It's come to this

This is what I had for dinner:


Please allow me to explain how this came to be. This was my day today:

• Get up only 15 minutes late, which is a big improvement over the 30-40 minutes I usually waste trying to convince myself to get out of bed, especially now that it is totally dark at 5:30 in the morning again.
• Get ready for work.
• Go wake Hannah up, who says, "I just want to lay here and cover up and close my eyes." Totally agree with Hannah but make her get out of bed anyway.
• Manage to get Hannah ready, toast her breakfast and go wake Brock up.
• Finish getting dressed for work while Brock brushes Hannah's teeth and puts her shoes on.
• Lug bunch of stuff out to car.
• Come back for Hannah. Drop at daycare very late, like 7:45, despite "early" start to the day.
• Get to work at 8:20. Supposed to be at work at 8:00, but never happens.
• Turn on computer. Get coffee (frappucino, actually).
  
• Drink coffee while spending an hour and a half combing through 226 (no kidding) unread emails. Do not read all emails. Feel annoyed at email culture.
• Go to meetings from 10 to noon.
• Go for sushi with friend. (High point of work day, to be sure. Spicy tuna rolls are awesome.)
• Go to meeting from 2 to 3.
• Try to get work done from 3 to 4. Not very successful.
  
• Go for performance review with boss at 4:00. Boss is stuck in other meeting. Wait 15 minutes for boss to show up. Realize that review is going to last past 5:00 now, which starts customary "I will be late picking Hannah up from daycare" panic.
• Have very nice review. Learn that I possibly laugh too much (I do have a tendency to laugh all the time, which I suppose does make it sound like I think what I just said was a joke - even though I've always thought it was charming and disarming), but am otherwise quite capable, well-respected and doing a good job. Need to work on establishing strategy, which is part of the new job and was not part of the old one. All in all, pretty good.
• Get out of review at 5:20. Get to car, in the steady rain, at 5:25. Realize I will probably be late picking Hannah up, and if I'm not, she will for sure at least be the last kid at daycare. Again.
• Deal with slow, annoying drivers for 34.5 minutes. Pull into daycare at approximately 5:59:30 and race to door in continuing rain.
• Feel very happy to see Hannah, who's happy to see me.
• Drive home. Get call from Brock that he has to work late and will not be home till after 9:00.
• Realize that there is not enough time to make the taco casserole I'd planned to make with Hannah this evening.
• Give up and get fish sticks and Smiles out of the freezer. Realize we eat a lot of meals that can be dipped in ketchup. But it has been a long time since we had Smiles, and Hannah likes them, and they are tasty. We like our dinner even if it's sort of ridiculous for a grown-up to eat fish sticks and shaped potatoes.
  
• Give Hannah bubble bath. Fun. :)
  
• Watch Dr. Jiggle & Mr. Sly episode of Veggie Tales TV show on DVR with Hannah. Sing along to "The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" at the end.
  
• Get Hannah to brush teeth.
• Read two stories, Color Kittens and Goodnight, Little Bear, both of which are really old Little Golden Books and also kind of annoying after the 87th reading. But still enjoyable because Hannah likes them.
• Sort laundry. Start washer, only to realize that there is still a load of laundry sitting in the washer from two days ago that needs to be dried.
• Put laundry in dryer. Put more laundry in washer.
• Blog instead of doing reading for school, which started last week.

So...it's been kind of a crazy day. A "fish sticks and shaped potatoes" kind of day.