10/12/4

Spent my singular day off doing what? Laundry, shopping, cooking, dishes, laundry, bills, errands, chauffering, bills, laundry, cleaning, cooking, dishes, shopping, laundry, tutoring, typing. I'm tired, but at least the laundry is done.

Tired? Yeah, right. With my wife working 60 to 80 hours a week lately with the new restaurant opening, I'm in no position to complain. I'm physically and mentally tired from work, and emotionally exausted because we see so little of each other lately. And when we do, she's so much more exausted than I am, I feel like a complete ass if I say one word. And trying to be supportive of her only makes me more emotionally drained.

She's driving 2 plus hours each way, and staying in a hotel up there for 3 to 4 days at a time. It started with interviewing, then training en masse, then individually, then the opening itself and running the floor. That's all in addition to the months she's been working in her spare time at home on the computer updating every manual, cookbook, trainging test, and whatever.

Meanwhile, I've been trying in vain to organize The Band enough to shoot a music video. I do all kinds of planning and figure out all the logistics, and all I delegate out are a couple simple tasks, but do they happen? I told Sam repeatedly over a three week period to buy 8 D size batteries for the CD player so it would be ready when we needed it. The first day I wanted to be shooting at 4:00, guess what I was doing at 4:15.... buying batteries. That's the easy example, but I've got several more.

On top of it all, Halloween looms! A ten year tradition that's had three homes! The only party that matters! Not gonna happen this year. When we moved a couple years ago to this town-house, we recruited DJ and Sean's place as the new Halloween home for two years, but they moved in July (or rather, were removed). With a list of potential replacements not coming together or feeling right, we've slowly and painfully given up. Meanwhile, my daughter turns 13 on the 21st, and she wants a SCARY party this year, not one of those kiddie things. Thus, we're going to do our thing here for the kids, keeping it rated PG-13, rather than our somewhat NC-17 norm. But even scheduling time for that much is an exausting hassle.

Anyhow, I've got more laundry and an exausted wife to tend to....

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