What Struck Me

What we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody.

-Laura Bush on CNN

It snowed, but not much, and we had about a half inch of slush on the driveway this morning, with clear roads. So I shoved a walking path from the road to the front porch (which the mail carrier & UPS guy ignore as they always walk through the front lawn) and headed out on my day in the car.

Spent about an hour at Andy’s doctor (20 minutes away from here) and an hour at Tim’s (12 or so minutes away.) Had a little lunch, ran a few necessary errands, then zipped up to Ramapo to drop Andy off then back home, about 2 more hours total in the car. Made a few phone calls that couldn’t wait, brewed up a new pot of coffee, supervised Tim doing some homework that should have been done already, and sat here to chill for a half hour before I get dinner thrown together and get ready for a scout pack meeting tonight.

I don’t know how people who do stuff like this daily manage. It makes me appreciate my stay-at-home-ness. I do know that if I drove like this more, I’d need a better car. Ol’ Bessy is hangin’ in there but I was seriously eying the assorted RX330s and even Siennas that were passing me by.

Since I know I have at least a few more of these days ahead (starting, um, Wednesday) I’m thinking maybe I should start haunting the many used pre-loved certified previously owned car lots that have sprung up along the highway.

Andy’s home. He’s been having some residual pain from this incident back in November, so I got him a doctor appointment for tomorrow morning. He doesn’t have class on Monday till around 7:30pm, so Pat picked him up from school Friday and the plan is for me to bring him back to school tomorrow afternoon.

Except it’s snowing, and they’re calling for up to 6″ or so. I know it doesn’t seem like much to some of you- but I won’t drive when the roads aren’t clear. My car wasn’t built for snow, the back end goes all over the road.

So we’re in a holding pattern at the moment. I’m hoping the snow will stop early, the roads will clear, and I can reschedule Andy for an afternoon appointment (I know they told me they had an opening around 3pm when I called Friday.) Then Pat can get him back to school tomorrow night, he only misses one class.

More likely, unfortunately, I can’t get him to the doc till Tuesday, so he’ll miss at least 2 classes, possibly more. But health first of course, so he’ll stay here till we get him seen. Hopefully his teachers will be reasonable like they were last semester.

For Andy’s sake, I hope this medical issue gets fixed up soon. He’s being so cool about it but I know he’s uncomfortable. I want to make it all better, you know?

Also- I have Tim scheduled for his annual physical tomorrow, too. But that’s not a big deal, I can reschedule it easily enough.

Damn, I hate when it snows when I have stuff to do!

I just edited this photo of Tim using the online editing tool Picnik. Free, no need to register, easy to use. For basic quick edits (like resizing and color adjustments) it looks like a good option!

Just hangin’ out. Havin’ cocktails, surfing the net.

We watched The Departed last night. I know it’s gotten great reviews, it’s the favorite to win the Oscar tomorrow night, but… it’s so damn long! About a half hour too long. At the end I wondered what happened to that movie we were watching where Jack is talking to that little kid… oh yeah, same movie!

It was ok, though. I can see why my husband and son gave it 4 stars. Just not my thing.

Might watch Little Miss Sunshine tonight, but Nick wants to see a movie too and it’s rated R, so we’ll probably find something different. I guess I can’t complain- it’s been years since I’ve seen even one nominated film before the Academy Awards!

He’s so funny, noticing all the detail he wasn’t seeing. I don’t remember being so thrilled getting glasses at his age, but it’s fun to watch him!

This American Life is coming to Showtime on March 22.(quicktime link)

Love this show on NPR.