Ups and Downs
Today was full of ups and downs. All in all, I can't complain too heavily - the ups do outweigh the downs - but the emotional rollercoaster effect is pretty hard on the system...
Down: Last night, I asked where the adapter for the DS was. Turns out L unplugged it because it was poking her before bed, and put it 'somewhere'. After much worry about it that night and the next morning,
Up: I found it while attempting to remove some tangled yarn from the floor in an attempt to clean up the room a little. Then we prepared to head out
Down: with the kid who stayed home because she hadn't gotten around to finishing her report and needed twenty-five facts from books because 'her teacher was going to check the library for them', so we had to drop her off at the library
Up: but before we left, we received a surprise package from the UPS, which contained, of all things, a new LCD monitor (fucking awesome)!,
Down: and then went to drop off the kid at the library, after dealing with her nagging request to play the DS and her many complaints about how the Dell package hadn't been her DS,
Up: then went to Applebee's for lunch (I received a $25 gift card as a present from a coworker for Christmas shortly before all of this), and exchanged my coins for $19.20 in less changely change and cashed L's Rilo Kiley check,
Down: then went to pick up the library girl , and the other kid from home (who both decided to fight and scream over who got to play the DS / whose turn it is, nevermind that it's my/L's DS and half the time we don't get to play with it),
Up: and went to the corner store to fax L's W9 form and for the kids to purchase some candy/etc (which they shared, which was good),
Down: and then to the chiropractors, where the kids and L got crunched and cracked, and where L found out that her CAT scan had indeed turned up some irregular results that hopefully aren't cancer, but resulted in a referral to go see a medical doctor (nice of the hospital not to mention that),
Up: and then to my workplace, where I dropped off the 'please don't fire me, I'm on a leave of absence' form and got some two-liters so we'd have something to drink,
Down: and then towards home, where the kids were loud all the way there (and Brenda decided to announce that 'all religions are Christian' because they all believe in a higher power - which resulted in debate on the subject until L broke down into nervous crying),
Up: but then we got home and everyone went to their own parts, and I settled in to install the monitor and recover two of our speakers that had fallen behind the desk,
Down: and got it installed only after a lot of painful contortions and twists, and some help from the kids in getting the ponderous old monitor out of the way and eventually out of the room,
Up: but the new one is so fucking sleek it's awesome,
Down: but I'm so tired and ragged out and emotionally and physically shaky and L kinda thinks I'm mad at her because I've been stressed most of the day and I should really really really take some medication, but all I've got prescribed is Zantac and naproxen anyhow.
So I'm kinda dazed...
I can't really say it's a bad day, though, because I'm finally looking at a screen that isn't blue, and goddamn if that isn't worth SOMETHING. My eyes are actually unused to it at this point.
To whoever got that for us... thank you. THANK YOU.
Now to relax...
Down: Last night, I asked where the adapter for the DS was. Turns out L unplugged it because it was poking her before bed, and put it 'somewhere'. After much worry about it that night and the next morning,
Up: I found it while attempting to remove some tangled yarn from the floor in an attempt to clean up the room a little. Then we prepared to head out
Down: with the kid who stayed home because she hadn't gotten around to finishing her report and needed twenty-five facts from books because 'her teacher was going to check the library for them', so we had to drop her off at the library
Up: but before we left, we received a surprise package from the UPS, which contained, of all things, a new LCD monitor (fucking awesome)!,
Down: and then went to drop off the kid at the library, after dealing with her nagging request to play the DS and her many complaints about how the Dell package hadn't been her DS,
Up: then went to Applebee's for lunch (I received a $25 gift card as a present from a coworker for Christmas shortly before all of this), and exchanged my coins for $19.20 in less changely change and cashed L's Rilo Kiley check,
Down: then went to pick up the library girl , and the other kid from home (who both decided to fight and scream over who got to play the DS / whose turn it is, nevermind that it's my/L's DS and half the time we don't get to play with it),
Up: and went to the corner store to fax L's W9 form and for the kids to purchase some candy/etc (which they shared, which was good),
Down: and then to the chiropractors, where the kids and L got crunched and cracked, and where L found out that her CAT scan had indeed turned up some irregular results that hopefully aren't cancer, but resulted in a referral to go see a medical doctor (nice of the hospital not to mention that),
Up: and then to my workplace, where I dropped off the 'please don't fire me, I'm on a leave of absence' form and got some two-liters so we'd have something to drink,
Down: and then towards home, where the kids were loud all the way there (and Brenda decided to announce that 'all religions are Christian' because they all believe in a higher power - which resulted in debate on the subject until L broke down into nervous crying),
Up: but then we got home and everyone went to their own parts, and I settled in to install the monitor and recover two of our speakers that had fallen behind the desk,
Down: and got it installed only after a lot of painful contortions and twists, and some help from the kids in getting the ponderous old monitor out of the way and eventually out of the room,
Up: but the new one is so fucking sleek it's awesome,
Down: but I'm so tired and ragged out and emotionally and physically shaky and L kinda thinks I'm mad at her because I've been stressed most of the day and I should really really really take some medication, but all I've got prescribed is Zantac and naproxen anyhow.
So I'm kinda dazed...
I can't really say it's a bad day, though, because I'm finally looking at a screen that isn't blue, and goddamn if that isn't worth SOMETHING. My eyes are actually unused to it at this point.
To whoever got that for us... thank you. THANK YOU.
Now to relax...