6:50 AM
"Joules, it's time to wake up."
"NEAEAEAEAEAEH!"
So I laid down with her to try to help the transition out of sleep. I woke up again at 7:30. Wasn't that just a brilliant idea.
Once she was up, she was up though. Eggs for breakfast and out the door by a little after 8:00. Not a bad start. We make the drive to Nara's house, and I realize that I've parked in the driveway of the house next door. Oops! Rather than fixing that, I just hopped out, grabbed her, and tried to rush her in.
I walk out the door and all I hear is screaming. Hopefully it only lasts a minute. I'll never know, because Cindy wouldn't tell me if the day was pure hell anyway.
My day starts with another trip to Hillcrest. I had an ingenius idea over night about how to get data that only prints in pdf form to have consistent delimiters so I can convert it into a csv. Just for the sake of ranting--if you ever, ever, ever build a database, please consult a statistician. Anyone who ever works with the data will thank you for it.
Enough with the self praise. It's an uneventful day at work. I'm mostly ignoring things I don't really want to do. I'm sure I'll pay for that later. Unlike the day before, I manage to get out of work in time to pick Julie up at 5:00. Just like the day before, she's asleep. Unlike the day before, she just barely fell asleep and has no intention of waking up.
Cindy heads back to the other room and gets Joules's clothes. Yeah, that's right--Julie found some of Nara's clothes and decided she wanted to wear those. Maybe that's a sign that Joules wants new things to wear. She must be exhausted, however, because she hardly flinches when we changer her clothes. When I ask her if she wants to go to the hardware store I get a half-hearted no.
We go to the hardware store anyway. I unstrap her car seat, and ask her if she wants to go inside. Again, a half-hearted no. So I pick her up and carry her. She instantly falls asleep on my shoulder. Normally she loves the hardware store because I always buy one of the 25 cent Tootsie Roll pops. It's 25 cents I don't have to spend today.
When we get back to the car, I'm strapping her into her seat and ask her if she wants to go home and finish her nap. "nnnnn...." She never does get to the o. So at home, I carry her up to bed and let her sleep. I change my clothes and go out to weed the planters in front of the house. At about 7:15 I go in to make dinner, and at about 7:45, Joules finally comes downstairs.
After she eats, she demands to go outside again. Two of the older neighborhood kids are out, but no one her age. So she chases after them as they ride their scooters. Eventually she gets her hands on the Hello Kitty scooter and tries it out. Mixed results, but no major contusions. While she tries to figure out how the scooter thing works, I talk to a neighbor woman I've not met before. We finally go back in at 9:30 with surprisingly little protest.
Bedtime is harder tonight. She didn't protest coming into the house, but she's screaming bloody murder at the suggestion of pajamas. I give in and let her get into bed in her t-shirt. After we read, I promise I'll come back after I start a load of laundry. More screaming. I start the load of laundry anyway, and when I come out of the laundry room, there's Joules with her pajamas in hand. I put her shirt in the load I just started and put her pajamas on her. Back up to bed, two seconds of screaming, and she's out. What did Nara do to her that has her so tired?
Back downstairs to watch TV until the load in the wash finishes. I never do make it off the couch again. Two loads to fold on Thursday. Didn't clean the kitchen counters tonight either. One more thing to do on Thursday. Sleep.
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