today started at 6am. that's right, 6am. i know, this is a totally different rachel than you are all used to knowing. let me give you a brief review of what's new in my world, or rather give you a rundown of what my days are sort of like...
5:45am-- first alarm goes off. i go back to sleep.
6:00am--last alarm goes off. i get myself up and throw on some clothes i laid out the night before.
6:30am-- i arrive at my cousin sabrina's house to get baby a ready for school
8:15is am-- baby a's bus arrives and carries him away to school after i wave goodbye at the end of the driveway. i start a load of laundry so i can make the kid's bed before he gets home from school, and i head back to my house. on my way, i either stop at starbucks for some rocket fuel, or go tell my grandparents hello, if they are awake.
9am-2:30pm-- arrive home. good days, i nap for a couple of hours. this week, i've been doing a database job for some friends in austin who have a lobbying firm. other days, i've made a trip to san antonio to do some consulting and event planning for ye olde diocese of west texas. who knew my exile would ever end. somewhere in there i eat lunch, make phone calls, and manically check my email. old habits die hard.
2:30pm-- head back over to sabrina's to get ready for the boys to get home. stinky j gets home at 3:30, and has to do homework and bitch about being 12. this takes a while. baby a gets home at 4, and gets some formula and water in his n.g. tube. we hang out, and i mostly laugh at stinky j trying to do his spelling homework. i've been making him do flashcards, and can report that he's getting almost all a's on his tests. and he can spell turquoise. baby a and i lay on the floor and stretch, and watch felicity re-runs and the food network. sometimes we watch little house on the prairie. and i work some more on my database project and try to convince stinky j that burning down the house is a bad idea, and that the gigantic black lab really should live outside, because he slings snot and hair everywhere.
7:45pm-- hook baby a up to his night feed and give him his night meds, with a kiss and a cuddle. and i ask stinky j to be the good kid i know he is deep inside, and i go home to momma.
8pm--get home. momma feeds me and we talk. i usually remember to do the dishes and the odd load of laundry.
9pm-- back to my computer to do more work on the database. it's a killer, man. do you know how many chambers of commerce are in the dallas-fort worth metro area? they are freaking legion. seriously, like at least 120. and those are just the ones google pulled up.
somewhere between 11pm and 1am-- brush my teeth and go to bed.
and now you know all my secrets. well, at least the ones with which i am willing to part.
four weeks til dallas with missy and caro.
three weeks til we find out if i can still plan an event without screwing too much up.
three weeks til wurstfest-- yay beer and sausage. no throw up rides with stinky j this year, seriously.
two months til baby will discovers the world.
one month til the red sox win the world series, again.
about 30 minutes until i check my eyelids for holes.
mil besos--rmg
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