Three Very Interesting Weeks...

So the logic board fritzed out on my laptop, and for reasons I will never understand it took Apple over 2 weeks to find a logic board to put in it, after which it took about a day & a half to repair & return it. I finally have it back - but going without it was a lifestyle change in itself! Even though I have another computer at home & at work, it was still really frustrating...

...which I know is really pathetic.

And then my car has also been in the shop for 3 weeks - the SAME 3 weeks, coincidentally - so that's been an adventure. I was eventually able to go up & get a bunch of stuff I didn't think to grab before they towed it away, and that helped. But even though I have my old car to drive, it's not the same! I want my car back! Hopefully, it will be done tomorrow...

The first two weeks, I actually did OK. I waited and got on with other things. But that was long enough. The third week has just been nothing but a pain.

Yes, the experience has made me thankful for my many blessings, blah blah blah... but it has mostly made me thankful for insurance and for God. This has been a lesson in patience that I know I sorely needed. So OK, I get it. I'm working on it. I promise.

Can I have my car back now???????

Blessings on a Bad Day

Amazing how a day of problems can be, in retrospect, a day of blessings! Monday I started the day (Monday, remember) waking up to my cell phone ringing - which it shouldn't have been not only because sane people don't call each other at 6am, but also because I usually keep it on vibrate to avoid such problems! BUT I realized as I woke up that I had no power - and no alarm - and it was already 6am so I was thankful for the wake-up after all! :)

Then out to drive to work in a snowstorm - yuck - but made it safely, so thankful for that! Only about 1/4 of the students came to school, so although my plans for the week were messed up (grr) it was a mellow & enjoyable day, so that was nice too. Got a lot of work done - thankful again.

Driving home through the ice & snow to pick up my daughter, my car spun out on the freeway & slammed into the concrete median - smashed up the car pretty badly - but I'm mostly fine, I have good insurance, AAA, a great mom who will go pick up my kid when I can't, and another car to use while this one's in the shop, so I'm again feeling blessed & thankful.

And one more little blessing: my laptop is in the shop - huge annoyance - but it wasn't in the car to get thrown around the back seat like the folders in my bag!

Life is good! :)

CRASH

OK, before the results are revealed, I want to be on the record... Crash is the movie that SHOULD win the Oscar, and whether or not it does, I still think it's the real groundbreaking movie this year.

Rent it!

If You're Not...

A colleague once said to me:

“If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. But if you’re not conservative when you’re older…”

“You have no money?” I guessed.

“You have no brains,” he replied.

Ha.