So, this morning, I drove about 210 miles round trip to the airport to drop off hubs and Angel #2's cat Pepper (more on that later), hit a deer (more on that too) and got a job, all before 8am. I know how to start my morning right.
First, hubs and the cat. Hubs is flying to a couple places this week, and his first connection was in Houston, where Angel #2 lives. She's been wanting to get her cats, Fred and Pepper down there to live with her, and we decided this would be the perfect opportunity. His flight left a little after 5am, so we were up at 2am and out of the house 20 minutes later. YAWN Since you can only take one pet per person, Pepper was chosen to be the first to go, mainly because we all like Fred and don't really want to give him up any sooner than we have to. Pepper is very timid and people shy, and frankly, I don't even think we'll notice she's gone, except for Angel #4, who sleeps with all the cats in her bed at night. They arrived around 8 this morning and #2 was thrilled to have one of her kitties back with her and I'm happy to have one less critter around here.
Then, I'm on my way home, practically there actually, with only about 5 more miles to go and a stupid deer ran right into my van. I've been driving for almost 30 years now (which makes me feel really really old) and have never hit a deer, until this morning. Pretty amazing when you consider that I spent most of my life in one of the highest deer/car accident prone counties in the state. Fortunately, it only smashed up one of the headlights and broke a chunk out of the front bumper. If I would have been driving just a smidge faster, I would be picking guts out of the grill right now, but it just smashed into the front drivers corner of the van. I turned around to see about the deer, it was lying dead on the side of the road, it it hit hard enough that it bounced off my van and flew backward completely across the other lane and landed on the shoulder. If hubs had been around, I'm sure we'd have scooped that baby up and I'd be canning venison this weekend, but it wasn't something I wanted to deal with on my own, especially at 5:30 in the morning. So, it's probably still lying there, poor thing. Next time, look both ways, deer!
I crawled into bed once I'd let my chickens out for the day and had a bite to eat. I got the call about the job right around 8am. Fortunately, I've got the ability to sound perky and awake on the phone, even if I"m still half asleep, so they didn't have to wonder why they were hiring a lazy butt person who was still sleeping at 8 in the morning. I'll be working part time for the school district, helping to get all the USDA paperwork filled out for the school lunch program and also helping out a little as a lunch lady. It'll be nice, I can spend most of my time squirreled away in a room with a computer filling out forms, but be around just enough so I can get to know all these kids I keep hearing about from my kids when they talk about their school day. Not that they'll get all close up and personal with the lunch lady, but at least I'll be able to put some faces to the names I keep hearing.
Of course, after that exciting news, I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, so I got up and started cleaning house. Before he left, hubs has been working his booty off getting the house ready for winter. Our new porch is almost all sealed up on the outside and he put in the new door last night. So, this morning, I put up fiberglass insulation on the inside walls. That stuff is so itchy and nasty. WE has been elected to put the insulation up in the ceiling, then it'll be all done. At least the insulating will be, we still will need to do the finish stuff, drywall, flooring, that kind of stuff, but that's not as urgent as keeping the place warm for the winter.
Talk about being elected. I am SO glad this stupid election is over. Being in a swing state is miserable, people. I was getting up to 5 or 6 robo calls a day and by Tuesday, I pretty much hated both candidates.
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