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The Juggle

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The carpet installers are hours – yes HOURS – late.

I’m juggling three clients.

I got a call from school that Joseph is refusing his lunch.

I have to finish the three clients’ work for the day, pick up the kids, supervise the installation, and help move all our living room furniture back into the house.

Tick tock…  Tick tock…

How do you juggle?  I suppose that’s the age old question.  I don’t care if you stay at home, work a paying gig at home, work a paying gig outside of the home – juggling.

It’s absolutely great that I’ve landed these gigs.  Absolutely.  Now how do do I keep everything in the air?

And please.  No flaming torches please.

I’m doing NaBloPoMo, are you?

Blurbage

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The last few days have simply sucked and are still sucking because I managed to throw out my back.  Lovely that.  One never quite realizes how much one uses their back until they, say, attempt to do laundry.

Vicodin was consumed.  It was the only thing that helped with the pain (and a second dose 4 hours later was promptly rejected by my body violently.  Which did wonders for said back.

So, I’m on day 4 of pain.  Yesterday wasn’t too bad, but today is, so I’m thinking I did too much yesterday.

In other news, we’re getting carpet put into our living room on Friday.  Which means moving the furniture out.  That includes a piano, credenza, dining set, dish armoir, loveseat, recliner, and some odd and ends.  Should do WONDERS for my back.

As an aside…  I shall be attempting NaBloPoMo this year.  Care to join me?

And now, I cry

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Today, in no particular order:

  • Tried to get the kids ready, only to realize their laundry never dried. Machine turned off somehow. Wet clothes are no problem. It’s raining outside anyway, right?
  • Went to leave for school, and realized my husband never made their lunches (“his” chore.)
  • Got everyone in the car and buckled, and before I get in myself realize that a tree has fallen behind the car.  Move everyone to the impossible to get in and out of expediently truck and pray carline goes well.
  • Proceed to a meeting after dropoff where the party was 15 minutes late.  Without a phone call.
  • Get a note from a teacher that I have to drop everything and come in about homework tomorrow.  The meeting will end about 45 minutes before pickup.  Creating a nice deadzone of work that won’t get done.  The meeting wouldn’t be necessary if the parties involved did what they told me they were going to do.  Which they have not for 5 days straight.
  • Go to pick up my children in the difficult to get in and out of truck, and proceed to get chewed out by carline volunteer for not pulling up all the way.  Well…  My kids took a long time.  I didn’t just stop here on purpose, everyone in front of me just left!  What am I supposed to do?  I DID pull up the way I was supposed to.  I’m the one who prints the rules in the newsletter, and I followed them.  Dammit.
  • Get home to find out from Joseph that he had another meltdown at school.
  • While Joseph is telling me about his meltdown realize that the three shelves above him are covered in ants.  The food I just bought and can’t afford to replace (they’re escaping from all the rain, I think.)
  • Poe takes pity on me and takes over homework oversight.  I attack ants (which means I have to climb on the kitchen table since said shelves go to the ceiling.)  Then reclean the whole area since I just sprayed chemicals where I put our food.
  • Go to the grocery store and replace the food praying that I’ll find more money somewhere.
  • Come home and get the mail and realize the check that would pay for said food is late.

I still have to get through the dinner/bedtime witching hour.  It’s only 4:45pm.

Hold me.

State of Michele

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I really don’t have a lot of time to write in my OWN blog, as I have other commitments, school starting, my business, my father, and home renovations going on. I am hear though. I’m reading your blogs, I’m reading your tweets… I’m just not talking back right now.

As for dad… They tried to take out his cancer locally, and they couldn’t. It’s too deep. They are going to put him under general and take out a portion of his arm. They’re trying to work out the OR schedule. I still don’t know what kind of cancer it is… And I think my parents are confused. So, I asked them to have the doctor PRINT it out for me. They don’t seem to care what kind – but I CARE. RESEARCH people! It’s good for you and keeps you from being taken, keeps you informed and involved in your own care rather than the therapy happening TO you. Luckilly they have a pushy daughter, and I will get to the bottom of it. They can’t complain. They raised me.

Home renovations continue. The hallway is done (painted and pictures hung, and some narrow furniture.) The bedroom is half done. I still have to clean out under the bed, and then we wait, because I have to buy some things. And well – purchases need to wait. We’ve run out of the small house fund I had set up prior to Poe’s losing his job, but other stuff, paid for by my parents as the owners are happening. As I type, I’m playing guard duty while a window is being ripped out behind me. I have to guard against our indoor cats escaping. But with all the sawing and banging, I just don’t think that’s going to happen.

My kids start school in a week and a half, and so that’ll be a month learning a new routine. They’ll both be on new schedules, and this will be the first year of going to school medicated for Joseph, plus a longer day. Logan will be on the big playground and PE and stuff, plus a longer schedule. And of course, harder homework all around. I can’t believe the summer is almost gone.

So, I know I’m not especially prolific. I’m barely holding it together, truth-be-told. I have some physical stuff going on, practical stuff going on, emotional stuff going on… Really? I’m a basket case, but it’s all internal, and I just can’t afford to externalize it right now. I think I’m the glue holding everything together at the moment, and so I simply can’t lose it. Yet.

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