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What's the biggest obstacle you've had to overcome within the last 24 hours?
Submitted by ILoveYouMr.Dragon.

Feck--scheduling.  We're way over-scheduled right now.  It's kind of a long story and with multiple complications--many of which have to do with our living in such a small town and only owning one car and having a husband who works this stupid rotating shift--but our 4-year-old is in swimming lessons every day right now and also in an art class on Wednesdays, and, see, we just had a baby...So, today, I end up trying to breastfeed in a McDonald's playland while me and the two kids are waiting for my mom to come pick us up, and then the 4-year-old gets pushed off the slide or some damn thing so I can hear him crying somewhere in the innards of the play tunnels, so I instinctively rush over there to try to find him, which makes the 3-week-old lose his grip on the nipple and blah blah blah.  It's been pretty ridiculous, but fortunately the swimming lessons are over tomorrow, and there are only two more art classes, so now we can start settling down into more of a routine where the three of us are actually home and then we can all just feed at our leisure...what was I thinking, scheduling so much crap at the beginning of June when I knew we would have a wee baby?  Oh, right...the stupid complications of living in a small town...sure.  Just glad we all survived, although I am ashamed to admit the schedule issues are related to the sudden appearance of Hot Pockets in our house.  We don't normally eat things like that; I'm a made-from-scratch kind of girl.  Hot Pockets have so much cheese, man.  So...much...cheese...

However, today, for about a half an hour, I did manage to get both kids asleep at once.  Hurrah!  And now my husband is home, and I'm trying to work, but the thought of grading a bunch of punctuation exercises is, wow, really depressing.  Really, really depressing.  Commas aren't fucking rocket science, ya know?  How can my students be this bad at using commas?  And what the fuck is going on in public high schools that these semi-literates were somehow allowed to graduate?

Oooh, I need a drink.