25 Little Things that Went Wrong Today

1. Noise from the pharmacy's construction dumpter started aroun 6:50am...
2. and continued until 8:10am, when I got up...
3. after noticing that the I'd turned the alarm on, but it was set for 11.
4. I didn't have the address for the person I wanted to send cookies to.
5. I sat at the end of the train that would be convenient for changing to the green line, but missed Park Street...
6. and went to Downtown Crossing and had to walk back the length of the train.
7. The dry cleaner told me that my (concert) skirt wouldn't be ready until 4:30 or 5pm. (Good thing I didn't have to sing the 3pm concert!)
8. I couldn't get motivated enough to get any work done.
9. No one had exactly looked at the driving directions for getting to the holiday party (but we found the right street eventually).
10. Someone left tomato sauce on the stove, on high, unattended. It boiled and splashed onto my just-completed Lopi Lite sweater. (Luckily, I could clean all of it off.)
11. I had to sing soprano when a few of us sang carols. I'm getting over being sick and it was too high.
12. Several people who wanted to hear us sing missed it.
13. When I needed to hurry to leave the party, the people I was walking with dawdled.
14. I still had to iron my (concert) blouse when I got home.
15. That took longer than I thought it would.
16. When I got on the T again, I realized I'd left my (concert) music at home.
17. When I got back to the dry cleaner just before 5, my skirt wasn't back yet and I had to wait for it. (Guess it was ok that people hadn't hurried so much earlier, or I would have waited longer.)
18. I was running late for the quasi-singing lesson I was supposed to have at 5, and I still needed to drop off the cookies I'd promised to my hair dresser, whose grandfather passed away recently and had a tough couple weeks.
19. When I got to Symphony Hall, the lesson person was nowhere to be found.
20. I found her eating dinner with my friends, but the restaurant was out of creme broule.
21. I had my quasi-lesson, but it meant skipping concert warm-up, and important announcements like changes in the sits-and-stands.
22. I didn't have time to grab music for the first half of the concert, so I sang from memory and read off of other people's scores to supplement.
23. I got music for the second half, but I forgot to bring my scarf or hat for White Christmas.
24. I never had a chance to take a picture of the Lopi Lite Pullover.
25. People were not as impressed with the sweater as I was. It's vain to expect compliments, but I was so proud of myself.

However, some things went right today.

1. People ate every last piece of the rugelach.
   
2. The Jews were especially impressed with the rugelach.
   
3. People thought we sang well at the holiday party.
   
4. I had a blast singing my last concert (ever?) with Keith Lockhart.
   
5. I got an Elvis smoothie on the way home.
   

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"