jeriendhal | This has not been a good day

1. Thomas was agitated last night because Tracy

moonshadowed wasn't home, having left at 7pm to go to her mom's place in PA so they could both get an early start on the road to Cleveland today, since she had to pick up her race packet for the Cleveland Half Marathon she'll be running Sunday. He didn't get to bed until 9:30pm

2. Georgia was even more upset, oddly. She didn't settle until 11:30pm. both kids ended up sleeping in bed with me.

3. Unfortunately my insomnia got me up at 3:15am, after a little more than three hours sleep. Tom unfortunately got up with me, which means he was nicely primed to have a major meltdown later that morning when...

4. ...he was playing "flush the toilet" upstairs, and managed to blow the toilet's seal so badly that water started pouring from the ceiling into the kitchen. I've got the toilet pulled out and the area cleaned and dried. Just need to set in with a new seal tomorrow.

5. He knew he'd done something majorly wrong, and the meltdown lasted nearly an hour. He was so exhausted by it, that an hour after he calmed down he took a nearly three hour nap, waking up in a much better mood.

6. Meanwhile, on the road to Cleveland, Tracy and her mom still managed to get lost on the way, GPS be damned. They got there in time to pick up her race packet, and then went to the hotel she'd reserved through Hotwire.

7. Which turned out to be closed for reservations. Facepalm. After 40 minutes of negotiations with a Hotwire rep, they got a refund (Hotwire doesn't normally do refunds) and a one night reservation 11 miles from the race start, instead of the leisurely 5 minute walk Tracy had been planning on. So straight after the race they're going to have to drive six hours back to PA instead of having the afternoon to look around and drive home Monday.

8. Oh yeah, and the damned clothes washer STILL isn't working properly.