Day in the Life of an Idiot

Looking back at my previous post, I think I sound much more cranky about the kuk sool wan adult class than I really was. I mean, yeah, I'm sore. It was hard, but I actually had a lot of fun. I laughed through the whole thing, even when I had no idea how to count in Korean. And I was really, really grateful that Kate and Mary were there because that meant I knew people and had a ready partner for the various things you have to partner-up for.

Today has been, as we say in Minnesota, "interesting" so far. I'm out of my usual vitamins so I asked Shawn if I could borrow one of hers. She gets the traditional sort of daily vitamins for women that you can buy anywhere. I popped one in my mouth and went on with the morning stuff... except I forgot one very important thing. I'm allergic to oyster shells. This may seem like a non-sequitor, but one of the ways I learned that I was allergic to oyster shells and not oysters themselves was when I took a Calicum pill at Shawn's dad's place many years ago. Major manufacturers use oyster shells for calicum in most vitamins. I horked then, and, no suprise, I threw up this morning.

As I was regergitating breakfast, I remembered why it was that I go to the trouble to buy organic, bio-available vitamins that cost a million dollars at Whole Foods.

Egad.

Then, Shawn decided she would go into work late -- partly to be nice to be, but also because of the dangerous wind chill and the fact that she had to walk to a meeting at Centennial Hall near the Capitol building from MHS. I offered a ride to the meeting, and we thought we might hang around the house since Mason didn't need to be to school until almost 9:00 am and her meeting started an hour later. I thought, "Great! This is a chance for me to try out my new coffee maker, which I had to buy because I accidentally threw the glass pot on the floor (luckily empty) and shattered it on Saturday." Guess what? It's broken. Like, no lights come on to indicate it's even getting power, broken. Luckily, I saved the receipt so I can go back and exchange it for another one.

Right. So, after all this, especially the barfing, I should be really cranky. But, weirdly, I'm not. The sun is so bright that when we dropped Mason off at school we could see a "sun dog" around the sun. (For those of you who live in moderate/temperate zones, this is a rainbow caused by ice particles in the air that goes all around the sun like a giant halo.) It was cool.

It's my busy day too. I managed to miss recycling, but again, that's okay because we don't have that much this week. I have fish tanks to clean, but I've already done the dishes and got dinner cooking in the crock pot. Tonight: whiskey and maple glazed chicken drummies. Yum! Mason and I are going to try to hit the kid's class at kuk sool wan at 6:00 pm, and then I'm going to hurry home and head off to Wyrdsmiths tonight. So a dinner that's ready to put on the table as soon as we get home is a bonus. While I was at Whole Foods picking up my vitamins, I also bought fixings for a salad to go with the drummies. Now I just have to figure out another side -- I'm thinking maybe potatoes that I pre-boil so I can just fry them up as we're setting the table and making the salad.

Oh, and I can't forget to go volunteer today at Mason's school. He's off again soon. Another intersession. But this one is only for a couple of weeks. I really need to get more ahead of my word count, though, since it's often really difficult to get stuff done during the day when he's home. And it's getting to be crunch time.

Ah well. I should try to eat something for lunch. I'm pretty sure my stomach is all settled, but wish me luck