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Yes, That Crazy Lady In The Parking Lot Was Me

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 5 Comments

Hubby left today on a business trip.  He’ll be in the big apple for the next 4 days–where I hear from him the weather is beautiful today.  I am always a little off balance when he is out of town–as though I have his share of the parenting balanced precariously on one shoulder–causing me to walk with a bit of a limp. 

Because hubby is gone…I had to rush from work to pick up Minnow and meet my mom at my house for babysitting and then drive back out to school for class.  Needless to say that both the college I teach at and the one I attend are 30 minutes from my house and only about 10 minutes from each other.  So, I did a lot of driving today in the ice/rain/sleet. 

I get all the way to school (only 2 minutes late) and I run into a classmate who tells me that my prof cancelled class.  Great, as I can now catch up on the reading I didn’t get all the way finished, but really I drove an extra 40 minutes that I didn’t need to.  So now I have all this time, as my mom is watching Minnow.  I decide to swing by Whole Foods and pick up some staples (i.e. junk food–yes they have this) since are suppose to get close to 10 inches of snow and hubby is out of town and I probably won’t be cooking–well making much from scratch.  So, I check out using a good chunk of Minnow’s college fund–he’s cute he doesn’t really need college–and head out to my car.  I see it right away and walk up to it.  I hit the unlock button and proceed to the rear of the car.  The rear door doesn’t open on the SUV.  I pull and pull thinking maybe it is frozen shut.  I hit the button and nothing happens. 

Finally I look up and see my car one row over in the same spot.  Just in time for the owner of this car that I thought was mine to ask if he could help me. 

If only I could have thought of a snappy retort.  I just apologized and walked with my head held high…deciding whether to laugh or cry as I opened my own car. 

***this isn’t the first time this has happened.  the first time the car in question was actually unlocked and I got in and it took me minutes to figure out that the reason the key wouldn’t turn in the ignition was that it wasn’t my fucking car.  You’d have thought the leather upholstery would have given that away. 

Thank You For Stopping By

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we will return on Sunday…as it is 55 and sunny today and tomorrow.  We are out enjoying the weather today and tomorrow after what seems likes months trapped in the house by a cold, snowy and dreary winter. 

Sunday I will be posting about some ideas presented at a lecture given by one of my most favorite authors–Salman Rushdie.  He is one of the world’s great minds. 

Impulsiveness Is My Achilles’ Heel

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 3 Comments

No one has ever accused me of thinking about something too much.  This is often a trait that is good.  Had I thought about it too much, I probably wouldn’t have gone out with my husband.  I certainly wouldn’t have moved back to St. Louis from Santa Barbara and I certainly wouldn’t be going to New Orleans in April.  But,  I often act without thinking.  I am a feeling kind of girl. If something seems like it would be a good idea, then sign me up.  I’ll worry about the rest later.  Most of the time it works out.  Well.  Not this time. 

Last week I was at the mall for a playdate with mom’s from my mom’s group.  I decided to go shopping…only because Minnow really wanted to tour and walk the mall.  So we ended up at the MAC store.  Usually this wouldn’t be a problem, other than I have been lusting (like a teenage boy in the girls locker room) over an iphone.  Also, I had just spent sometime with a dear friend who had just gotten an itouch and I thought it was so cool and if I can’t get an iphone (I am not always rational) then an itouch would be perfect.  It has everything but the phone and I already have a cell phone.  I was trying to be grown up about it. I think we all know how that usually works out. 

So, I’ve had my itouch for a total of 6 days and I’ll be damned if I didn’t just bargain with hubby (sacrificing anniversary, mother’s day and birthday presents for the rest of the year) because I absolutely have to have an iphone.  Please…yes I know this is totally unreasonable and quite childish, but you know what life it too short to not get what you want if you can manage it.  Sure I feel guilty that I have practically bought the same thing twice in 5 days time.  But I am so happy that I am getting an iphone.  And  now my almost 2 year old will be the only kid at playdates with his own itouch.  He’ll totally think I’m cool–well once he realizes what cool is. 

To Do Before Wannafest ’08

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**edited for completion** 

  1. Buy dryer sheets to finish laundry so that we are presentable.
  2. Acutally separate and put laundry in washing machine and move it to dryer in a timely fashion.
  3. Pull laundry out of dryer prior to deep and irremoveable wrinkling. 
  4. Fold said laundry and put it in a suitcase so that I do not have to buy entire new wardrobe in San Diego.
  5. Finish one 5-7 page paper on my personal culture. 
  6. Finish grading stack of papers from students–for some reason they want feedback. (only halfway done)
  7. Finish reading 2 chapters in Social Justice book.
  8. GET REFERRAL–wishful thinking.  But really, they told me we were getting close and it would be soon…This week would constitute soon. Right?
  9. Decide which car seat to bring.– I know really how hard can the choice be. 
  10. Talk brother into feeding cats and fish. 
  11. Vacuum. 
  12. Do Dishes.
  13. Clean out fridge.
  14. GET REFERRAL–oh wait did I say that already?
  15. Pack camera, lenses, and video camera.

Not too much right?