Day Two

2:34am Awakened by text from bank. Draft from DH's hotel exceeds pre-set limit, exceeds expectations >$100. LIVID.

3:52am Awakened by kitteh making a toy of the shades, throw remote.

5:07am Awakened by both kittehs with zoomies. Trip one kitteh as she zooms across bed.

8:23am Wake, realize alarm was overslept by more than two hours, panic.

8:59am Load kids in van, check Frog into school. Everyone in office knows Frog, ask just how often she's in that office, get non-committal answers.

9:13am Sit down to start sifting bills, paperwork, budget.

9:38am Nearly fall asleep on keyboard.

9:40am Take break, referee fight over toy.

10:02am Return to bills, paperwork, budget. Feel ulcer forming.

10:09am Get into flame war with random troll to ease stress. Enjoy pounding it in the face with facts and profanities.

10:11am Bored with troll, contemplate hunting up new prey. Return to bills, paperwork, budget.

11:04am Take dog out, check mail. Mail, but not what was wanted. Chuck bill on desk, return to computer.

11:17am Finish screwing around Facebook/Twitter. Return to bills, paperwork, budget.

11:32am Nearly fall asleep on keyboard, take break.

11:41am Return to bills, paperwork, budget.

12:14pm Referee TV fight. Ask lunch preferences. Attempt to referee lunch fight. Leave Duck and Lamb to work it out.

12:56pm Serve leftover pizza.

1:23pm Indulge in leftover Crawfish Pasta.

1:46pm Declare the official end to lunch before Duck and Lamb can eat every granola bar and fruit snack in the house.

1:52pm Finally get Duck and Lamb away from table, begin clean up. Load dishwasher, remember wash load from last night. Check load, discover sour smell. Restart load.

2:10pm Remove Lamb from bathroom sink. Give in to cries that clothes are too wet to wear.

2:12pm Hear bed move, check. Duck attempts to make Frog's messy bed. Praise Duck, notice urine smell, make note to wash Frog's bedding. Check hamper: Frog's wet PJs. Decide Frog will go back to Pull-Ups for bed.

2:20pm Catch up on a few strips of Penny Arcade. Return to bills, paperwork, budget.

2:30pm Recognize buzzing between eyes as imminent head aspolde, load up last night's Castle on Hulu.

2:47pm Excessive crying from Frog's room. Investigate, find Duck with head stuck under dresser. Calm Duck, lift dresser. Lamb demands band-aid for invisible boo-boo.

3:10pm Pass on Yuma, head to porch. Frog's bus has already passed. Sticker, more ads for summer camps/clubs.

3:18pm Resume Castle episode.

3:47pm CASTLE, YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Consider supper, regret mentioning judo to Frog. Bemoan the prospect of being around people. Piddle around kitchen wondering if there's a way out.

4:18pm Tweet from local television station: "A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for CENTRAL VERMILION PARISH til 4:45p...Hail and gusty winds possible. Activity is moving east-northeastward." Consider cancelling on judo in case weather turns. Notify Frog if it storms bad, no go.

4:20pm Radar seems to indicate storms hugging Hwy 14, no danger to us. Keep an eye on it.

4:25pm Despite bright sunshine, thunder shakes the house.

4:31pm Talk to Frog about the possible bad weather again, start supper.

4:33pm DH calls. Take call on porch, eyeball storms to south, watch neighbor attempt to put infant on roof of truck.

4:57pm Tweet about lamebook post. Check on supper.

5:18pm Supper on table, officially running late for judo in 12 minutes.

5:20pm Check TweetDeck, TweetPsych myself

5:35pm Five minutes behind to judo. Load Frog, Duck, and Lamb into van.

6:00pm Judo. Frog practices Kesa Gatame escapes, Duck and Lamb race for an hour. Have distinct feeling dad beside is tweeting my OHs.

7:30pm Home. Bedtime battle.

8:20pm Vitamins taken, teeth brushed, songs sung, hugs hugged, kisses kissed, lights out. Too bad it's twenty minutes after the start of the new Deadliest Catch.

9:00pm Put bacon on to cook. Continue notebook transcription.

9:18pm Remove bacon from oven. Wait for cooling. Load House on Hulu.

9:45pm Visitor!

12:02am Visit over, return to House, snuggle into bed.