1. i found a mouse in a trap this morning before i fixed my coffee. damn right i went, "eeeep!" apparently neither the eldest nor the husband saw its still, still form prior to fixing their own early morning foodses. lucky for me, i am raising two man-cubs. the elder man-cub held the ziplock baggie open while the younger man-cub picked up the trap by the trap and dropped it, mouse and all, into the zipper bag. which went into the trash can, which was tied tight and taken out to the trash can by the elder. all while i stood on the other side of the kitchen and tried not to puke and scream. and then we all washed from our fingernails to our elbows.
2. thanks to madame jenny, we have chili in the crockpot for tonight, which will be the mother of all rush-jobs due to copious events for aforementioned younger man-cub. yay for crockpots!!
3. the 2008 yaris is in the shop. took it in for an oil change. apparently the tires suck, including the one housing a nail (again?? where are all the buttloads of nails we keep bringing home??) the tires on our van are waaaaaay more than 2 years old, but, we paid for longer wear tires, so maybe that is why they have lasted so long. we can foot the bill, thanks to my super-duper job status, but we'll hold on to the van for another month until we have fun money stashed away.
4. speaking of super-duper job status, i did not get promoted. apparently only boys got promoted this time around. something smells hinkey and i think a call to the EEO might be in order, especially since they did not even call me for an interview... which is required in the hiring process. that is part of the "why we did or did not think you were qualified" portion. suckage. good thing i wasn't counting on it.
5. in other news, i am recalling the reason i got a job in the first place while on forced vacation. damn i'm bored. i have a follow-up visit on monday where hopefully i will be released to full-duty. i am going out of my way to be cautious, but test my limits in a job capacity. i am off the pain medication and have been for a week now. (w000t!)
6. in still other related news, i cleaned off my scrapping desk. holy mother of unwashed socks. i haven't scrapped in over a year (no time, sadly) but i have been quietly gathering a stock of supplies (as seen by the many bags from scrapbooking stores) for when i do make time for my favorite thing to do. well, second only to public harassment and embarrassment in the airport setting. while the vast majority of it was, indeed, my stuff that needed to be put away, the stuff i found in the various layers makes me want to scream at my housemates to STOP PUTTING YOUR GARBAGE ON MY DESK!!! get your own desk to clutter FFS. a goodly amount of stuff that wasn't mine was actually bound for the recycle bin. because, you know, i'm the only one who can figure out if we are finished looking at school worksheets and junk mail.
7. life insurance policies. we upgraded mine because now that i work, i'm apparently worth more (and can afford more) in coverage. sounds easy enough. BAHhahaha!! so wrong we are! while i understand the companies not wanting to take on a client in the throes of death, i must say, "oh. My. Friggin. Strawberry-Fields-Singing-Volkswagon-Bus-Driving-Long-Haired-Hippie. God." they wanted to know so much about that fall down the steps... and about my wisdom teeth extraction from 2007. as a matter of fact, i do not recall how much pain medication i took, or even the name of it. and nope. don't remember how long i took it either. hello?? i was high? three years ago??? i do know, however, that the name of the medicine was in the news about being banned or something. dude made me google that. read that again: dude. asked. me. to. google. that. information. it's vicodin, for the record. if i get denied because i fell down the stairs last week, the I-Team will be doing a story.
8. in less than 10 minutes, my evening gets complicated. off i scoot to fetch children, begin the homework, make cornbread and feed kids and begin the evening rush to school AND scouts tonight. revving engine...
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