Tropical Rainforest

Its Tuesday – My mind is in a spin again – The last rain dropped a lot of water right into my living room. Into my living room. Sigh. It’s not supposed to rain INSIDE your living room. Worse was that when it came in it hit my ceiling fan and was nicely spread out in a wide area. Forget a bucket to neatly capture a single drip. No, I needed an ice chest and SEVERAL buckets to capture the water in my indoor tropical rainforest. Sheesh. Oh well. I suppose there are worse things to worry about. At least it doesn’t rain often in Arizona and it only caused a stain on my carpeting, no other property damage. (That I know of at this time)


In other news, I have made it to round three in my first online chess tournament! To be honest I never really thought I would make it past round one! I won the first round legitimately but the second round I won because my opponent dropped out halfway through our game. I thought that I would face some serious chess monster in the third round but, as it turns out, I am facing someone who is about 100 points lower than me! Glee! I can’t help but wonder if his opponents dropped out too… Is it mean to think that way? So far I am winning the game but, in chess, things can turn bad with only one blunder so I am cautious but hopeful.

While I was pondering my trials and tribulations this morning I was watching my kids play Lego wars together. They were having SO much fun! It is really hard to stay blue about a leaky roof when you have such angels smiling and laughing next to you. Their joy in so infectious.

Once I found my missing happy voice under the chaise lounge out on the porch.