Day Three
6:30am Awakened by DH to say goodbye. DH informs that Lamb is sleeping in, jinxes the deal. Lamb awakens as soon as DH closes the door. Feed Lamb while listening to local news on TV.
7:00am Lamb is asleep again. Put Lamb down, doze.
9:00am Lamb awakens, calls mommy to the land of the living. Marvel at being allowed to sleep so long. Feed Lamb. Distribute breakfast to Frog and Duck. Make some of the Boca Java coffee Diva supplied. Begin morning grooming.
9:30am Taste coffee. Fall in love. Decide to order own supply of coffee. Settle on one bag of Baby Boca Bananas Foster Float (2oz)and one bag Baby Boca Apple Gourmet in the U.S.A. (2oz), $2.25 each. Proceed to checkout, discover $10 discount before shipping. Upgrade order to full size (8oz) bag of each, pay only $2 plus shipping. Feel quite pleased with nabbing such a deal when 8oz of the same kind of coffee locally would easily run $20. Remember shopping moratorium, feel horrible.
10:00am Clear large section of island counter top to prepare roast for the crock pot. Find crock pot, add two gulgs of Abita Restoration Ale to bottom of pot. Feel fairly certain that the brewer did not have this application in mind during development. Add pork roast, inject pork roast with three quarters of a cup of Tony Chachere's Praline Honey Ham Marinade. Pour remaining quarter cup over top of roast, add enough beer to fill pot to top (half a bottle). Duck comes cuddling. Duck smells. Change Duck.
10:30am Lamb is hungry again. Feed Lamb. Lamb falls asleep. Put Lamb down for nap. Check Frog's training pants. Ask if she needs the potty. "No." Have discussion about big girls and potties. Frog's not buying it.
11:00am Duck begs for lap time as blog is updated. Realize this is just a ploy to reach items on top of desk. Thwart Duck's attempts at obtaining an ink pen. Duck toddles off to find other prey. Hear mail pass outside. Check mail. Discover late notice from electric company. Enter living room, hear Duck correctly identify mommy. All stress melts under unbearable cuteness. Tickle Duck til he shrieks with laughter. Remember electric notice. Check diaper bag. Find un-mailed electric check. Wallow in feeling like an idiot.
11:30am Attempt bills and budget again. Online banking is not cooperating. After several log-in attempts ending in blank pages, notice "msg=The%20system%20is%20currently%20unavailable." appended to the end of the resulting URL. Wonder who screwed up the error page code. Abandon attempts to enter checking information into Buddi and continue setting up budget information.
12:00pm Serve Frog and Duck lunch. Listen to Lamb play with discovering his voice. Begin sorting mountain of clothes in hopes of locating couch. Lamb demands food. Feed Lamb. Lamb falls asleep. Put Lamb down for nap.
12:30pm Frog and Duck finish lunch. Cleanup Duck, carry him to rocking chair. Rock Duck to sleep. Put Duck down for nap. Cleanup Frog, ask Frog to lie down and quietly watch Fraggles. Frog lies down, falls asleep. Cleanup lunch table. Marvel at momentary hat trick. Return to clothes. Sneak a look at Crazy Aunt Purl's latest blog posts, freshen coffee. Discover The Pissed Off Housewife on Technorati WTF. Skim and bookmark for later. Add Pissed Off to Google Reader.
1:30pm Hat Trick ends as Lamb wakes and coos. Sneak peek at sleeping Frog and Duck. Frog awakens when door opens, sleepily rolls over and clutches Blue while watching Fraggles. Return to mountain of clothes. Locate starch. Place near ironing board. Make mental note to remind DH that if dress shirts are hung upon exiting still-warm dryer, less ironing is required. Move ironing to bedroom for more space.
2:00pm Duck awakens. Frog comes to bedroom door and demands "get out daddy's room. change butt. stink." Diapers are exchanged all around. Snack is served. Contemplate boiling eggs to cut up over salad with supper. Contemplate also making cookie cake. Decide to do both if at least half of clothes are finished by 4:30pm. Cease ironing until Frog and Duck are safely to bed, away from scalding iron. Move on to sorting Frog and Duck's clothes.
3:00pm Continue to ferry baskets of clothes from couch to bedroom for sorting. Discover arm of couch. Confirm that couch is still blue. Freshen coffee. Realize coffee is the only thing consumed today. Debate additional food choices, find no interest in any of them. Sneak peek at co.comment for updates. Giggle at Jeff from Calgary's idea about covering CAP's Yelling Family with exploding dog poo.
3:30pm Open blinds to let in sunlight. Notice that trash STILL. Has. NOT. Been. Picked. Up. Contemplate calling Allied Waste and demanding to know what the hell I'm paying for besides shitty service. Fantasize about calling Joey Durel and demand to know what the hell he was thinking contracting all parish trash pickup to these losers. Realize Joey Durel was a miserable failure at running both his Arby's and pet shop. Decide that Joey Durel was not and is never thinking. Period. Lamb calls out. Satisfy Lamb's empty tummy and need for affection. Calm down by smelling Lamb's sweet baby scent on the top of his head.
4:00pm Notice that trash has finally been picked up, retrieve trash can from curb. Notice that bag of trash dropped in road by garbage men last week remains despite repeated calls of complaint. Get pissed. Call Allied Waste. Informed that truck will not return to pick up spilled trash. Get more pissed. Implications are made that I should pick up trash myself. See red. Inform customer service lady exactly which orifice she should remove her head from and demand to speak to supervisor. Supervisor tries to candy-coat implication. Inform supervisor of same orifice and add what he can place there once head is removed. Contemplate canceling service and carting trash bags to campus each day. Decide trash smell in the van is not desirable. Feel hopeless and railroad by lack of other options. Attempt to locate information on next parish presidential election. Consider working for challenger's campaign regardless of who runs. Decide anyone's better than Joey Durel. Comfort self by knitting one Sock Yarn Blankie square.
5:00pm Make discovery that lid has not been properly seated on crock pot this entire time. Roast is no where near done. Transfer roast to larger crock pot. See commercial for take out IHOP. Seriously consider ordering IHOP for supper.
6:00pm DH arrives home. Contemplate supper choices. See if Diva has a meat thermometer, feed Frog and Duck chicken nuggets for supper. Diva has thermometer. While checking meat temperature notice article in paper about Allied Waste complaints.
6:30pm Frog and Duck finish supper. Get into bedtime routine. Continue to enforce "pick-up, clean-up" as part of getting ready for bed. Check roast internal temperature. Holding steady at one hundred ninety degrees. Decide to give it one more hour for good measure.
7:00pm Frog and Duck are called for storytime. Story is read, song is sung, hugs and kisses delivered. Frog and Duck are tucked in, adults turn towards supper. Frog and Duck decide to manually override the in-bed imperative set out for them.
8:00pm Make open faced cuban sandwich from finished roast. Yell at Remind Duck to get back into bed. Savor Frog and Lamb sleeping. Settle in to watch House, Bones and American Idol with DH and enjoy food. Consider knitting more sock yarn scraps for Sock Yarn Blankie. DH starts House, catch sight of weasel growing on Sanjaya's face. Anticipate Hugh Laurie fix. Call it a day, publish blog.
7:00am Lamb is asleep again. Put Lamb down, doze.
9:00am Lamb awakens, calls mommy to the land of the living. Marvel at being allowed to sleep so long. Feed Lamb. Distribute breakfast to Frog and Duck. Make some of the Boca Java coffee Diva supplied. Begin morning grooming.
9:30am Taste coffee. Fall in love. Decide to order own supply of coffee. Settle on one bag of Baby Boca Bananas Foster Float (2oz)and one bag Baby Boca Apple Gourmet in the U.S.A. (2oz), $2.25 each. Proceed to checkout, discover $10 discount before shipping. Upgrade order to full size (8oz) bag of each, pay only $2 plus shipping. Feel quite pleased with nabbing such a deal when 8oz of the same kind of coffee locally would easily run $20. Remember shopping moratorium, feel horrible.
10:00am Clear large section of island counter top to prepare roast for the crock pot. Find crock pot, add two gulgs of Abita Restoration Ale to bottom of pot. Feel fairly certain that the brewer did not have this application in mind during development. Add pork roast, inject pork roast with three quarters of a cup of Tony Chachere's Praline Honey Ham Marinade. Pour remaining quarter cup over top of roast, add enough beer to fill pot to top (half a bottle). Duck comes cuddling. Duck smells. Change Duck.
10:30am Lamb is hungry again. Feed Lamb. Lamb falls asleep. Put Lamb down for nap. Check Frog's training pants. Ask if she needs the potty. "No." Have discussion about big girls and potties. Frog's not buying it.
11:00am Duck begs for lap time as blog is updated. Realize this is just a ploy to reach items on top of desk. Thwart Duck's attempts at obtaining an ink pen. Duck toddles off to find other prey. Hear mail pass outside. Check mail. Discover late notice from electric company. Enter living room, hear Duck correctly identify mommy. All stress melts under unbearable cuteness. Tickle Duck til he shrieks with laughter. Remember electric notice. Check diaper bag. Find un-mailed electric check. Wallow in feeling like an idiot.
11:30am Attempt bills and budget again. Online banking is not cooperating. After several log-in attempts ending in blank pages, notice "msg=The%20system%20is%20currently%20unavailable." appended to the end of the resulting URL. Wonder who screwed up the error page code. Abandon attempts to enter checking information into Buddi and continue setting up budget information.
12:00pm Serve Frog and Duck lunch. Listen to Lamb play with discovering his voice. Begin sorting mountain of clothes in hopes of locating couch. Lamb demands food. Feed Lamb. Lamb falls asleep. Put Lamb down for nap.
12:30pm Frog and Duck finish lunch. Cleanup Duck, carry him to rocking chair. Rock Duck to sleep. Put Duck down for nap. Cleanup Frog, ask Frog to lie down and quietly watch Fraggles. Frog lies down, falls asleep. Cleanup lunch table. Marvel at momentary hat trick. Return to clothes. Sneak a look at Crazy Aunt Purl's latest blog posts, freshen coffee. Discover The Pissed Off Housewife on Technorati WTF. Skim and bookmark for later. Add Pissed Off to Google Reader.
1:30pm Hat Trick ends as Lamb wakes and coos. Sneak peek at sleeping Frog and Duck. Frog awakens when door opens, sleepily rolls over and clutches Blue while watching Fraggles. Return to mountain of clothes. Locate starch. Place near ironing board. Make mental note to remind DH that if dress shirts are hung upon exiting still-warm dryer, less ironing is required. Move ironing to bedroom for more space.
2:00pm Duck awakens. Frog comes to bedroom door and demands "get out daddy's room. change butt. stink." Diapers are exchanged all around. Snack is served. Contemplate boiling eggs to cut up over salad with supper. Contemplate also making cookie cake. Decide to do both if at least half of clothes are finished by 4:30pm. Cease ironing until Frog and Duck are safely to bed, away from scalding iron. Move on to sorting Frog and Duck's clothes.
3:00pm Continue to ferry baskets of clothes from couch to bedroom for sorting. Discover arm of couch. Confirm that couch is still blue. Freshen coffee. Realize coffee is the only thing consumed today. Debate additional food choices, find no interest in any of them. Sneak peek at co.comment for updates. Giggle at Jeff from Calgary's idea about covering CAP's Yelling Family with exploding dog poo.
3:30pm Open blinds to let in sunlight. Notice that trash STILL. Has. NOT. Been. Picked. Up. Contemplate calling Allied Waste and demanding to know what the hell I'm paying for besides shitty service. Fantasize about calling Joey Durel and demand to know what the hell he was thinking contracting all parish trash pickup to these losers. Realize Joey Durel was a miserable failure at running both his Arby's and pet shop. Decide that Joey Durel was not and is never thinking. Period. Lamb calls out. Satisfy Lamb's empty tummy and need for affection. Calm down by smelling Lamb's sweet baby scent on the top of his head.
4:00pm Notice that trash has finally been picked up, retrieve trash can from curb. Notice that bag of trash dropped in road by garbage men last week remains despite repeated calls of complaint. Get pissed. Call Allied Waste. Informed that truck will not return to pick up spilled trash. Get more pissed. Implications are made that I should pick up trash myself. See red. Inform customer service lady exactly which orifice she should remove her head from and demand to speak to supervisor. Supervisor tries to candy-coat implication. Inform supervisor of same orifice and add what he can place there once head is removed. Contemplate canceling service and carting trash bags to campus each day. Decide trash smell in the van is not desirable. Feel hopeless and railroad by lack of other options. Attempt to locate information on next parish presidential election. Consider working for challenger's campaign regardless of who runs. Decide anyone's better than Joey Durel. Comfort self by knitting one Sock Yarn Blankie square.
5:00pm Make discovery that lid has not been properly seated on crock pot this entire time. Roast is no where near done. Transfer roast to larger crock pot. See commercial for take out IHOP. Seriously consider ordering IHOP for supper.
6:00pm DH arrives home. Contemplate supper choices. See if Diva has a meat thermometer, feed Frog and Duck chicken nuggets for supper. Diva has thermometer. While checking meat temperature notice article in paper about Allied Waste complaints.
6:30pm Frog and Duck finish supper. Get into bedtime routine. Continue to enforce "pick-up, clean-up" as part of getting ready for bed. Check roast internal temperature. Holding steady at one hundred ninety degrees. Decide to give it one more hour for good measure.
7:00pm Frog and Duck are called for storytime. Story is read, song is sung, hugs and kisses delivered. Frog and Duck are tucked in, adults turn towards supper. Frog and Duck decide to manually override the in-bed imperative set out for them.
8:00pm Make open faced cuban sandwich from finished roast. Yell at Remind Duck to get back into bed. Savor Frog and Lamb sleeping. Settle in to watch House, Bones and American Idol with DH and enjoy food. Consider knitting more sock yarn scraps for Sock Yarn Blankie. DH starts House, catch sight of weasel growing on Sanjaya's face. Anticipate Hugh Laurie fix. Call it a day, publish blog.
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