Monday, July 11, 2011

Not what I planned

I have three weeks of school left and I trying my hardest to hold on and make it through.  Yesterday morning I woke up stressed.  I had a mid-term that I needed to finish and two assignments that I had spent the majority of Friday working on and made no progress to finish as well.  After I got up, I got the kids breakfast, and jumped in the shower.  I came out and the little one (who was perfectly fine 10 minutes prior) was very dramatically throwing herself on my bed complaining of her stomach hurting.  I went downstairs to sit with her on the couch and get to work.  Hoping that if I rubbed her back she would calm down and everything would be better.  No sooner did I sit down she started to throw up all over the living room floor.  Of course they always happen to pick the time when the floor is in no way clean but it didn't get on anything else but the blanket.  I got her to the bathroom and started to clean up the mess.  I pulled out the steam cleaner, fill the basin with hot water, and started pouring in the cleaning solution.  About a cup into the solution, I realize that the plug was broke and now all of it is all over the counter and the floor.  Excellent, I needed something else to clean up. It took a while but I got it all cleaned up with the help from the neighbor's steam cleaner.  She settled down and watched tv for a while.  In a matter of hours she was back to bouncing off the walls and being her normal self. 
That afternoon, I took the kids to the pool since the oldest had a pool party to go to.  After a few hours we returned home, had dinner, and I sat back down to get to work.  I spent a few hours working when the laptop locked up.  It was 9 pm and I was two thirds of the way done.  I didn't really need anything else to go wrong during my day but it would have been too much to ask for the night to go right.  Finally, I redid the lost work and finished up about 11:15 for the mid-term that was due at midnight. 
I know I have abused the daylights out of my laptop.  I have had it for four years and it is on its last leg.  I am surprised it has lasted this long.  I am surprised I have lasted this long.  It has been exhausting but at the same time very much worth it.  If I can hold on for three more weeks, I will be done.  I am just hoping the laptop and the kids can hold on for the last three weeks too. 

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