Wool and Spice

Well.

That was fun.

Not.

The last 24 hours were a bit of a disaster. Not on a scale of the disaster in Haiti and in comparison it’s not worth whining about, but when all the little crappy things pile one on top of the other before you can catch your breath, the worse a personal disaster it seems.

I discovered my white lace scarf has coffee stains on it which didn’t come out in the wash. This was my first lace project so I’m P.O…  I’ll soak it again this weekend and hope I see some improvement.

I can’t get my USB speakers to work with my laptop and have been fiddling with them for a month. The ports are OK because everything else I plug in works. These are supposed to be plug and play so no software or driver updates to download. I fooled with settings yesterday and ended up at one point with no sound at all. I wanted to take a baseball bat to the whole thing. So frustrating. Since the speakers are getting power (light’s on), I can only conclude they’re not functioning and should be replaced. How do speakers go bad?

Midday, I heard water dripping fast from a part of the house where there shouldn’t be water.  We discovered water pouring out of the heat vent in the downstairs ceiling. The ice backed up on the roof around the chimney so melting snow was finding its way down the walls instead of down the eaves. An afternoon shoveling snow off the roof from a ladder, along with much warmer temps seems to have fixed that problem. Now to repaint the ceiling and replace the flashing in the spring.

The icing on the cake: I backed into the trailer hitch of a black SUV in the parking lot at Panera’s last night and put a nice round hole in my bumper. Like the period at the end of a particularly crappy day. There was some discussion about who pulled out of their parking spot first,  but it’s a she said/she said situation. The repair bill is big enough to make me wince. The SUV was undamaged of course. I haven’t reported it to the insurance company yet but will tomorrow.

To finish the 24-hour cycle I got flu shots in both arms this morning.  My arms huuurrttt.

It’s the little things.

And now I’m done whining and I can now focus on more important things. Like just about anything else.  (Oh, and by the way, Rush Limbaugh is an idiot. But you knew that.)

Tags: car, computers, Knitting, snow