I could get used to this hour-lunch deal. Well, not really because then I’d have to get out at 4 and who’ll pick the boys up from school when it starts? But anyway, I’m enjoying it while I can. I have about 12 more minutes left of lunch. I already finished my book Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella and had an excellent lunch. A few coworkers brought a potluck of food…it was delicious. There was even a chocolately desert that I adore. I’m so full right now. My boss will be out part of this afternoon so I’ve got a few things to do and hopefully I can get a chance to just tidy up and maybe read a little, but I highly doubt that. We’ve done some excellent work getting the A/V equipment ready…I just wish we knew where the rest of the carts were! How can you lose a huge metal cart?

Anyway, I’m so glad it’s Friday. Not that I’ll get to relax much since I have to go grocery shopping and get the boys’ backpacks and so on. But I’ll get to sleep in a little, yay!

My feet are killing me. I wasn’t in the office today since the other girl started her contract today. We finally got to work on what we needed to do–track down carts and set up the AV equipment–and we got pretty far. There’s a few carts missing from each grade level so we’re hoping to track those down tomorrow and finish by Wednesday, which is when the teachers need to take their equipment. Thankfully I won’t have to be delivering them this year–or so, I hope not anyway.

I spent most of the day barefoot, as did Mrs. V. Our feet were killing us, but we carried on setting up and talking about everything under the sun.

I had an hour lunch today and I’m so used to gobbling up my food in half an hour that I had a whole half hour to read. It was nice and relaxing. Too bad we don’t have a sofa in the lounge.

It was thundering all afternoon and it started to rain when I was driving home. It was so nice. I got home and Mario and everyone were outside, chilling out. Mario surprised me with a Minute Maid orange juice (I’d been wanting one last night and he forgot to pick one up when he went to the store), which was really sweet. They’d started a fire in the pit and we got some burger patties out and had an impromptu bar-b-q again. I read for a while and then we ate. Adan, Aide and Belle came by later on and I sat and talked with Aide for a while and then came over to take a shower. It starts. My nights of having no life past 8pm!

So now I’m here, waiting for the fideo I’m making to finish cooking for Mario’s and my lunch tomorrow. I’m so sleepy. And so’s Alaethia…she’s been throwing a fit for the past hour. I hope she sleeps through the night again.

The title says it all. I was in the front office all day again today and it was much less nerve wracking than it was yesterday. It would get hectic at times–with 3-4 calls at once–but then I’d have these nice 10 minute gaps of silence. Everyone who passed would look at me sympathetically and say, “It’s boring, isn’t it?” But I enjoyed the peace and quiet.

My quiet moments in the morning were spent reading articles on CNN.com and Yahoo.com. Then we went to lunch. We were treated to Subway today, YUM! The girls and I sat around and talked about my pregnancy again. They’d asked if I’d told Mrs. V. yet since I’m going to quit right after the baby’s born and I said yes–it went much better than I thought it would. Most of them said it was a great thing to stay home with the two little ones. I’m thrilled about it, to tell you the truth. I know I’m making the right choice :).

After we got back from lunch I went to my desk to get my book and read part of the afternoon and then they brought over the messenger bag back packs we’re giving away during registration. My job was to put a notebook and ruler and in each bag. I got done pretty fast with those, then started alphabetizing some forms for Mrs. V. I almost got done with those.

We got to leave half an hour early because we only took a 30 minute lunch, so that was awesome. It was so nice and relaxing driving home. It was overcast and sprinkling and the a/c felt divine. Got home, joked around with John, sat outside with Mom, the kids and the in-laws for a while, took Mom to Dollar General and then went back to chill out with the in-laws. They were bar-b-q’ing and invited us for dinner. It was great just sitting outside with no worries. I didn’t have to make dinner or lunch for tomorrow since they’re treating us and Mario switched his days off so he’s off tomorrow instead of Friday. I spoke to Aunt Nora on the phone for a while (who called to congratulate Mario on getting past the first two parts of the Border Patrol process). I watched half of Return to Oz with the kids. They’d been itching to watch it and I finally found it. All 3 of them were sitting down quietly watching the whole thing. Alaethia won’t sit still for cartoons (well, except for PopPopPants once in a while, which is Spongebob Squarepants) but she’ll sit completely through both Oz movies!

I feel so relaxed right now. I helped Mario out with upholstering our kitchen chairs a little, but Alaethia’s moody because she’s sleepy so here we are, in bed while I type and we watch the Olympics. I hope she sleeps through the night tonight. I even gave in and let her have some milk instead of her usual water because it sucks that she wakes up at 3 and then at 6–one hour before I have to wake up to get ready!

Goodnight!