action-packed day! well, sort of...

Today's fun actually started last night, when Joey and I learned the first day of school is tomorrow instead of Wednesday...no real warning!!  Talk about taking us by surprise.  We were freaking out a little...no letter, no kind of notification.  What's worse, I still hadn't registered the kids at their new school.  That's not my fault, though...it would've helped if someone was at the school to answer the phone last week.  That's when I was told to call--the week before school started.   I tried calling Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, all with no answer.  I even called their old school to see what I could do...they told me they would get their records ready for transfer; all they needed was the word from the new school.  I finally got someone on the phone at 8 o'clock this morning, only for them to tell me I had to go there and fill out some paperwork.  Now, mind you, I had work at 9 this morning, so that was out of the question, and I told the girl this.  So she says that I can do it tomorrow morning...before school starts.  YAY.  Gotta get both of the kids ready, even if he gets into the afternoon kindergarten class.  FUN FUN FUN.  That's enough about the school...wait until I go there tomorrow...but anyhoo.

That's not the end of my day; that's kind of only the beginning.  I almost missed the bus to go to work because of someone taking their sweet old time counting out change at the register at the store (had to get smokes!!).  I didn't take the car because parking downtown during the day's like ticket suicide--it's either park about 6 blocks from work, or get ticketed.  On my regular schedule, I can park in the mall for half my shift, then move it to the street later (the meter maids go home after 5pm).  Anyway, work was ok--especially the last hour, when all I did was really sit there and do nothing.  The computer froze, and wouldn't let me log on.  That was cool...getting paid for standing around and BS'ing. 

After work, I missed the first bus to get home, but caught the next one 1/2 hour later...no big deal.  When I did get home, Joey was out on the porch waiting for me.  He said I just missed a big thing...the house caught on fire!  (Don't worry, if it was that bad, I wouldn't be writing this.)  Not in our apartment...in the basement, actually.  He told me that the kids were eating dinner, when four cops came to the door..."what the hell did I do" was running through Joey's head.  They told him to get out.  Then they told him there was a fire downstairs and everyone had to get out.  He also told me there were about 4 firetrucks, 3 cop cars, and one of the local TV stations.  I was upset, since I missed all the commotion by about 10 minutes.   DAMMIT!  Oh well...maybe the girl downstairs will do it again (actually I don't know what caused it but who knows), only this time I'll be home...just kidding. =)

So that's my action-packed day.  I think tomorrow will come a little close, being the first day of school and all...no clue.  I'll fill you in with all the gory details...well, maybe not all of them...and I'll definitely have pics.  For evidence.

til next time...=)