MY DAY:
Get up. Get kids ready. Make lunches. Run kids to school. Kids late AGAIN. Run home. Take shower. Rush back to school in time for play. Take 250 pics at play. Run to bagel store (days like this require sustenance). Shove bagel in face while driving and talking on phone.
Pick up friend. Hit Michaels. Try to find 40 rocks for church activity. Spend way too much on supplies for activity. Bill registers shock. Friend pulls me out door before I scream. Left with lots of junk but no rocks.
Go to Lowe's. Find rocks. Bag very heavy. Hurt back carrying bag while 10 husky guys watch. Oh to be young and hot again. Ouch. Drop bag on feet. Drag bag to car.
Go to camera store. Rap with worker for an hour. Pooooor pooooor non-photography obsessed friend bored. Reminds herself to never run errands with me again. Buy lens cleaner. Drool on 70-200 lens. Tail wags. Decide to stay married and leave without it.
Run to Oasis to pick up new Echo Park Sweet Summertime line. Delicious it is. Buy it and much more. Chat with Kathy. Hi Kathy! Oh my. Poor friend still hangin' in there.
Drop friend off. Rush home. Pee. Check emails. Pet dog. Grab Triscuits and string cheese. Eat half box waiting in pick up line at school.
Take two kids and dog to Costco. Buy way too much stuff. Eat way too much stuff. How does one spend SO much money at Costco? Buy hotdogs for hungry girls. Rush home.
Finish project for CK. Shove stuff for CK in box. Rush to post office. Arrive at 5:05. Beg nice man to still send it. Deadline met. Come home. See project that needed to be there on Friday still on my desk. Sit in wonder at why I am such an absent minded wacko. Send apology note to CK. Hope editor forgives me. Put myself in a time out.
Rush back to school for another play. Chat it up with a mom who says she tried out for Orange County Housewives and almost made it. Wonder why ANYONE would want to be on that show. Listen to housewife gossip. Pat myself on back for being a fairly normal OCHW. Wonder if I am normal.
Take 250 more pics of same exact things while holding video camera with other hand. Card full. No more pictures. Actually WATCH rest of play. Girls eat cookies before dinner. Rush home.
Wash rocks. Assist with homework. Feed kids dinner at 8:00. Type a blog post. Throw girls in shower. Fall on bed and watch trash TV while cuddling dog.
And I ask one more time: IS THIS KIND OF DAY NORMAL?!?!?!?!?!?! Night Night (and if I owe anyone an email, please forgive me)...
Gold Bust Or Dust:
Seriously Suzy, that made me tired reading that! Whew! What a busy, crazy life you lead!
Posted by: Ashley Harris | June 09, 2010 at 08:37 PM
So very normal :)
Posted by: DawnS | June 10, 2010 at 05:00 AM
You crack me up! Well, I'm surely praying that this is normal because it sounds just like my life (maybe that is why I am laughing so hard at you right now) and I am really hoping I am normal too! Oh joy, oh happy day!
Posted by: ♥Wendi | June 10, 2010 at 08:44 AM
Totally normal! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Krista Nash | June 10, 2010 at 08:59 AM
Totally NORMAL - glad to hear I am not the only one running like a chicken without a head. My friends (the ones without kids) usually tell me they get tire just listening to my list of things to accomplish in one day! BTW - add an 8hr workday to my list....
Posted by: Karen | June 10, 2010 at 10:02 AM
You're a busy lady! And seriously, who WOULD want to be an OC housewife? Fun to watch, but I wouldn't want to be unable to turn it off!
Posted by: Keshet Shenkar | June 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM
My favorite was "Wash rocks." ;).
Posted by: Lisa VanderVeen | June 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM
This was so funny to read and tiring. I think all of us moms have days/weeks/months that are like this. It's crazy but wouldn't trade it for anything.
Posted by: dawn | June 11, 2010 at 03:40 AM
Pee? Really? Did you list that you peed in your run-down? LOL Girl, what would this world be without you? Love ya! Thanks for the much needed laugh!
Posted by: Megan Hoeppner | June 11, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Sounds exhausting but totally normal these days. LOL at the RHOC wanna-be. I watch that crazy show but I'm SERIOUS when I say its to see California and not those crazy women!
Posted by: amanda fuentes | June 11, 2010 at 08:10 PM
whoo! Sounds all too familiar! Glad I came across your blog!
Posted by: Jessica R | June 12, 2010 at 08:02 AM
Uh, in a word? I'd have to say, "no." Nothing about you is normal my friend! ;-)
Posted by: Ally | June 12, 2010 at 09:24 AM
Sounds about right.
Posted by: Domenico | June 12, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Oh, thank God, it's not just me.
Posted by: Claire | June 13, 2010 at 09:33 AM
See what Abundance is; love yourself for what it is, not what you’re missing, or what that can be better, but for what it is at this present moment.
Posted by: coach purses | July 08, 2010 at 12:45 AM