It’s been an interesting day. Last night was rough- didn’t sleep well at all, and I was up and down so much I eventually just went out on the couch so I wouldn’t bother John. Poor thing was PASSED out. So, around 7:30 am I finally decide I’m probably ready to go back to bed and at least have an hour or so of cuddling with my husband (my class was cancelled this morning, until tomorrow morning) before I had to face the day. The phone rang. It was the office, asking what time I’d be in. Then the phone rang again, and it was our landlord saying that the bug sprayers are coming over. So, I woke John up and then I got in the shower and got ready for work. Soooo….John met the bug sprayer, I went to the office. He went to school, then we met up back at the house for the dreaded science class. I was not looking forward to it. I was cranky, sad, overwhelmed, and very tired.
And then a miracle happened. I actually had fun. Can you even believe it? I don’t know if I was just cracked out or what, but I think it changed my day a little. We went to a lab and “collected” our DNA- which invovled EITHER swishing some water and spitting it into a test tube, OR, using a little brush and then swirling it around. I opted for brush swirling. Then we had to mix and heat and all kinds of other things with a few different substances, and Wa LA. DNA. THEN, we even got to put them into tiny vials and make NECKLACES. I know. Very Billy Bob and Angelina. But even though I had to sit at the same table with booger boy during a spit related experiment, and although it was the dreaded science class- it somehow changed my mood. I think it just brought me back into real life somehow- away from the anxiety and the tunnel vision.
Now I’m at home, doing some more work on the book and drinking some diet coke. What’s new, right? Well, besides our cool DNA necklaces.
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