Do you ever just have one of those weeks? One where you wished you could just curl back up under the covers and it be the next week? That has been this one.
Monday wasn't to bad. I was a bit saddened by the fact that a month ago I scheduled my middle school observations this week, then I find out that Obama will be here on Tuesday! Bummer! I didn't want to cancel, ya know? So I go through Monday not to bad. I had arranged for Marshal to hang out in the media center for a bit until I got there to pick him up, and so that afternoon, he came out of the office, where he had been in the clinic, SICK! No no no no no, not this week, but as Rainwater luck would have it, yes yes yes yes yes.
The next day I missed two classes, Barack Obama at the harborside event center, and sat home with a sick Marshal who thought I was now the worst mom every because I told him sick kids don't play video games!
Wednsday wasn't too bad, Marshal went back to school and so did I, just to get there to pick him up and once again he is in the clinic! AHHH!! So we trek to the local emergency room where we wait. I waited for 5 hours with two board kids in a packed emergency waiting room under construction which made it 1/2 the sixe it should have been. Lucky me! All of this to be told in 5 minutes that Marshal has a cold. Great! No perscription unless his fever lasts until Saturday.
So the next day it is back to school, I can't miss another Science or Math class, but oh, Morgan doesn't want to wear shoes. So that throws us 5 minutes behind which translates in traffic terms to 30 minutes. And I almost forgot my watch and ring, so Marshal runs it along with the necklace they all gave me for Mothers day to my car.
I get Morgan to school and her teacher wants to talk for 5 minutes, after I excussed myself as nice as I could it was off to school for myself. But a major intersection to get to school would have different plans. It would like to keep me there with it for 15 minutes. Awsome.
I finally get to school, 15 minutes late for class, but I have to park so far away that it would take me another 15 to walk to class! Awsome. Then I broke a piece of equipment in the lab, answered a math problem like a fifth grader, and went to go do my observations. There in the parking lot as I warfed down a burger I realized my necklace was missing! DAMN IT!!!
I called Ben, who wasn't mad, but you could tell he wasn't happy. I went in and did my observing, then called to make sure marshal was ok so he could go to tutoring. I pick up Moe and we head home. I walk and feed the dogs then go and tear up my car hoping that my necklace dropped in there and not in the parking garage somewhere. The only bright spot in my day when from out of nowhere I spot a glimmer from the track of the passenger seat, my necklace! Whew!
I go back into the house and sit down to read emails and help Morgan put together her Valentines for school. Next thing I know I have forgotten to go pick up Marshal from tutoring!!!!!!!!
How bad is that? All leading up to today, Friday the 13th, where I have almost refused to leave the house, but I did. I went to math lecture where the two kids who sat behind me talked the entire time about drinking games, the person who I take notes for at Adaptive Services won't come pick them up, so that work has been shot all to hell, then I come to home to shower and get buzzed by a buzzard as I leave my car. I'm ready for next week!!!!!
 
Thanks for listening!
~~Mandie