I think I have only talked with Kat or lori maybe once or twice, but I'm sure sending all the strong, healthy vibes I can out west. I hope Kat heals quickly and Noah and Grace thrive. I read they are breathing on their own? That is great news for babies so tiny. As Cindy said, giving birth to one full term baby is a life changing and stressing event.

If there is anything we can do, even from afar, please let me know.

Um, so. Good things about today... I did not wake up to more cat poo! I finally got ahold of someone at the Illinois Department of Revenue who confirmed that I must file a paper return. I have all my remaining tax forms filled out and printed courtesy of the work printer, and all I have to do is attach some stuff, sign and mail them, and all of my taxes will be done.

I even have stamps and envelopes at home. And I'll be getting money back. Could be worse.

things making me crazy:
1.5 days late on a project
people I need to complete the project, possibly gone home for the day
being told I need more checks for my team's work (duh!)
being asked to trouble-shott by my team because they won't use the existing checks
early babies

Ok things:
I have reached a zen like outward appearance to my annoyances
Friends
Parentals coming to town in 3 days
have decided on ice cream for lunch

I think ice cream is a proper response today. Unless you are me, of course. Best idea I can come up with at the moment is to go home and eat cashew butter with a spoon.

That's not happening.

I should be working a little harder on the stuff that was making me crazy the past 2 days.

Right. Congrats on the Masters Program, SA! Just watch out for dimensional rifts and gassy aliens.

Yeah, that is crazymaking, msbelle. I hate stuff like that. There's a reason there's a process, people!

Thing that is making me crazy: I'm on spring break, but the SO insists on treating it like a workweek. I am going to go completely over the edge in the next two months because of it, I swear.

In good news, my "son" lost his mechanics job last week when Walgreens decided the garage where he worked would be the perfect site for a new store. Monday he finalized his resume and went around to car dealerships and such. At the first place he got a job offer but said, "I have some other places to check, I'll get back with you." Four places later, he gets another job offer, he checks the shop and sees it's spotless. The pay would be a raise from $10 an hour to $16 an hour.

He starts tomorrow. If it weren't for the three inches of snow on the ground today--spring in Utah, hooray--he'd be finishing the last hour of work on my car today and getting me back on the road, but it looks like I won't be self-mobile again till the weekend. I can cope. So, yay, Stevie.

March, you need to step off my friends!

Seriously!! Sheesh!!

All the ~ma in the world to Kat & Lori and Noah & Grace. Allyson, please add me to the LAista list for people willing to run around and do errands for the new family. I'm on spring break right now until the 9th, so I can help out during the day if anything needs doing.

Theo, I am so sorry. Gods, but this has been a bad month for job news.

Oh yeah, connie, we got that snow here, too! I woke up this morning and was all, "buh?" Then I was happy because I have wood I still want to burn, so I made a fire and a cup of coffee. Oh! I better go get the dog, he's still outside playing in it.

Allyson, do you know what time Noah and Grace were born?

It's all blurry, because there were a lot of calls back and forth, but they were born sometime before 10pm, I think.

My favorite part of that is that the doctor had a hard time detangling them from each other, they weren't keen on letting go.