eureka moment

ok, i figured out just why yesterday was not exactly The Best Day ever. it was friday the 13th! d'oh. now, i'm not a big supersitious person - far from it - but yesterday sure was one of the lower-ranked days on the grand scale of Ranked Days in my life. i think it's just a lot easier to blame it on some vacuous supersition than it is to think anything else of it.

it was my day OFF. it was a FRIDAY. i had to get up at 0600 *!* and spent the entire day cleaning the house, doing 7 loads (yes, 7) of laundry (and mind you, i just did the laundry 5 days ago), refereeing three bickering children, and watching it rain...... and m was supposed to come home early (about 1) so i could take the boys (d&j) to the pool (or just get out of the house), and he didn't.... to his credit, he rang us at about noon and asked if we were still planning to go to the pool, so i asked if he was having a good sales day and he said yes.... so i told him to finish his day up then come home, and not to cut it short on our behalf. the right thing to do, sure, but i was feeling mighty claustrophobic!

our other car is still out of commission, and has been for 3 weeks. it's one of those "uhm, we're not sure what's wrong, so we'll tinker with a bunch of different things until we figure it out" situations with the mechanic. to his credit, he's being very honest with us about how long it'll take and this and that and the other........ so we'll see how that bill looks. ;o)

but i never realized how much i'd come to depend on having a vehicle at my beck and call whenever i felt like escaping from the house! so for 3 weeks, m has been using the other vehicle - our truck - for work, and i've been stuck here with j, c, and d (5, 2, and 15, respectively) and no ways or means of getting to the pool. AAH! lol.

it could be a lot worse, though - it could have rained every day or something. ;o) at least we can get out of the house and play in the yard.

last night was fun - it was RAINING, but i had promised j we would go to the pool. he was at the window, mournfully declaring the obvious - "mommmmmmeeee! it's RAINING!" i chirped, "get your towel!" he gaped at me, obviously thinking mommy had lost her mind - and reiterated, "but it's RAINING." i said, "pshaw! just a drizzle. come on!" so we went swimming in the rain, which is actually a lot of fun. he worked on his diving board cannonballs with me treading water in the deep end, ready and poised to rescue him should he need me. he, however, did not need rescuing, so i got a good workout from the treading. ;o) then we went to tasty treat for dinner, and i had what was, undoubtedly, the world's largest bbq sandwich EVER. it was half the pig, i swear. but ohhhhhh so good. i remember thinking for one nanosecond, "i really shouldn't...." then "oh what the heck" and CHOMP. bye-bye-bbq. follow that with some really delightful crinkly fries smothered in salt and ketchup, and a big cold yummy chocolate ice cream cone, and you have the perfect dinner. which, i should add, we also ate outside. in the drizzle. sitting at a picnic table with a big fluffy umbrella. it was fun. sort of a delighted "i can't believe we're eating outside in the rain after swimming in the rain and isn't this fun and we should do this a lot more often!" kind of feeling. the perfect antidote to friday the 13th. rain be darned!

so today is brilliant, sunny, and most decidedly not friday the 13th! we're all headed to the pool soon.... c woke up at 0500, but m got up with her and let me sleep until 0830, bless his good husbandly soul. :oD so i do feel quite a bit more refreshed, and geared up for a fun day in the sun, workin' the tan.

see you later, crispy and warm.

(that's a good life slogan. LIFE: CRISPY AND WARM.)

ciao!