Meh.

[kyrielle]

Today started out good, and then rapidly went south. The worst part of my day is actually how badly my friends' day sucked: a man who was friend to a number of people I know passed away. I feel so bad for them.

But I do want to post briefly about my day, though I feel a little awkward for whining about it in the face of that. It's still whine-worthy, that's just all it is.

It started off good! We headed down to Murase Plaza / Memorial Park to walk with Drew and did so. And while it underscored how out of shape I am, relatively, it was a good walk, even to part of the area down by the river, and Drew was a sweetheart. We'd stopped by the library first, where - FINALLY - the librarian who'd really wanted to meet him was in. (Third attempt, maybe fourth, and she'd not been there when we stopped by before.) She gave us a new baby reading bag, too. I didn't know they had those and wasn't expecting that, I just wanted to let her meet Drew (anyone who wants to meet your baby is a good thing, as it gives you a chance to show off to someone whom you know isn't finding you a nuisance as you do so!).

Came home, hung out, and then I headed out to run errands and go to the Sherwood YMCA to swim. The errands went swimmingly. The swimming didn't go, swimmingly or otherwise, because the pool is closed for filter maintenance, which had to be extended for some reason, and they didn't have it on the pool schedule on the web site. Decidedly out of sorts, I left, and went to the Barnes and Noble at the mall.

On the way over to the Sherwood YMCA, I drove through the most incredible storm. Water and HAIL (it's MAY in OREGON here folks!) and the water was bucketing down (wipers on high, 20 mph was as fast as it was even possible to pretend you dared to go). Lightning and thunder too. There were LOTS of trees short some leaves after that.

So I get to Barnes and Noble - the one at Washington Square - and lo and behold, what do we have now? A power outage! ...joy. Took out the whole area, the mall, traffic lights, etc. I kept browsing. Surely it will come on. No, and eventually the store employees give up and prep to close, so they check us out manually. I leave, and find that hey, the mall had to do the same thing. EVERYONE is going home NOW and the mall lot 'streets' are JAMMED. Argh. Luckily B&N is in Square 2, and if you know the place, you can make all right turns to get onto Greenburg. Where the lights are out, but at least you're not making a LEFT into traffic that HASN'T got a stop as you would be otherwise....

Luckily I only had to make it through three (nonfunctional) lights before I was on 217, and as it doesn't HAVE lights (being a freeway), there was no further problem. I saw 3-4 people go through lights right after the person in front of them instead of following the 4-way stop rule tho.

Sherwood's pool is out until at least Monday. So, tomorrow I will hopefully attempt the Beaverton Y instead. If I had known the Sherwood pool was out, I would've been able to do that today. Stupid web site. I swear, my attempts to swim are doomed. I've been nailed - since I got a swimsuit that fits and goggles that correct my eyesight - by a nasty cold (or maybe a flu), scheduling snafus, Scott wrenching his back (I could have gone that day, but did not want to leave him home with Drew), and now by the pool being closed. Sheesh. (Also? Not real pleased to do 30-40 minutes of needless driving to find out the pool was closed. Very disappointed they did not put that on their web site pool schedule link/page. Just sayin'.)

I go to bed now, and I hope that goes well at least. :P

Comments

[kayre]

I do read-- don't comment much, but I"m here! Sounds like quite some adventures in the power outage. Good luck with swimming tomorrow!

[kyrielle]

No worries about commenting, honest! It's not required. :)

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

I wish you a better day tomorrow.

[kyrielle]

Thank you!

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

I wish we could have a good storm with thunder and lightening. We've had a fair amount of rain this spring but nothing really exciting... maybe what you had is a bit too much though.

Hope the sleep was un-adventerous. :)

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I think that perhaps the storm that got you meandered its way down here yesterday. And, for some reason, whenever it hails here, it's ALWAYS as I'm on the way home and *gets worse* as I'm pulling into my parking lot - requiring me to park and wait until the hail dies down long enough to make a mad dash to the apartment with children in tow. The last time it happened, it was all 4 of us - and, let me tell you, we didn't really have the patience it took to wait until there was a real pause, just until it let up a touch, and having both of us pick up kids & run while covering their heads, not so much fun. Watching Chris try to keep Tim in his arms while his pants started falling down because his belt had loosened and run through the hail, now that was funny.