I'm going back to bed..............

I normally do not post my "mug" ANYWHERE!!!

However, I looked in the mirror a few minutes ago and about died laughing!!  Upon reflecting my day so far.....and it's ONLY NOON...I had to just laugh and surrender to it.  It is what it is!!

Get ready...use only one eye...you don't want to damage BOTH!!!

I started my day fine!

I was getting ready to serve a "Viking" lunch to Tyler's fifth grade class today.  Apparently it is Viking day today and the teacher thought it would be fun for the kids to make Viking helmets out of construction paper and eat lunch with their fingers like the Vikings did.  After lunch they went and "ransacked" (sp?) a second grade classroom that was empty because that class was at PE then.  They took all of their chairs, some of their supplies and decorations from the room to make it look ravaged (sp?) That meant I needed to go to Dominick's to buy paper plates, napkins, handi wipes, ice and bottled water.  A few other moms were bring all the side dishes.  I also had to pick up 60 grilled chicken legs from KFC.  The order had been placed by our head room mom a few days earlier and she had called me to pick it up and deliver it since she was not home today.

All was good!!

It's now 10:15am and I have to curl my hair and get a few more things done and head out to the store and be to KFC by 11:15 to pick up the order.

The phone rings at 10:15, I answer it.  It's my parents neighbor and friend and also a friend of mine.

She is on the other end crying and very hard to understand.  She just keeps saying that they have a problem down there.  I am confused and when she said they have a problem down there I think of my parents.  I start to panic thinking that something has happened to them.  My mind was spinning.  Then I remember that my parents are gone for the winter. (they just left last week..so I'm still getting used to the fact they're gone!)  So I knew it wasn't them.  She is very hard to understand when crying...so the next word I understand is......sewer!  Again......trying to figure out what I have to do with her sewer!!

Then she gets a grip and is able to tell me that the sewers in the neighborhood have backed up and that I need to come and check my parents basement.

I hang up with her.  I spin around in a circle twice...now starting to panic again!!  I immediately start to dial the phone to call my husband....then remember that I can't or he'll be fired for using a cell phone at work...so I now am swearing in my head at my husbands boss.

My hair is not curled, I have no jewelery on, my teeth are not brushed and the cooler for the lunch is not in the cleaned and in the car yet!!

I decide to only brush my teeth and throw the dirty cooler in the car and take off.

I call my sister on the way and tell her what's going on so that she can take over so I can leave for KFC, I only have 45 minutes before I have to go.  We get there, Fox Metro talks to us an explains what happened and tells us what they are going to do.

Apparently, their pumping station quit working and the alarm on it did not go off to alert employees so no one knew it wasn't pumping!!!  Therefore, all of the sewage was backing up into everyones basement!!

It's now time for me to go, Ellen stayed and waited for Service Master to come and get started.

I'm now all wet because to add to this lovely morning, it was raining!!  My hair was a mess and my clothes were damp.

I get to Dominick's and purchase all the supplies, when I get to my car I see that the cooler is full of cobwebs, dog hair and dust.  We store it in the garage and I was going to clean it before I left, however, after the phone call...no time to clean it.  So.......afraid that no one would want to take a bottle of water out of the dirty cooler and risk looking like a "hick", I proceed to try to clean it the best I can!!

I was wearing two shirts, so I lifted the outer shirt up and hold it under my chin and proceed to wipe the cooler off with the shirt that was underneath!!  I was worried about being a "hick"....I wonder what people were thinking seeing me in the parking lot like that!!

I cleaned the cooler and put the ice in it and then dumped all the bottles of water into it.  Towards the end of my packing the cooler, the young man who is mentally challenged that works as the "cart boy" for Dominick's stands next to me and talks to me waiting to collect my cart.  Mind you...it is still raining!!

I see notnhing wrong this this young man, he is actually really nice and I love it that Dominick's hires these folks.  I think it is a great opportunity for them and it is just wonderful!!  On a good day...ask anybody...I would have stood there and carried on a lengthy conversation.

However, today....in the rain......I had to tell him I had to go.

I beat it over to KFC, it's now 11:10, the order was to be ready for 11:15-11:30.  I figured I'd go in and just wait. 

I go to the counter and ask for the order..................................they don't have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The manager never put it in the system and today is his day off!!!!!!!!

I told the lady I need 60 grilled chicken legs by 11:30, since I have to have them to school by 11:45.

She tells me the earliest she can get me 60 grilled is 12:00-12:10. 

I tell her to get me whatever kind of legs she could by 11:30, she said 20 grilled, 20 original and 20 crispy.  I said whatever!!!

The teacher specifically asked for grilled because he wanted it to be healthy.  I made an executive decision on the fly!!!!

I finally get the order at 11:45...I get in the car and call the office and have them radio to the teacher that I just left and that I will be there at 12:00.

I break the sound barrier and get to school and have to park far away, I'm dragging a cooler and carrying a huge tin of chicken in the pouring rain.  I get it through the school, into the elevator and to the classroom.  The entire time while dragging the cooler.....it is banging off the back of my heels!!  I think my heels are raw by the time I get to the classroom!!!  The entire class stood up and clapped as I walked in!!

I was wet, out of breath, sweating and flustered by the time I got there!!

I can only imagine how I looked, because the look on the other mothers faces were of horror!!  In fact...the one mom got a chair out and told me to sit down and that I didn't look good!!  I told her I was fine and that that's OK and she said...no really sit down.. and pushed me into the chair!!

There's my sign......................it wasn't good!!

The lunch and "raid" on the other classroom went well, just in less time than they had hoped for!!

I took everything back to my car in the pouring rain!!

I got home and walked past a mirror on my way to flop down and caught this glimpse of myself!!!  I just busted out laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was either that or cry!!  I laughed and laughed at myself...it felt good!!!

So I took the picture and decided to share my day with you all!!!  It's NEVER boring around here!

I then went back to my parents house to sit with my sister to wait for Service Master to finish up.

We never seem to have a dull moment together................we have so much fun even sitting in the empty stinky house alone.  Many, Many laughs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We even called our parents and informed them that they owe us a LOBSTER dinner when we come down to Florida for Thanksgiving!!!  Dad agreed!!

Well, that's all for tonight!!!

I'm bushed!!!

See ya!!