journal entry # 4

Today has been a long and tiring day. For starters, I received a phone call from my daughter's Pre-K teacher saying that my daughter hadn't been listening since the middle of last week. So needless to say my daughter is grounded. Grounded in our house means that she has to sit on the couch without anything to play or entertain herself with. She doesn't get to watch any cartoons or have any say in what we watch. So as I'm sitting here trying to concentrate and get part of my homework done, I am also listening to a 4 year old who is stuck on the couch. It's not that she is being bad, just that she is bored so she is feeling extra chatty today.

My fiance owns his own drywall company and I help him sometimes at work when he needs the extra help. Monday and Tuesday, none of his help showed up for work so I have been helping him this week and now my back is on fire and my arms feel like they are going to fall off. I am no wuss when it comes to pain. However, I am only 97 lbs. at 5' 7” so it is the fact that the boards are taller than I am by over 2 feet and they weigh almost ½ as much as I do.

And now I am going to get off of here and give my little girl a bath so that I can put her to bed soon and soak my sore muscles in a hot bath. Tomorrow will be even longer because I have to have my daughter at school by 8am then pick my mom up and take her to the school for career day followed by a Halloween party then off to work with the fiance again so that I can come home and do it again. It has been really nice here today weather wise, maybe if my daughter gets a good report tomorrow we can take her to the park after work.