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“As my paranoia increases I worry more and more about blogging and wonder about its role in my life now. But it’s served such a significant purpose. It’s all very confusing.”

—someone near and dear to me, 2/18/17

“Are you an Amazon delivery guy? You are so cool! Come with me!”

—me, 3/3/17

Hmmmmmmm….yes. So I somehow messed up my database connection for my website but somehow now it’s back…so hello! Anyway. Here are a few things:

1. Winter is over. The Earth is dying.
2. A lot of decent feedback at work lately. Like, from not-bosses but from people with whom I work, like making me think I’m making a difference. In small ways, but in small great ways, as ‘they’ say. I like it.
3. You might have never seen joy until you’ve seen a younger sister look at her older sister who is trying so hard to make her laugh. Seriously, this is the best thing ever.
4. Jeff is playing the new Zelda game and it is really cool…
5. …and last night was really cool. GET THIS. Jeff was waiting ALL DAY for Amazon to deliver his new Nintendo Switch and corresponding Zelda game. 5pm rolled around and still no delivery. Jeff called Amazon and they said it could arrive as late as 9pm. So poor Jeff settled in alone for the wait in a dark downtown office.

I decided this could not stand so after a very healthy dinner of yogurt and nuts, I packed up the kids and we all headed downtown at 7pm aka bedtime. PARENT OF THE YEAR. Of course Preschooler1 was insanely excited, Baby2 is more normal than Preschooler1 so was actually tired so this wasn’t great for her. Anyway. We found a parking spot a block away and I was That Mom hauling my kids through downtown with just a sweatshirt on in the snowy cold. However we unpacked in Jeff’s office and stared down at the road and continued our Healthy Dinner with jellybeans and Wheat Thins. We joked and stood around and read about the Amazon Switch debacle on Twitter. AAAAAAH! 8:30 rolled around. Suspense was high. Eventually Baby2 fell asleep in my arms while Preschooler1 worked on her letters and so I decided it was time to leave. It was 8:45, fifteen minutes to go. Was Amazon scamming us, or what was the deal? I was convinced of the former. Preschooler1 insisted on staying behind so off Baby2 and I went.

As we left the office building…I noticed two vans. One, a red van, circled around back. The other, a white van, was not clearly (or not not clearly) an Amazon truck. But that too circled around and then stopped. I called Jeff. “Yeah, I see those two trucks…” he said, but we agreed neither looked promising. I stalked the red van (baby carrier/Baby2 in arm, by the way) and noted to Jeff (still on the phone) that the red van was unloading construction supplies. Darn it. So then I started across the street to the white truck, which had now stopped across from the building with hazard lights on. And as I did so, through the swirling snowflakes, around the corner of the truck came a man holding a box…

…with Amazon blue tape on it!!! My excitement burst out of me—I still had Jeff on the phone and I said “Are you an Amazon delivery guy??” to the truck driver and he said yes and we both smiled. I told him he was so cool and said come with me! Across the street we went (Baby2 still asleep in her carrier) and the driver started explaining his horrible day to me. Apparently he had been on Marquette Ave for a minute illegally that afternoon, and his real truck was TOWED (hence this weird other truck) and so he was racing to get these two packages delivered tonight (so as to not receiving a rebuke). WE were desperately hoping to get the Switch that night so Jeff could play the Best Game Ever aka the new Zelda, Breath of the Wild. Both parties were so happy and over the phone I could hear Preschooler1 celebrating as well. Jeff came down to sign for the package and we took the other package as well. YAY AMAZON!!! And yay this guy, who busted his ass to get his work done that day.

I left with such happiness, we all had cereal for dinner (nb: Baby2 had just milk), and went to bed. What a great day!

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