I wish I could tell you that the trip to the library was the end of my rough afternoon yesterday. I double-checked the library hours online before I left just to make absoultely sure I would have a couple hours to browse and relax and be around books, which I find soothing. I get to the doors and the fat Mexican security guard informs me that the library will be closing due to construction. You'd think they'd put something about that one their website but they sure left that out!! SO, I had five minutes to return my books and dash to the Gregory section and get the next book in my series. I decided it wasn't going to get me down. I remembered that there was a tea shop around the corner that I'd been wanting to try. I thought, "I will make this bad thing a good thing. I will try some new tea and it will be totally relaxing - just like books! I will read my new book while I drink it! Brilliant!" So I walked down the block to this cute little shop and looked at the menu. THERE WAS NO TEA ON THE MENU. There was coffee, lots of coffee - iced coffee, hot coffee, flavored coffee. It was everywhere except in the name of the shop. Willington TEA House sells nothing but COFFEE!!!!! I felt stupid just standing there, gaping at the menu in disbelief, so when the young man (wearing an "I heart coffee" t-shirt) at the counter asked me what I wanted, I pointed to a piece of pound cake. I asked for it, and even said please. "NO," he said. "I'm not gonna get you that cake." I knew he was kidding, even though neither of us were smiling, but it still took every single ounce of self control I had not to grab a handful of that cake and shove it right down his coffee drinking throat. I stared him down, eye twitching, until finally he quietly got me my cake. I forked over my three bucks and chose a table. Luckily, it was maybe the best piece of pound cake I've ever tasted. I started reading my library book and it was pretty good. I decided to buck up and went home and made Kevin his favorite croutons before picking him up from work. This paid off because he patiently listened to my rant about my day and played cards with me until I felt much better. He even helped make dinner, after working a 12 hour shift.
This morning, Kevin went to the DMV to get a CT lisence so he could get started on the whole registering the car ordeal. He was there over an hour and came home empty handed because apparently in CT there are all kinds of hoops you have to jump through to do ANYTHING. So, he took a break while I called the bank because my card that was supposed to arrive Wednesday still isn't here. I couldn't get a hold of anybody. It's the worst phone answering system I've ever had to deal with, and that's really saying something. So I called my landlord because I STILL haven't recieved my deposit check that she said she sent a month ago and then said she'd re-sent 10 days ago. For the first time in the year and a half I've known her, she didn't answer her phone. I left a message asking her to please return my call because I hadn't recieved her check, but I'm starting to wonder what in the world is going on. She owes me almost four hundred dollars!
Now for better news. My husband, as I type, is in the kitchen doing the dishes, even though he spent most of the afternoon studying. I didn't feel good this morning, and he very sweetly tucked me in on the couch and made sure I had plenty of water, a movie, and my heating pad before he left for the DMV. Tonight, if I'm feeling up to it, he's going to take me to the free movie downtown and maybe out for dinner. Lots of little petty stuff may be going on (and I'm sorry if my rants have become annoying), but the big stuff is so great. I mean, I have maybe the best husband in the world. I have what is turning out to be a very cute apartment (it's amazing what a little scrubbing can do). And I get to live in this great coastal town where seagulls fly over beautiful buildings that have been here for over a hundred years. In a couple of months, I'll be able to go to a school I've only heard good things about, in a program that's one of the best of it's kind. Yesterday, I found myself getting lost in the details, but today, looking at the big picture (and it doesn't hurt that Kevin has the day off), I feel blessed.