guest post from Amanda

[ewein2412]

This was originally an email with the subject line "WHY I DON'T BLOG." I told her I'd blog it for her. Because YES.

(the child in question is 6. the "went to work" entry is too easy to overlook to give an accurate picture. Also, "went to Reno, NV for work" is kind of a throwaway if you don't realize that the writer starts the day in Sacramento, CA)



WHY I DON'T BLOG

MONDAY
Made breakfast
Packed school lunch
Checked backpack
Took child to school
Went to work
Procured school snack
Volunteer at school
Took child home
Played
Made dinner
Did homework
Did reading
DId dinner dishes

TUESDAY
Made breakfast
Bathed child
Packed lunch
Checked backpack
Took to school
Went to work
Picked up child
Karate
Emptied household trash and put out garage cans
Did homework
Did Reading
Did dinner dishes

WEDNESDAY
made breakfast
Packed 32 cliff bars for school snack and checked backpack
Wants school lunch (yah)
Took to school
Volunteer training for school library
Worked from home
Mowed lawn
Filled seven bird feeders
Swept up spilled seeds
Went to DMV
Went to target
Air in car tire
Went to Walgreens (target did not have face masks)
Picked up child
Karate
Did homework
Did reading
Took child and CAT for walk

THURSDAY
Made breakfast
You are having school lunch!
Took car to dealership
Went to Reno, NV for work
Back to dealership to Pick up car (with new tire)
Did homework
Did reading
Did dinner dishes

FRIDAY
Made breakfast
Checked backpack
Put 40 face masks in backpack for sheltering in place box in classroom
Scrubbed bathrooms
Cleaned house, mop, vaccuum
Ironed tablecloth
Made desserts
Went to work late
Went to bank
Picked up child
Re-heated leftovers for dinner
Did reading
Did dishes
Changed litterbox
Put out stuff for guests
Led Girl scouts parents meeting at my house
Cleaned up dishes
Cleaned playroom

SATURDAY
Walked two miles
Took child and doll to funderland
Went to grocery
Made Lunch
Did 7 loads laundry
Folded laundry
Made 3 batches blackberry pie filling
Made batch mint jelly
Cleaned kitchen
Made dinner
Did dishes
Paid bills

SUNDAY
Walked two miles
Bathed child and sat in bathroom while tub play 55 minutes
Unloaded dish washer
Did one more load laundry
Put away 8 loads of laundry
Fell asleep while icing shoulder scored a 1 1/2 hour nap!
Watered plants
Cleaned kitchen
Played
Cleaned child's room
tried to replace batteries in clock and leapster.
Searched for and recharged 15 batteries
Made dinner
Did dishes

MONDAY
made breakfast
Checked backpack
Packed lunch
Took child to school
Went to work
Volunteered for school library
Mailed Hal's mom's birthday present
Took child home
Played
Did homework
Did reading
Did dishes

TUESDAY
made breakfast
Checked backpack
Wants school lunch
Took child to school
Went to work
Went to doctor
Picked child up
karate
Waited for 45 minutes with different child until HIS parents showed up
Oh, tomorrow is apple day and you need an apple? Went to grocery
We are out of milk? Went BACK into grocery
Washed filthy child
Did homework
Did dishes

WEDNESDAY
heard garbage truck, leaped out of bed and raced to put out garbage cans
Put out stuff for goodwill
Wants school lunch
Checked backpack
Took child to school
Went to work
Found and Printed 10 pictures of our cats for school project
Picked up child
Made child snack
Did homework
Washed karate uniform
Did reading

THURSDAY
Packed lunch
Checked backpack
Found karate stuff
Took child to school
Went to work
Picked up child
Karate
Cleaned up cat puke
Did homework
Did reading
Played 6 games UNO

FRIDAY
Cleaned up cat puke
Cleaned up cat poop
Announced that i had reached my lifetime maxium of puke, pee, and poop cleaning to a less than receptive audiance
Made breakfast
Packed lunch
Took child to school
Forgot to check backpack. No homework and in fact no backpack and no lunch
Collected GS paperwork from other mothers in auditorium
Chased down an 18 month old whose mother let her wander out of building (she was half way down the breezeway.) Held child while collecting rest of paperwork/checks from GS parents
Returned child to oddly unalarmed mother (have additional stories re: this mother)
Went to work
Picked up lice kit
Came home and got sick cat (Otis)
Tool sick cat to vet
Collected child from school
Checked child's scalp
Dodged bullet did monkey dance anyway
Made dinner
Did dishes



SATURDAY
Walked two miles
Went to michaels
Post office
Grocery
Got gas
Made lunch
Cleaned play room
Did two loads laundry
Made pumpkin bread with child
Mopped kitchen floor and child
Made 64 mini-muffins for child's turn at class snack
Made dinner
Did dishes

SUNDAY
Walked two miles
Made breakfast
Did dishes
Did pet project with child
Cleaned living room
Vaccumed
Took child to ikea
Made lunch
Took nap with child

Watered plants
Made jelly
listened to practice pet presentation


Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I should explain that I don't blog not because I think I am too busy but because I think my life is far too boring for anyone to care about the details

[3rdragon]

Oh, but leaping out of bed to put out the garbage because you heard the garbage truck is very familiar.


And I will say that I've noticed a definite decrease in blog post topics since moving back from Zambia.

[ewein2412]

um, you might be able to figure out why, though. And you might get a great big chunk of creative misery dumped in your inbox someday soon.

[3rdragon]

Yes, I can figure out why. But it's a noted phenomenon.

I do like creative misery, in whatever size of chunks it chooses to arrive.

Class Snack

[(Anonymous)]

That's cracked. Everybody bring your own snack.

Tanita says,

[(Anonymous)]

I think I shall mostly be grumpy because you were in the state (CA) and didn't let me know.

Sheesh, woman.
Take time to breathe...

Re: Tanita says,

[ewein2412]

I wasn't in CA - Amanda is in CA! the wonders of the internet! although I *was* in Boston last weekend. I am in Cheltenham now. I get around.