Note to Self: You’ve done splendidly given the conditions you’ve been under. Go have the break you’ve been needing and don’t worry.
Note to Other Self: Don’t let that monkey back in control; the kitchen’s a wreck and it’ll take a week to disinfect the fridge. When I find the carpet sweeper it had better be in working condition.
Heh yep this thought was kind of funny, but funny like when the wife comes home to find that dad’s been letting the kids slide down the stairs on flattened cardboard boxes again.
about letting kids slide down the stairs… that example was based off a true story.
I felt like a grunt under the nose of a drill sergeant, but the funniness of the situation was clashing with the seriousness and stifling the sniggering was hurting me. I had to throw a pretend temper tantrum just so i could storm out of the room to finish laughing in private.