Michael: So, what are your plans for tonight?
Me: Well, I thought I’d pack Jade’s lunch, get my family’s presents wrapped and ready to go to the post office, finish filing the tax returns, get that last bit of filing done, clean up the kitchen, and scrub out the bathrooms.
Michael: Oh, so we’re going to be busy tonight.
Me: Or! I could just veg out because I have absolutely no blickin’ energy right now.
4:30 Leave work, mentally making a list of groceries needed
4:37 Pull in at daycare centre and curse because forgot to stop at grocery store first
4:40 Arrive at door of daughter’s daycare room and witness temperature-taking in progress. Result: 100.9° F.
4:45 Buckle daughter, who is busily sucking away at a bottle, into carseat and contemplate grocery store options. Decide to go to the closest one, even though it has exorbitant prices.
4:49 Waiting to turn left into grocery store parking lot and remember why it sucks to do this after going to the daycare.
5:02 Carry daughter into store through the slushy parking lot. Attempt to stuff daughter into shopping cart, but the stupid flap that blocks the leg holes keeps flipping up. Remember other reason why it sucks to do this after daycare.
5:05 Daughter drops glass bottle, where it smashes into a thousand pieces on the floor. Gather up the biggest pieces of glass while thinking about the people who will say, “I told you so” about glass bottles. Grind teeth when 8-year-old boy gleefully says, “You have to pay for that!”
5:09 Arrive at the cash register where three cashiers are gabbing. One looks up and says she can serve me at the next counter. I wheel over there, only to have a woman rush in before self. Cashier does not bother to tell rude woman that the lady with the child and the exceedingly frazzled expression was there first.
5:15 Pay $33.00 for for 6 grocery items and curse because forgot to get bread, which was one of the most needed items.
5:20 Going ’round the bend (literally with the car, but figuratively, too) explain to daughter that her “baby” is at home. Do a blind one-handed search through daycare bag to find Cheerios to end the whining.
5:24 Arrive home. Thank goodness Michael’s back. He heads out to walk the dog (and daughter). Start cooking supper. But really, get on blog.
At least I live in Whitehorse. If I were still in Ottawa, this whole timeline would have taken a lot longer than an hour.
