Troublebuggy the baddog just pulled my coffee off the counter, spilled it and broke my favorite cup.  Who knew he liked coffee?

The "It Figures" story of the day:  I needed a quarter for the machine in the ladies room, so I looked in my desk as usual - no quarter.  Ok, out comes the purse, dug through it with increasing levels of nervousness - no quarter.  Also no ones - I had a brilliant idea to use a $1 bill in the soda machine to get a quarter's change...no dice.  Asked the older gentleman in my office for change for a five - nope - but he did loan me a dollar.  Ah-ha!  Off to the Pepsi machine, Pepsi purchased and quarter firmly in hand.  Got to The Machine to insert my hard-earned quarter, said a silent "Oh Please" as I turned the knob (because you know sometimes it doesn't work) and was rewarded by the thunk of the little cardboard tube.  Triumphantly paraded it into the stall, sat down and discovered that the tube was EMPTY.....    

BTW, I think chlorine is medicinal.  I feel much better this morning after swimming last night.

Oh dear, scratchy throat today.  I'm looking at lots of tea and Zicam today.  Fingers crossed!
 

Hey everyone, thanks for the notes while I was MIA - had MIL issues (she has dementia but is still mostly ok to manage her affairs with help, however, she made some really really bad choices last week and had no where to go, nowhere to live, total mess.  It's still being sorted out, but she moves into a new apt today... high hopes but low expectations on my part.)  Then I had work issues - terrible terrible meeting day - felt like I got hung out to dry by one of my main supporters, then stabbed in the back by the person who I thought I had developed this great working relationship with (haha, drama anyone?) ...good reminder to not be so Pollyanna about people, but I HATE when I get reminded that way...  And I'm still dealing with THAT too.  Anyway, enough whining! 

On the bright side, had a great weekend with my girls Christmas shopping and just generally hanging around - they are such wonderful kids!  On another bright side, got to go to The Lion King with my oldest daughter - wow, that was like candy for my eyes - I think you could watch that show umpteen times and still not see it all.  Even if you don't like musicals (and I DO!) it is worth seeing it just for the costumes and stagecraft...

Hakuna Matata!