Computer, no voice, rose, grilled cheese sandwich

Today was looong. Very long. I woke up this morning and I'm still sick. :( I got to school early this morning so I could print off two Child Observations that I did last week since my printer is out of ink. I saved the documents to my flash drive and rushed into the library 45 minutes before class started. I went to a computer and plugged in the flash drive...I forgot that these computers don't let you onto the computer's panel...I can't access my flash drive. Crap. I only have 40 minutes before class. I rush to a different computer...It's not even turned on but it's the only one not inhabited by a student who is either trying to avoid class and is looking at Facebook or printing off lecture slides or last second papers...like myself. So, I turn on the computer and what only takes minutes felt like it took a half hour at the least.

Well it FINALLY loaded up. I logged on and plugged in my flash drive, glance up at the clock ticking away in front of me, 35 minutes, It's loaded and ready to go. Start, Computer, Removable disk H Rachel, wait, removable disk H is red instead of green....why? I click on it, it shows "no files". WHAT!? No files....okay....clock, 25 minutes, okay I can rewrite the two observations in time for class. I have that class in the Human Sciences building so it's not a far walk...I can leave at 50 and have plenty of time...I'm congested though so I can't walk too fast or I'll be that kid in class...you know, the one who sits down and is huffing and fanning themselves....yeah, that kid. So anyway I open Word 2007 and furiously type away at the keyboard trying to remember everything I can about the observations...and in detail since one is a Running Record of two 3-4 year old kids. I finish two very mediocre Observation Assessments print them off and race off to class. I don't even bother to put my headphones in...if you know me then you know that it was a big deal and I was in a hurry.

So anyways, I go to all my classes, wheezing and coughing the whole time (don't you wish you were the kid sitting next to me?) and then they're over. I want to go into the institute but I have no time. I really want to go in, I feel peaceful when I go in there. But it's off to work, it's long and my body is tired...my voice starts to leave while I'm at work. Slowlyyyy and every customer feels the need to comment on it...thanks.

Russell calls me on my lunch, and that makes me very, very happy. I miss him, I just want to go home and sit on the couch with him.

It's eight o'clock and we're closed, we don't leave until ten. I give a girl a ride home, she lives quite a ways away from Hobby Lobby. We're at the stop light and the guys next to us start honking...I ignore them thinking they're just being typical dudes. Then my co-worker looks over, "They're pointing at your car." So she rolls down the window....Frat dude 1, "Ummm your car is leaking...like a lot. I think it's brake fluid." Me, "No, it's power-steering fluid. I had it checked out this last week. Thanks!"...crap. I thought it was fixed...sooo I guess not. Lame....Oh well, come Saturday the mechanics in Lubbock will love Russell and I.

So I finally get home, I wearily climb the stairs up to our second story apartment, I open the door, Russell is sitting on the couch. He smiles at me. I feel happy. I hang my keys up and notice that Russell keeps looking over at the kitchen table with a smirk on his face...I look at the kitchen table. A single Red/Pink rose, half-opened, in a vase sits on the table. :) I now feel very happy as I look back at Russell he's grinning from ear to ear knowing that he just made my day. "Do you like it?" Russell asked, "I love it!"

Afterwards, he made grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner and poured me some cranberry juice on ice...he knows me too well. Anyhow the WHOLE point of this looong rant is that I'm so very very VERY lucky and I forget it alll the time! How awesome would everyone's life be if we could all just remember what we have!? I have a rose, a husband, an apartment, a job, a car that works...kind of and a beautiful family. :)

So anyway this was just my long rant about bad days and love and roses. :)