Category Archives: Nonsense

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

At any given moment, I barely have any idea what day or time it is.

When we lived in New Jersey, Nathan got out of school at 3:15. Here in California, he gets out at 3, except on Tuesdays when he gets out at 2:15. Two months into the school year and I have been nearly late to pick him up more than half the time. See, on Tuesdays, I stare at the clock all day so that I won’t forget and then become engrossed in work and almost actually do. The rest of the week, I keep thinking he gets out at 3:15, which would mean I don’t have to leave the house until 3, except he gets out at 3 so I have to leave at 2:45, but I don’t realize that until 2:44.

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So Close to the Finish Line.

The thing is, the schedule I keep and the amount of things I have to do really don’t make for an easy time of writing.

I got up this morning at 2:30. I could have found the time to write today, obviously, but the energy wasn’t there. Maybe tonight I’ll gt some sleep and then I’ll just be too busy.

My lifestyle is going to be the death of me.

This is yeah write’s nomo day 27. Thank goodness, because I only have 3 more posts to write before I can give up this silly charade.

Thanksgiving Eve.

I have a ton of work to do by tomorrow morning (and a ton more this weekend) but I’m off from my day job until Monday and I’m quite pleased about that.

This is the first year in over a decade that I’m not hosting Thanksgiving. I’ve been threatening for years to stop cooking and this year we got an invite to celebrate with a friend’s family. While I used to love to cook, the pressure to put together an elaborate meal (one my kid won’t even eat, btw) with never enough time to prep is just too much. It was never even that many of us but it was too much. I work a day job plus freelance plus family and it is JUST. TOO. MUCH.

So today I got out of work early, took my kid and his busted face to the doctor (his face is rapidly becoming less busted), then came home and worked. I had dessert for dinner and now I’m going to bed at 9. Tomorrow, I’ll wake up and work and then not cook and it will be glorious. I haven’t been this relaxed on a Thanksgiving Eve in, well, over a decade.

Phone Post.

This is my first post from my phone and I don’t like doing it this way.

I am also already in bed and I’m not wearing my glasses.

I was asleep a few minutes ago and almost missed blogging. I will not lost this challenge.

I WILL NOT LOSE!

this is yeah write’s NoMo challenge day 21.

TGIF.

I am so worn out from the past few days, so I’m going to give out some unsolicited advice based on my experiences leaving the house this week.

1. Drive better. Maybe if there were less accidents, I wouldn’t spend so much of my damn life stuck in traffic. 90 minutes to get home from my office that is only 20 miles away is ridiculous. Just drive your car home. Do not drive it into someone else’s car and then we can all get home faster.

2. I get that sitting on a toilet seat in a public restroom is gross. But if you’re going to hover, please do not piss all over the seat and then leave it there. Guess what? You are now the reason that public toilet seats are gross. Congratulations.

3. While we’re talking about public toilets, please explain to me how people can just not flush. If there’s an automatic flushing mechanism, maybe check to see if it flushes. Or, I don’t know, listen to hear if it flushes. If it doesn’t, there’s always a manual thing. Essentially what I’m saying here is flush the toilet after you use it.

4. I am trying to teach my 8 year old that if he wants something from me and I’m in another room, he should not shout to me from across the house. Guess what, grown ups? You shouldn’t be shouting either. Walk over to the intended recipient of your message. Pick up a phone. Email. Tie two tin cans with a string and give one to the other person but for the love of olive please stop shouting across rooms. I can’t speak for everyone, but I really don’t want to hear it.

5. Just, generally speaking, indoor voices. Please.

6. If you get really upset when someone calls you a bigot, maybe stop being one. That’s probably the easiest way to have people stop saying that to you.

7. If you unilaterally don’t like a group of people because they are in that group, there’s a good chance you’re a bigot. Or an asshole. Or both.

8. I found a Chipotle near my office. This was the high point of my week.

9. If you have half of an Italian sub that’s been sitting in your fridge since Tuesday and it’s Friday, I don’t recommend you eat it. It will not taste good.

10. This is yeah write’s nomo challenge Day 20. Only 10 days to go. I’m going to make it. Barely.