#ooc

Ribs, yummmmm

....home?

YES!

Yuppers!

Lots of work to do, but here.

howdy folks

BRB

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I'm going to try to multitask. This always goes SO well. wry

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Back.

Loading in our new work schedules to the calendar, printing, overseeing forced labor.

Yeah, how are your thralls doing?

Thing2 finally fessed up to his crime, and is on bread and water.

they live a hard life

TODAY they work for me. And it is hard labor, and it IS the chores I would have paid them for but .....

Clean my car, sand the wooden items I need to do finishing on, polish all the silver, and clean my bathroom. Plus haircuts.

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I was wondering if you were ever going to get a confession out of them.

Oh, you know I would.

See, you guys are just so much more productive than I am. So far, I've almost opened a blank document to start an 8-page paper I need to write, and I have a folder full of ungraded papers next to me. Oh, and I made coffee.

I had breakfast

I should go to campus

what did the kids do?

grabs, tugs Hey, guys! Look what I caught!

OOoooO!!!!

The Things both stole the house cell-phone and misused it, variously.

oh my.

That's a hard-stop Safety issue. We need that phone operational and correctly used to ensure Thing1 has comm when he's alone at the house.

So now it's hard labor.

prank calls, odd purchases?

YouTube videos in the case of Thing1.

Thing2's sin was 1) taking it to school on one occasion and 2) putting it in his BROTHER'S BACKPACK TO FRAME HIM.

*facepalm* My baby the Ebil Genius.

Yeah, Thing 2 gets the Taking It To The Next Level award.

Well, the irony was delicious. We found it in the backpack, no one would fess, we put them both on restriction till further notice.

The NEXT DAY we left the phone with Thing1 while he was home alone. He watched YouTube videos, which he's been forbidden to do. We can track websites visited so we knew.

how old are they again?

He earned his OWN restriction; if Thing2 had not taken the phone and put it in his backpack, Thing1 would have watched the videos and been on restriction while Thing2 was off.... but now they are BOTH on restriction for different violations.

8 and 11.

Oy.

You need a crotchety old lady on the block to send Thing1 to after school.

Oh, he's too big a HP fan for that.....

And we've blocked the wifi and put a lock on the browser so HOPEFULLY....

oy

((I can go live, if we like.))

I am on for a little bit longer, but then I really do need to get up and away for part of the day. It turns out that, no, I still suck at multitasking.