Yesterday and Today

Yesterday was one of those days.

--- Just after 2 am house rattling thunder woke me up, and within minutes both boys and the dog are in bed with me. I am wide awake until just after 3 am.

--- At 7:28 in the morning I leave my toast and egg (after having taken only one bite) on the table when I go to turn off the computer and remind my sons to put on their shoes and get their backpacks ready. When I return, my toast and egg are gone and I see a black furry creature slither under the bed with her ears flat on the top of her head with "Guilty" written all over her. Without even considering counting to ten first, I hear my voice hurl spears of bad words in her general direction, while my sons' eyes absorb their mother's humanness with their non-blinking eyes.

--- As I drive to work my gas light comes on. That is so annoying for so many reasons.

--- One thing after another at work, all at once.

--- A meeting where I ended up being the designated pain in the butt. Yeah, that's always nice. (By the way, I don't know how politicians do it... all the time some group of people hating their ideas.)

--- More things after more things at work, all at once. It's all a big "fire drill" all day at work.

--- I sent an email to Jacinda and meant to send it to Clarice. I hate when I get people's names mixed up.

--- Later, at home, I thought it would be nice to go on a bike ride. Before even making it to the end of the street I had to turn back because THERE WERE ALL THESE TINY GNAT-LIKE FLIES EVERYWHERE! The bugs were flying into my eyes, mouth, nose...… and when I got back to our driveway, they were all over me, my legs, my shirt, shorts, in my hair. (Maybe the thunderstorm woke the bugs up... I don't know what they were.)

That was yesterday.

This morning at the breakfast table Z suggested to John, "When you sell your boat, you could give that money to the Hurricane people."

After another bite of Frosted Flakes 1/3 Less Sugar, Z asked, "Do we want those people from the hurricanes to be billionaires or hundredaires, or thousandaires?" In his mind, he may be wondering why so much money is being collected and given to the refugees.

We explained that many people from the hurricane areas need money for basic things, like food, clothes, toothpaste, things like that, and that many of them escaped with little more than the clothes they were wearing, and that there are thousands and thousands of them who need help. He thought about this for a minute and then he asked, "Who invented salad?" What do you mean? Who was the first to mix up a bowl of vegetables and lettuce to eat? "No, I mean how did the first lettuce grow, where are the seeds for lettuce?" They grow from a lettuce head when the lettuce is left to grow and not picked too early. "But where did the seeds come from to plant the first lettuce head?"