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September 12, 2005

I am FREE!

Today was Spliggle's first day of preschool, and the Cat's third. Both boys were in school from 9:15 - 2:15.

5 hours of freedom a week.

Sure, I went to a meeting, did some work, got an oil change for my van, and fed my parents' cat, so I didn't do anything super-exciting. But I did it all without worrying about the kids! (I had a day of relaxation a couple weeks ago, and that was nice. But this is a regularly scheduled 5 hour block!) Perhaps next week I’ll go on a shopping spree or something with reckless abandon. But today was happily productive.

The Cat is doing brilliantly at preschool. Of course, now that I said that, he'll blow it Wednesday (which is his evaluation day.) But oh well. This morning, he walked into class, picked up his name, put it in the matching envelope, and started talking to the assistant teacher about how he was going to play with the green play-doh because it is his favorite color. When I picked him up, I saw that he had participated in the "self-portrait" project and had dictated answers to the accompanying questions: Favorite Book? "Gordon Falls into a Ditch;" Favorite Movie? "The Alphabet Train;" Favorite Pasttime? "Playing with Trains." (sense a theme?)

Spliggle apparently climbed all over the place. The little daily report the teacher gave me had "Cheerful" and "Energetic" circled under "Your Child's Disposition Today Was..." And "Energetic" had two exclamation points next to it. He was apparently adventurous, social, and happy. He slept well when we returned home. I figured he would do well, but I admit I was a bit emotional dropping him off.

The boys had a successful day.

Meanwhile…

I am in love with the Honda people. My first oil change was free because I had purchased the vehicle there. While they changed the oil, I talked to a guy about getting some touch-up paint because of the hubcap incident. The guy looked up everything, went in the back, and produced a vial for me. For free. The change took probably less than 10 minutes. I was watching the Roberts Confirmation Hearings and probably could have sat in that comfy lounge for awhile longer. (Free popcorn! Free sodas!)

But the silliest thing I did today was an oopsie. While waiting for a meeting from a salesperson from our payroll company (who wanted to sell me an HR package that costs more per week than I am paid per week), I did a little web surfing. The guy was late, I had a huge monitor at my disposal, why not?

Here’s why not: because if you are in your boss’ office with your boss’ computer and said computer locks up, you do not have the password to unlock said computer.

I was writing a comment in response to this post about breastfeeding. I talked about my large breasts. I wasn’t done editing my comment, so didn’t post it before I minimized the screen when the Sales guy arrived.

But during the meeting, the computer locked.

So when my boss returned, there were three windows: Bloglines, the post in question, and my comment. Blush.

The good news: My boss is my brother.
The bad news: My boss is my brother.

So I won’t get fired for typing about my breasts on a company computer, but um, it is uncomfortable to make such an error in front of my brother. (The thing was unlocked in the first place because it was doing some sort of process that kept the computer active and not sleeping.)

Hopefully next Monday won’t be so mortifying on that front!

Posted by karianna at September 12, 2005 08:37 PM

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