Today has sucked mightily.
Started with Leechboy waking me at 4.30am, or rather his alarm woke me but not him so I had to wake him.
He has a small lump under one arm which meant he was unable to put the rubbish out so while I was stumbling around in the dark I ran into a rubbish bin covered in ants. ICK Those buggers bite.
Once he was off to work I started pottering around the kitchen which is when I discovered the freezer door had been left ajar all night. Grrr Aparently small lumps under the arm mean one can not shut doors properly either.
Thankfully most of the stuff was still frozen and the defrosted stuff we can eat today.
The girls were up early and both very cranky. I got them settled with breakfast but Annie refused to eat.
Dora the Explora and Hi5 gave me blessed hour of peace.
Then they went outside and started ripping up the garden.
I found a giant pile of paper Thylacine had given us last week and distracted the girls with paints.
That was great. I managed a sit down, read 5 pages of Return of the King and drank an actual hot cup of coffee.
After a couple of hours their arms started getting a little pink and I figured it was time to wrap up the painting.
Tantrums ensued.
Then there was lunch which Annie refused to eat. Heidi took a couple of bites and then stole my watermelon.
After lunch there were more screaming tantrums.
I put Heidi into her bed for a nap and Annie happily sat down to play with some jigsaw puzzles.
Peace. Another 5 pages of ROTK and a hot cup of coffee.
Toilet break and I thought I smelt something suspicious from Heidi’s room.
Go in. She is covered in poo, the bed is covered in poo, the cupboards and drawers are covered in poo. The carpet…dear god the carpet.
Cleaned up Heidi - more screaming, she hates the bath. Several times she had one foot on my shoulder and one on the edge of the bath and her head hanging backwards near my knees, she was so desperate to escape.
I cook up some mini Savaloy sausages for the girls. Leave half in the pan on the stove (in the hot water I’d boiled them in) for me. My reward for cleaning the shit up.
Time to face that bedroom.
First I throw out our complete May Gibbs collection - poo, our entire Dr Seuss collection and Peter Rabbit - again poo. Stealed myself to clean the two bedtime books because I didn’t want to face bedtime tonight without them.
Then I wipe down the furniture. In the process i manage to spill 1/4 bucket of water down the insides of the heater. I’ve turned it upside down to drain out but still a little worried about using it.
Attempted to clean the carpet but it is still gross and stinky. Have initiated a transfer of funds from our savings account so I can hire a proper carpet cleaner tomorrow.
Now have giant tub of cloths and towels soaking in bleach.
Cleaning the room all finished I clean up me and go for my special sausage treat. Discover those damn ants have invaded the stove and my sausages are no longer red but black from the covering of ants. Took me so long to clean the room the boiling hot water had cooled off.
Put kettle on. Make another coffee, ignore no caffine after midday rule and use the real stuff.
Pull out bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough from fridge and eat that instead.
Try to post my story online but computer keeps turning itself off. Find fan, plug in, turn it on computer and now PC runs fine. Assume one of the three internal fans has decided to kick the bucket. Hope it is not the one we just replaced.
Leechboy has a doc appointment for 9am tomorrow to check the lump under his arm.
Tonight is meant to be regular weekly dinner with FIL but I’ve cancelled.
Once the girls are asleep I’m going to find my fav. blankie, pillow and one of Leechboys shirts and watch NCIS and the OC. If anything interfers with that plan Og damn well better Smite!
