Oh so it's going to be one of those days, is it?Follow

Ramblings of a very tired woman:

I was up way too late last night raiding in one of my MMOs. I blame that for the beginning of my day today. Otherwise, I have to face the facts I am already losing my memory at the tender age of 26.

This morning I get my son ready for school, which entails chasing him around the house trying to put his shirt on while he runs away giggling madly because he thinks I'm tickling him. When I finally get ahold of him I shove his feet in his boots, stuff his arms through his snow jacket ala A Christmas Story and herd him into the car.

On the way to school I turn my wipers on to clean the film of winter sand off my windshield, only to find out my wipers have frozen to the car due to the snow/ice storm we had last night. No problem, I pull over to the side of the road, hop out in -5 weather and try to pick off the ice. No go. So I grab my scarf and use that to wipe the wiper fluid off the windsheild in the hopes I can see. I can.... kind of. Butno biggie. I figure after I drop my son off at school, Ill stop by the auto store on my way to food shopping and grab a car pick.

I navigate my Matrix through the badly plowed hilly street that leads to the school with ease, while son and I bop to the tunes of Rocky Horror Picture Show. When I get to the school I notice that YAY! there is parking!!! A rare treat! In fact, I notice that there are no cars. Well that's odd. It is 9:30. I drive by the teachers parking lot and no cars there either. Hrmmm, I think. Maybe I should stop at my friends house and ask whats going on? She only lives 4 houses away and her son is in my sons class.

So I pull over and run to her door before I freeze to death. She opens it instantly and informs me that I'm silly, it's MLK day. Doh!!! No school. Ok I think, I'll just take my son with me onmy errands and hope he behaves. I get in the car, promise him hot chocolate due to no school and we're off, him still happily bopping to the Time Warp while I begin to crave my local news to see whats going on in the world. But I can handle it.

We stop at the auto store to grab a pick. I now can barely see out my window. But as Im getting out of the car I realize DOH! I left my purse and money at home. At least I found out before I went food shopping. Fortunately I had $10 on me so I buy the pick, renig my cocoa with my son and appease him with listening to Time Warp 5 more times before we get hoime. Hes dubious but gets back into it as I drive home, peering out my side window in the hopes I can see any oncoming cars before I smash them I canbarely see.

So now Im home, warming up after fixing my wipers, dreading the fact that not only do Ihave to go back out but I will be towing my son who will start to realize he doesnt see his friends today and begins to whine about being lonely. I know I will be playing Hotwheels a lot today hoping to make it up to him that alas he has no school because it's a damn holiday.


YAY!!!

I'm at work. I have no sympathy for you.

Nice happy ending!

My Monday has gotten off to major suckiness.

First, our newspaper didn't show up - no biggie, called the paper to let them know and they'll send out another one.

Second, as I go down into our basement to grab some laundry, I hear the constant streaming of what sounds to be a lot of water. Turns out one of our pipes near the water valve in our basement broke...so the wall and ceiling are hosed in some sections. I have the plumber working on it now. Should take a hit for $260 - $550, depending on how bad it is. Thankfully, we had the same guy out before and he's really cool.

Third, today is one of my work from home days - I cannot remote connect to my office pc. So I had to leave a msg for one of my co-workers to reboot or boot up my pc. We had a power outage out here over the weekend for 10 seconds, same thing may have caused my work pc to shut down. Still waiting on that...

On the bright side, I found out that EQ2 is coming out with another expansion next month, looks cool - too bad it's for high level characters, of which I have zilch.

Smoggy - get a UPC for the work computer so you do not have this problem again, it should be standard equipment for remote connecting employees.

DSD - Take the boy to see Hoodwinked at the 12 Noon matinee showing near you, you both will enjoy it, I saw it with my kid this past weekend. It is also less than 1.5 hrs long not counting the previews and perfect length for his age.

My boss is as racist as it gets, so you can guess where I'm at.

Prussian Blue concert?

I went to bed last night for the first time in my life knowing today was National Darkie Pride day.

Now, there are those of you out there who will rate this down because I have no sympathy for the proud African American men and women who were abused by your forefathers, but f'uck that and f'uck them. Lincoln freed the slaves, and he can't get his own holiday? Washington is the father of this nation and he can't get his own day? Call it what it is, let me get a paid day off for it, and be done with it.

National Darkie Pride Day.

Isn't presidents day Washington's birthday? I could be totally wrong though.

Did I miss something?