Occasionally I Must Complain

Just a few things that are driving me crazy.

1. We need 2 new tires for the mazda. Expensive. Ridiculously. And I'm driving on the spare now for 2 days and can't get new tires until tomorrow. Bah.

2. The dishwasher is no longer spraying water. It is simply steaming dishes. This doesn't work, in case you were wondering. So I spent 2 hours washing the dishes in the sink and the dishes in the dishwasher, which were now steam-dirtied. When I say 2 hours, I mean I got home at 10:20 and stopped washing dishes and cleaning up from that mess at 12:30.

3. The cats tipped over the seed starting pots. I hate them. I hate all three of them now. I cleaned that up and hoped for the best--we'd only planted them the day before. My fault for trusting the homemade shelving.

4. In addition to the broken dishwasher, the sink is broken. Yes! We have a double sink and the left side, if you pour water down it in too much volume, comes unhinged. Someone did this recently. I noticed a few days ago and mentioned it to Mike. I made the mistake of assuming, yes, that he had fixed it. Yup. Fun!

5. It is cold again. It was so cold last night it was like camping. I could not sleep. Plus Leo is teething and was up every hour after not falling asleep until 11.

6. I keep getting urgent UPS deliveries for a person named Idress Tate. He or she does not live here. I have called the people sending the stuff twice now. Today I caught the UPS guy (not our regular guy who knows I'm not Idress) and gave it back. Maybe it will change. Maybe I will wake up blond and thin.

7. Head lice at school. Holding my breath that it is in some other classroom and not anywhere near my kids' heads. I have been lucky thus far. Maybe this is where all my luck is pouring into this week.

8. I hurt my ankle at the post office just walking. Not turning it, not on a step, nothing. It hurts to put weight on it and turn at the same time now. I was going to come home and put my feet up, have Leo watch a movie, do nothing, but, well, see every other fragging number on this list.

So I guess that is it. Here's hoping Leo will nap so I can too. The girls, assuming they don't have lice, have a ton of work to do in their rooms and pretty much everywhere else when they get home. I'll name them Cindermaeve and Cindersophia and make them wear tattered aprons all afternoon. And not care. Not today. Not too much.