Sheep Guarding Llama

A lot of work this week and very little going on at home.  I got up early this morning and did a little work.

Dominica’s back is feeling some better today.  She decided to stay home again today but feels that maybe she could have gone to work and is planning on going to work tomorrow.  She is considering that she might try to go in on Friday as well but has not yet decided.  She will see how tomorrow goes.  She doesn’t want to push her back unnecessarily.

Today was my third day in the office.  This evening we just stayed home.  Dominica went to bed early as she needs to work tomorrow.  Liesl and I stayed up late watching television together. Liesl lay on the couch with her head in my lap until nearly midnight.

I ended up staying up very late working tonight – working until four in the morning!  What a long night.  While I worked, though, I did manage to watch several episodes of Coronation Street on Hulu+.  It is pretty funny that I watch that show.

I didn’t get much sleep last night and had tons of stuff going on this morning so had overlapping meetings which is always frustrating.   I got up on the early side, but ready and rushed into the office since I needed to be home early because Dominica needed to go to a doctor’s appointment today.  So I got to the office slightly early and did all that I could to get caught up then came home at eleven to watch the girls.  Dominica’s back is still really bad today but she felt that she could drive herself if it was the only thing that she was doing today which she did and it turned out fine.  She is not going to attempt going into the office tomorrow yet as she is still too soar but she is clearly improving so we hope that she will be fine by Thursday.

As soon as Dominica was back home it was back to the office for me.  It ended up, over the course of the day, not being all that busy which was good.

This evening I had a meeting with Danielle for a bit but mostly got family time and we were all able to hang out.  We spent the evening watching shows in the living room because that is where Dominica’s recliner is that makes her back feel better so we are pretty much stuck in there until she improves.

Dominica had to call in to work today because her back is just as bad as it was yesterday.  We had hoped that it would just be a one day thing and that sleeping on it would be all that she required but that ended up not being the case and today she was stuck in bed all day.  She was good enough that she did not need me to stay home but only barely.  She has her grandfather’s walking stick that was bequeathed to me and is using that to hobble around the house when necessary.  Luckily our sweet girls understood that mommy wasn’t feeling well and they piled into bed with her and the three of them spent the entire day snuggling together in the bed watching shows in our bedroom.

After work I swung into Subway and picked up dinner for everyone.  It is exceptionally handy having a Subway that is right next to our house and directly on my path home – I don’t even need to cross the street to be able to pick up Subway anymore.  That level of convenience definitely will cause us to eat there a lot more often.  Plus walking there is no problem although we already had another Subway well within walking distance.  This one is a nicer walk and next to other things that we might was to use, though.

So tonight was pretty much a “do nothing” night.  We moved Dominica out to the living room so that she could get a break from the bed and sitting in her good recliner in the living room really helped her feel a lot better.

It was a pretty normal, uneventful day today until this afternoon Dominica was doing something with the girls and managed to accidentally twist her back and really hurt herself.  That was early in the afternoon.  So she moved into our bedroom and laid down for the rest of the day.  I still had a lot of work and homework to do today so I was stuck in the office most of the day.  I watched the girls most of the day as Dominica really could not move.

Tonight we went to bed early.  Dominica was hopeful that her back would be feeling better in the morning but I didn’t think that there was much chance of that considering how bad she was feeling all day today.  We will see but I suspect that she will be home all day tomorrow.

Ah the weekend, sort of.  I was pretty tired after working late last night and had to get right back into it this morning.  I got a little time to relax today but mostly worked the majority of the day.  I had work to do both at home as well as at the office.

Dominica and I finally got around to hanging two of our new blinds that we got months ago.  They have been hiding in the living room since we bought them.  We got five new blinds – one for the front window and four for the play room where the insulation is non-existent and the sun just heats the room like you wouldn’t believe.  These are the double cell blinds that do a bit of insulating.  We still need all new windows but this is a major step in the right direction.  No need for aluminum foil this summer.  At least I hope not.  And these allow a lot of light in so the house glows with white light while keeping the heat out.  You really need that in Texas.

I worked until pretty late and was on the phone with Art and Danielle for hours.  This evening John Nicholson arrived up from Houston and after dropping off his family he swung by the house, picked me up and around midnight we ran over to Redneck Heaven for some beers.  We hung out there until close then came back to the house and had martinis here until three thirty or so.