rushing and kinking

What happened to yesterday?  Seriously.  I felt like I was going non-stop from about 5 am until I crashed on the couch last night about 9:30.  I thought I was watching basketball until I woke with a kink in my neck at 1:15 am and dragged myself to bed.  It was a busy, hectic day...and now I already feel like I'm rushing and I just got up.  I have the rice pack wrapped around this kinky spot in my left shoulder and a mug of green tea at my elbow. 
Once a year, the office staff at school cooks breakfast for the teachers...and today is that day.  A couple of us spent a lot of time yesterday preparing for that.  We do it in the Home Ec room (sadly, unused this year).  There was much tidying up and furniture rearranging and decorating (including picking flowers from our lovely school garden) and unloading of Costco goodies...when I wasn't at my desk actually working.  And that was after a busy morning--J's last at home--when they kept changing the departure time on him.  It gave us a chance to go out to breakfast before I had to leave, which was nice.  He called from Reno about 1:30 when they stopped for lunch and again at 9:00 last night.  They were about 100 miles from Salt Lake City and were probably going to continue on for awhile.  I'll call him in a bit to find out where they spent the night.  The first date's in Omaha tomorrow--sound check at 3.  After work I made a beeline for my brother's in Dixon to borrow their new electric skillet for the staff breakfast this morning.  There's a large (nice) TV in the Home Ec (which never gets used) and I noticed yesterday that it's hooked up to a VCR.  I thought it might be fun to have a silly school-related movie playing in the background during breakfast.  Marty and Chelle loaned me their tape of School of Rock.  I had a taco salad at their house and after we ate, we sat down at the kitchen table for a fierce game of Yahtzee.  Marty beat Ciara by 1 point...until she realized that when he'd added her score he'd mistaken a 6 for a 0.  Turns out she beat him by 5.  Not that that tickled her or anything, since she HATES to lose.  :)  I offered to take her for ice cream before I left for home.  There's a drive-thru Baskin & Robbins there, but she opted for a new ice cream shop next door to her gymnastics studio.  The ice cream was good, the portions were hefty and it's relatively inexpensive.  They also make good sandwiches and I took one home to her Dad.  As soon as I got home, I watered our now re-seeded front lawn, returned a few calls, watched the last 10 minutes of Idol...and curled with the NBA.  And that, my friends, is how I spent my first day with J away...

Comments

[Margaret]

It sounds like a good kind of busy! I always like lots of activity when a loved one is away. It makes the time pass quicker.

[Sam]

A very busy day! And I love School of Rock - so silly. I have a feeling you'll be seeing a lot more of Ciara and the rest of your family - and that's a really good thing.

[patry]

What I'm reading here: a life filled with warmth and love and family. The rushing and kinking is secondary.

[Lori-Lyn]

Sounds like a good kind of busy to me too. I love the sounds of that party in the Home Ec room!

[violetismycolor]

I actually hate those too-filled-up days. I am much lazier than that. (of the seven deadly sins, mine is definitely 'sloth')...

[linda]

Couldn't you have fit a few more activities in?
(Didn't you love Joan Cusack in School of Rock?)

[writermama]

When will the teachers cook YOU breakfast! You (and I'm sure other members of your office staff) totally deserve it. They are so lucky to have you at that school. I don't know why, but I'm always so envious when you mentioned you've fallen asleep on the couch. I'll have to think about this.

School of Rock is a big hit around our pad. But will it be so riveting at the breakfast that all conversation will cease?

[tinker]

Whew - what a jam-packed day! You certainly earned that ice cream the hard way...

Drive-thru Baskin & Robbins? Why hasn't that idea made it down here yet?!?