We were supposed to have rain all night. I’m finally going in to have my eye checked out. I know it’s not Pink Eye, but it’s like an infection that won’t clear up, so I finally made an appointment to have it checked out and get some medicine for it Just hope the roads aren’t flooded!
Yesterday, I went to pick up my granddaughter and I had forgotten the card that allows me to get her. They require them for kindergartner and preschooler pickups. It was in my raincoat pocket at home. I was trying to get word count up to the last minute and hadn’t checked before I left. I usually just leave it in the car, but it had been threatening to storm and rained on us while I was getting her the day before, so hadn’t wanted to get it wet and put it in my raincoat pocket. Soooo, I head over and plan to go to the office. Not sure how to get in, but someone else was told they had to go to the office to get the card to pick up the child. Looked like a granddad that suddenly got the task.
Anyway, I haven’t walked but a couple of steps from my car and my flip flop breaks. Okay, so this is like a story, right? One conflict after another.
The weather report says NO rain. NONE. Not until 8 or 9 that night. But as I’m tucking the strap into it’s socket on my shoe, walking a few steps, having to redo it again, the sky is looking darker and darker. I don’t have the card to get my granddaughter. My shoe is practically useless and the sky is looking ominous. So where is the umbrella? IN. THE. CAR. Raincoat with the card is at home.
I truck on. I finally have to take off the shoe to get across the street or get hit. Then I’m back to either carrying it, or fixing it for a brief walk of three or four steps. It’s about 1,000 steps to the school office (no, I don’t count the steps, but I do have a Fitbit). So I get there and I can’t figure out how to get in. Some staff person comes to the door and yells at me to hit the button and say what I want. Okay, I know school security is important, but I had no idea what to do.
So she lets me in and I go into another office, also on lock down, and then get in to get a card. I’m rattled. I’m holding onto a broken shoe, trying to explain that I need a card to get my granddaughter, pulling out the car pickup card that has her name on it, and my driver’s license to prove I can pick her up and, oh-by-the-way, you wouldn’t happen to have any glue would you?
This could be a comedy show. Really. Dark comedy. So she says, “I don’t know. Why?”
“My flip flop fell apart and I’m walking.” I show it to her.
“I’ve got children’s glue.”
“Oh, yes, thanks, let me try that.” So she hands me one of those little rub on purple glue sticks that looks like chap-stick, except it’s a pretty purple and I rub it on hard to the broken strap and stick it into the hole on the sole and voila! I think I MacGyvered it pretty well.
ID, car card, walking card, and one sort-of fixed shoe and I’m back out to get my granddaughter. I’m thinking she’s going to be waiting for me and all the students will be gone. Nope. They are let out late. Clouds are getting darker, more threatening. Everyone who’s walking wants them to hurry so we can get the kids to safety. The weatherman appears to be wrong again.
All parents have to stand in the dirt/grass, not on the sidewalks for the kids, and so there I am, waiting.
Until I feel a bite. Argh. A fire ant. Hate those things. Kill it. Move over to another patch of dirt. Waiting. Watching the ominous clouds. Something made me look down. Not sure why. And I was standing in the middle of a fire ant hill. I quickly moved onto the sidewalk. I was not moving from the sidewalk. So sue me. At least that time I didn’t get bitten.
When they at last released the kindergartners, my granddaughter was first. I couldn’t believe it. Maybe everything else would turn out great too.
I made it with my granddaughter to the club house where she always has to go to the bathroom, to the car, back home, the purple glue held, the storms held off, and that was my crazy pick up day. I’m hoping tomorrow will be uneventful.
In all fairness, I did replace the one eye from the MidJourney wolf and would have done it with Dall-E 2 but I wasn’t on the right computer to fix it. I’ll play with it tomorrow. I already used up my Dall-E 2 so have to wait a month to start again. lol These programs are addictive.
So my granddaughter and I spent a whole 3 hours at the pool on Sunday. We only have 2 more weekends left. She has as much fun in the water as me! And she’s really doing well with her swimming. It’ll be interesting to see how she does next year. She wants me to take her baby brother with us. He’ll be 2 by then. I heard thunder while we were in the pool the three hours were there anyway, so we got out and then we returned home and it started to pour! We got about half an inch. Yay!
Well, I finished Big Cat Magic, but I’m waiting on the cover artist so I can upload to book selling sites. In the meantime, I’m back to work on Roxie’s story. Up to 20K! Sixty-thousand to go. 🙂
The Wizard is not happy that the Green Fairy messed with his potions making them all sparkly. She hadn’t planned for them to be THAT sparkly! 🙂 <3 The purple fairy is inspecting the bottles with her candlelight, glad SHE wasn’t the one who is in trouble now. 🙂 <3
The bottles were created with MidJourney AI and the rest with DAZ3d, Daily Textures texture background.
Okay, so I finished proofing Big Cat Magic and need to get it ready to publish today. I’m going to take my granddaughter to swim one last time on my own. Everyone’s going next weekend. And then the pool is closed for the summer, even though it will still be hot through all of September!
And then I’ve got to get back to Roxie’s story. We had another 1/2 inch of rain! We sure needed it.
Well, I’m finally getting a little caught up on word count. I was 11,000 words behind, now only 7,000, so making great strides. We’re supposed to have thunderstorms tomorrow when I’m picking up little one, so hoping it will hold off until after I pick her up. But I really hope we have rain!
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. 🙂
I’m slowly working on Roxie’s story. I’m up to 13k, so 67K to go! So it’s a start!
We’re supposed to be getting some rain hopefully on Thursday night. I sure hope they’re not making a mistake because it’s supposed to cool down to low 90s. Yay!
Well, I made up word count for the day before yesterday, then was behind on word count yesterday. *sigh* I’m trying to get used to the new routine with picking up my granddaughter every day from school.
Isn’t as easy as it seems. A visit to the woods is filled with other critters.
I made all the changes to Big Cat Magic again. I didn’t have time to proof it, so I’ll start tomorrow. I was just informed my daughter’s school district has different holidays than the one my granddaughter will go to. lol So that means Grandma will have granddaughter for a whole week in October.
I’m off to work on proofing, if I can get anything done!
Created with MidJourney, changed out the nose. Often the eyes and noses are off, ears too. But for sleeping fluffy puppies, it’s mostly fine! I added Baroque to the prompt and added some texture layers.
Okay, off to work! I need to get my word count for today on Roxie’s story. It’s so hot, no rain. That’s the word of the day.
