Weasel Of Doom

It’s midnight, and I still need to clean up downstairs for the game Friday night. I should have been cleaning for the past hour, but goofed off playing Forty Thieves instead. The kids will probably wake up by 6:30 at the latest, so we are looking at four hours of sleep max if I actually do get off my butt in the next fifteen minutes and go clean, instead of deciding to play “just one more solitaire game”…. We all know what lies down that road :-)

This week went by tremendously fast. For a change, I was productive at work; pissing boss off to the point that he had to close his eyes, take a deep breath, and count to ten at our staff meeting, however, is virtually guaranteeing an “attitude needs adjustment” on the performance review next week. Do I have great timing or what?

Cannot for the life of me remember what we did Monday night, except that I went to bed around 3 am. Tuesday we went to a funeral service for the grandfather of my best friend from college; she herself is in China, but we did get to see her parents and her sister and her sister’s baby girl who, while only a few weeks older than Squeek, is already walking holding onto people’s fingers (apparently, she skipped crawling altogether) and eating cheese (because she decided she does not like being fed with a spoon). Due to some unforeseen errands, we did not leave until 1.5 hours later than we planned, and so arrived at the church just in time for after-service dinner. I felt compelled to explain that “Contrary to how it looks like, we did not just drive here for the free food.” ;-) Wednesday night we had our weekly visit with E. & S. Their little boy is getting so big! The fact that he sleeps well at night is total salt to my wounds, too. Tonight Mel came over and played with D., and B. went food shopping with S., but the way the timing worked out I hadn’t actually been able to do any cleaning while the kids were away. Friday night is the game, Saturday we are going to a wedding reception, and I think on Sunday I will just curl up into a little ball and sleep until it is time to call my parents. I am sure the guys will have a different plan, though *grins*

[update an hour and a half later] Downstairs still a mess. Waiting for second wind, but it is running late. On plus side, wrote some more blog posts, and am doing laundry. On minus side, having difficulty keeping eyes open.

[update next morning] Second wind never did show up, the bastard. We’ll see how much cleaning I can manage to do tonight, before the game. Hint: not bloody much ;)