the perfect spot

You know how when you find that perfect spot for something? When you don’t think it’s actually going to fit – but you try it anyway and it does. It slides right in there and it’s just so tidy and handy, organized and contained, and you wonder why you never thought to put it in that perfect spot before?

And then – you never see it again?

I spent 4 days in San Diego bumming macintosh power cords off my relatives because I “forgot” mine. Luckily, my smart and talented relatives are mac people (of course). Obviously they are smarter and more talented than me, because I had no power cord.

I hadn’t actually forgotten it. I more like lost it. Except I didn’t just randomly lose track of it, laying around somewhere. I remember very clearly, putting it very carefully, in that perfect spot!

I’m home now, and I still can’t find it. Someday I will find it – when I no longer have this macintosh and my new one takes a different type of plug. Meanwhile, I have my power cord somewhere – safe and secure in its perfect spot.