Still busy

I've come home very late every night this week. Not cool, but unavoidable. Fortunately, I made it through mediation and finished up an MSJ response, so (fingers crossed) the rest of my week will be low key.

I'm feeling very emotionally fragile lately. Work has been super-stressful, and then dealing with the car issue has me stretched way too thin. And DH's best friend from high school's dad passed away last night. He had a stroke a few weeks ago and went into hospice a couple of days ago. Of course that just brought back our experience of the last few weeks. And a 1st grader at the kids' school has leukemia. Tonight they went to a fund-raising dinner, and the line was stretched half-way down the block. Even the local news channel showed up. I got teary when DH was telling me about it on the phone. Every little thing makes me teary--so not like me (DH calls me an emotional robot). And the women are already throwing themselves at FIL. It's only been a month. I just can't get over how tacky and disrespectful it is.

On the lighter side of things, we did decide to ditch the Suburban and I picked up my Nissan Armada this afternoon. It is sweet. Bluetooth so I can send and receive calls from the car, a rear camera and sonar for backing up, no keys--just an RFID chip embedded in the remote (I feel like George Jetson with no keys). I love it, but haggling over it was such a PITA. I've settled 3 or 4 lawsuits this year and none have been as much of a pain as negotiating this car.

But in case anyone's jealous of my awesome (gas guzzling) new car, here's a story for ya. We were walking down the stair, leaving the car place when I caught the heel of my shoe in the cuff of my pants. I lost all control and pretty much threw all of my weight into DH trying to maintain my balance. Thank goodness he was there, or I definitely would have fallen all the way down the concrete steps. It was not pretty, and I swear I pulled every single muscle in my body and banged my knee into something. I have a bruise popping up on my knee cap and my back, rib cage and neck are all throbbing. May have to go take a hot bath before bed.

Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, my work event went well. My outfit was perfect, although there were so few women there I could have gotten away with almost anything. There was literally a 10/1 male to female ratio. I think I've discovered the perfect place for single girls to meet eligible guys. Anyway, generally loathe schmoozy events, but this went well. I met several clients with whom I had only corresponded by phone or email, and several others with whom I have no direct involvement--yet.