3:45AM Husband’s alarm clock goes off, reminding him to get his ass up and out of bed, get showered and dressed and drive to the airport for a 5:58am flight to Atlanta. Daytrip, down and back same day, just for added sleep depravity.
5:15AM Wide awake. Sooo awake. Roll over and check the morning’s news on my phone, refusing to get up. Shut the hell up, baby birds in the raingutter.
7:45AM Oh, apparently I did go back to sleep. Now I’ve got to get up.
8:15AM Realize that I do not own a little black dress that fits my ass. Awesome.
8:45AM Think that perhaps I should feed the boys breakfast before we leave in 10 minutes for daycamp. Oh, and fix their lunch. Find the lunchboxes? And swimsuits.
9:10AM leave for daycamp.
9:15AM Beg the daycamp counselor for the extended care option just for the day. Also beg her to please transfer Drew from daycamp to swimteam practice (within the same facility) at 5pm.
9:30AM arrive at the Sprint Store, where they spend an hour and ten minutes working on fixing my phone. Again.
10:55AM arrive at work, just in time for an 11AM meeting.
12:15PM emerge from meeting. Give someone money to grab some lunch for me. Work on project that was due Friday.
1:03PM cram Subway sandwich in my craw, go to meeting still chewing.
1:30PM go back to working on overdue project.
2:15 leave project behind with someone else to work on, drive like a Banshee to an Episcopal church in downtown Kansas City, for a funeral.
2:18PM Identify what is rattling around on the floor of the car: the can of spray sunscreen that was supposed to go to daycamp with the boys. Realize they probably spent several hours at the pool without any sunscreen. Awesome.
3-4:45PM Funeral. High church, mass, communion, the whole nine yards. It is beautiful. Heartbreakingly, realize that a friend who is also attending the funeral is faced with answering the question "How are you?" with "Well, this morning I found out I have cancer."
5:02PM leave downtown. Or at least, get on the highway thinking I am leaving downtown, along with half the city.
5:37PM Arrive at back daycamp. Will melts down immediately, totally red-faced with sunburn. Drew is at swimteam practice, and you can see the red glow from his skin from underneath the water. Buy an extraordinarily overpriced mango smoothie with a protein boost and a Powerbar from the Café to try and stave off the melting down.
5:40PM sit in the shade by the side of the pool where swimteam is practicing. Take off shoes and breathe for a minute.
6:00PM Swimteam practice is over. Drew commences with the melting down.
6:10PM make a judgement call that soccer practice isn’t going to happen tonight.
6:35PM Arrive back at home, and decide that dinner will be a frozen pizza. Pour wine.
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The good news is that I thought ahead and arranged for a neighbor kid to let the dog out mid-afternoon. I can’t remember to put sunscreen on my kids, but I can remember that the dog cannot go 10 hours without peeing.
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