I guess I'll just start with tonight and work backwards.

After work I decide to go to Michael's to return a couple things. I'm on my way home, zippin' down the 401, minding my own business and all of a sudden I see some ice come off a vehicle quite a ways in front of me (can you see where this is going?) and as if in slow motion this one enormous piece goes up, I mean way up, in fact so far up I had time to think about which way I should go...should I speed up, slow down, move left or right. Ok maybe I didn't have that much time because as it was coming down I realized it was probably going to land right on the windshield. I managed to move to the right just enough that it didn't hit the windshield but it still hit the van. This was not one of those thin pieces that shatter, it was a chunk. It hit with such a bang I figured something was going to be dented for sure....but no, no dent, instead, MY SIDE MIRROR HAS BEEN SHEARED OFF!! It doesn't fall off though, there it is hanging by a wire and banging up and down the side of the van! After cursing and wanting to cry I managed to find the humour in how ridiculous it must have looked flopping around. Then to top it off I realized as it was banging around, it was blinding other drivers when their lights reflected off of it....good grief!!

(Ok, that was the costly, the rest is just trivial.)

I get home just in time for my husband to leave for a meeting. He's made spaghetti and "cheesy breads" (as my kids call them) for the kids for supper. There's one cheesy bread left sitting on the stove so I scarf it down. Five minutes later Emily realizes they're all gone, even though she hasn't finished her first one (which is significant in this little story), and starts with a little whining and wailing. While this is going on, (remember how I made note of her not having finished the first one yet?) her first cheesy bread is sitting on a plate on the little table she was sitting at....and THE DOG EATS IT!!! Cue up more whining and wailing...good grief!!

The rest of the evening went much better until I started this post and decided to turn on American Idol while I type. Let me just say I don't normally watch this show. I used to watch the first few where they weed out the geeks and freaks but I don't normally even do that anymore...AND NOW I SEE WHY!!! OMG....Seattle has some of the strangest people I've ever seen!!! The girl with the white hair and her mother, Nick Zitzmann, and what the heck was up with that "girl" that sang like an angry man...again, I say...good grief! Actually Simon was on Oprah today and he said Seattle was the worst EVER!!! It really was very funny.

Now to Tuesday...everyone of course wanted to talk about 24 but I hadn't watched it yet. I did accidentally see the very end as I was switching channels and I saw Curtis bleeding. Then I see Jack crying and for some reason I had this crazy idea that maybe Jack had shot him. Nobody would tell me for sure, they didn't want to ruin it but lo and behold I go to my friend Sheri's blog and her newest post is about how Jack shot Curtis AND there was a nuclear explosion! The really funny part of this whole thing is that Sheri really doesn't blog that often and never so timely or up to date....UNTIL NOW!!!

Bet you can't wait to hear about Monday!

Black's was having a sale that if you got 100 digital prints processed you would get 100 free and the deal ended Sunday. So of course I was scrambling to get my pictures organized on Sunday because, naturally, I had to wait until the very last day of the sale, even though I've known about it for weeks. Anyway, I manage to get a couple CD's ready with a couple hundred pictures on them and I get there just before they close.
Here's where it gets good...Monday when I go to pick up my pictures there's a note on the packages saying "NO IMAGES ON CD". I hadn't burned them properly...they were blank!!! This story has a happy ending though because the girl working was nice enough to give me the vouchers anyway.

The final straw on Monday...Jesse had to do an "All About Me" poster for school and we needed a family picture for it. I decided we had to take a new one since the last one I could find was probably two years old. I announce that it's time to take some pictures (remember how popular I was for doing the Christmas shoot?) and Emily turns to me and says....."just Photoshop me in"!!!

Let's just say I'm looking forward to a relaxing and uneventful weekend!!!!