Included in today were:
Sleeping in
Making breakfast for 3 kids
Eating breakfast
90 minutes of peaceful driving while Gleek & Patches watched a movie (Link stayed home with Howard)
20 minutes of “When will we get there?” and “are we there yet?”
1 hour of visiting with my sister in law while Gleek, Patches, & Kiki played on a Mcdonald’s playground.
10 minutes of negotiation wherin Kiki tried to get me to promise to buy her a laptop for her next birthday. Or at least a portable dvd player. But she’d settle for an ipod or a Nintendo DS if she really has to. Her birthday isn’t until May and our budget is still tight, I made no promises.
40 minutes of peaceful driving while 3 kids watched a movie.
45 minutes of stressful driving in pouring rain while the cars in front of me sprayed up a mist so thick that visibility was uncomfortably short.
1 back seat squabble which included fruit snacks flying all over the car and two girls both howling as loud as they could.
45 minutes of driving with no rain, but lots of stop and go traffic because people in Utah don’t know how to drive in the rain. I personally passed one overturned truck with accompanying bulldozer to push debris off the freeway. I also passed at least 5 other fender bender type accidents. The radio traffic reports told me about at least two other overturned trucks blocking freeways.
Kiki declaring (5 blocks from home and as part of yet another squabble with Gleek) that she’d rather walk than stay in the car for another minute.
Me pulling over to let Kiki walk. Probably shouldn’t have done that.
Poop in pants which I had to clean up.
Kiki and I yelling at each other and both crying because we were both strung out, exhausted. We pushed each other’s buttons and hurt each other’s feelings. We are so much alike. Poor Howard had to put up with us both.
Snuggles with Kiki where we both apologized and made it all better.
More Kiki snuggles with a movie to watch.
Assorted crankiness from all the other kids for the duration of the afternoon. They were all sniping at each other deliberately attempting to annoy.
Too little patience from me.
The sudden death of the laser printer we’ve had for 13 years now and have used to print all of the Schlock Mercenary scripts. There was a power outage today which apparently killed it dead. It won’t turn on at all.
The purchase of a shiny new laser printer from Amazon.com. It’ll arrive on Thursday.
On the menu for tomorrow:
Preorders open.
Kids go back to school.
I run a church luncheon.
Kiki and Link have lessons in the afternoon.
People keep telling me life gets easier when the kids get older…
Somehow I disbelive that.
And there were actually 2 power outages – one probably while you guys were gone, and then the other one later on. It killed my fancy-pants keyboard, but my husband came home and fixed it – something in the BIOS went crazy and turned off my PS2 port. Maybe Howard would know what that means, and would know if your computer decided to ignore its printer port?
People keep telling me life gets easier when the kids get older…
Somehow I disbelive that.
And there were actually 2 power outages – one probably while you guys were gone, and then the other one later on. It killed my fancy-pants keyboard, but my husband came home and fixed it – something in the BIOS went crazy and turned off my PS2 port. Maybe Howard would know what that means, and would know if your computer decided to ignore its printer port?
The printer won’t turn on. It’s dee-ee-ay-dee dead.
(Probably the power supply.)
The printer won’t turn on. It’s dee-ee-ay-dee dead.
(Probably the power supply.)
I forget how old Kiki is. I know you already have the kids do house chores, so you can’t bribe her to do chores with the DS or whatever for her birthday. Depending on how old she is, she may be able to do chores for neighbors (in exchange for money), or maybe for the Church (in exchange for your good will). If she’s too young for that, well it’s never too young to learn that life is sometimes like an empty box of chocolates. 🙁 Though I do trust that you’ll come up with some much more elegant life lesson if it does come to that.
BTW, iPod Shuffles are currently $79, they’ve been coming down in price, and they’re really small and cute. That’s probably the cheapest of the items you/Kiki mentioned.
I forget how old Kiki is. I know you already have the kids do house chores, so you can’t bribe her to do chores with the DS or whatever for her birthday. Depending on how old she is, she may be able to do chores for neighbors (in exchange for money), or maybe for the Church (in exchange for your good will). If she’s too young for that, well it’s never too young to learn that life is sometimes like an empty box of chocolates. 🙁 Though I do trust that you’ll come up with some much more elegant life lesson if it does come to that.
BTW, iPod Shuffles are currently $79, they’ve been coming down in price, and they’re really small and cute. That’s probably the cheapest of the items you/Kiki mentioned.
Whoah… the power outages happened that far north?? I’m down in Provo, south of BYU campus, and we had those same two power outages today, around 2:00. Crazy… Any idea what caused them?
Whoah… the power outages happened that far north?? I’m down in Provo, south of BYU campus, and we had those same two power outages today, around 2:00. Crazy… Any idea what caused them?
WHen you pulled over… Did she get out and walk?
If so, it SHOULD be a life lesson in “not saying something unless you actually mean it”… If not, then it’s a lesson in “Momma don’t play”…
And no matter how many times I read it, I just can’t fit “Kiki and I yelling at each other” into my head…
Hope Tuesday is a bit calmer for having worked out all the cranky today…
I look forward to putting my bit in to help with the printer/whatever else you get after that…
Lets see if we can’t flood you folks, and even get Kiki something pretty sweet for her b-day…
WHen you pulled over… Did she get out and walk?
If so, it SHOULD be a life lesson in “not saying something unless you actually mean it”… If not, then it’s a lesson in “Momma don’t play”…
And no matter how many times I read it, I just can’t fit “Kiki and I yelling at each other” into my head…
Hope Tuesday is a bit calmer for having worked out all the cranky today…
I look forward to putting my bit in to help with the printer/whatever else you get after that…
Lets see if we can’t flood you folks, and even get Kiki something pretty sweet for her b-day…
Ooh, yuck-o-patootie. Our printer turns itself off all the time, but at least it works (kind of).
Ooh, yuck-o-patootie. Our printer turns itself off all the time, but at least it works (kind of).
Monday Oct 16…
Oh, I dunno – I’m not sure how far 5 blocks is where you live, but it’s local. I think kids, once old enough to cross the road etc., which I understand your Kiki is, should have to live with the consequences of rash comments like that. If it was still raining, so much the better…
But I’m delighted to read this bit.
Monday Oct 16…
Oh, I dunno – I’m not sure how far 5 blocks is where you live, but it’s local. I think kids, once old enough to cross the road etc., which I understand your Kiki is, should have to live with the consequences of rash comments like that. If it was still raining, so much the better…
But I’m delighted to read this bit.