Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is Thursday and I am home with the girls again today. Normally I would not be home twice in the same week but since I worked a double on Sunday I am staying home today.  This worked out so I get another day with my girls.  We had a good day together.  Lots of time to play.  Liesl has been anxious to go back to “Miss Melissa’s House”, though, because she wants to play with the kids and toys there.  So next week she is going to daycare for sure.

Dominica worked a very long day today.  Nine or ten hours in the office (remember, it was supposed to be just a half day) and then she came home and worked another two hours or more from home while we sat in the play room this evening.  She was really exhausted too.  Today really wore her out.  She could barely keep her eyes open all evening and she had to work tonight too, at least two hours.

We did nothing but watch some TVLand on Hulu tonight and everyone went to bed really early.  Luciana put herself to bed around seven!  Liesl was happy to go to bed before nine.  Dominica, as often happens, gets so tired then doesn’t go to bed which makes her even more tired tomorrow.

I was in the office again today, but I won’t be tomorrow.  Just two days in a row this week.  That’s how I like it.

I worked through lunch as I tend to do these days, now that I am at the new office it is just enough further to get home that working through lunch seems to make the most sense – that and I have so much work to keep up on that if I drive home I just can’t get to all of it.

After work I got out early and went home to see the girls for a while before heading out to meet Dan and Corey at Redneck Heaven to discuss a potential business project.

Got home kind of late.  Did nothing really tonight.

I am back in the office today and the freeze is over so real work has begun again.  Not that we are swamped, but it isn’t the winter vacation any longer. Hard to believe that yet another freeze season has come and gone.  Hard to believe that I went through my first experience with the SEC winter change freeze in 2006!  I have been doing this for a very long time.

This morning Dominica had to take the girls to the doctors’ office for their regular checkups.  They came back with clean bills of health but both had to get shots today.  They were not happy about that.  Liesl had to show me her bandage when I got home.

After my very long day yesterday I am staying home with the kids today while Dominica goes into the office.  It was a busy day for me with all kinds of work spilling over from yesterday.  Dominica was up and gone long before I got out of bed.  She leaves for work a bit before seven in the morning.

The girls and I had a good day together today.  We always have fun being home together.  It is generally quite a challenge for me to be productive when I am home alone with them but today they were really good and entertained themselves quite well so I was still able to work really efficiently, for the most part.

Dominica worked another long day putting in eleven hours or so.  Boy is she getting a lot of work done.  This new job is really working out for her and we got her first paycheck today from her first month at the job.  We got a paycheck for her last month but she had only worked a week and a half, I think, on that month so it was really small and we didn’t really notice it in our monthly finances.  But this month’s check is from a full month of her working and even though she took a week off for Christmas she still put in extra long days nearly every day that she worked when she did so it was roughly the equivalent of a full month of work and the extra money is extremely noticeable in our finances.  What a relief that is to have that extra money coming in!  Our renters in New York are supposed to be back to work now and paying full rent this month too, which is going to be awesome.  That is a non-trivial amount of money that we will be getting each month, again.  We’ve really missed that.

Dad sent this one to me the other day: Michael Davis at Ford’s Theater on YouTube.  I’m not sure if he realized it when he sent this to me but he has this on VHS video tape somewhere at the house.  I remember this well from my childhood, we would watch it often.  I found the first part of the show as well.  Watching these again, for the first time in likely well more than twenty years, sure takes me back.  I can’t believe how familiar they are.  I must have seen these many, many times.

I was thinking that today would be a quiet day.  Boy was I wrong. I woke up on my own around eight and before eight thirty the phone had rang and I was stuck working for a full day and more.  I ended up putting in a full sixteen hour day working for the office today!  I pretty much never got to leave the office.  Most of the work wasn’t too strenuous but I was decently busy.  I did more work today than I do in a full week at the office on average.

Because I was so busy today and got so little time with the kids I am going to stay home with them on Thursday again too, in addition to my normal staying home on Monday (tomorrow) so that we get more time together.  Plus that saves quite a bit of money when we are able to do that.