Sunday? Hello?

How'd that happen?

I know how it happened.

Busy Dad has been out of the country for the past 10 days.

Count them. One, zero days.

Now, I'm not comparing my situation to anyone else's, but my situation is the only one I know, and this has been a significant departure from the norm.

You see, I've had to make my own coffee, AND turn the flood lights off and on in the morning and at night.

How much should one person have to handle, ya know?

My 83 year old MIL is here helping, and, while I'm very grateful for her assistance, it's still like having a guest, and it can be a little stressful.

Actually, things have gone pretty well despite the ve-ry large part of a tree that fell on the fence in a storm the morning after he left.

You may remember our track record with trees.

That would be the fence that keeps the Busy Dogs in the back yard.

I cannot find the chainsaw anywhere, and, the part of the tree on the fence that's keeping me from fixing said fence is too large to cut by hand.

I called a friend to come do it before it snowed last week and I made the mistake of telling him it wasn't urgent, and he has yet to show up.

The dogs have been fine during the day, but, they keep getting out at night despite Mt. Random Junk from the Yard that we built to plug the hole.

They run around all night long barking and barking and barking some more, and, it happens to be right under my window.

I think they're defective. Thinking about trading them in for models that work properly, but I'm pretty sure their warrantied are expired.

Did I mention Busy Dad comes home today?

His flight is in the air right now.

The online flight trackers keep spooking me because the status on some of them reads "call the airline", but I know it's because they don't always track international flights.

Have spent the rest of the weekend at Busy Girl's volleyball tournament.

Four hours of volleyball Friday night, and twelve hours of volleyball yesterday yielded us second place.

The kids are disappointed, but, it was a pre-season tournament and this team has never played together before.

Poor Busy Girl. She's a great player, but, got spooked yesterday when she missed a serve, and, her serve was never the same for the rest of the tournament.

I'm going to make her go outside today and serve until she can't stand it anymore, not as a punishment, but, she needs to "get back on the horse" so to speak.

I'd tell you what else has been going on, but, the cycle of work, kids, get ready for the next day, work kids, get ready for the next day with some volleyball thrown in for good measure has been it.

I've got an metric assload of online things to do, but have been able to do nary a one since I haven't had a thought of my own in about 10 days.

In other news, my feet are cold.

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