Wow. I’ve had bad days before, and so have Chris and Alex, but here it is only 8:48 in the morning and it seems like we’ve all had a really full day of bad things happening!
First of all we all woke up late. Naturally this resulted in a lot of rushing around. Chris finally left for work and was back a few moments later to change his shirt because he’d gotten coffee on it.
I decided to take a peek at my online Spectrum Sweater project (to peek at the online pattern) and I discovered that what is online did not match the paper printout I’ve been working from. Further investigation revealed that my paper is wrong, and that I will have to scramble to fix my sweater! I ended up fiddling with the printout, the website, and the .pdf of the pattern so much that we became late for school.
On the way to school I noticed (a) Alex is wearing jeans that are about 3" too short for him and (b) he hadn’t eaten breakfast. I had an emergency Balance Bar in my handbag but he wouldn’t eat it.
Dropped him at school; got home to find out Max had missed the litter box this morning and there was a puddle on the floor. Cleaned that up.
Went into the kitchen; found that Alex had left his homework folder here. I figured I’d email his teacher and ask if I need to drive it over, but I don’t have her email address, and it’s not on the school website!
However, there were some things that could easily have gone bad that didn’t:
- We drove to school with the top down, and while it looked rainy, it didn’t actually rain on us.
- Alex didn’t forget to wear pants or shoes or anything important.
- Neither did I.
- The cats are not sick.
So, I plan to hibernate in the house and knit the revised pattern in hopes of avoiding other issues!
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