It is 9:46 am.

I am spending 5 minutes at work blogging, because if I don’t get this out of my system, I won’t be able to focus at all anyway.

So far, today sucks.

  • I overslept
  • Noah underslept
  • Therefore I didn’t get to finish and post my already-late Blog Day of Action: Environmentalism post.
  • Noah had a tantrum about not being allowed to play outside at 6:15 am. The tantrum was a doozie, among his top 10 so far.
  • We couldn’t find the pants we wanted Noah to wear for picture day. How do you lose pants?
  • Then he wouldn’t get up to go to day care, so we had a mini-meltdown over leaving the choo-choos.
  • After I got him wrestled into the carseat, I found that my car wouldn’t start. So I had to re-load him into the other carseat in the other car.
  • The car not starting was actually part 2 of my car dying; last night, it wouldn’t start after I dropped him off at day care. With the help of our very nice neighbor Wes, we got it started late last night and Jill drove it around to recharge the battery. I guess that didn’t work.
  • Because of picture day, daycare wasn’t doing breakfast on arrival this morning. Good idea, sort of. Except for the part where the toddlers are hungry and don’t like having their routines disrupted.
  • Then Jill took me to the MARTA.
  • The machine ate my $23.
  • It took 10 minutes for the machine to quit pretending that it was going to give me my 10-trip card and my change.
  • It took another 10 minutes for the stationmaster to do the paperwork to let me get a refund.
  • At least there was no line at the refund office. At a completely different station.
  • We don’t know what we’re going to do about getting my car fixed. Neither of us has time to deal with it today.