Firefox makes me crazy and other random bits of Monday

~Last night my computer starting running really reealllly  slowly, and every time I clicked on something I got the little beachball of doom while things loaded and loaded and loaded.  Thinking teh internets were just having a bad night, I took myself to bed with my new junk read (the new John Grisham novel) and didn't worry about it.  But this morning it was worse.  So I restarted my computer and tried again...and nothing would open right and I began to worry that something was wrong with my computer. I restarted it again, and tried to open other things first, before Firefox (which is normally the first place I go).  And they worked.  So I tried Safari -- and it worked.  Okay.  I've had trouble with Firefox before so I guess I wasn't surprised, but uninstalling it and then reinstalling it didn't help.  So I'm back to Safari. Or maybe I'll try Flock which I downloaded the last time Firefox went wonky on me but never really used.

~I tried to plan out my day off today so that by this time of day it wouldn't feel wasted, but things went awry.  First the computer boondoggle took more time this morning than I would've liked. Then I had to make an unexpected hospital call, which kind of threw me at first because the message I got made it sound quite dire and I left not knowing how long I'd be gone or what to expect.  Fortunately things weren't quite that dire. Yes, a parishioner is very sick, and I'm glad I went, but I think the message I got was the result of a process something like the game of  "secret" where one person whispers something into the next person's ear, and so on around the circle. 

~So here it is Monday night and I still have prep work to do for tomorrow, and laundry in the dryer and I never made it to the grocery store.  And I really need to feel prepared for the week, because it is another very busy one.

~But honestly, what I really want to do is just go finish my novel.