Notes to Self - When you cannot focus or see for days and weeks on end, and you think to yourself "maybe this contacts prescription is wrong," please remember these contacts are only designed for one-month of use, not 4 or 5 months. It's not the prescription. It's you. Throw out the old set, put in a new set of contacts. Ahhh. *sigh* *smacks forehead*

Random Thought - I often wonder if I'm so good at being single, being a woman who can take care of herself, who can zoom around the universe having fun and attacking problems and activities with a positive and embracing attitude -- Does that necessarily mean that all the people who might-could be interested in me think, "Oh well, I guess I couldn't keep up with her, and she wouldn't be interested in me anyway." Seriously? Is that what's going on in the universe? *gack*

(Hint to the Universe: Send someone who can keep up and isn't intimidated by me. Is that too much to ask? *rolls eyes at the universe* ... which is probably why the universe is behaving the way it is)

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Monday, So There - So I spent the day "working from home" which translates into doing some work, handling a phone call about the car, doing some more work, handling two more phone calls, visiting a body shop, handling three more phones calls, determining the body shop was a wasted trip, and heading home to do work again. That filled my ENTIRE day. *sigh*

But the good news is that I have an appointment at a body shop near my work on Thursday, where they are likely to evaluate the dent and cut a check that day. Then I get a rental car and they fix my car. It's not in stone yet, but that's currently the plan. The wasted-trip shop tried to tell me that the repairs would cost more than the value of my car. Ahem. It might not have *resale* value, but it has HUGE value to me, the driver of this one-and-only car. Look, for the ease of repair and good gas mileage alone, my car is a better value than most. So there. *sticking my tongue out at them*

I know, not very ladylike of me, or very mature. But really?!? Someone's going to tell me my car has no value? Hmm. Try replacing it. That's high value. So there. *meh*

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Tonight - I attend my last Tuesday night language class this week, and then I'm not enrolling in any more Hebrew classes for a while. I need my Tuesdays back, and I miss working with my Pentathlon team (well, one of two teams, long story). So I hurry off to class right now, then relax at the Ream's house and geek out over artistic work. I'm thinking of bringing along my computer, and working on the outlines of what work I have ahead of me. At Collegium I had several wonderful chats with a couple different people about artistic pursuit. And my own class preparation and teaching has given me a new motivation to get back to research and art. Websites, however, still have to be updated, so I might be up late finishing those tasks.

But another project at work has been sent off to the reviewers, and I can shift content-focus again, to wrap up the assignments that need to be completed before Fiscal Year End... which should be Sep 30, next Tuesday, but is actually the last Sunday of the end of the Fiscal Year, which is actually the last working day of the week before the Sunday of the end of the Fiscal Year, which is actually Thursday because we're not in on Friday (due to our "regular day off" alternating Fridays, on our 9-80 schedule). Yes. My year-end deadline is 9/25 instead of 9/30, which explains my frantic hours at work lately. *sigh* Two more work days left to tackle!
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Postscript - Oh, and I know not "everyone did everything" in regards to textile arts, with reference to yesterday's post. But the chapters about the Civil War women spoke at length about ALL the textile tasks they each were undertaking. And the chapter about pioneer women, alone with their families on the prairies and on the trails spoke VERY strongly about the grand variety of survival skills these women needed, to keep their families alive. This was the poignant part I was responding to, viscerally.

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Today's Blessing That I'm Thankful For: Sanndy and Lynn, whom I miss and haven't seen in a while. I should write or call.