What a DAY!

So, I wish you all could have seen me today....if you can imagine, I was loaded down to the T trying to get to school on time....I was bringing extra "stuff" to do our photogram in Design 1.....jar lids, lace, tissue paper, ribbon, crystal plates, anything that was "sheer." All this was in addition to my normal HUGE bag of art supplies that fits over my shoulder and is about 2 1/2 feet wide, plus my art case with all my other artist tools (aka a tackle box). It was quite comical as I kept dropping stuff on my way out to the car. My earring popped off and fell somewhere on the driveway as one of my bags whizzed past my ear. So I'm on my knees looking under the car, we are already 10 minutes late getting out the door and Jennifer is calmly saying, "Mom, it's okay. You'll find it." Not that I was in a PaNiC, I'm sure she was interpreting the look on my face as sheer "freak out" but this earring was one that I had bought in Hawaii at the swap meet in the Aloha stadium, which means I only paid $4 for them. So I am digging around in the cracks of the driveway looking for the lost earring, no actually I am digging around in the grass that has grown in the cracks of the driveway. Five minutes later.....nothing......I jump in the car and head to school. Halfway there I pray for a parking place (if you are late you have to park way out by the hospital and hike to class). Found a great parking place right up front.....juggle everything up a huge flight of stairs....watch Jenny take two stairs at a time and then smile down at me as I am just making the first landing.....huff, puff, huff, puff......everything is falling off my shoulders. I'm telling myself, "stay calm, don't lose it in front of Jenny." I wasn't really trying to be super MOM, I just didn't want to hear her laugh at me! I made it to class with seconds to spare and just put my head down on the table to wait for our exercise in the darkroom. At this point I'm thinking "what have I done to myself? What crazy notion made me start school?" I prayed for my earring.....I'm almost sure that it is stuck in my tire since I had to take off without finding it. There is no happy ending here of course. As of this writing tonight I still haven't found it....but my juggling act continued throughout the day. We left class to go downstairs to the darkroom where I created 4 photograms, then had to juggle all my supplies plus 4 wet photograms back up the stairs!!! Needless to say I was the last one back to class. I managed to get to the car after class, ran to Hobby Lobby to buy more paint and a big hole punch for the next project that's due and spent the day painting out grayscale swatches, which, by the way, are lying all over the house to dry. Dad's gone to bed and I suddenly have this vision of him climbing over Mt. Everest to get there. Now I have to go pack up all the boxes I left out in my room from early this morning when I was digging for "stuff." I'm tired..........