Full of words Wednesday

So I'm house sitting for a friend.  Can't find their house key.  Looked everywhere, checked every pocket.  Double checked everywhere for 2 days.  Nada.  Starting to worry.  Then I remember their garage door code.  Did I mention I'm also dog sitting, with the dog at our house?  Get dog all collared and leashed, go over, get into garage.  Shovel driveway while holding dog on leash.  Dog sees a mom and a daughter walking over to school.  Dog way too eager to go say hi, pulls leash out of my wet cold ungloved hand, and zooms off down the road.  Did I mention the mom & daughter were over 1/2 block away?  Me, trying to run after dog, but I have bad foot pain and clunking half tied boots.  Me, trying to whistle, but the air is too dry.  Me clapping and calling dogs name but hands too cold to clap without breaking them.  Mom and daughter totally ignoring dog and crazy woman limping down the street making funny noises.  Finally catch up 2 streets over.   The mom says "Oh, I suppose I could have grabbed the leash".   Ya think?!  (Let's hope that neighbor doesn't read this blog)...

And then to totally ruin my mood (if that hasn't already)...Rumor Queen had a post earlier this month of a "possible" speed up of referrals.  Lately they have been matching  less than a weeks worth of LID's (Logged in dates - the dates given to families that their paperwork was logged into China's Center for Adoption Affairs system), but usually around 5 days worth.  She was really cautious about it this encouraging rumor, bless her heart.  But now today the rumor has changed to the next batch being only covering the LID's for the first 2 days of March 2006.  Ouch.  Our LID Is April 27, 2006.  Will we ever see our 2nd daughter's face?

The final straw was logging into Webkinz only to find out their system is down for maintenance.  How cruel!

So tempting to call in sick to work today and pull the covers over my head, but hey, I tried that yesterday and they asked me to come in anyway.  (I had been sick Sunday and Monday MLK day, gave my boss a heads up on Monday that I might not make it Tuesday so she could find a sub, couldn't find a sub, I was feeling better Tuesday, so went in and washed dishes so I wasn't breathing on any little kiddies.  Just contaminated every tray and dish in the place, that's all.  Just kidding...).

Oh well, I knew there was a reason Doug made some fantastic chocolate chip cookies late last night.  Breakfast!