eastowners

Current Mood: Angry

So, today turned out nothing like I thought.  I was woken up around I don’t know what time, you know the time - when your eyes are so blurry and you are mid-sleep and it’s still dark outside that you don’t recall what time the alarm clock says.  I vagely remember the conversation with Clare, something about not finding a stuffed animal in her bed, something about not remembering a stuffed bears name….stuff I don’t remember because I was sleep talking to her aparently.  So now, her bears name is Alice - how I came up with that in a heavy sleep I have no clue.  Maybe it’s some secret baby name I wanted to use - not really.  The second time I was woken up it was at a more reasonable hour, and I was able to see the sun (or what sun you can see through the clouds and snow).  Ugh the snow.  It really is my HE double hockey sticks idea of what most people consider burning flames in an inferno of purgatory.  Or isn’t that only a Catholic thing…not sure I’m a religion drop out.

Anyway, the morning was our usual and we were off to a pretty decent start - other than my lack of time to post my started Wordless Wednesday.  I really dislike the snow that has been falling from our skies here in W. Michigan for oh about a week straight now, although it feels like longer.  I have to add time into our schedule to go brush off the car, get it warmed up, get Clare in her snow gear in a timely fashion so she can get to school on time and play in the snow.  The last part is of most importance to a 5 year old that has a burning desire for rolling in the snow, and as she says “swimming in it”.  I remember those times as a child, but as an adult it’s painful and I dislike going out in the elements.  Lately it’s worked out for us though because I shovel, and she “helps” - as much help as it is for her to rethrow the snow I just shoveled away.  Back to our day, so she got to school in time to head out and swing for about 10 minutes- also her latest passion when she gets to school.  After they went inside I headed for Costco. 

I have been in desperate need of getting new tires now for months, and the pain in the booty of stopping to put air in my tires was really getting to me.  So, I went online to see how much theirs were because they have a deal going on right now.  They had a pretty good deal, so I went ahead and ordered them to have them delivered to my local warehouse.  They called me last night, so I planned on going after dropping Clare off.  He told me it’d be about an hour and a half, so I wandered Costco, bought a few magazines to read while I dined accross the parking lot to Noodle & Co.  I came back to my car still in their garage.  Okay, maybe their almost done.  Nope, apparently when I ordered it their website had me order the wrong size.  Imagine explatives running through my head here!  They didn’t give me the option of size when I ordered, it was just put the info in about your make model and year of your car.  Thankfully they had the same tire in my car’s size.  Returned the old tires, bought the new tires, and I had to pay them another $100!  Another half hour he said….UGH!  So I sat outside reading my magazine -fuming.  I called Brad to vent.  30 minutes went by, still no tires on my car.  COME ON PEOPLE - I have to be back to the school in 15 minutes to pick up my child.  40 minutes went by, finally he was done. 

I rush to school, wait in the car line, get Clare, and hit the grocery for a few things that I needed for dinner.  Afterwards I had to go to the post office to mail some e-bay stuff for Brad, and then finally home.  When we got home we put our stuff inside and Clare got to play outside while I shoveled.  We came in, put dinner in, and I finally began to decompress from my day.  To finish I’ll share a little laugh.  During dinner we had a funny conversation with Clare - it went a little like this:

Clare:  I really like B in my class.  He’s really funny, and his jokes always make me laugh.

Me:  Oh yeah, is he your new boyfriend? (because she already as 2 currently)

Clare:  Yeah, he’s in my boyfriend club

Brad:  Oh, do you have a fan club in Japan?  You must be really popular there.

She didn’t get it, but it’ll be funny later on in life.