Give Me A Break Already

Yesterday:

8:30-2:30 Work after a very restless night of little sleep

2:30-3:00 Drive to pick up a friend

3:00-7:00 Go to social services and various places and deal with an emotionally draining (heartbreaking) situation, where I am trying to be very strong

7:00-7:30 Go to meet friend at trail to go running

This is where it starts to get good....

7:00-7:20 Wait for friend, listen to music, read over paperwork from aforementioned meeting

7:20 Music fades, realize that battery has died

7:30 Friend shows up, we decide since we can't really get a car beside mine we will jump it after our run

7:35 We proceed to load the baby in the stroller, that I knock over (at least before the baby is in it) while talking to a guy from high school neither of us had seen for awhile. One who seems to have life more together than I do, but that's another story.

7:45 Finally on the trail, jogging, my knees are KILLING me. I'm guessing it's the new shoes, but either way I can barely run. We realize something is wrong with the front wheel of the stroller.

7:50 We stop and fix the stroller, start jogging again.

7:55 We stop and fix the stroller again, finally figure it out. By this point I'm realizing we are not the most mechanical people which does not bode well for the later experiment of jumping my car.

8:00-9:00 Jog/Walk while I complain incessantly about the excruciating pain I am in with my knees, feeling guilty because my running partner is in no pain and has tons of energy.

9:00-9:15 Stretch, play with baby, proceed to deal with car situation (and yes, it is dark by this time)

9:15 Start looking for my keys

9:20 Finally after much panicking, because I do not have a single spare key made find the keys in the baby bag (no idea how that happened)

9:20-9:45 She pulls her car beside mine, says she doesn’t know how to get her hood up (which started us off laughing pretty much the entire 20-25 minutes of the experience), but she finds the latch, read instructions on jumper cables until the last one and then we’re afraid we’ve done it wrong (believe it or not we are BOTH college educated). I try 15 numbers or so and NOBODY answers to find out if we’re doing it right. I try a last ditch number to my boss who answers and says we were doing it right, so we finally get my car started. All of this, despite being frustrating on some level, was done in the midst of fits of laughter. At least we can make anything into an adventure :)

9:45-10:00 Get fast-food, so much for the jog/walk helping me lose weight…and people finally start calling me back.

10:00-11:30 On the phone with multiple return calls. Manage to offend, hurt or upset one of my closest friends, but I think its okay now. We were just both a little overly sensitive I think at this point.

11:30-12:10 Toss and turn, almost fall asleep…

12:10 Get a phone call from my brother’s girlfriend that her stepdad had a motorcycle wreck and is in the ER.

12:10-12:20 Get dressed and drive over to watch her little boy, pillow and blanket in tow.

12:20-2:00 Toss and turn on the couch. Every time I almost fall asleep phone rings, then she comes home saying step-dad is being released.

2:00-2:15 Drive home and park way in the lower parking lot because I live in an apartment complex with a bunch of partying college students that took all the parking

2:15-3:15 Toss and turn, finally fall asleep.

3:15-6:45 Sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6:45-7:30 Lay in bed, dozing in and out trying to convince myself to get up

7:30-7:56 Shower, iron clothes, dress, hair and makeup not done, so I throw makeup
and straightener in a bag and go.

8:10 Decide it’s worth being late to work for a Venti Iced Mocha

8:20 Dump almost the entire Venti Iced Mocha in my unusually clean car

8:40 Show up to work ten minutes late with a client waiting in the parking lot for the doors to be unlocked, and to a ton of work

8:40-8:50 Clean the coffee out of my car the best I can

And that was just the last 24 hours! The next should be even better considering I am running off of little to no sleep, going to a friends house tonight, and need to do laundry and pack to go out of town tomorrow straight from work! At this point I find pretty much everything amusing which helps immensely :)