Mommy Needs a Day Off

I have a headache.  And I’m crabby.  It is best that everyone just keeps their distance.  🙂  Too bad I can’t explain this to the kids.  I’m currently at the park district while Lily is at her class and I’m doing schoolwork with John.  I have to come back this way in the afternoon to pick up my egg and meat order.  Too bad the times were not closer to each other but alas it is not so we will drive home until coming back down here around 4.  
 
It appears we are going to get rain this afternoon and after a long and busy weekend, we all need some downtime.  I’m going to let the kids watch a movie but they’ll be watching it upstairs on the travel TV (Which the like to do so that is good).  That will allow me to watch something of my own in the family room while I clean and organize the office area.  It becomes the pit/dumping ground and it is especially hard to get down there to do work since I usually send the kids to the family room when I need a break.  I tend to ignore that little corner of the house.  🙂  Even though it is cleaning, the time spent will be therapeutic especially if the kids cooperate.  
 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series was fabulous.  It’s so sad the author passed shortly after he delivered these novels.  I would have loved to see other works from him.  I’ll be sitting down sometime this week to watch the Swedish movies while I wait for the Americanized version that comes out in December.  I’ll be curious to see how well they do with keeping with the story. I won’t mind looking at Daniel Craig either way I’m sure.  Now I’m in need of a new book/author/series.  Any suggestions?  My sister gave me several Sandra Brown novels.  I can’t decide how much I’ll enjoy them.  
 
Vacation is coming up quickly.  I’m looking forward to it.  I am in desperate need of a change of scenery and I hope it provides what I need.  I need to start pulling our stuff together.  Packing clothes is going to be a challenge.  I am unsure of what we’ll need.  The averages for the area look to be upper 70’s/lower 80’s but add in that we’ll be hiking in the mountains.  We’ll need layers for sure.  I think I’ll need to go buy myself some more capris.  All my olds ones are too big and have been packed up to go.  I did buy a pair from Costco that I like a lot but one pair won’t make it through the week.  I should at least have a second pair.  I can always do laundry if need be.  
 
John has been an absolute pill.  He has been driving me crazy.  Our biggest hurdle at the moment the complete inability/desire/etc to listen to anything I have to say.  He just complete disregards it and just does what he wants to anyway.  Or I just get bombarded with a billion excuses and arguments on why he’s right and I’m wrong.  Any tactic I’ve tried to communicate that this is not an acceptable attitude has not worked.  I am ready to throw in the towel.  I don’t know how else to get through to him.  A friend actually was forced to stay homebound until her son was following the rules again.  The way he’s been, we’ll be homebound the whole summer.  o.O  But I have to give it a try.  I can’t  take it anymore or there will be a nuclear disaster.  I feel like I’ll spontaneously turn into a bomb and just go off these days.  I’m hoping it’s just a minor phase.
 
Class is about to get out which means errands and home.