Friday Coffee Date
Uh oh… the dumpster fire mug is back. Nothing has gone horribly wrong, but this week was a series of mini-emergencies, and when it came time to choose a mug my hand naturally reached for this one. Our TV stopped working (during football playoffs???) My son’s luggage was lost on his flight back to school (but was luckily found.) His contacts didn’t arrive in time- supposedly because of the weather situation- so we had to mail them to him at school, and he got them the day he used his last pair. We forgot to order the music for my daughter’s flute solo in a timely manner (she was playing off a copy, and you need the original for contest) and it arrived one day before she needed it. The biggest freakout was, my son’s college told us we owed them $24,000. GAAAAAAH. It turned out one of his teachers hadn’t registered him for class this semester, so he wasn’t considered a full-time student, and one of his scholarships didn’t come through. Luckily that was fixed as well, one day before classes started. Everything worked out, but obviously this isn’t a fun way to live. When my husband got up this morning he saw me looking at my phone and said “What’s the emergency du jour?” Not everything was our fault, but some of it was- we really need to pull it together. Let’s move on. Another thing I would tell you over coffee is that I got my copy of The Blue Castle for Engie’s book club. I like to think I was the deciding vote, because I voted for this book on the last day, and Engie said it won by one vote (so if anyone doesn’t like it, you can blame me.) Of course, AFTER I voted I discovered that my library doesn’t carry this book. Oops. I ordered it from Amazon, and I had a nice choice of covers! I chose this one: The last thing I would talk about over coffee is our weather. Brrr… Okay, hear me out. I know this isn’t cold compared to the rest of the country! But this is very unusual for us. Cold, drizzly and gloomy just isn’t normal South Florida weather. And look at Saturday! I hope we’ll finally see the sun. I definitely shouldn’t complain though- northern Florida got a ton of SNOW (nine inches in some areas!) I’m sure those cities were completely paralyzed. Southern cities can’t function with even a couple inches of snow, let alone nine. So I’m not complaining about our weather… I just feel bad for anyone coming down for a beach vacation. This is definitely not what you expect from Florida! Are you joining the Cool Blogger’s BOok Club? Have you gotten your copy of the book yet? How was your week? Any mini-emergencies?