Entries tagged with daily life

Current Mood: batty
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Frogg Cafe - All This Time (via DA)

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And the Joker got away

Here at Mayhem Acres strange or odd occurrences are pretty much the norm. It seems that this phenomenon tends to spread a bit from the epicenter here. Take this past Monday, when I was taking Jeff to have surgery, as an example. A bit more than a mile from the house as I was merging onto the perpetually busy Rt 29, we both noticed a car on the left shoulder of the opposing lanes of traffic. Not the first time we've see it around here. As we got closer, Jeff said, "It's Batman!". Sure enough, it was the Caped Crusader, seemingly having problems with his sinister-looking Batmobile. I noticed right away that ol' Batty had chosen the Lamborghini as his daytime ride, saving the actual Batmobile for the cover of darkness. Turns out the Dark Knight was on his way into Washington, DC to entertain children at a local hospital. With the help of the local constabulary and perhaps the Boy Wonder, he was able to make the trip. The Lambo Gallardo Spyder apparently needed a tow back to the Bat Cave, as tires for the $200,000 car are tougher to come by than, well, Bat-tires.

I wanted to snap a picture of the scene, but I thought it against Bat-protocol. Besides, I had gone too far trying to merge into traffic. Traffic which, ironically, was uncharacteristically flying along in all six lanes, in both directions. Around here, a disabled car usually garners a gaggle of rubberneckers, even if it's an old Nissan Sentra with one red door and a boiling radiator. Batman does not even get noticed.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Studio

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An early start to a day

*removes cat from keyboard*

As has been the case for months now, my sleeping patterns have gotten totally screwed up. If I try to get to bed at a reasonable time, I lay awake for hours, often not getting any shut-eye until sometime after Jeff leaves for work (he's an early bird, getting up before 4am). Well, the snowpocalypse for the new decade dumped about 8-10 inches of clingy snow in everything. There are branches down, and the shrubs are a mess. Jeff was stuck having to go to work as usual, and he found me wide awake playing Angry Birds in bed. Understandably in a huff, he tells me he's stuck going to work and after taking a walk outside in the glacial hell, he finds the main road clear, but abut a 2-3 foot wall of icy snow blocking the driveway. He says he does not know what he's going to do, he can't shovel snow (nor would I even begin to let him), so I ask him if he wants me to clear the driveway with the snowblower so he could get out. "Oh, would you?" he says with puppydog eyes. I don my work clothes and my big clompy Uniroyal rubber steeltoes and trudge out to the garage and fetch the snowblower. Not only do I manage to clear his way out, I decide to do the nearly 300 feet worth of driveways both to the house and the garage, plus shake the trees and shrubs that were overburdened with the snow. This was one of those storms that deposited snow on everything. Even the car radio antennae were at least 2 inches in diameter. Strange, it felt like the middle of the day, I was so perfectly awake.

And I got it all done before 5am. Woot.

An elated Jeff fixes me a huge pot of oatmeal as part of a healthy breakfast, does some domestic tasks and such while waiting for me to finish. Once I started to put away the snowblower, he meets me a the garage, all ready to go. He makes reasonable time heading to work, the local roads were a mess according to him, but the highways were fine. He called me once he safely arrived at work.

I have finished my breakfast, and I will take a nice hot shower to warm up and get rid of any remaining beard icicles, and probably hit the sack for a while. I will reschedule my doc appointment if it's not already canceled.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Location: home
Current Music: Zappa - Dong Work For Yuda

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Back to the grind

Today marked the return to work and hopefully a bit of normalcy for me. People at work were very understanding, they had a nice card and small collection waiting for me when I got in. I realized that I jumped the gun with regards to painting everyone there as being insensitive; it only appeared that way because so many were on vacation at the time and did not hear until their return. I did, however, find out that I have good friends that I really didnt know I had, and sadly I have discovered a couple who have wholly turned their backs on me (none of these, btw, are LJers). Unfortunately, my time off decimated both my immediate savings and vacation time. This puts the brakes on any trip plans for the rest of the year, 'retail therapy' and some projects I have going. I'll work things out somehow.

I came home both exhausted and quite upset. The first thing I would do when arriving would be to see how Mom was and what she was doing. The 'urge' was still there, but it was lost in an empty house. I made a little dinner, ate it halfheartedly and collapsed in bed for a little nap. The nap ended at around 11pm and I woke up feeling the need to do something, so I did more wiring on the house. Yeah, strange. But it's so 'me'.

I realize that I still have a long path to travel with regards to healing, reconciliation and moving on. It really hit home today and I spent most of the time choking back tears and failing as I went through my daily routine. I dont see that changing anytime soon. In all honesty, though, I wouldnt feel right if this was not the case. I'll get through it all, one day at a time.