It’s a grey day here today. And not just because the steering rack needs to be replaced on the Dodge. That’s expensive. So, I did our taxes. I even filed them. Soon we will have our return and I can fix everything. Party time. Seriously, there are other things I would rather do with that return. We tend to be very responsible with our returns. For instance we used it as a down payment on our first house one year. But, there will be room for some fun. For example, I’m sure we’ll also use it to pay for our upcoming trip over the mountains to beautiful Victoria.
Speaking of fixing things, my laptop decided it didn’t want to play nice. It was working for a few days, so I lugged it all the way downtown yesterday. See, without a car, it meant walking my daughter in a stroller the 12 blocks to playschool, dropping her off and hanging at the library for 2 hours before returning to get her. So, after lugging the 8 pound laptop a total of 32 blocks, all I have is a broken blister on my heel. Because of course, my laptop would not work for me.
But I had a back up plan. I brought my library card (the nice librarian gave me a new one) so I could sign out tons of fun stuff in case my laptop acted up. I had even tracked down the BBC version of “Pride and Prejudice” which is supposed to be great. (I’ve been hearing about it for years. Evidently the scene where Colin Firth takes off his shirt actually sent women to emergency with heart palpitations when it was first aired on TV (who knew they had TV in the 1800s–ha, ha). Isn’t that totally crazy?) Anyway, I had all this great stuff to sign out and then I couldn’t find my library card. Groan. I had put it down somewhere at home and therefore I was a good 16 blocks from home and without my library card.
So now to just get the shingles replaced–again–on our roof, grow some new skin on my heel and a few other little tasks and my life should be back on track. Maybe…
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