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The Cheezits have merrily gone off to bed. Or rather, they've been wedged into bed with a shoehorn and sheer willpower. Pick one. Sometimes a truth is less pleasant than a story.

I am merrily in bed thinking and drinking a delicious 1554. Ahhhh. The weekend has only just begun.
I got off to a great start today which sort of stalled out mid-morning. I woke up pleasantly surprised I wasn't dead tired. I looked out the window and was unpleasantly surprised there was snow falling like crazy all over the place out there.

I am attributing the not dead tired to appropriate medicine taking. I have learned a few things slowly. Things they don't really tell you and you really wouldn't listen to right at first about taking fake-thyroid-stimulating-hormone-whatever-pills. A. Calcium is bad. B. Food is bad. C. Caffeine is bad. Well food is the most obvious, no eating two hours before or one hour after... So don't drink milk like 2 hrs after you take it, or caffeine. That pretty much cancels breakfast if you choose to take it when you wake up. So I try to plan accordingly. I know I could take it at five freaking am. I just don't. It screws everything up to wake up at five and try to fall back to sleep.

I dressed up pretty and took the Cheezits to school. We pretty much made it on time. I am not sure about the tardy policy but with all this darned snow and mud, people are pretty much limiting their drop-offs to the two or three paved sidewalk areas. In the summer the kids can get out anywhere. In the winter it's either four feet of snow between the sidewalk and the street, or it's muddy and gross. So all things considered, no matter which of the available two sides of the block you choose to drop them off, someone is going to be sitting there, waiting for their child to get out, waiting to wave, waiting to see them go in. Not everyone thinks, oh if I pull ahead a little, the people behind me can drop their kids off too. It's a little frustrating but I try not to be too grouchy. For a while I was the one getting out and opening the door for them because they were so little and impulsive I didn't trust them with non-child-safety-locked doors. Then I had to go back around to the drivers side. I am pretty efficient. But not everyone understands efficiency.

I drove to Wal Mart to find some dinners and lunches and breakfasts for tonight and Sat. and Sun. I wasn't as planned as I was week before last. That time I had Thurs through Sun. all planned out. This week I had some other stuff around already, so I didn't really need to plan it out so thoroughly. Plus they pretty much played outdoors all night on Wed. and Thurs. so they didn't want a big dinner. They had snacks. Sometimes snacks can be the dinner. They just eat it in stages. I'm trying to be flexible here. Most pre-assumed ideas of how things should be go out the window most days.


I also bought a box of hair color. Then I drove to the nearby town where my Elem. Art Methods professor teaches, to do some practicum time. This was a seat-of-the-pants move on my part, because I knew the students at some point had a non-art thing to do during their art period. I just didn't remember which one, and I really needed to get the shopping out of the way before I started the practicum hours. Sometimes it can all be fit into the available time slots and sometimes not. Anyway I walked in as the students were headed to the non-art thing. I talked to him though and I'm going Monday as soon as I drop off Cheezits. I also thought I could go home, shower, and go back there for an hour or two at his other building after lunch.

Oops I finished that beer. Dang it. Now I have to get up and get another one.

So then I headed home, and started thinking, hey I have time to color my hair and shower before going back to his school. Then I checked my messages and the city wanted a meter reading. ? Seriously? I called them months ago and they said they'd have someone out to fix that problemo.
So I put my frozen veggies away while I talked to the customer service lady at city hall. She said they've been estimating since November. Is that why my bill is $70? Because really I've been severely limiting the bath towel usage.

I wonder when we bought Miller Lite?

Then having dealt with the City Water Issue, I did something else. What was it? I can't remember. Then I colored my hair. And showered. And thought, well I may as well hang out here.
I also was surprised it is sort of red. Not alarming red, just enough to leave pinkish dye on the white towels where I squeezed it out after my shower/conditioner application.

So that's my new haircolor. I should pluck the very edge of the inside of those eyebrows next to my nose. That point bugs me. I don't have nice wide beginnings to my eyebrows like some people do. I can't believe how long my hair is. In some of the pictures it is really long looking. I took about 50 to get this one good one. The bottom one is okay, I put on lipgloss. The light is different in the living room so I look pinker. Or maybe I put on more makeup. Not sure.

I was pleased at how shiny it is. The Loreal Preference really is a nice product, and I think this is one of the first times I've used it. The odor is not bad, it really smells like an Aveda product, and my hair actually feels nicer than before I colored it. Also I wasn't as itchy as I usually am while I waited for the color to work. This could be because I had the computer sitting on the counter while I waited, and played on Facebook the whole time.

Mr. I. called me at 3 and wanted me to pick him up. A friend also needed a ride home, because he broke his hand at PE and didn't feel like walking home? I am not sure about the broken hand. He looked fine but I didn't mind bringing him home. We made it to the Cheezits school in time, picked them up and headed home. This feels like it was a long day. Tomorrow and Sunday are going to be long days. I let the guys all stay up till 10 tonight but I bet they get up early. They were both still in bed this morning which was a minor miracle. J. called to see if I was up, and I was but they weren't. He had to work today poor baby. I wish we could win the lottery so he wouldn't have to work. Ha ha. I would still work, it's more a personal goal. But I think he should just retire early. Then whenever I was free he would be free and we could hang out together more.