a day in the life

in the just over 15 hours since i got up this morning, i have:

• roused 3 kids and chivvied them out of the door to school, clad and lunched;
• fed the chooks and put billthedog mournfully outside for the day
• smiled at the lorikeets in the fig tree
• cursed the bats for crapping fig crap on the clean washing
• dropped the smallest at before school care 
• sang all the way down st george's road in peak hour traffic
• got to the office and inspected my emails 
• printed the 60 gazillion agenda papers for the meeting in sydney which i will read on the plane tomorrow
• went to the cafe downstairs for emergency encaffeination
• finished one board agenda paper
• rang the canberra person whose call i had missed on friday (this happened a few times as we played phone tag)
• had a looooong managers' meeting
•  proof-read the strategic plan
• ate my peanut butter sandwich, apple and 6 tiny teddies at the computer
• got keys cut at the nice hardware store and bought some intriguingly shaped gardening tying up stuff
• had a lovely knitting chat in the park with my colleagues
• had another meeting where i made courageous decisions
• set up meetings as a result of the courageous decisions
• rang the chair of the 4pm teleconference to say i couldn't make the meeting but had various terse things to contribute
• wrote another board paper
• had a long and dull conversation with a canberra bureacrat
• puzzled over a project budget
• gasped at the time
• rushed to collect smallest child from after school care
• put on a load of washing
• cook dinner
• sort 2 baskets of clean laundry
• pack swag for smallest child for the next 2 days wiel i'm away and the kids are wiht their dad
• glue smallest's soles back on his shoes
• hang out first load of wash and put on next x2
• wash up
• clean kitchen
• delegate animal feeding to reluctant teenager and bin putting out to less reluctant teenager
• encourage smallest to pyjama-ate and brush teeth
• agonise over what to wear to commonwealth/state/NGO meeting in Sydney so i look friendly but intimidating
• pack clothes
• find key that teenager has lost almost as soon as i gave it to her
• tidy house as cleaner is coming on wednesday.
• chivvy teenagers off to bed
• hang out last load of washing and marvel at the moon

i am sooo looking forward to getting on the plane tomorrow