Long Day

I think I got up from my desk twice today at work.  Man, I hate Day 2 when things aren’t going right. I think by 6:00 we had everything straightened out though. Hopefully the fallout (where we have to explain to our corporate "partners"-who-think-we’re-a-vendor-not-a-partner why our actual results don’t match forecasted) won’t be too bad.

This morning on our walk, Pepper and I saw a squirrel get hit by a car. The lady driving was waving to me, and I was riveted on this squirrel that looked like it ran into the side of the tire. Then I thought maybe its front foot got run over, since it looked like it was trying to run away but only moving its back legs. When I got closer, I could see blood coming from its mouth so I realized it was just twitching in its death throes. I had no way to put it out of its misery but it stopped moving by the time we got up to it. Then I had my hands full pulling Pepper away from it. So that was kind of a yucky way to start the day.

I got an email from a friend from high school saying that she is driving through to Laredo this weekend and would like to see us on either her way down or her way back. She didn’t say, but I think she probably wants me to ask her to stay with us. I’m not going to. This is a person that I wouldn’t be sad if she never contacted me again, but I just can’t seem to "break up" with her myself. She is a person who prides herself on being brutally honest (to the point of being not just honest but mean) but boy, watch out if you try to be honest with her! Then, you just don’t understand her, or you are retaliating against her, or whatever excuse she comes up with. It’s draining. If I were being honest with her, I would tell her that her boyfriend (who lives in Mexico, which is why she’s going to Laredo to meet up with him) has ZERO intention of marrying her. If they have spent NINE years with him living in Mexico and her living in OK, and no plans to marry yet, it ain’t happening. But if I said that, I would just be showing that I didn’t want her to be happy. Sigh.

Courtney’s birthday is coming up next Monday. I told her she could invite a friend to a movie on Saturday. I don’t know who she wants to invite or if I need to call the mom or what. I have no energy to make it happen. She hasn’t said any more about it.

We watched The Departed last night. It was really good. I liked it alot, and I don’t usually like violent, organized crime type movies. Unfortunately it was 3 hours long and we didn’t start it until 9:00 (we had recorded it earlier). So I was pretty tired all day today.

I think I’m going to go rot my brain with some mindless TV then go to bed early.