A Frustrating Start to the New Year

Well, 2009 has arrived, and with it came a lot of frustration.

We had Christmas with my family. My sister was her typical, crabby, impossible to satisfy self. It's hard to deal with her when she's squealing at my mom for mashing the potatoes, (I guess we're all supposed to know that beef burgundy is served on boiled potatoes, right?) berating her daughter at the dinner table for not eating the right foods, yelling at my mom for repeating her husband's question to their daughter, freaking out because their daughter gets chocolate on her hands. She managed to buy Peanut the wrong sized shirt. It's not a big deal, I'll save it until next winter, but she's arguing with me about Peanut growing enough to wear it this spring. It's not going to happen. Peanut's in the 5th percentile for her age. She's just starting to move into her 18 month clothes at 20 months. She's not going to be able to wear a size 24 month shirt until sometime in the fall at the earliest. Oh well, it's not worth it to get worked up. She's just a pain in the butt. Other than that, we had a good time. My parents and aunt and uncle were very generous.

We went to the in-laws for the weekend. For the most part it was a good time, but I had problems with trying to work from their home. I thought I had everything ready to go, but I missed a few things. It's painful trying to work over the VPN with changes to the database. In addition, it took 2 days for them to get the new entertainment system hooked up. I was starting to go a little stir crazy from the silence. I really like to have the TV playing in the background. However, Peanut did say I love you for the first time, and she's starting to put together two to three word sentences. She's at such a fun age.

This morning was one of those days where you wish you could go back to bed and start all over. I ran out to start the car, and it was covered in ice. Neither windshield scraper was working, so I asked my husband to help. He started hauling buckets of water outside, dumped them on the windows, and scraping the remaining ice off. I tried to take over for him since he was in his PJ's but it was a two person job. By the time we were done, we were both soaked. I ran upstairs, changed clothes, grabbed Peanut, and headed into work. The roads were icy, so traffic was slow. I had to call my boss to let him know I'd be a few minutes late. I dropped Peanut off, and headed into work. Halfway there, my husband called to ask me where I was. I was baffled by the question since he knew I was going to work when he told me that I'd forgotten the laptop in my rush to get out of the house. AAARGH!!! Thankfully, he brought it to me, but it wasn't the way I planned to start the new year. This was all followed by one of my coworkers expanding his monthly report to 90 pages with 20 hours notice. I'm scrambling to get it all compiled and organized. Hopefully things will get a little less frustrating soon.