And how was your day? (how was YOUR morning - Part Deux)
Color this day frustrating. Everything I did today was a struggle. And it's only 8:39pm.

Damn. It's not over.

Got up this morning (first mistake) and rushed to the bank, ensuring that the checks I wrote yesterday wouldn't bounce and leave us in the dark, without a phone, or enjoyable television viewing. Of course, without electricity, it wouldn't matter what was on tv...

But I digress.

I get home from the store, and Taylor and the Big Kid greet me. And they weren't saying "Glad you're home, how are you today?".

"Can I go to the skater shop?"

"I have band practice at 2. I can get a ride home, but can you drop me off?"

"Are you going to the store today? We have NO food and I'm starving!"

"How 'bout laundry? You gonna do laundry? I'm outta jeans."

"I need some money."

"Yeah, money would be cool!"

Okay. So I didn't bother to tell you who said what. Does it really matter?

While they are shooting their questions at me like daggers, I just stood there, moving my head back and forth like I was watching a tennis match. When the volley finally ended, I turned and headed into the kitchen. They followed me.

"Did you hear us?"

"Yeah, were you paying attention?"

I grabbed a coffee cup. Still I have said nothing.

"Mom?"

"Kim?"

I picked up the coffee caraffe. I poured myself a cup of coffee. I added creamer and one packet of sugar twin. I stirred, then I sipped. Ah...

Then I turned and faced Taylor and the Big Kid.

"Yes, yes, yes, you are not, yes, yes, I know, clean your room, how much?"

Their confusion was amusing.

"Oh sure, you can toss questions at me, but you can't catch the answers. What a shame." With a smile I walked into the living room and sat down in front of my computer. I grabbed my "to do" list:

Laundry
Do dishes
work on editing Three Wishes
check email
fix dinner

I nodded my head in approval. The laundry and dishes I could do quickly, which would leave me plenty of time to check email and edit the book. Dinner, of course was still eight hours away.

That was the longest and quickest (I didn't know a day could be both either, but SURPRISE!) hours I have experienced ever.

EVER!

I'm not going to go into complete detail..but here's a quick rundown...

The washer flooded the laundry room
The dryer only worked on "fluff"
I broke two glasses, a serving dish, and a teflon skillet (!??!)
My printer quit.and spewed ink all over me and my desk
I burned part of dinner
It's snowing!

So, I am finally sitting here...after mopping the laundry room, cleaning 50lbs of lint out of the back of the dryer (any MW reading this -- HUSH!), cleaning up glass out of dish water and salting my walk. I did manage to salvage most of dinner, and what I couldn't repair, the dog gobbled up happily. Of course, Ketulah would have been just as happy eating the glass and the dryer lint...but let's not go there.

It's 9:08pm, and I am just sitting down at my computer to get some writing work done. I'm tempted to just go to bed and get up at 12:01am..new day, new hopes...

On second thought, I'm going to say up and finish off my list. I think carry over might be a bad idea.

- posted by Kim @ 9:13 PM