Today MJ was in school from 9:15 to 2:15. Here’s what I got done while she was gone:

• Picked up all toys, clothes, and artwork from floor.
• Straightened MJ’s “studio.” Put all beads, pipe cleaners, stickers, “treasures,” and stamps back in their designated bins, muttering under my breath the whole time.
• Vacuumed whole house.
• Mopped kitchen and utility room.
• Cleaned both bathrooms.
• Did three loads of laundry.
• Wrote fundraising e-mail to committee of Winter Faire at MJ’s school.
• Attempted–twice–to reach donation department at Home Depot. Want them to give two Christmas Trees for our Faire. Won’t get hopes up–they won’t even spring for voice mail.
• Wrote e-mail to work, asking for days off so that I can attend important Halloween events with MJ. Worried I’ll be denied.
• Attempted to play with cat. Desisted, due to lack of interest.
• Washed kitchen rug.
• Wiped windowsills.
• Dusted living room.
• Removed one more alphabet sticker from flat screen TV. At this rate it will be cleared of them completely by 2014.
• Attempted to remove glue from coffee table. Failed.
• Attempted to remove piece of construction paper pasted to bathroom sink. Failed.
• Loaded dishwasher.
• Wrote another fundraising e-mail.
• Scanned and e-mailed banking forms for our life insurance company. We fell victim to fraud again (!!) last week, and have had to close our old checking account and open a new one. This has meant contacting everyone we do online billing with and giving them our new routing number, etc. Next time an innocent-looking teenager comes to our door selling newspaper subscriptions “for her school” and asks me for a voided check I plan on assaulting her with a stepping stool.
• Made bed.
• Brought in trash cans.
• Ate lunch.
• Wrote this.
• Left for pickup.

Tomorrow, at least, I get to go back to work. Maybe I’ll even get a manicure on my lunch break. That’ll feel like a day off, indeed.