put your shoulder to the wheel, push along...

(perlandria, cydniey, ag_unicorn, brightbluestuff, and irisbleu should all get the reference in my entry title. ;-) Maybe snarkybleu will too.)

7:30am: Alarm clock goes off.

7:39am: Alarm goes off again.

7:48am: Alarm goes off again. Still in too much pain to get up.

7:57am: Alarm goes off again. Drag self out of bed.

8:06am: From the bathroom, hear the alarm clock again. Realize that I only hit snooze when I got out of bed, and didn't actually shut it off. Tell the_munchkin to turn it off.

8:15am: Alarm clock goes off again. Remember the_munchkin doesn't know how to turn it off, only how to hit snooze. Turn it off.

8:34am: Finally in the car. Head to doctor's office.

8:57am: Call doctor's office to let them know that I'll be late for my 9am appointment since we've been stuck behind a 6-car accident for several minutes. (No one seemed to be hurt, luckily.)

9:12am: Arrive at doctor's office.

9:50am: Leave doctor's office. Realize that it's too early to pick up my paycheck from work, decide to kill time at the library.

11:00am: Leave library, pick up check from work.

11:15am: Deposit check, pick up new prescription from pharmacy, get stuff for lunch.

12:30pm: Arrive home, eat lunch, make sun tea, check some e-mail.

1:35pm: Get back in car, drive over to Costco to get gas for car.

1:40pm: Arrive at Costco.

2:03pm: Fill tank after waiting in long line, head to The Gaslight Emporium in Alameda to find things for the_munchkin's birthday party.

2:47pm: Arrive at Gaslight Emporium.

4:05pm: Leave Gaslight Emporium without the things we had hoped to find, but with lots of other stuff.

4:10pm: Take the_munchkin to Starbucks to use the bathroom. Call Ghost to see how dinner with the Mayor of Crazytown went.

4:15pm: Get lost trying to find the highway. End up in a bad part of Oakland.

4:30pm: Find highway. Head towards home. Leave wacky message on nexushoratio's voicemail.

4:45pm: See Old Navy outlet store. Turn around.

5:32pm: Leave Old Navy outlet, $66.17 poorer.

5:33pm: Browse Bath & Body Works store next door. Realize they are having a major sale.

5:53pm: Leave Bath & Body Works $40.91 poorer, but with stuff we'll actually use over the next year.

7:01pm: Arrive at Google.

7:25pm: Leave Google with nexushoratio, head over to Castro St. in Mountain View to get dinner.

9:07pm: Drop nexushoratio back off at Google, head home. Talk to mystchief for a few minutes.

9:30pm: Arrive home. Get the_munchkin ready for bed.

9:50pm: Collapse in chair. Start writing LJ post about today.

Long day.