because? The EW factor was so high (which makes me think that perhaps I am not as ready to deal with the bodily functions of an offspring as I thought I was but that is not the point of this blog post).  I took the watch off and flung it onto my nightstand and almost haven’t worn it since.

Here’s something you need to know about me: I cannot stand not wearing a watch.  Yes I know that my phone has a clock in it.  Yes I know that every computer in the house has a clock in it.  Yes I know that there are clocks in the microwave and in our cable boxes.  But still.  The not wearing a watch thing? Drives me batty.

So yesterday I picked up my watch figuring that it had been a couple of weeks and, hopefully, any grossness had died.  I washed off the band and even ran the face under some water (it’s waterproof).  And I put it on.

For about a minute and a half.

Then the skeeviness of it got to me and I took it back off because EW.  Just. EW.

But the no watch thing.  What to do?

I’ve been writing here about how times are hard for us right now, financially.  We’re pretty strapped for cash.  We aren’t going to starve or anything but I also can’t afford to go out and buy another $30 watch right now.

So today I was at Fred Meyer and was looking at the cheapo on sale watches in their accessories section.  And I found a Hello Kitty watch with a pink plastic band for $8.  I kind of love Hello Kitty.  And I can afford to spend $8 on something that will save my sanity until I can afford to buy a better, more durable watch.

But I’m looking at this watch (I wanted to post a picture but my phone does not take good close up pictures.  You would have gotten a picture of a blurry watch face and super detail on my spare bedroom’s carpet) and I’m thinking that:

1.  It’s meant for kids (plastic band, super heavy casing around the watch face)

2.  It was on sale.

3.  I’m only buying it to keep me sane until I can afford a better watch when this one dies.

These three things, when added together most likely mean that I will be wearing this watch for the rest of my life.

But that’s okay because I really do like Hello Kitty.