Sunday, November 18, 2012

Long Days ahead


7:30 am
                I very much need to write this morning so I can vent. I woke up this morning, and in fact the past several mornings really feeling like life sucks. And it is not like there is a lot of reason for feeling that way. And it is not a great thing to start the day thinking. Like – life sucks and I really really do not want to get out of bed. Yesterday was the Hartsbrook fair and to tell the truth it went very well and was fun. Today is the MSWF meeting (first of the season!) and I really really really do not want to go. I dread checking email in case there are messages related. I have done absolutely nothing to get ready for it. Well, yesterday I decided not to worry about it and just look at it as the first meeting when we figure out what we need to start doing. Still it sucks. And, by the way, I have some sort of sore on the side of the tip of my middle left finger that hurts when I hit keys – especially the e and the d. and e is pretty darn common. I don’t like it when things hurt. It is annoying. Meanwhile the house is really really really a bad mess, and I have Tigger to deal with bc K is off helping with hurricane relief in MD and NJ. They started off in MD but then were not needed so they moved on to NJ. How can they not need help? But maybe they have a lot of people. Anyway, he has gone off and left me to deal with this dog. He is supposed to go in the bathroom during the day so he does not need his diaper on, but he has figured out how to put the board across so he can get out. And when he is in there, I know he is pooping – he must then “clean it up” himself, and we know what that means, bc there are remnants and it smells. Oh boy. I don’t know what K plans to do when we go to NC for xma.
                I just feel so glum. Too much to do? Too many responsibilities? Too many worries and concerns? Too little of what I need in terms of replenish time – which for me means time alone? I think it is really really really (seeing a pattern here?) sad that I feel like I have too many responsibilities and worries. As if. So let me walk in Bill McKibbons’ shoes for a while.
                In about 45 mins I must drive my nieghbor into town to catch a bus to Boston. It would make perfect sense to then drop the stuff from the fair at the rental house, but I don’t think I will do that. I had better instead get back here and work on whatever I need to do for the fair meeting. I can drop stuff at the house after the meeting. Then somehow I must enter all the Thursday lab’s urine data into the excel sheets and make tables and graphs. I already did it for the Monday lab. That is so that Monday and Tuesday I can work on grading the tables they turned in, bc after TG they need to turn in graphs that they come up with. I feel like I need a little more direction about grading all this data presentation stuff. There are often lots of ways it could be presented and I am not that great at evaluating the best way. I can think about what I would prefer, but I need some ideas of whether there are conventions I am not aware of.
                So that all sucks. Oh. And. Last night after the fair, I had arranged to meet up with A the granddaughter of Dad’s Yale chum who lived in Singapore. So the granddaughter is now at Smith, and finally we connected, because her mom wanted her to buy something from me for her friend at Brown. She is spending TG with her in Dallas. Long story. Anyway, I finally connected with her and we arranged to meet at Thornes, then I would take her out to dinner. Fair ended, I packed up (took forever, but I was just taking my time, packing stuff carefully) drove home, unloaded the bunny and some stuff, but kept the things for her to look through. Drove to NoHo. Got there, found a place in the parking garage, and realized I had left, not only my purse, but even the fanny pack with all the $ from the fair at home. Oh brother suckola. But A had already left to meet me. I waited at Thornes, and finally she arrived and I had to explain the whole thing. Well I must say she is actually quite quick. She first said that she had money for eating. I didn’t want her to pay, then she reminded me that she was going to buy something from me. Well that would give me money to buy her supper so I felt ok. We went to the car for her to look at stuff and she chose a hat and then wanted a bunny but she wants it blue and I only have a bit of blue yarn, no bunny, so I am going to make a bunny for her. Another task to get done……. Then we went to Local Burger. She wanted something American. That is always tricky bc what is after all American food?? And then she ended up paying and not letting me pay out of what she gave me for the stuff. It was awkward. Well, she is very nice and I will have to figure out some ways to bring her to Amherst or something.
                So what the fuck else? I guess pretty much right now I need to: eat breakfast, take my psillium oh joy, feed buns, get to work writing up some stuff for the fair meeting, in the middle there take my neighbor to town.  Ok. Then at 12:30 I’ll go to the meeting, which thank goodness is at the Manor house. And meanwhile I must also deal with the dog. And bring in some firewood. And some time at some point I need to look into L’s room and see if there is stuff that needs to be moved. If any of it is K’s, well, he is blasting home (possibly with L) at some ungodly hour Monday night/Tues morning, then he has a full day of work Tues. His usual style.
                Oh, one more part of my weekend, which may help with why I am feeling fairly miserable: Friday I got home, left work pretty early. I went out to get the car to do some errands -  things I needed for the fair, and also to pick up the rental house stuff, oh, and I needed to get to the bank before it closed at 5. So it was around 4:30. And when I went out, I found one tire was really low. One of the studded snow tires we just had mounted on rims and put on. I decided rather than change the tire myself, or call AAA which would mean waiting forever, I would go up to Classic and see if they could help. They were so so very nice. They tried to fill it, but there was a leak. He tried to fix it, but couldn’t so he put on the spare and did not charge a penny which is so nice of them. But now I must bring the damn car back to NoHo to the tire place and get them to fix it. WHEN??????


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