How did this happen?

[gwendolyngrace]

I think there must be an eclipse or something because I DON'T HAVE REHEARSAL TONIGHT!

I can stay home, pay bills, shower, and oh, yeah SHOW. SQUEE! I know just enough about this one to know it's going to be funny and hurty and hoo-rah.

Y'all, it's been so long since I've been home on a Thursday night that I found myself wondering what was on TV and whether I could start my awesome birthday present from etakyma: Neverwhere. I remember watching a really grainy bootleg copy of this that Chris's ex-husband Kevin got from a friend in the UK and being absolutely IN LUST with the Marquis de Carabas's Coat.

No, really. See? COAT!

And I wouldn't toss the Marquis out of bed for eating tuna fish, either. Mrow.

Anyway.

So "P&theP" went really well. We zipped together a second skirt for me, because A and I both hated the first one we made, and it worked much better. First performance I felt like Captain Hook ("No little children love me") but after the second there were THREE little girls who said I was their favourite, despite being one of the two "Nasty Nasties." Chris, my partner in wretchedness, had several young friends who came to see him, including one little girl whom he's known since her birth four years ago. She WOULD NOT come to him, had to be coaxed. It was so cute.

Car is still limping along. It has developed a new fun sound. I haven't had it checked out; will have to do so just to find out what the heck it is. It's a high-pitched, very faint grinding noise, like a metal fork drawn very lightly over a ceramic plate. Seems worst when I am cranking the wheel; started doing that to the left only and when decelerating; now it it more constant. Something makes me think it's the brake shoe or a pad wearing thin.

On the claims front, the woman who rear-ended me finally put in a claim with her insurance agency. I have to take it to their assessor to get it inspected for damage. Between that and a doctor's appointment (nothing serious) I have to take next Wednesday off. Joy. But I should get a check shortly thereafter, which is Good.

I need to do my taxes. Ugh.

Last week (only a day late), grouchyoldcoot sent a gorgeous vase of pink and red carnations and roses, along with a box of ginormous heart-shaped pecan crunch chocolates, to the office for my birthday. The flowers are holding up well! And the chocolates are less than half gone. I asked if this was a twofer (Valentines and my b-day being a week apart) and he indicated no. Still no surprises yet today, though. But then, last year he sent long-stemmed roses but it was the day of a MAJOR ice storm and no one could make their deliveries until the 15th.

I hope to bang through reading a few more BAF stories and possibly type a little more "Trost Und Freude" tonight.

I'm also procrastinating actual work like a fiend. But I'll have to get to it sooner or later. Sigh. Actually I've done a fair amount today, it's just not making much of a dent in the jobs I keep putting off. Meh. Tomorrow I have another doctor's appointment (different doctor - dermatologist) so I have to leave early.

So I guess I better hop to it. Phooey.