A stinky Monday + a few questions

So I've been on this two day spiritual high, feeling great, etc. Then I wake up this morning and have this strong feeling like I don't want to go into the office. I didn't think much of it because truly, I have that feeling a lot. I hemmed and hawed and went back and forth. At 7 AM I checked my work email and schedules to see what sort of impact my working from home would have on my coworkers (my boss is out of town.) I finally made the decision to go in because I'm working from home on Tuesday and didn't want to be "absent" two days in a row.

I gather my things together, including the FROM SCRATCH carrot cake I made for my friends and head out the door. I step from the walkway onto the parking lot and it's so icy that I slip and my feet go out from under me and I land flat on my back. I was wearing sensible (aka ugly) shoes too! Thankfully, nobody saw me.

I grab for the cake, which was in a covered 9x13 pan. The lid slid off part way so a fraction of it now has pine needles stuck in the FROM SCRATCH cream cheese frosting. I decide to just go back in the house, put my pajamas back on and stay home. My back and neck hurt a little but nothing terrible. I'm able to scrape off the frosting that got messed up on the cake and put cut pieces on a plate to deliver at lunchtime. I also discover that I gouged my cute 6 month old cell phone in the fall. Dang.

So the question of the day is...did I ignore a prompting?

I kind of think I did.

But wait, I have a few, much less important questions:

• Why is the sound so quiet on "24" (the TV show) until the clock starts ticking?
• Do I even want to watch "24" this season?
• Why did my eyes have to get so bad that I'm on the lookout for cute/non-old-lady-ish readers?
• Do cute/non-old-lady-ish readers even exist?

Looking forward to reading your answers in the comments - don't leave me hanging!