Well my vacation ends today, I am looking forward to getting back to work but I bet I have trouble sleeping tonight. I did get my bathroom painted, that purple color stayed dominant until the very last inch was covered by my nifty new aqua color,and now that it has dried there are tiny little cracks showing the purple.

Jon has been out over the road for quite a while, he's been to Michigan, Washington, Utah, Maryland, South Carolina, Wyoming,and points inbetween and will be unloading in Portland, Oregon tomorrow. He wants to come home now, I wanted him to come home last week. Today we were married 18 years. Its been quite a trip!

My niece showed me a story she posted on FanFiction.net, called The King, the Prince, and the Minnesota girl. That girl can write. I just hope I can figure that site out well enough to read the rest of her stories.

Congratulations, Tamyra! May there be many more years of happy marriage to come.

Aqua with purple veins, sounds like a deep sea fish.

As Roman said already, welcome back to the returnees!
And congrats, Tamyra.
Hm. The bathroom wall colour sounds as if you should just leave it that way - somehow, well, interesting.

I'm back from a short trip to Hessia since Sunday night.
I entered our flat, listened to the answering machine, skipped through the letters, had a coffee, and felt at home.
My husband had some tea and skipped through the newspapers, and felt at home.
My daughter massaged a chocolate cookie into the carpet, opened one suitcase, spread our clothings all over the flat, spilled some orange juice over bits of it, and felt at home.

My news is that I had to have an operation last Friday and I can't get the stitches taken out until next Friday... and it hurts! and itches. :cry:

So, that's the bad news...

The good news is my best friend has a new kitten and I know how to make chips! Life is good!

I knew there was I reason for my faith in Ba. No matter how many times I read these two statement, the get mixed into one.

............ kitten chips?

That's the one! Should go well with puppy-burger.

Mmm.... tasty!!

**sees everyone staring at her**

What? it's no worse than cow burgers. Just because puppies are small and cute... DISCRIMINATION!!!

Probably, yes!

Hm, I've got a question for you that fits this thread with the daily happenings of everyones lifes, I think.

My holidays end soon, and I will have to organize my daughter, courses, my studies, my social life, the household, extra tasks like bureaucracy, seeing doctors with child and myself, and whatnot, and some healthy exercise (because without it, I fold up after a few weeks - that's true!).
To achieve something, I would have to be very organized. Actually, I'd need a schedule for each day.
My daughter is in Kindergarten from 8.30 to 13.13, and I'm planning to let my day look something like this:
6.00: getting up, 45 minutes running, breakfast with family, 8.00: getting daughter to kindergarten, university and reading, with one day off in the week for said extra tasks; 13.30: getting home, daughter has a nap.
This part of the day is pretty well tested from the past months and works quite well. But due to the rest of the day sinking in chaos because I try to do everything at once, the forenoons are often more hectic, too, all kinds of stuff stays undone, and I am under constant stress, which ruins my health and mood.
PS: Reading or doing coursework with small huiman being around is out of question. I know it's different with some kids, but no - not with this one.

Now... my question.
How do you organize your days?
Do any of you have to include kids?
Any brilliant ideas to split up my day?
Or some extra hours you want to give away?

I have nothing helpful to add, but 13.13 seems very precise!

God love 'em the bloody terrors :p lets see.I'm terrible at formal planning but loosely based lists seem to work well when confronted with kids (based on a friend who did uni with 2, I admire the socks off her)... From what she told me she makes lists, mostly in her head, of what needs to be done, has a priority for everything on it. Has the day planned does the critical things on the list and if stuff gets in the way non-critical things (like ironing, hubbie can go crumpled apparently or iron it himself) can drop off to the list for the following day. Shit can't happen forever, but trying not to stress the little stuff helps.

Although, planning is crucial if your trying to do uni with a baby. Do you have any free time in the day without the baby? Can your husband take care of her for an hour or so every evening to give you some free and clear time to study and do assignments? He'd also better be willing to give you some free time on weekends to write assignments and stuff as well... Although I remember you saying that he had to work a lot at the moment. Has things there improved?

I'll stop talking now :oops:

13.30 it is.

Ah, and things improved, but it will get worse again. Its nothing I can count on half a year in advance. He comes home an hour or 1 1/2 before the kid gets to sleep.
I'm thinking of giving the ironing away to a washing saloon. Its not even that expensive, not even for us, and saves a lot of time.

For some reason, I'm getting a feeling of deja vu .. I just feel you've said this before Spiky :?

When? Were?

When? Where? I don't remember saying. Now you've got me freaked out