This morning I was running late so I went tearing out the door to Bible Study without a coat, nor my cell phone. The coat was a problem because it was 19 degrees and it took the whole 20 minute drive for the car to warm up sufficiently enough that my fingers didn't stick to the steering wheel in a scene not dissimilar to the tongue-to-the-flagpole incident in A Christmas Story.

The cell phone was a problem afterward, when I had the bright idea to call a friend for a late breakfast since she lives near the church. Once I realized I'd have to pull over at the gas station and plunk an unknown amount <it's higher everytime I look> into a payphone to call my dad to get her number <because of course I don't have it memorized -- it's in my PHONE!>, then spend another unknown amount calling her, all while standing coatless in the 19 degree weather...well, I just drove home instead. ;)

Meanwhile, I wait none too patiently for DHL to arrive with my reformatting disc from Dell. Yes, my dear four year old Lulu has finally decided to lose her mind. I'm going to try to rehab her by reformatting the hard drive, but the outcome remains uncertain. Not uncertain is how painful it will be to part with $3 grand, should the maneuver prove unsuccessful.