Band ended up getting canceled, which was fine and understandable. Nobody wants to be responsible for 15 broken hips when we all went back to our cars. Given what I found just in the morning, I think that was a safe choice. My driveway was an ice rink when I left for work. It really doesn't take much to make things slick, and I had to be careful ( Read more... )

I had a reminder to myself to talk to Dr. K and W as soon as I could once I got to band on Thursday. Both were there soon after I arrived, so great, I can talk to both of them at once. Except W was already talking with oboe T, who sounded like she had her own potential scheduling issue, so I had to wait. Dr. K was at the little workstation behind ( Read more... )

I am a klutzy human being. Most days I overcome it; today, I did not ( Read more... )

I am never going to live this down. The puns. Mom is pulling out all the stops with the puns. Granted, she's pissed that she was not treated well during the situation. Frankly, I'm pissed that my mother is consistently and continually unhelpful in virtually any sort of crisis. But it is what it is and I can't change that we have stains on our ( Read more... )

I fell at work today ( Read more... )

We didn't go grocery shopping last week. When mom was off, she and dad had gone to both Sam's and Aldi, so between that and our prior shopping trip, we actually had plenty of food. Add in the days and days and days of snow, plus my little misadventure last Saturday, and nobody really felt like leaving the house. So, we skipped it, and went back ( Read more... )

I'll need to start out this portion with what happened earlier in the week, when I tried to get tickets to the concert. For whatever reason, I thought the box office closed at four. I didn't leave work quickly enough on Monday and ended up parking near the concert center with just minutes to spare--like, I probably walked in the door at 3:58. ( Read more... )

Thursday night, after a long day of working and shopping and watching people picking fights outside of Panera, I was pretty tired. I had a feeling I wouldn't have trouble falling asleep. And, I nearly didn't. However, at 10:29 by my clock (which is 5 minutes fast), I was probably 98% asleep when there was this tremendous falling noise that ( Read more... )

If you saw the post about the baptism, you might have seen that Laura replied, and I mentioned that I was planning to email her. I'm actually in the process of it, except I had to pause, because about 30 minutes ago there was this huge crashing sound from downstairs. Tomorrow's garbage day, and it almost sounded like dad flipped over the ( Read more... )

I slept with my window open last night, hoping it would be cool enough to be comfortable. It wasn't, but that's not what woke me up--my not-quite-closed door constantly knocking the latch into the doorjamb did. I hate that sound. It was also accompanied by another sound, likely something on the door banging rhythmically. In the past year, I've ( Read more... )