1. I’m really tired. It’s past midnight and I’ve been up before eight nearly every day this week.

2. It sucks that although the district thinks summer is over, it’s been over a hundred degrees every day this first week of school.

3. The Boy likes his schedule and his teachers, which is a miracle.

4. This is especially unusual because they switched his whole morning schedule around his third day of class, and it did not phase him one bit.

5. I would have freaked OUT if they had changed my schedule that way.

6. I made home made hamburgers on the stove top grill and fries in the fryer tonight to celebrate a successful first week of school.

7. Now my hair and clothes smell like the onions and garlic I put in the burgers.

8. Hey, I had to…it was ground sirloin and I didn’t want them to dry out.

9. So now my hair smells and I don’t have the energy to wash it again today.

10. Because I’m tired.

11. From getting up.

12. And going to the gym every morning this week.

13. Plus I didn’t even get a nap today.

14. You don’t really want to be around me when I’m tired.

15. Two boys stopped by unannounced a half hour after school was out.

16. They’re nice boys so I let them come in to play pool with The Boy.

17. So that’s why I didn’t get my nap.

18. It’s really hard to sleep with three boys trash talking and playing pool upstairs in the open area by the bar.

19. But that’s okay; that’s part of why we got the pool table.

20. Hey, it keeps him away from the video games, right?

21. Now, if I can only keep him away from the pool halls when he’s in college…