Today didn't start out too bad. I got way less sleep than I should have. It could be that my head is swirling with all the things that still need to be done before the 25th, it could have just been an off day. Honestly, I don't feel stressed out, but sometimes it's still there. I was sort of awake when Amanda called out to me at 6:45 because she wanted to be the first one downstairs to find the elf. You know, the Elf On The Shelf. Yes, we still do that, I have a different post for that though so I won't go into it now.
After Amanda found the elf I sent her up to Charlie and finished cleaning up all the cookies and chocolate dipped items I made last night (again, another post that I may or may not get to) and then got dressed, made lunches and did everything else we do in the mornings. So far everything okay. I dropped Amanda off at school, hit the gym, picked her back up and then headed north to visit a college roommate and do a meal class at her house.
I used to do meal class in Texas all the time. I loved it because at any point I would have at least five frozen meals in my fridge and if I had no idea what we were going to have for dinner I would pull one out. So when I got this invitation I jumped at the chance of having ready made meals in my freezer again. All went well on the drive up until about four miles from her house I got a nice indicator light that the tire pressure in my back right tire was low. It kept flashing and the tire pressure kept dropping. Not good. I was pretty sure it was a flat tire which was confirmed when I pulled up outside her house. No problem, I called our insurance company and they sent somebody to fix it while I was doing the meal class and my car was ready to go by the time I was done. I thought my troubles would end there.
I got home just in time to pick up the big kids from school and then took the girls with me to get the tire repaired. You are only supposed to drive on the spare for 40 miles and my friends lives just over 30 miles away so I didn't very many miles to play with. Except the piece of metal in my tire was so large that they couldn't repair it and I had to buy a new tire, ugh. We had to leave straight from there to take Amanda to speech therapy (which I had moved because of the meal class) but due to traffic and and not getting to leave as early as I wanted to because we were stuck at the tire place we were going to be late. So I tried to take some back roads to get us there quicker but they were slow too. I finally found one that was wide open and sped up to get there faster and got pulled over going 12 miles over the speed limit. All that made us even later for speech therapy so we only got to have a 10 minute session.
So to sum it up, so that I could have 10 wonderful meals waiting for me in my freezer at any given time I had to drive 40 minutes each way, buy a new tire, get a speeding ticket and pay full price for a 10 minute therapy session. Expensive, crappy day.
On the bright side, Charlie picked up dinner and I have a new tire and now my daughters know what happens when Mommy says she can't go any faster or she'll get pulled over and I can start over tomorrow. However, if the police call me and ask for a charitable donation, I've already given this year.
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