Pie Thursday Has Kicked My Ass.

I arrived at the airport at 8:20pm on Monday, which was much better than my original arrival of 11:45pm. It turns out Northwest Airlines will change your flight time a day before your departure and oh, your actual airline as well. They also changed my flight home but made that a direct flight rather than a flight requiring a 6 hour layover. I told someone this weekend I have a hard time holding a grudge. I guess I am a liar because I have only recently forgiven Canada and now Northwest is feeling the pain. Although I have another Northwest flight set up in two weeks, so enh.

I am running a day behind schedule because when I arrived back at my house Monday night at 10:30, it felt like it should be Sunday. So I've been running as though everything is a day behind. I dropped Maddie off at school late on Monday and then, at 12:30 in the afternoon I still hadn't gotten it together and dropped Max off late. Also I forgot Maddie's lunch and felt like a pretty awesome elementary school mother.

I don't travel well.

I had such a wonderful time in California. I needed a weekend away. I needed to be surrounded by women who make me laugh. I needed to be with the woman who knows how to force me to try on clothes and then purchase said clothes. I needed to be around women who inspire me and fill me up with good things. Like bacon and good ideas.

There are a lot of stories I could tell but the best story is the one where I was walking down the street after an alcohol free breakfast and fell flat on my face. My shoe and ankle gave out and on the hills of San Francisco I tumbled, so hard. I have brilliant bruises on both my knees. The ladies thought I had passed out and I wish I had because I love those guys but holy shit that was embarassing; laying on my stomach on the ground covered in a variety of bags I'd been carrying.

I laid there for a minute and the first thought I had was, "I just threw myself on the ground in front of Dooce."

I'm so behind on just about everything in my life. I have so many ideas and projects going and the time management skills of a toddler. I'm going to get it together in the next week and then! We're going on another trip the week after that so I can be frazzled and insane again. Woo!

The house has not sold. We dropped our price to the point where we're dangerously close to not breaking even. I'm pushing the limits of this market expecting a sale this quick, however as we are all painfully aware, I've been waiting a long ass time for this to happen. Also, THE house I want is now a reasonable possibility. I refuse to lose this house because it is perfect for us in the perfect location and now it's at the perfect price.

Hear me universe!

Logan made my new banner last night and it makes me laugh everytime I look at it. It's from this picture from a night out for my friend Andrea's birthday. It was an unseasonably warm night and everyone in southeastern lower Michigan decided to go to the same restaurant with an outside deck and there was one waitress. One waitress who served all my friends drinks and I was left to sit in a corner and beg with my eyes for just one beer. After an hour she came back to let me know they were out of my favorite beer. That's when we took that picture.

I'm not really silently plotting my escape though. I'm loudly plotting. (SELL HOUSE!)

Comments

[Mom2Bean]

OK, Melissa, I'm not normally a poster, but just HAVE to share my San Fran falling down story. Standing with hubby and a small group of strangers waiting on a cable car. Out of the blue, I just fall down. Off the curb. Into the street! I don't know why! (The hills?) My husband and the small crowd of strangers gather 'round and sweet hubby says, as a way of making me feel better, "Stupid curb." I, mortified, squint up at the group and snarl, "stupid PEOPLE!". I, of course, meant, "Stupid ME" but our fellow Rice-A-Roniers were understandably put out. "WTF? What did we do to her? Geesh."

When I realized my gaffe, instead of apologizing, I just laughed until I almost wet my pants and could barely get myself off the street. What a moron.

[Meghan]

LOVE the new banner. Major props to Logan for the mad photoshopping skillz, but mostly to you for making the most fantastic face I've ever seen anyone make.

PS, welcome home! I get so excited when the people I 'know' from blogworld get together, much like I would when I was little and the beach boys would show up on Full House because they were friends with Uncle Jesse, or when the Dr. from Empty Nest would show up on The Golden Girls because they were neighbors. But I'm a huge geek like that.

[d.regina]

1) When my friend Patrick moved to SF, he went out to distribute a bunch of his resumes wearing ROLLERBLADES. He turned a corner and found himself suddenly going downhill fast on a really, really steep hill. With an intersection full of cars at the bottom. He had to deliberately wipe out to avoid rolling out into traffic, and ended up with roadrash all over the side of his poor face. And then he had to interview like that. San Francisco? can be tough.

2) Sell, House, Sell! Sell, House, Sell! We went through Hell and back listing and selling my Dad's house after he died. It does end. You could lure a buyer in just by standing out front in that supercute dress.

[merseydotes]

Do you actually get to eat pie on Pie Thursday? Or only bake ones that try to kill you? Because I'm for the former and would love to see a national holiday.

[KYouell]

Ok, so I now know not to come read your blog while the newborn is sleeping in the sling because I'm not even drinking anything and the falling down stuff made me laugh so hard I spit.

And the new banner is beeeaaauuuteeful. Love the black & white/color thing.

[jbeeky]

I need to point out that I love H&M. I also need to point out that you are looking FINE lately. Love the haircolor, the trim figure, the....hey, stop making the rest of us look bad! Seriously, just wanted to drop a note telling you that you are looking very wonderful.

[Millionster]

I'm glad you had a great time in California. As much as I love the bay area the prices here are scaring me away. I'm ready to move elsewhere!

[Matthew M. F. Miller]

That's a really great banner. Way, way fun.

[mamadiva]

melissa! i'm a longtime reader who finally got an account so i could make the following comments:

1. that picture on your banner -- and the accompanying story -- made me go nasal with my diet coke.

2. good luck with the house. as someone who recently did buy Dream House before selling Prior House, i'm familiar with both the soft market and the visualizing oneself in Dream House. may it all work out for you.

3. if you're ever in california again, i'll make you a mai tai with the ice type of your choice!