Walking Backwards

Yes, it does feel like a Monday. I don't think that Joe's schedule should make Saturdays my Mondays. Saturdays are best for laying around and doing nothing. Instead, I get to go out and fight weekend crowds to run errands. I am hoping my face wash lasts until Monday so I don't have to brave the mall. That would be frightening. For some reason, the mall by my house has gotten insanely popular. What normally would take me twenty minutes, including the drive from my house, will take me over an hour if I do it today. I also wanted to go by the new children's store they just opened, Janie and Jack. Maybe I'll just wait.

I would have gotten more done yesterday, but my brother had to have me play chauffeur again. He had to have the strut mounts replaced on his car and because they had been broken so long, he had to have his shocks replaced too. Needless to say, this took a lot longer than the two hours he had between his classes and work. I had to pick him up from the mechanics and then drop him off at home. Nicholas and I then went to his pre-school class, then we went back home to pick up Travis to take him to work. I went home and had to get Joe packed and out the door, the baby fed and ready for his nap (which he decided he didn't want), and then out the door again to go pick up my brother's keys from the mechanic before they closed. Because Travis didn't have his car, I had to go pick him up from work and take him to go pick up his car. By this time, it was around 8 o'clock and I got on the phone with Joe to make sure he made it back okay. The baby was then fed dinner and bathed and we picked up the house from the destruction resulting from daddy being home for two days. Then time to collapse on the bed. Busy day. I didn't get anything worthwhile done and I missed two phone calls I wanted to take. One from Maria (I'll try and call you today) and one from Nicholas' pre-school director about extending the current session. I also woke up this morning and discovered we had three diapers left and we were totally out of milk and our pantry is conspicuously empty. *sigh* I hope that I can be miraculous today and get so much done that tomorrow can be spent at the park playing with Nicholas' airplane glider and eating picnic food.

May I recommend to anyone considering re-modeling their bathrooms to hire a contractor. This morning I discovered drywall in my toothbrush. That was an interesting experience. I seem to have forgotten to put the cap on my soniccare before sanding the holes in the wall that I am going to putty this afternoon. Amazing what a simple bathroom paint job can evolve into. We decided that since we are going to replace the floors that we should paint the walls, and since we were going to change the paint; the light fixtures, towel bars, toilet, and switch plates all needed to be changed and the cabinets needed to be refinished. We are also adding a medicine cabinet and a towel etagere. Pfft, now I have been getting a little bit done for the last two weeks and it still looks like a construction zone (the drill that is living in the sink probably helps this). I just hope that it turns out the way we are hoping so that I'll never have to do it again. At least Joe talked me out of enlarging the window over the bathtub. There is no telling how long we would have a large hole in our wall if I had been allowed to try that.