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Awkward

7 Nov

This is why you should always be nice to people.

Today I was driving the kids to day care when I came up on a bulldozer in my lane.  I wanted to get over in the next lane but a car was speeding up so I couldn’t get over in front of it unless I cut it off which I didn’t want to do.  So, I slowed down and got behind the car.  I then got back over in my original lane and sped up so that car couldn’t get over in front of me – that driver wasn’t going to have it though and I backed off when I saw that she was coming over whether I liked it or not.  While cutting in front of me, she threw me the finger – flipped me off – gave me the bird – whatever you want to call it – I got a good middle finger aimed right at me.  I smiled and waved.

Then it happened – she turned her blinker on and headed toward Nia and Nate’s day care.  I couldn’t believe it.

I parked a few spaces away from her to avoid the immediate wrath but as I was walking in behind her she gave me the “eye.”  She opens the door and, of course, doesn’t hold it for me or my kids.  Then, it got even worse.

She took her baby to Nate’s room!  Oh my God!  I thought – how should I handle this?  I’m going to have to cross paths with her because I have to drop Nate off.  Looking back at this I should have just let her walk on by and let it go but I said with a big smile – “have a great day.”  Her response?

“Fuck off.”

WHAT???  Nia was walking with me!  I was in shock!  Such language between the newborn room and the 2 year old room!

I know I deserved it though.  I mean, I shouldn’t have said anything to her.  The girls in Nate’s room could tell something was wrong with me so I told them and let them know I was no angel – but it was funny because they told me I should have went after her – that they would have my back.  Could you imagine?  One mommy taking another mommy down at the Christian day care?  HA.

Maybe I’ll get my chance.  After all, I have 9 more days of dropping the kids off at day care.  I’m sure Nate’s already taken care of her boy!

No seriously, I really have learned from this experience though.  It pays to take a deep breath and let things go – you never know who you might have to sit next to in church – or who will grade your kids’ tests – or give you a root canal…
The awkwardness and/or pain is just not worth it.

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Not Sold Yet

7 Nov

Our house is finally under contract and we have a closing date of November 30.  While it does make me happy, I can’t let myself feel relief yet. I’m just an “I’ll believe it when I see it” type person and I won’t feel real relief until it’s all over.

For example, today the “buyers” and their inspector guy gave our house the once-over.  We had no notice this was going to happen today and because I thought “hey, our house is under contract so I don’t have to be such a freak about cleaning anymore” – I decided to clean out our closest last night and sort through pounds of paper I’ve had stashed around the house.  Of course, I did not complete those ventures so I have 3 large garbage bags filled with clothes in our room and a basket of papers on our couch with another garbage bag on the floor there.

Also, Andrew found out the husband doesn’t like dogs – well, they met all 80 pounds of Joe-boy today!

This next thing is the most embarrassing one though –

I had a tube of petroleum jelly and a tube of diaper rash cream on our sink in our master bathroom because our kids needed these things last night and I didn’t put them away.

I can only imagine what went through their heads when they saw them.

I just hope the “buyers” don’t change their minds.

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Much Better

23 Sep

Because it smells clean, is it?  The want-to-be-normal side of me says sure – why not?  The paranoid-germ-o-phobe side of me says the nice smell is just covering up something gross.  No matter – the smell and look of this hotel room makes it WORLDS better than the one we stayed at two weeks ago.

Something that appeared (I hoped) was chocolate was splattered on the wall –
Crumbs/bottle caps/barbie shoes/hair clips covered the carpet in places –
Some sort of black crud that Nia called poopie lurked under the rim of the shower –
Several stains of who knows what were accenting the couch designs –

The first night there I actually cried about how disgusting the place was.  I cried because I was so upset at myself for worrying so much about it.  Andrew felt awful.  (He spent a lot of time trying to find a hotel that allowed dogs and offered two adjoining rooms so we could veg together like we’re used to while the kids slept.)  He said we could leave but we had just got everything in the room and it was really late – I wasn’t going to go that far – instead I ended up going just about a block away from that far.

I bought:

  • Comet to scrub the tub
  • Disinfecting wipes to remove any spot I saw and clean anything my kids touched
  • One of those new sticky broom things to collect the crap on the floor

I also made Andrew buy two blankets – one so I would feel better when Nia sat on the couch- another so I would feel better when Nate crawled on the floor.  I even built a barricade of sorts around the blanket so there was no way his hands touched the carpet.

I know – I’m a freak. Even when we got home I continued to drive Andrew nuts with my worrying.  He came up to me and said “Why are the bags in the hall?  I had already put them in the bedroom.”  Knowing he would seriously wonder if he needed to get me professional help if I told him why I replied, “You don’t even want to know.”  “Oh, come on,” he said.  “Well, I heard that bedbugs can travel and I didn’t want the bags next to our bed just in case.”

Now comes the best line from Andrew – “Should I burn the bags?”

Of course, that didn’t happen – but it was tempting to me.  Instead, we packed up those same bags last night and are now at another hotel – a much cleaner hotel.  At least it smells that way.

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