Whiny
I'm not gonna sugar coat it, this is me being whiny. Nothing yesterday was completely out of line by the wife or anyone else. I was just tired and cranky and I'm whining here because I can.
It all started on the way home. I was tired and wanted to relax. Wife had errands that needed to be run. The plan was to pick up the kids. She brings them to swim class, while I run to pick up xmas pictures for her then do some xmas shopping. Then she decided she needed to go shopping for a dress for a party this weekend, so she wanted to go shopping now. So she talked the kids into not going to swim class, because they could go visit santa instead. So the plan became that we would all go home, let out the dogs, then run to the mall to see Santa and pick up the pictures, then split up for some shopping. When we get home, the puppy of course pees everywhere, and I get ready to go, but the wife has determined that, for some unknown reason, we need to put up more x-mas lights RIGHT NOW. This wastes a good 20 more minutes of time that we could have made it to the mall, and rushes us since we're not sure if Santa is done at 7pm or 8pm.
Traffic sucks, and I hit a couple of bad construction zones, and my daughter decides she has to go to the potty three miles before the mall RIGHT NOW, so we pull off into an arby's. Then one mile before the mall, my son decides he has to go, but screw it, we just floor it to the mall. I rush in with my son, and my wife follows with the daughter. We meet at the picture place, and the line is huge, so its now my job to take the kids to go see Santa while she stands in line.
Santa's area is pretty cool, with music buttons and giant train set for the kids, but Santa himself looked slightly inebriated and just not that good, yet still had a huge line. I talked the kids out of line, and we just waved to Santa and played in his play land area for a bit, which included a snow blowing foam machine which they loved. We stayed there for a couple of minutes, then went back to the wife, who was having issues because the pictures were messed up, so she was arguing her way up the management chain to get satisfaction. Since she was due to be a while longer, I left with the kids again, and we headed to santa's again for more playing, then I wanted to try to get some shopping done somehow, so I brought the kids to buy cookies to keep them occupied, and then headed out to do shopping. As soon as we hit the first store, however..
Daddy, I need to go potty again NOW!
All the way back to the wife, which is where the potty was, only for it to be a false alarm. As we finish potty time, the wife finishes with the pictures and it has been an HOUR later, and we both say screw it, and just head home for the night.
So it was tiring, and unproductive, what a joy.
It all started on the way home. I was tired and wanted to relax. Wife had errands that needed to be run. The plan was to pick up the kids. She brings them to swim class, while I run to pick up xmas pictures for her then do some xmas shopping. Then she decided she needed to go shopping for a dress for a party this weekend, so she wanted to go shopping now. So she talked the kids into not going to swim class, because they could go visit santa instead. So the plan became that we would all go home, let out the dogs, then run to the mall to see Santa and pick up the pictures, then split up for some shopping. When we get home, the puppy of course pees everywhere, and I get ready to go, but the wife has determined that, for some unknown reason, we need to put up more x-mas lights RIGHT NOW. This wastes a good 20 more minutes of time that we could have made it to the mall, and rushes us since we're not sure if Santa is done at 7pm or 8pm.
Traffic sucks, and I hit a couple of bad construction zones, and my daughter decides she has to go to the potty three miles before the mall RIGHT NOW, so we pull off into an arby's. Then one mile before the mall, my son decides he has to go, but screw it, we just floor it to the mall. I rush in with my son, and my wife follows with the daughter. We meet at the picture place, and the line is huge, so its now my job to take the kids to go see Santa while she stands in line.
Santa's area is pretty cool, with music buttons and giant train set for the kids, but Santa himself looked slightly inebriated and just not that good, yet still had a huge line. I talked the kids out of line, and we just waved to Santa and played in his play land area for a bit, which included a snow blowing foam machine which they loved. We stayed there for a couple of minutes, then went back to the wife, who was having issues because the pictures were messed up, so she was arguing her way up the management chain to get satisfaction. Since she was due to be a while longer, I left with the kids again, and we headed to santa's again for more playing, then I wanted to try to get some shopping done somehow, so I brought the kids to buy cookies to keep them occupied, and then headed out to do shopping. As soon as we hit the first store, however..
Daddy, I need to go potty again NOW!
All the way back to the wife, which is where the potty was, only for it to be a false alarm. As we finish potty time, the wife finishes with the pictures and it has been an HOUR later, and we both say screw it, and just head home for the night.
So it was tiring, and unproductive, what a joy.
posted by Ray | 8:44 AM
2 Comments:
to be honest...that's not really all the much whining.
ray let me show you how to whine....
Post a Comment
<< Home