On a Good Note

Today is one of those days when you think, what else can go wrong? It started with the fact that I didn't have time to shower this morning. I'm not one of those people who can get away with not showering. It's just something that is required of me. So first of all, I'm disgusting. And I feel disgusting. Secondly, my mini-van had a flat tire. I discovered this as I'm rushing around trying to get everyone dressed, fed and loaded in the car so Piper can make it to her final day of gymnastics/dance camp. I really wanted her to be on time because they were performing in a few hours and she had A LOT of polishing to do. But, it was obvious that wasn't going to happen. Fortunately, my brother-in-law showed up right after I noticed the flat. His first words, 'you're not going anywhere with that thing.' Thanks for stating the obvious and so not what I wanted to hear. But, I knew he wouldn't let me down in my time of need. He agreed to change it. He did it in record time. He's a huge racing fan. Maybe he was pretending to be in the pit or something. Anyway, God love him, he did it. As I was looking at the spare tire on my mini-van, I was thinking.. 'This can't be right. This tire cannot go on this van. It is way too small.' It looked like a tire from a golf cart. Once I got the kids loaded in the car, it felt like we were all tilted to one side. I found myself leaning to the opposite side like you do on a sailboat to prevent it from going over. Fortunately, we weren't terribly late. When we got home, I decided it was time to vacuum the basement. A very rare occurrence. As I'm down there, I notice a section of our carpet is saturated with water. What?!?! It wasn't coming in from the window.. the wall felt dry. It's like coming from the ground up or something. This is very troublesome considering it hasn't rained in about a week and the ground is bone dry. Not good. We have someone coming to look at it tomorrow. He'll also be checking to see why the bathroom ceiling that we just spent lots of money on to have repaired now has water damage and looks like it could fall in at any second. Ugh. Tonight as I was making dinner, I completely burned the beef tenderloin. They looked like little balls of coal. I tried cutting the burned edges off which left us each with like four or five bites of meat. Piper informed me that she didn't like this cow. I told her to dunk it a bunch in ketchup. I think we went through nearly an entire bottle. But with every dark cloud, there's a silver lining. My mother just informed me that she's in a band. That's by far the funniest thing I've ever heard. She is actually playing the clarinet in a band (thankfully she's not singing). She's performing in a free concert tonight in the park. I cannot wait. So it looks like my not-so-good day will end on a good 'note'.