Sheep Guarding Llama

Up at a quarter to seven again this morning.  I went to bed really early last night but haven’t been sleeping very well.  Liesl likes to push me out of bed and it makes it really hard to stay asleep long enough to get good REM.

I am working the early schedule now at the office as I started last week.  I worked from Joe and Britt’s house for a few hours until around ten thirty.  Dominica packed up our stuff and got the car ready so that we could leave pretty quickly.

At ten thirty we went up to League City and met up with Francesca, Garrett and Clara at Waffle House on FM518 for a late breakfast / early lunch.  Then it was off to the Grices’ where I worked from the couch all day.

It was a really busy day at the office and really wore me out.  We had been planning to leave around four in the afternoon but I was unable to wrap up with work and did not manage to get out until just after five.

Liesl didn’t take a nap today which we tried to keep her from doing because we wanted her to be able to sleep in the car on the long drive north to Irving.  She did fall asleep very quickly and made it quite a long way while still being asleep.

It is a really hot day today in Texas.  The BMW says that it is ninety-eight degrees outside as we head through the Woodlands north of Houston!  That was around six thirty in the evening.  It was relatively dry and did not feel all that hot but it was most definitely warm.

As we drove north on interstate forty-five the temperature dropped dramatically.  We were able to watch it just go down and down as we moved along.  The lowest that we saw was just south of Ennis where the urban heat of Dallas couldn’t reach and there it was fifty-nine degrees!  A thirty-nine degree drop just driving between two neighbouring cities!  Pretty incredible.

We grabbed dinner at McDonald’s and ate on the road.  It has been months, I think, since we have had McDonald’s so that made a nice change.  Oreo really appreciated getting his favourite French fries.

We arrived back in the metroplex around ten thirty.  It was pretty late and Liesl went to bed after about half an hour or so.  It is good to be back home.

I stayed up for a while and worked on getting another paper done for my class at RIT.  I’m still a bit behind but at least I am making good progress.

I am in the office at seven tomorrow morning as my new schedule goes.  So not a lot of sleep for me tonight but just getting to sleep in my own bed should help a lot plus getting to snuggle with Oreo whom we have not been sleeping with since heading down to Houston.

I am very happy that I am finally up to date on SGL again.  It really wears on me when I am way behind.  Keeping up has been very difficult recently.  I’m doing what I can.

This morning I had a ton of work to get done so we decided that it would be best if I stayed at Joe and Britt’s house until dinner time while Dominica and Liesl would go on to the Grices’ so that they could visit.  Joe had to work today and Britt was locked away studying anyway so it was perfect for me to just hang out in the kitchen with my laptop working.

I worked a full day for the office today.  I also managed to catch up on SGL and get a lot of papers written for my class at RIT.  I am behind but catching up as quickly as I can.  There is just so much to do for this class.  It is impossible to keep on top of it all.

At four thirty I drove over to the Grices’ to meet up with the family for dinner.  On the way the car registered the outside temperature at ninety-five degrees as I went through Bacliff!  I heard a rumour that it was snowing in Upstate New York this past week!

Liesl and Garrett played outside in the little kiddie sprinkler pool for a long time.  Liesl was in her swim suit and would stand in the pool taking a little plastic cup and drinking as much water as she could.  She loves drinking water.

All of that playing outside really wore out the kids.  We had dinner, watched Myth Busters and pretty much it was time to get back to put Liesl to bed.

We will be returning to Irving tomorrow evening.

I had to be up at a quarter till seven this morning which was very early for me.  I am feeling really worn down today.

I was set up in Joe and Britt’s kitchen and working but a few minutes after seven.  It is Saturday so I have my usual Saturday work to do this morning for the Middle East.

As soon as my work was done, roughly around nine, we drove over to Waffle House and grabbed breakfast and then went to the Grices’ to visit.  We are celebrating Garrett’s second birthday today so much of the family from the metroplex came down today for the party.

After everyone left this evening, Emily and I went shopping for Liesl stuff.  We got her a stuffed Elmo that blows kisses (I picked it out, I think that she is going to love it) and a LeapFrog Tag Junior reading kit with an Elmo book and a Dora the Explorer Counting Book.  I also found her an Elmo counting book and a colouring book.  I also picked up an on sale microwave for Dominica.  Now that we know that we are going to be in our apartment for the next ten months we really need to have one.  It is kind of bizarre that our apartment did not come with one.  I hate having to buy the same things over and over again – we are wasting so much money doing that.

After Walmart Emily and I ran over to GameStop and found a used copy of Dragon Age: Origins Awakenings, the big expansion pack to Dragon Age: Origins that Dominica just loves.  Because it was a used copy and I have an Edge Advantage card it was an additional ten percent off making it a pretty good deal.

After shopping it was back to the Grices’ to pick up Dominica and Liesl and then pretty much straight back to Joe and Britt’s house so that we could put Liesl to bed.  Liesl is getting onto a schedule of going to bed by nine in the evening which is pretty awesome.

I took yesterday off from work so that we could drive down to League City.  Today, though, I am working from my laptop.

We got up and went over to the Grices’ as quickly as we could so that I could set up on the couch with the laptop and work from there.

Today is the end of the month.  That really snuck up on me.  I had no idea how late it was getting.  So I had to frantically pay bills today to make sure that we had everything paid that needed to be paid before May 1st.

Not too much to write about today.  We spent the day visiting with the family and playing with the kids.  Liesl is having a grand time with all of her cousins.

We are planning on returning to Las Colinas on Monday evening.

I have today off of work and we are spending the day driving down to League City.  I was able to sleep in a little this morning.  Dominica did most of the packing although there isn’t all that much to do for this particular trip.  Then, when Liesl woke up, we were able to just head out to the car and hit the road.

I believe that it was about five minutes till ten when we pulled out of the parking garage and got onto the road.  The weather is pretty nice today, but it is very windy which makes driving a huge pain.

We grabbed breakfast at Jack in the Box and walked Oreo and were back on the road.  We made pretty good time and arrived at the Grices’ around three in the afternoon.

I got to see little baby Clara, not even a whole week old, when we arrived.  I held her for probably an hour.  She pretty much just slept.  Liesl loves to give her new cousin kisses.

We hung out with the family till around ten in the evening.  Then we went down to Bayou Vista because we are staying with Joe and Britt while Oreo stays at the Grices’.  Liesl was quite tired by the time that we finally got her to bed.