A Tired Day...
I set my alarm for 5am this morning because I had a LOT of things to get done before leaving the house. I watched my "mini nutritional assessment" (detects malnutrition in the elderly) video while eating raisin bran and drinking coffee, folded and put away laundry, had a quick shower, packed lunches, got the kids up and ready to go, dropped Morgan off at the neighbor's to get on the bus there, drove Hailey into town for a playdate with her little friend Preston, drove to the college, ran across the parking lot and then slid into my seat in the lab at 8am on the nose. Whew. I felt like a baseball player running the bases, not even daring to stop to see where the ball was for fear of not making it to home plate!
After school I went and picked up my neighbor/friend Toni and we went for a wonderful lunch at a cute little Russian bistro! We shared a half liter of wine, a couple of different dishes...and lots of laughs. Good times!
Tonight while the kids were at karate, I took the escalade for an oil change and a car wash. The nice man there fixed my errant windshield wiper (something needed tightening) and attempted to replace my burnt out tail light only to discover that it must be an electrical problem because the new bulb did not fix the problem. O.o. That's really not good because I have already been warned that electrical problems + escalade = lotsa $$$$. We learned this when the damn truck would lock itself all on it's own! How efficient! We tried to figure out *why* it felt the need to lock itself with the key IN it and me OUT of it...but settled for cutting another key and hiding it on the vehicle because it was by far the most economical option. It doesn't lock itself often, but when it does, you can be sure it is during a most inopportune moment where I have to be somewhere five minutes ago and I desperately need something locked in the truck to take with me to wherever I was supposed to be five minutes ago. All this to say that it looks like we will have to sort out this wiring crap sooner than later.
Anyhoo, that's all I've got for now. I'm going to hit the sack early so that I can get up and repeat most of the above all over again tomorrow. Lucky lucky lucky me!
After school I went and picked up my neighbor/friend Toni and we went for a wonderful lunch at a cute little Russian bistro! We shared a half liter of wine, a couple of different dishes...and lots of laughs. Good times!
Tonight while the kids were at karate, I took the escalade for an oil change and a car wash. The nice man there fixed my errant windshield wiper (something needed tightening) and attempted to replace my burnt out tail light only to discover that it must be an electrical problem because the new bulb did not fix the problem. O.o. That's really not good because I have already been warned that electrical problems + escalade = lotsa $$$$. We learned this when the damn truck would lock itself all on it's own! How efficient! We tried to figure out *why* it felt the need to lock itself with the key IN it and me OUT of it...but settled for cutting another key and hiding it on the vehicle because it was by far the most economical option. It doesn't lock itself often, but when it does, you can be sure it is during a most inopportune moment where I have to be somewhere five minutes ago and I desperately need something locked in the truck to take with me to wherever I was supposed to be five minutes ago. All this to say that it looks like we will have to sort out this wiring crap sooner than later.
Anyhoo, that's all I've got for now. I'm going to hit the sack early so that I can get up and repeat most of the above all over again tomorrow. Lucky lucky lucky me!