ellie and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

yes. a total ripoff of one of my favorite childhood book titles, but today seemed to be the day from hell.

i had to get up around 5-5:30ish to get to brookline for some early morning sitting with eytan and dror. i'm not really a big fan of early mornings like this, but.. they needed me to be there, and so i went. i got out the door late because i couldn't find my wallet. i made it to brookline on pocket change. it seems that this week has been all out of sorts for little eytan. today.... was not one of his better days. on the way home from dropping dror off, he napped. so when we got home.. he didn't want to nap.. but he was still tired, and therefore.. he was cranky. eytan is the type of baby who cries when he is annoyed. it's not a very common trait in babies... and today, he was almost inconsolable. he screamed for hours on end. for a very short period of time... he decided he was going to be happy playing on the floor. when he was finally quiet, my phone rang. it was my mom telling me that she was being admitted into the hospital for an infection, and bedsores that were developing into blisters. they want to hook her up to an IV with antibiotics and try to get her infection under control. because of all of this... she can't walk. it's not good stuff for her.

after all of eytans misery.. his gram was supposed to pick the pair of them up so i could get to hubba. she was late. before hubba..my first objective was to get back to somerville with some requested gingerale for steve who has been struck down by some sort of stomach bug. he's as sick as a dog. after going to somerville, i went BACK to cambridge where suzi was manning hubba hubba alone while sick. she was alone because denise was too sick to make it into work. with suzi sick and me exhausted from sleep deprivation and one hell of a headache.. we were not terribly high functioning workers today. when there weren't customers in the store... we were sitting side by side at the counter with our heads down.. mostly talking about how miserable we both were. some regulars who we find obnoxious came through.. we kind of blew them off... we were supposed to close at 8, but by 7:15 suzi had had it. we closed. i met up with amber and ben for a nice dinner. out.. really one of the only bright spots in my day. tomorrow, we are going to ikea.. and i believe i am getting a new phone this weekend. i'm leaning towards the blackberry. a shiny, fancy, red one.

for now.. it's 10:30 and i am going to bed before my day gets any worse.