Ray Stevens to the Rescue

If I had a camera right now I’d take a picture of myself not looking as sad as I feel, but I dropped it and it broke. Our vacuum cleaner also broke (again) this week, and our pump house broke the other week, and our car is old and probably in the process of slow breakage so we’re looking for a minivan, and yesterday when I arrived at school I realized that I’d forgotten my free and healthy packed lunch and would have to buy from the cafeteria.

That part of the story had a happy ending: Since it is Teacher Appreciation Week, a student brought me an apple and small jar of homemade caramel dip, which I had for my lunch along with a small bag of chips left over from a classroom party last December.

Times such as these call for this song from Ray Stevens:

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