Postby miakakiri » June 19th, 2013, 6:06 am
This has not been my week. ~_~*
Class went well enough yesterday, in spite of my being rather tired because class was at 9a and Miaka going to bed before 3-4a doesn't happen lately. Still, I managed to get up in time, and make it to the school in time to drop by the coffee shop two doors down and grab a cuppa. Computers weren't pleased to work with me, though. First computer I sat down at decided it didn't want to function correctly at all, so I switched to a different one, which mostly worked. Except when it didn't. I'm used to the odd mouse-skipping thing a lot of the school computers do (highly annoying, as the computer will randomly decide that the pointer is in a vastly different location all of a sudden). Having the computer reset itself without warning, however, is a new one. And then there was another time the computer turned off, but that was actually my fault--I accidentally kicked the power button. ~_~* Aside from that, class was actually fun/interesting. (It was about how to look for a job.) Still need to figure out what job I want first, though. I need some help with that.
Due to the timing of the class (9a-4p) I knew I wasn't going to see Archi. Class let out, and I headed home on foot, with a migraine aura starting to set in. It sprinkled. Fortunately I made it to Rite Aid (drugstore/pharmacy) before it actually started raining--I hadn't brought my umbrella, since the weather was lovely in the morning. I needed to stop and pick up a prescription anyway, so I wandered around Rite Aid a bit. Picked up a poncho in addition to my meds. This turned out to be a very good thing, as it was pouring by the time I left the shop. Still decided to detour to the little market because I wanted fresh strawberries. Acquired strawberries and a few other fruits/veggies, then walked home. It was quite wet. The strawberries were worth getting all wet for, though. Mmm.
My back was highly displeased with me by the time Archi got home, and I'd been having issues with computers all day. Even Spot (my home computer) was being a grouch. Randomly deciding to operate only quite slowly, or not acknowledging a request. Some of it was Chrome issues.
Archi went to make dinner, and disaster struck. The coconut milk set to boil (cooking rice in it for a particular recipe) exploded. It was on a back burner, so it exploded all over the kitchen, and all over my desk just on the other side of the big 'window' in the wall behind the stove. Huge mess. Much fuss getting it cleaned up. There were tears involved on my part, because I was upset and this just made a not-so-great day very bad. A lot of things had to be tossed, as my desk was messy. Also there were other things around, partly because I haven't been using my desk. Things had to get washed--including a few things that would have to be hand-washed. So I took several hair-ribbons, a hair-tie, and two smallish skeins of yarn into the shower to wash them. These are currently on the drying rack.
Fortunately, I'd printed a Staples coupon recently, fully intending to make a stop there when we did our errands on Tuesday, so desk-supplies could be readily replaced (at 20% off).
Today (Tuesday) didn't go much better. I overslept, which meant we were on crunch time for our errands. While we were browsing Staples, I went to check the time only to realize that my phone was dead. ~_~* Well, we ran our errands in that plaza and popped over to the mall, and proceeded to run an errand or two there (craft store...) and I got a wheelchair (because my back was not happy with me at all). Had Archi push the wheelchair to cut down on travel time with the rest of our mall errands. (I don't like being pushed, but I figured I needed to sacrifice comfort/control for speed.)
First stop, Lensecrafters. I'd gotten a message that there was a problem with the glasses I ordered last week, but they had forgotten to leave a call-back number. Unfortunately, it turned out the 'problem' was that I'd selected frames they couldn't put my prescription into, so I had to choose new frames. I was repeatedly assured that once I picked out new frames the glasses could be ready in an hour. An hour I didn't have to spend putzing around the mall, because I had class at 6 and groceries to get, and it was already 4. (Grocery store is on the other end of town, by the way.) I got a bit upset, because I really wanted the kind of frames I'd picked out. They were rimless frames, just lenses held together by the nose-bridge and held to the face by the earpieces. They looked more professional than my casual-cute purple frames, and I wouldn't have lines across the edges of my vision. (Using contacts means I don't have those lines, but contacts are expensive and Archi can't stand to see me put them in or take them out.) So now I had to go looking for a tolerable substitute (with much assurance that they wouldn't charge me since the error was their fault) and I was short on time. The time it took to find frames frustrated me, as did the fact that I couldn't just look in the various mirrors attached to walls and fixtures. Took a bit to get a hand-mirror, which would allow me to actually see what a frame looked like. (I'm nearsighted and was sitting in a wheelchair so I couldn't get close enough to walls.) I don't know how long it actually took, but it certainly felt like far too long before I found something acceptable--a black frame with no bottom edge. Then they had to re-take the measurements with the camera, which took more time. I ended up snapping at Archi because he accidentally got in my way, and because there were chairs in the way of me getting to where I needed to be for the thing to work (the clerk didn't think to move them). Finally finished, I ruled that we didn't actually have time for anything else. No stopping in to say hi at GameStop or looking at anything else. I almost ruled against getting a cup of tea. I did end up snapping at Archi a few more times as he pushed me through the mall, mostly because he wasn't sure where to go, and had a tendency to stop moving while he tried to figure out the plan--I do not like being rushed, and stopping to think tends not to happen when I am rushed. I ended up deciding tea would be OK, if he went to order it while I turned the wheelchair in. The tea I like takes 5 minutes to brew anyhow, so I had turned in the chair and rejoined him with a few minutes left before it was actually ready.
We hurried out of the mall and took a slightly-faster-than-usual route to the grocery. I ended up snapping at Archi again in the parking lot, because someone was taking too long to get out of a space and he was waiting to get by. I made him take a space that was right at the far end of the lot instead. Yeah it meant for a longer walk (with my back mad at me) but it also meant we could get moving. Grabbed a scooter-thing, though it took three tries to find one that started fast enough for me, and I snapped again because the one I picked was partly blocked in and Archi wasn't fast enough at moving the blocking cart. Proceeded to zoom through the grocery list as much as possible, partly by splitting it up and sending him to pick up a few things while I picked up others.
We actually managed to get through the groceries fairly quick, though I was convinced I'd be late for class. I had him drop me at the school before he headed home to put away groceries, and noticed that I was actually early. Oh good, something that actually went right this afternoon.
Except that it didn't. I needn't have worried about being late for class, as the teacher never showed up. I waited around until about 6:15 or so (class was supposed to start at 6) but no one came and the doors were all locked. Since I didn't have a phone (I'd sent my dead phone with Archi to get charged at home) I couldn't contact anyone about it either. Thus, I ended up walking home, in spite of my irritated back.
Archi was somewhat surprised when I showed up, less than an hour after my class should have started, bringing the mail. I was decidedly less than pleased about the whole mess, especially upon the discovery that I hadn't missed a memo. There was nothing in my e-mail inbox from the school, and no missed calls or new voice messages on my phone at all (once I got it turned back on). I will be giving the school a call in the morning to find out what in flip happened and why I didn't get told that there wouldn't be class. I have only two major classes left--Power Point level 1 was supposed to start today and I have level 2 next week.
Here's hoping the week gets better...
My NaNo 2014 project is a crossover fanfic with Persona 4 and Detective Conan! This year I'm sending the detective from Persona 4 to find out what happened to Shinichi.
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I would call grandma about it but I'm pretty sure that she and grandpa have turned the phone off like usual :x
But when I talked to him about it he said he wasn't worried for the surgery at all, but more worried about the fact that he can't do anything exhausting for 3 weeks afterwards since he doesn't like to sit still and do nothing :x Then he gave me a hug and said everything was going to be okay..
