Monday January 7, 2008

WORST PART OF THE DAY - As I sit in the chair watching ten minutes of political news this morning (the New Hampshire primary is tomorrow and yes I'm VERY interested), my older son comes to sit by me with a vent cover. These vents are a real pain. Both boyz take off the covers (they are in the floor) and then put things down the vent (IMP does this) or play with them to see how they work (SB does this).

So the vent covers look like this - heavy and metal. So I'm sitting watching some political news and the older son comes to sit by me with a vent cover in his hand. I'm thinking "man, those dern vent covers again. But he's right next to me, so at least I can see what he is doing." So I'm watching Hilary who is smiling ear to ear and you just know she is dying inside after Iowa. Suddenly the younger son comes up to the chair and spies the vent cover in SB's hands. He reaches for it, SB jerks it away from him toward me just as I'm about to take a sip of calming Earl Grey tea.


The vent cover has a direct hit on my tea glass and this scares the hell out of me as the cup I was holding is now a jagged mess. I yelp and I (forgive me) swear. The boyz just look at me like "what?" Seriously, they do not react. There I sit with tea all over me and the chair and my cup broken beyond repair (this only matters because these cups are stupidly expensive and stupidly impractical for someone as clumsy as me with two toddler types running around.) And the last tea bag of Earl Grey. Boo hoo for me. What an annoying start to the day!


BEST PART OF THE DAY - has to be (drum roll PLEASE!!!!) my mail finally got delivered!!! I came home around 5 p.m. and checked the mailbox, but nothing was in it. Sigh. Then as I was turing on the front porch light so husband won't break his neck in the pitch darkness that is New England in January, I spy .... a HUGE HEAPING PILE OF MAIL on the front porch! HOORAY! Funny thing is - most of it was junk mail and catalogues. But there was a lovely birth announcement, several Christmas cards and two personal notes. And my two Freaks and Geeks Netflixes (I see a nice long night of 80's high school dramedy and red wine). Ahhh - all is at peace until the next snowstorm!!!