Why cant I meditate lately?

I Had a trying weekend. I had headed up to my parents ranch. Everyone was doing their own thing, so after lunch I went upstairs to listen to a new meditation CD that I just got. I really loved it, as the guy is from Scotland. http://www.wildmind.org/about/about-bodhipaksa
Basically another Celtic Buddhist. So, I was in my room, all blissed out from my new CD and my older brother arrives with his demon dogs that sit right below my window and whine and howl. Fuck! Its impossible for me to tune that ruccus out. I gave up on relaxing and went back down stairs to join the fray.
I still love Bodhipaksa and plan to buy all of his CD's.

Yesterday, My younger brother, wife and little Paul and I all set off to go to Red Feather for a hike and to see the great Stupa. On our hike a storm crashed in and we had to run for the car. Lightning crashed near us and I screamed like a girl. Not so relaxing. We got to the Shambala center during a lot of rain and a crabby toddler. We didnt dare go into the quiet of the stupa.

Later that afternoon I got about 20 minutes of reading in before little Paul found where I was hiding. He is fun, but exhausting. So, I packed up at 5pm to say I was heading home. I drove half the way out to the highway and was so bummed that my weekend was all so hectic. I started laughing thinking about you telling me "shame on you" for not taking care of myself. So, I drove my care off the dirt road and drove over the prairie off to a big pile of rocks. I ended up hiking and taking photos for about an hour and a half. I was exhausted and knew that no one knew where I was, so if I fell off the rocks and broke my humpty dumpty self, there would be now all the kings men to find me and try to put me together again. But I was soooo much happier that I finally had gotten some time to myself out in the wild.

Today is exhausting at work, but I have a massage appointment tonight with a new gal - Carol McDaniel.

Hopefully my week will be ok, or at least if I do end up getting called for Jury duty on Wednesday, I wont be so crabby.