Perfect Spot for a Doily

All of today and in to this evening I have been cleaning my room, and filling my newly constructed armoire. One of my favorite candles was almost finished, so I decided to burn it while I was cleaning. I always burn votives, tealights, candles in jars on my t.v. b/c there's nothing around to catch on fire.

Tonight, thinking ahead did not help me out at all!

I was taking a break from my cleaning and talking to my friend on the phone while up in my room. I was laying on the floor and all of a sudden I heard a popping sound. It was so out of the ordinary it made me jolt up instinctively. Now, in my house, anytime I hear a weird noise, my first thought is always, an animal is trying to get in! So trying not to freak out with my friend on the line, I just "Wide-eyed" my room, and the landing outside my door, and I didn't hear anything else, or see anything, so I just went back to talking but with one ear paying attention to my surroundings.

I get off the phone and start cleaning again. Wondering if my candle was almost done, I decided to take a look. The flame was out, but something wasn't right. It looked like there was hot wax running down the sides. Curious, I took a closer look to see what was causing those lines on the sides! :O To my shock, and horror, I saw the entire glass jar was cracked from top to bottom with a ring of wax on top of my t.v.!!! This has never happened to me before!! It all made sense to me now, the popping sound I heard. That's exactly what it was. I was laying on the floor right beside it. There could have been flying glass.....I could have gotten glass in my eye, or had hot wax come flying at me!!! Thank the Lord he protected me.

On the left is all the wax I scraped off from the point of explosion! I cannot believe this happened.

You can see the dent that this candle made.

I don't even know why I think this anymore, but anytime I go to purchase something, I always tell myself ... I can always sell this later and put the money aside to buy a nicer one. For example, my laptop. I was holding on to it until I had saved a little money, then my plan was to sell it on Ebay, and purchase a nicer one. What happened? It got fried by lightening. Next example, my car. I was trying to keep it nice, so I could sell it, and use the money as a down payment on a nicer car. What happened!? It got totaled!! My t.v. I was holding on to it, until I could get a flat one that I could actually hang on the wall. Biding my time until the prices went down a little. What happened!? Mine gets a crater put into it by a fluky candle exploding on it!! Why do I even try?! I try soooooo hard to keep my stuff nice, and these crazy events always take place that put a kink in my plans!

Well, one thing is for sure, I know where my next doily is going!