Daytime naps: becoming a pain in the arse

Arlo is fighting against daytime naps, unless I sleep with him.  Ugh.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I love nanna naps!  But some days I have shit to do, you know?  Like today.  I needed to pack for us.  So when he finally did go to sleep, I…spent hours using photoshop and uploading to flickr.  Sigh.  Priorities!  I am an expert at last-minute packing, with many years' practice.

And Arlo is still asleep, at 5.30pm, and I have not made a start on dinner, and he will wake up tantrumy and carrying on and I will bet that he is having rice bubbles for dinner, y'all.  Again.

Cutting my losses

I get to go yarn shopping today!  For nothing special, but I've been knitting a blanket, and I went to buy some more yarn last week, only to discover that Spotlight is not currently carryin its own brand yarn.  So I'm SOL.  I also made the stupid decision to knit the damn thing on 2.5 mm circs.  So I will get enough yarn to finish the project, and a couple of pairs of circs in, maybe, 5mm. 

And then I start again, even though I'm on row 90-something and probably closing in on 5-600 stitches per row.  I did all that in about a week so with a larger gauge it'll go quickly.

Meanwhile, Arlo is outside playing with a saucepan full of water.

Late night last night

We went to [long complicated description of relationship]'s birthday party last night.  Didn't get there till 8pm, as I'd been in town shooting a wedding and then had to detour to my parents' place to pick Arlo up. 

His usual bedtime is around 7pm, so I thought he would get cranky early, but I told him we were going to see UNcle Brynn and Arthur, and so he stayed awake the whole hourlong drive home.  And then went nuts with Arthur; they ran around and around the huge backyard of [not my] Nana's cottage, through the shed, and stealthily played in the gross baths full of stagnant water when they thought we weren't looking.  I mean – well, okay, it was when we really weren't looking.  And Arlo gorged himself on multicoloured popcorn (which came out a khaki green today). 

Suddenly I realised it was 10pm.  Whoops!  And Arlo was practically begging me to go to bed.  I didn't want to go home just yet, I hadn't caught up with Brynn for ages, so Marianne set up two foam cot mattresses for the boys and I told them a story and remarkably they just went to sleep together. Okay, okay, probably not so remarkable since it was 10pm.

I took this shot in the wee hours of the morning (with my new flash on!  I finally have my own flash…)

Up too late

I should be in bed, as I have to be up in the morning and at the polling station by about 7.30am to hand out how-to-votes for local govt elections. 

I will take books and knitting.  Should get a lot done, since polling doesn't finish till 6.  Then I will be scrutineering afterwards, mostly so I can suss out which way the community votes (also it's funny to see what asinine things people write when they cast an informal).

Did stuff

I've been on the couch knitting and watching an old school friend run in the Paralympics.  1 heat down, several to go.

I also managed to get some painting in today, just waiting for the third coat to dry on the canvas and then I need to work out my next step.  Do I start with the red blends then, or do some more brown?  And how will I style the blossoms?

Meanwhile, I killed my shoulder on Saturday while unblocking the drain.  It's much better now but I probably should call my chiropractor and book in for tomorrow, I guess.

So, stuff.