Tonight at exactly 8:32, Mrs. Lily's Mom emailed the rest of the Daisy Scouts that Lily had fallen ill with a stomach virus. And I thought, "I AM GONNA GET TO MY GOAL WEIGHT BY MONDAY!!!!"
Around 10:30, Miss A ran down the stairs wailing. I thought she'd had a bad dream, but it was a bad stomach ache. I deeply regret feeding the children Spaghettios for dinner.
Deeply.
Now we are chilling? Chillin'? What word is befitting a very uncool almost-36-year-old minivan-driving white mother of 4 living in the suburbs? Something to consider: The air valve caps on my minivan tires are tiny silver skulls with red eyes.
Anyway, Miss A and I are either chillin' or chilling on the sofa watching the first season of Hannah Montana (before she had boobs). And there appears to be a flamboyantly gay character I've never seen before. Oh, for the good ole days.
Since I have your attention, I'll also talk about how I am SO BEHIND on my work for this week, which was also my work for last week. Jason is sick this week, and also has a back injury and unfortunately our kids still require a lot of lifting and bending. I was already freaking out about how I could possibly finish all the projects I had promised by Friday, and now I'm expecting to be up much of the night, and I'm thinking it's time to write the email of shame, asking for an extension. (On three projects. But I had set the deadlines, so maybe they didn't really need the projects by Friday anyway, right?)
Mommy Break
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I'm back, I'm back!! Did you miss me?!?! What do you mean you didn't notice I was gone? I was without a computer for, like, three whole days. It was agonizing! I barely survived!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, i hope Miss A feels better. I can totally sympathize on the Spaghettios. I once witnessed a bowl of pasta expand exponentially while coming back out of a three year old. In stages. All night long.
I just had to comment here. I work from home in a very similar situation as you (trying to hide from the kids the whole day and staying up the whole night) and this week has been CRAZY. Today I had to send THREE emails of shame, one of which was to turn down a 30.000k-word translation job from my VERY BEST CLIENT which could have paid our bills for two months, because there is this crappy job that I have to endure for another two weeks and is taking the life out of me. With the added joy of needing full-time Internet connection and mine being down until godonlyknowswhen (because I have no hope that my phone company knows it, they don't know their mother's name).
ReplyDeleteI may not help, but at least I know your pain.