Just love those INFRACTIONS!

What a week! It seems like I packed a month into this one. Tuesday night at work, we had our national awards celebration, so there is a lot of preparation that goes into the evening. I am the host/emcee, so I have to rev up to be at my best. I was so proud of the evening! Toward the end, my feet were numb (damn those 'Oh Heavenly Sole' shoes) and could barely stand, but I was happy to head home glowing in the after bliss. That is - until I rounded the corner in my neighborhood and I noticed the whirling flash of police lights behind me. It seems that I had made a 'rolling stop'. It was about 12:30 AM and I was exhausted - and was only one block from my house.

After a polite interrogation (they thought I had been drinking and were curious why I was dressed so glam on a Tuesday night), I received TWO infractions. Don't you just love the word INFRACTION? One for the rolling stop and one for driving with a suspended license. YES, that's right, it seems that I had forgotten to pay a previous ticket in May for not having a sticker on my ownership paper and my license had been suspended. So - on the spot, I got a court date, January 6th, and began to tally up the $$$ in my tired little head.

I truly believe that the police have some sort of tracker on my truck! Until last year, I had not gotten a ticket in 20 years. Then all of a sudden, 4 tickets (as least) this past year! Curses, curses, curses. So, I am at risk for losing my license. Do you realize that if this happens, I might as well curl up and die? Why? Because the GERMS on public transportation will kill me within a week. I call it the Grubway, instead of the Subway. Personally, I love taking public transporation because the traffic in Toronto raises my blood pressure to stroke level, but I have an ailing immune system and consider it to be riskier than carrying a raw steak into a pack of Dobermans.

What else happened this week? Oh, to make a long story short - it contained the following:
forgotten school photos, anniversary of my Mom's death, mountains of dirty laundry, dead mouse in back yard, lots of back talk from the boys, coughing, hacking chest congestion and the warm happy thought that Christmas is just around the corner.