Seek Cover!!

Major blizzard on its way. Let’s thank the powers that be that allowed me to get an oil change during my lunch hour this afternoon. And might I add a quick thank you to the kind gentleman who had the courage to attempt to vaccuum the floormats in the backseat where my daughter is known to throw any number of gummy fruit snacks, boogers, and God knows what else.

I must say, being an online student means not being impeded by inclement weather. Damn.

It’s been so unbelievably dreary outside today. It’s like the weather gods are taunting us, letting us know that bad things are in store. The temperature right now? 57. But the sky is grey and just kind of hanging there. If depression looked like weather, it’d look like this. Tomorrow? The high is 32.

My kid needs a winter hat. So tonight, either I go into hyper-knit mode and whip something up, or she goes to daycare tomorrow in an enormous hat that fits my husband’s ginormous noggin. Thankfully, I have enough yarn to knit a Snuggie, much less a toddler hat, so I think I’ll be set.

In unrelated news, I ate my weight in Swedish Fish today. In retrospect, that was an error on my part. Ugh.

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H1N1 can suck it.

I’m over this. OVER IT. The media and their hype of this flu has been driving me insane. I laugh at the thought that when I started college back in 1994, I had hopes of going into broadcast journalism. Fear. There is so much fear everywhere. I don’t get it.

Found out today my daughter has the dreaded swine flu. So, it’s here. And the weird thing? I’m actually relieved. I can stop panicking about it now. I can deal with it and move on with my life.

Still behind with school, but I’ve spoken with all my teachers and they have been beyond understanding. I like knowing that I’m working with compassionate humans.

Let’s see, what else is going on? Well, I’ve fallen in love with Glee on television, and I’m somewhat obsessed with So You Think You Can Dance. My husband and I are already starting to plan the menu for Thanksgiving (it’s my favorite holiday), and Christmas plans are in the works. Work has been crazy lately, but good. I don’t get enough sleep. I watched The Proposal yesterday and my crush on Ryan Reynolds grew a little bit larger. I spend too much time on Facebook. Looks like I’ll be doing another improv show at the end of November. I’ve been knitting a lot more lately. There you go.

I really need to write in here more. Being quarantined at home may be just what I need in order to pump out some actual stuff on here. Here’s hoping!

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Tired.

Hi there, it’s been a while.

I apologize for my disappearance. My mother-in-law passed away at the end of September, two weeks after our visit. The day we arrived in Kansas City for her memorial, we learned that one of my brothers-in-law had been in a horrible car accident; he died a few hours after we first heard the news. So, as you can imagine, my family went into crisis mode. So much sadness. We wound up having to spend extra time in KC to make sense of things.

The good news is that we were able to be with Brian’s family (Brian is my husband – FYI). He was the one to tell his father about Richard, his eldest son. We were able to grieve with people who knew his brother and his mother. And, we got to see friends who had no qualms with swooping in and taking care of us.

I will say this: Trying to find a hotel in KC on the same weekend as a NASCAR race, The American Royal, a K-State/Iowa State game, and …hell, something else, well, it’s near impossible.

At this point, I’m horribly behind in school. I’ve been avoiding it because I’m so scared about the ramifications of a ruined semester. Have I mentioned I have an anxiety disorder? Welcome to my unfunny post. I have a very severe anxiety disorder. So, crisis upon crisis upon anxiety = paralysis. It stinks. Merely writing this entry today was my first step toward getting things back on track. I was afraid even to log in, as ridiculous as that sounds.

But, I did log in today, so that absolutely counts for something. My husband and my daughter are both OK, which also counts for something. The car that appeared to have broken down on Saturday when it was stupid cold is not going to require thousands of dollars in repair – also good. And people are nice. The kindness and generosity that has poured out to my family since all this fell into our lap two weeks ago has been astounding. So, if you’re reading this and happened to have been a part of all that kindness and generosity – thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Keep throwing good thoughts this way – we need them.

Next step is to salvage my fall semester. Wish me luck.

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