Just When You Think.... Ah-Ha! There's the Problem

Yes, life has been very hectic and very busy for TheBusyFamily.
It started back in January... and I thought it was getting better...
That's what I get for thinking!

Wednesday... so NOT my favorite day of the week anyway... they always seem to go horribly wrong at our house for some reason.

So, yesterday was Wednesday.
A good Wednesday.
Jul-la-la-poo's birthday in fact.
Oh, she's Manboy's girlfriend of  what, 6 years?

Which means that today is ManBoy's birthday.
Yikes.... gotta run to A STORE and get him something... soon...

Anyway, Wednesday is not a great day traditionally but I thought it was over and done with - scott-free, clean as a whistle, no worries...

Until ...

At work last night I opened my laptop and it took forever... like 40 minutes!
to boot up...
Only to have a big screen come up that said...

Internal Hard Drive undected...blah, blah,blah blah, blah and so on, and so on, and so on...

After the first 3 words I was done and so too was Wednesday as the clock silently flipped over to 12:00
and the computer screen went blank.

So... today is ManBoy's birthday. He's 22 now.
Maybe today will be better, it is afterall, Thursday.

And I promise NOT TO THINK about anything at all...

At least for a little while, that is.

It's Definitely Wednesday

If waking up this morning from the pain in my hip wasn't bad enough,
SIX  slamming into my bedroom to tell me the dog ran off ...


AGAIN
was not helpful...


But the rainy, dreary, cold morning made it positively awful.


Then of course came the morning news...
a serial killer is racking up bodies... oh goodie


kindergarten kids in Maine are getting i-Pads... I can't even afford one


the state legislature has decided that we need to pay more taxes to cover the state budget deficit... Gee what a novel idea


Sometimes not getting out of bed sounds like a wonderful idea...


and then a kid bursts into the room yelling that the beloved family pet has escaped... 
with the radio collar still on and functioning... 


and you realize the kids are about to miss the bus and everyone else is out the door to work 
leaving you, just you, to don your tracker hat and head out to scour the neighborhood
in the cold, wet, dreary early morning hours of yet another


Wednesday.


All the while thinking to yourself... 
"I got out of bed for this?"