All Work and No Play...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

This is what I thought in my head this morning as I woke up realizing that today I have to do ALL the cleaning by Thursday.  Tomorrow I'm driving Nick to work, completing some shopping, picking up Nick, picking up Mom, and starting the cooking for Thursday, so there will be no time tomorrow...

Upstairs, downstairs, toilets, laundry, dishes...no time for Just Dance today...

Hold it...

What?  There's NO time!

There will be time this evening.

But I'll be SO tired!

Really?  I feel like we have this conversation all the time.

We do.

OK, then.  What am I about to say?

Fat doesn't care that you're "too busy" to work out.  But...what about Bear's bedtime?

She does just fine waiting up for you.  She was even super happy last night while you cuddled as a family on the couch watching Scare Tactics and Urban Legends on SyFy...I still can't believe they renamed it that...arg.

OK...OK...you win.  I'll work out after all the cleaning is done.

In my case, all work and no play makes Katie a large lady.  Having this big house is a big blessing in a lot of ways, but it really sucks being the only family out here right now.  I miss my family, I'm out in the middle of nowhere all alone most of the day (sometimes quite late in the day if Nick is consulting), and I clean...a lot.  When I don't clean, it sucks even worse because the work piles up and then I have more to do than if it was maintained.  Since I was so sick last week, I didn't clean and now we have 17 people coming out here to our home on Thursday and the place isn't anywhere near ready.

My little bugaboo is certainly a good help, though.  No, she doesn't do the dishes or fold the clothes or pick up her toys, but she is so independent and happy, she makes my cleaning work a little easier.

OK...you're stalling now.

Yeah, I know.

Get to it!

OK!  OK!  Pushy much?

*grins a bossy grin*