Today started off normally. Got up, sent the oldest to school and had breakfast.  Ended up rushed, as usual, and missed my tea.  Now, I don’t drink coffee.  But some caffeine is necessary in my life.  Unfortunately, so is dressing and brushing my teeth, all things that preempted any time I had for tea. My poor dh has been working 18 hour days teaching a course, and I noticed when I got up that he forgot his lunch.  Understandable, he was up and out the door before 4:30 a.m.  So I grabbed it and after dropping the youngest at preschool, I drove to the base to drop it off.  Cause I’m such a good wife. Well I drove the 20 minutes into the base to find no parking in front of the Regiment’s doors.  And right when I’m going to defy parking law and take the handicapped spot for 3 minutes while I drop the lunch off, an MP car pulls up.  So I go to the parking lot and see that most of these soldiers must be very used to driving big armoured vehicles.  Or at least, that’s the excuse I give them for parking so terribly.  So I park way in the back.  Then I go to grab my wallet. And with my hand in my purse I visualize it, sitting next to the computer where I needed my credit card to order something.   This means that all the other things I had planned for this trip cannot happen.  The Father’s Day gift from the kitshop for my father who loves all things from the Regiment.  The all…