I hate summer. It was 80 degress before we even left the house this morning. Bleah...

Penny woke up at 4:40 this morning. It took her half an hour to go back to sleep, by which time I was Awake. So I laid in bed and tossed and turned until 6. Bleah.

I'm going to be awake and happycheerful today, yessirreebob.

And just to improve things, Matt's been informed that he has to work half a day on Saturdays for the next several weeks (though he managed to beg off for our deckwarming party next weekend) so I'll be spending part of Saturday doing the busy mom thing.

The good news is, Penny loves to go shopping and sit in the shopping cart, so at least she should be fairly cool while I'm running errands.

Just call me Negative Nellie today, I guess.

But I'm hoping that things will be less frenetic at work today. Yesterday was... We weren't really all that busy, but it felt like I spent the whole day soothing ruffled feathers and putting out fires and trying to keep the scatterbrain pointed in the right direction and generally running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

I am desperately hoping that today will be a little smoother. I don't mind doing my work, I really don't. It's even occasionally challenging and fulfilling. But I hate days like that, where I don't have time to concentrate on anything for more than five minutes at a time.

--Liz