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Spectacular! Fail!

Well I failed on my quest to post every day in November. The demise of my plan started out as a simple mistake and spiraled down from there. Here’s what happened, in a nutshell - to give you an idea of the crazy in my life.

Friday (day one of fail):
My Friday will give you an idea of my average day. Work from 8:00am to 10:30am. Run for the bus (about a five minute walk) and catch the bus to my 11:10 class. After class, I eat my sack lunch and then head to a lab meeting at 1:30. Often when the lab meeting is over at 3:00, I return BACK to work and work from 3:30-5:30 or 6:30. This particular Friday I gave myself a break and instead we went to eat dinner at a friend’s house, because I am trying to avoid getting the flu be more social.

It snowed that evening so it took us a little while longer to get home from our dinner engagement and by the time I got home it was past midnight. I gasped as I remembered while brushing my teeth, but it was too late.

So Saturday I was set to resume in the spirit of posting every day. We got up early to head through the snow to a bar on campus to eat and spend time with Longball’s father. We attended the game shellacking and I officially froze my ass off. Like I said, it had snowed the night before and there was still snow on the ground. At some point in the third quarter, I had a laceration on my nose from wiping it with the back of my sleeve and I begged that we leave. Longball and his father though wanted to stick it out until the bitter end. We then trudged for 15 minutes on the ice back to our car when I developed hypothermia. We dashed off to “Taste of India” on the University of Idaho campus and stuffed ourselves with warm, spicy Indian food. I came home and collapsed on the bed in my wool cap and parka and fell asleep. At 9:00pm.

Sunday I was ready to resume my schedule but Gladys had a, ahem, health issue. She would like me to be delicate so I will just say that it involved some bloody loose stool situations. She has been sick lately so Sunday was shot while I worried and wrung my hands.

And then Dan ate some unleavened yeast dough which sounds really funny. Except when Longball looked it up and turns out the dough can expand in a cats tummy and burst the stomach. Oh and as the yeast does it’s magic it creates alcohol which can cause alcohol poisoning. Oh and if neither of those two things happen the dough can create a bowel obstruction if it does not pass.

And now I’m home sick. And on double poop watch for both cats.

So. Fail!