One of those days...

Winter has finally arrived in Washington, D.C. today! Not so much the temperature (a balmy 39 degrees), but the wind chill (an equally balmy 28 degrees).

And with winter's arrival, my brain seems to have gone on vacation. I was all proud of myself this morning, getting up at a decent time, making my own lunch to bring to work and getting out the door at a decent hour. I waited at the bus stop in the cold and crazy wind, but read my book (currently "Under the Tuscan Sun"... it's summer in Tuscany (in the book), so it makes me feel warm!) and soon enough made it to the warm(er) Metro. I rode the train all the way into D.C. and was just coming up the escalator at the station by my office when I realized I had made a big boo-boo. My laptop, which I brought home yesterday so I could work a half day from home and wait for the UPS man. I packed it up last night and put it on the floor, right by the door, right next to my work bag.... and that's where it was still sitting. So I half laughed/half cried and turned around and got back on the Metro. Went all the way home, picked up my bag and went through my morning commute all over again. My coworkers and I had a good chuckle about it when I finally rolled in at 11am, only two hours late!


So in honor of the fact that I'm still thawing out, in honor of the fact that my office building is under construction and I think they're going to drill through the ceiling of my office, in honor of the fact that I have so many documents to read and edit my brain doesn't want to work and in honor of the fact that I'm leaving work tonight at 6pm so Brad and I can take a cooking class (where we'll probably make unhealthy food I can't eat!), lets all close our eyes for a minute and pretend we're in Barbados....