Day...from...hell.

Wreck on road into office, had to take back route. Not a huge issue, just a small pain in ass. Went downhill from there. Barely got to desk when phone rang, boss stranded, car trouble, got it to shop but needed ride. Okay, no big deal. This car is cursed, we've done this a few times lately and I know he'd do the same for me anytime, I never resent these calls. He was very, very pissed and stressed, but recovered later. Resolved that, got back to office, took care of actual business.

(Oh, and while I'm driving to rescue stranded Boss I'm listening to the radio and a local weatherman describing how the winds are shifting out of the west which means we will probably have an extended period of hot temperatures and no rain. Well, of course - I just spent hundreds of dollars to get the backyard sodded. That's like sending out a cosmic homing beacon for a drought. )

So it was a busy and stressful day after yet another bad night's sleep. Boris has got to quit cuddling with me at 4 a.m. I'll think I'm having my first hot flash but no, it's just 20 pounds of hot, flabby fur plastered to me, radiating heat on a sticky Florida night. And how can you be mad at a loving, purring cat? At 4 a.m. it's not difficult.

So I'm exhausted and I leave work at 4:45, a whole 15 minutes early, deciding to blow off Lowe's garden center yet again and go straight home to collapse, and my cell rings - L is stranded downtown - her truck died. To make a long saga short, I got home at 7. She's my friend and again, I don't resent these errands and do them cheerfully, but damn, twice in one day? What the hell? I patted my dull but reliable little Altima and thanked her for never giving me any trouble. My car is a good and totally reliable if rather boring car. I'll buy her a new air freshener this weekend.

Today thoroughly sucked, but when I finally staggered home exhausted on my doorstep was the best sight one can have at the end of a brutal day at the end of a brutal week - TWO packages. One from Ramwools - three pattern books. Debbie Bliss' Simple Living, Debbie Bliss' Easy Knits for Babies (legal hatchlings keep on coming, plus it's nice stuff for charity knitting) and the Patons crochet book with the shawl that intrigued me. Also the box from Webs - four skeins of chocolate brown Cascade 220, and four in my favorite plum purple. (I'd be all cute and bloggerly and link you to these sites and show you pictures of what I bought but I'm too damn tired and you all know what it looks like by now.)

It was a far better sight than the one that greeted me at the mailbox - two lizards screwing on the mailbox. Yes, I interrupted the GEICO gecko gettin' it on. You should have seen the dirty looks those reptiles gave me. I told them to get a room.