Off Schedule
So I came upstairs at 10. Needed to check my work mail & reply to a few personal e-mails. My plan was then to hurry back downstairs to watch TV and maybe doze a bit before E gets up for her midnight feeding. Well, it is 11:41 and I have yet to make it back downstairs!! Story of my day.
Went to the commissary to pick up a couple things. I allotted 15 minutes for the trip. 45 minutes later…
Went into the office to finish off the newsletter & get it printed so office staff could staple, fold, stuff & mail. Planned to be out by one, at the latest. Left at 5:30. On the up-side, part of the reason I didn’t leave when I planned to was that E was having a great day back in the day care. I was a little worried when I dropped her off as one of the ladies she doesn’t seem to like was there & the other one has only been there once. I heard her yell, rather loduly, just twice–once when she decided she was finally ready to eat (I had just tried five minutes earlier–heaven forbid she eat when someone else suggests it!! LOL) and once, for just a few seconds, right before she dropped off to sleep (rather normal for her). Tuesday I tried to put her in there but she would just have none of it. Yesterday was pretty good too.
So I left at 5:30 to go to dinner with a friend from the office. Planned to have her home by 7:00. Dropped her off at 7:50.
Did bedtime routine with E, put her down and started reading. Planned to read for 15 minutes. 50 minutes later…(good reason to go off-schedule though!)
I’m hoping tomorrow is a better day for staying on schedule!! We have E’s pictures in the morning, I need to return a movie & pick another one up (I have eight rentals on a 10-rental card left and the card expires at the end of March), I need to mail a package to Jim and run to the library. Tomorrow night I’m going over to a friend’s house (a fellow volunteer in my office) for the evening. She is babysitting the daughter of another volunteer. She invited me over for dinner and to hang out. It should be a nice evening. I really like her but we haven’t spent any one-on-one time together. I’m looking forward to that time.
I should go. E should be up soon unless tonight is the night we decide to sleep all night long (HA!). And I need to feed the cats, unload & load the dishwasher and get our things ready for tomorrow.