A couple of things…

First, if you’ve had a bad day or perhaps just need a giggle then head on over to The Bloggess.  Read the post from April 20.  I laughed so hard that I not only snorted but managed to have a complete asthma attack – and I don’t have asthma.

Also, My Honey is out of town this week.  This is good and bad.  Good because My Honey really needed a vacation.  Bad because that leaves me alone to fend off both children and the Idiot Dog.  So far there have been no visits by the police, the fire department, Animal Control, or Child Protective Services.  I think I’m doing a hell of a job.  I’m calling the Nobel committee and nominating several stay at home moms and dads I know.  Or maybe the Vatican if I believed in saints and that nonsense. 

Either way – I’m doing better than I thought I would.  It seems they’re all paying attention to when my head is at its maximum level of tolerance before it explodes.  Apparently, when Daddy is here, they don’t care if my head explodes.

But there have still been a few moments that have me wondering.  For example, I was in the office after they had gone to sleep working on various things.  I didn’t hear Bandit get up, but at some point he did.  I know for sure because I didn’t put him to bed with a half-peeled orange and several short-bread cookies.

Also, there has been an infestation of fruit flies.  Ewwwww, right?  I kept looking in the kitchen for a missing banana or some other atrocity, but I couldn’t find anything.  It was a total mystery until I realized that the damn little things seemed to be coming from the living room (?????).  I discovered a mummified, half-eaten apple behind the green chair and about 75,000 fruit flies.  The Bandit has been expressly forbidden from hiding behind the furniture and eating fruit.  One would have thought that this would have been an implied rule, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 7 years of intensive on the job training, there are no implied rules.

Anyhow the best news of all is that My Honey isn’t in Europe – only Missouri – so there is no way in hell I’m going to believe he can’t fly home due to the Ash Cloud.