My Day in Numbers (Or Rookie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)

Number of times I pushed snooze...3.

Number of times I checked the clock in my car to make sure I wasn't really THAT late to work...47.

Number of times I repeated directions to my students on a new writing program...872.

Number of people I ate with during lunch today...zero (unless you count the other people in the restaurant).

Number of assignments graded...79.

Number of text messages sent...103.

Number of text messages received...98.

Number of times I lost my car keys...1.

Number of times I scoured the parking lot of the doctors' office for said car keys...17.

Number of times I stared through the windows in my car to see of car keys were locked in...27.

Number of times I scoured the waiting room in the doctors' office for said car keys...83.

Number of times I scoured the exam room in the doctors' office for said car keys...14.

Number of people with car keys in-hand as they left the doctors' office (that I possibly stared longingly at)...35.

Number of suspicious people I accused in my mind of stealing said car keys (and stealthily followed into the parking lot--I swear she had two sets of keys in her hands)...1.

Number of phone calls to roommate to come rescue me at the doctors' office and swing by the house for a spare key...2, maybe 3.

Number of times my cell phone battery died while waiting for said roommate to come rescue me with said spare key...1.

Number of times I nearly cried...3.

Number of hours spent at the doctors' office...3.

Number of minutes spent (naively) thinking I was a car key and remote entry pad owner while at the doctors' office...15 (it all went down hill from there).

Number of hours my rescue team spent stuck in traffic or lost in an attempt to save me at the doctors' office...2.

Number of suspicious Land Rovers driven by a suspicious key thief (that I swear simply drove by in the parking lot hours after leaving with what I'm pretty sure were my keys) that I might have stealthily followed in traffic and scared a little (because Alice brought the spare key)...one.

Number of chances I'm wrong on that...too many to count.

Number of found keys...zero.

Number of new red stiletto heels stuck in sidewalk cracks at the temple...1.

Number of times I was glad I went to ward temple night (in spite of a wretched day)...156.

Number of times I stare-glanced a little bit at my new ward crush at ward temple night...16.

Number of times I really tried to NOT like his (DTR, please) "lady friend" with the great personality (she needs an eyebrow maintenance session--her only weakness)...I gave up after about 3.

Number of gallons of gas put in my car because it was bone dry...14.

Number of hours left until I need to wake up...6.

Me from A to Z

I was tagged by BlackeyedSue, Alice, and the Car mom...guess I better do this, already!

A- Attached or Single? Single
B- Best Friend? Alice
C- Cake or Pie? Pie
D- Day of Choice? Friday
E- Essential Item? Glasses or contacts (see previous post)
F- Favorite Color? Green
G- Gummy Bears or Worms? Bears...I like biting their heads off.
H- Hometown? The one I grew up in (privacy, sorry)
I- Favorite Indulgence? Cheesecake
J- January or July? July if I am by a swimming pool or in air conditioning. January if I don't have to clean my car off in the morning. Or shovel.
K- Kids? Not yet.
L- Life isn't complete without? Good people. Good books. Good food. And a good night's sleep.
M- Marriage date? I'd take a first date at this point! :)
N- Number of brothers and sisters? Two half-brothers, seven half-sisters.
O- Oranges or Apples? Both when they are good. Neither if they are too tart, too dry, too ripe.
P- Phobias and Fears? Going through the grief of losing a loved one. Failing at something that matters a great deal to me.
Q- Quote? "A word, after a word, after a word is power." ~ Margaret Atwood
R- Reason to smile? Too many to list. I live a blessed life.
S- Season of choice? Autumn or Spring...these seasons understand moderation!
T- Tag three people? If you want to play, please do.
U - Unknown fact about you? I once did a dance solo--leotard and all--in front of the entire school. Mind you, I was not a dancer in high school but my gym/dance class teacher asked me to perform the dance I'd choreographed and I thought "What the hey! When will I have a chance to do this again?" Then they played the wrong music. Luckily it was Enya so I did the same dance and added a few moves toward the end as the song was a few measures longer. Improvisation, kids, improvisation! (That, or perhaps I looked a bit like Napoleon D).
V- Vegetable? Most of them are yummy to me...other than brussels sprouts.
W- Worst Habit? Procrastination. I could procrastinate anything, even procrastination itself.
Y- Your favorite food? Tortilla Chips and Salsa--I'm thinking it deserves its own segment of the food pyramid.
Z- Zoo animal? The zoo sort of depresses me, frankly. All those animals in captivity seems sort of...pitiful. I hate to see an animal sleeping next to a heeping pile of their own dung. I do appreciate the bird house, however. It always seems that someone in my party has their shoulder pooped on when we go.