Half the time the world is ending

What is it about a good book that can make all your problems go away? Well, my problems didn't really go away, but it felt so good to escape my world and enter the world of some silly high school kids' romance. No, don't worry, I don't read romance novels...it was Kristin Randle's "Breaking Rank" book (thanks Rebecca BTW). She's a great author, my second favorite book (behind Pride and Prejudice) is her "The Only Alien on the Planet." Anyway, I borrowed the book around 9 pm Tuesday night and at 11:30, I told myself "one more chapter and then I need to go to bed." But of course I couldn't put it down and probably somewhere around 12:30 (I was trying to ignore the clock, pretending it wasn't as late as it actually was) I decided I had to finish it that night...which ended up being 2 am. I think it was worth being tired the next day and waking up to the disaster (my house) I'd been neglecting over the past few days. And then yesterday turned out to be a really good day, with lots of accomplishments...check out all the good things I did yesterday:

Fix-it Woman had an encore performance last night...this time employing my carpentry skills!! There was some random leak in our master bathroom, the carpet was all wet (I really dislike carpet in the bathroom!) so I called a plumber, who couldn't find a leak without cutting holes in my wall. He recommended that I just pull the carpet and mat back to let everything dry (it wasn't a spill, there was a really big area that was soaked through to the sub-flooring). The best part was that he didn't even charge me anything! I almost called my home teachers to help with the carpet, but decided that I had to live up to my newly self-entitled name of Fix-it Woman (and of course blog about it later) and do it myself. Really, it wasn't that hard. The real trick comes in putting it all back together (but we're going to tile now for sure, even if I have to do it myself!).

Have I mentioned how we lost our iPod and didn't discover until after I bought a bunch of songs on iTunes that they don't convert to mp3s? I discovered this sad fate about a month ago when I couldn't put any of my good music on my mp3 player to listen to as I ran (a very important item when running by oneself!). But since I'm a founding member of the GGF (google girls forever...we're still accepting members if any of you are interested in joining...if you are male, you are only allowed to be an honorary member...and only then if you have shown superior Google searching capabilities), I found out how I can jump through some hoops to be able to convert my purchased iTune songs into mp3s. That required me to use my cd burner which of course was not working. So my dad came to the rescue last night and put not one, but two working CD/DVD RW drives in my computer! And I was successful in converting my songs to mp3s...yay!!! Oh, and the best part was that my mom cleaned my whole downstairs, including the dishes that were piled up from three days ago, for me while we were getting this done (isn't she amazing?! She never cleaned up after me when I was a kid...:)).

Next thing on my list of things to do is get my car in the shop to get the check engine light thing figured out (I swear we just took care of something like this a couple months ago!! I must not be dealing with enough adversity!).

Let's see, more accomplishments from yesterday...I actually cooked dinner last night (I'm down to about once a week now, which is really sad because I really love cooking, but if my kids are happy with chicken nuggets or pb & honey sandwiches, then why go through all the trouble when the leftovers are just going to go bad in the fridge anyway?). I cleaned up my computer room (it was so bad, I've been avoiding it for weeks!)...and I finally called Luke's old preschool to tell them we weren't attending this year (should've done that a month ago too!). Wow, I'm making myself sound like a serious slacker! Oh well, I guess I'm not afraid of you experiencing the real me! :)