$1 Plants and Small Pleasures
I've been so excited about our long weekend coming up...we were planning to head to Omaha, to see a Union Pacific steam engine leaving for Cheyenne. It is mostly for Leo of course, we let each boy choose a weekend trip for the summer, but I was looking forward to it as well and had been looking up other things to do, restaurants, etc. Yesterday morning I double-checked the train's schedule, only to find it changed...well, missing actually, after today. I messaged Union Pacific on Facebook about it and got a terse answer, just saying it wasn't leaving as planned. I asked a number of pleading follow up questions and was told they wouldn't know more until Thursday, which is the day we are supposed to leave. I was so upset I actually cried at my desk. Sigh. My colleagues are very patient.
Leo, ever the stoic, seemingly took the news better than I did, but all four of us were upset for varying reasons. We agreed, it doesn't really make sense to drive eight hours if the train won't be there. I still don't know what we're going to do. I have until midnight to cancel the hotel rooms.
I was in a bad enough mood that we ordered pizza for dinner (Papa Del's gluten free for me. Not bad but I still feel wretched this morning. eh.) and I dragged Ernie to the plant sale at Danville Gardens Too....4" pots of plants $1 and 6" pots $2. We bought some stuff to fill in our poorly germinated zinnia seedlings. Some years just go better than others. Our tomato plants are somewhat pathetic as well. Fiscal year end stuff at work and interviews. Then at least we get a treat and see our friend Mary Sack at a bourbon tasting at Watson's.
In the scheme of things there is nothing to complain about but I feel unsettled and cranky. I'm trying to keep it in perspective, trying to pull myself out of the hole it can be so easy to fall into.
The other day Owen had a friend from the band over though, and as Ernie and I sat in the next room we could hear them with their acoustics, playing You Tore Me Down, so there's that. And then Ernie played this video for Owen and the next day Owen had the song on his phone and was playing it as they drove home.
Small pleasures always get you through.