i wish...

that i had the stamina to face days like these and still be standing at the end. becuase today the second i got home, i passed out on my bed.
now there is a home phone downstairs, and there is one up in my room. this morning at about half past 5 ths phone started to ring. so for a bit i thought i was dreaming, and then i figured someone else would pick it up, and then finally, i concluded that actually no-one apart from me could hear it, and thus i should answer it. i could hear both mobiles going off downstairs, meaning that no-one had taken theirs to bed with them, and that they couldn't hear them. before when i was describing the house, its certainly big enough that you cant hear the phone in the lounge from the bedroom.
so...karina wasn't coming. now she normally comes at 6 to do the morning shift until 8, to buy me a little bit of extra time in the morning. so i trapsed downstairs and decided to make a cup of milk (very sophisiticated) and contemplate my options. and then the babies started crying. so i went and got them all up and dress, and then they toddled a bit around the lounge. armin came in and sorted out what he could sort, got julie up and then went to work. julie called connie who said she could come at 8.15, which was very very kind of her. this meant that i could go to the thatre with j as planned, to see the frog prince, which was very very cute, as was the prince himself :P i followed christa, to get there. j decided that actually he didn't really want to be there, and so sat for the vast majority of the time asking if we could leave, i think it was more that he'd 3 and thus not so good at the sitting still for a very long time issue. so then we toddled home, he went to bed and the afternoon went relatively normally. the babies decided that it was a good idea to sleep in ... intervals, so like one baby slept at a time. which meant that i could not put my head down, not to metion the fact that j had hit the pillow as soon as we got in, and then woke up screaming that his ears hurt, which was a bit frantic becuase he went to the doctors yesterday and he said his ears were both ok. so we'll see how that one develops.
i was going to say that i hadn't intended this to be a total essay, but actually i felt that it would be good for me to have a good bang away on the keyboard until my eyes started to droop again, becuase i've already slept for about an hour.
julie came up with the idea that it would be really cool to photograph my laundry, which i think is a good point, becuase at this moment in time it really looks quite spectacular. its about...2 foot high and all folded into like a little triangle, a bit like a pyramid. its all quite precarious.
and so now... im going to check my order on crabtree and evelyn, and then im going to sleep.