Wow, I thought it was just me!  I care for 6 children ages 2 & 3 and they were absolutely crazy yesterday.  They displayed behavior that was very unusual for them such as lots of hitting, pushing, yelling and CRANKINESS!   They are usually a happy group with just a few of these incidents.  I was absolutely exhausted yesterday when everyone went home.  They are pretty much back to normal today and the little angels are sleeping now.  :)

I have been in the child care business for 28 years and it seems that the children do this when the seasons change.  I can't explain why but it happens every season change.

What a day! It only reinforces why I rarely leave the house,though the poor pup next door who whines,barks and howls may force me to change that behavior~ lol! Hopefully today will be a better one!

You know, bandmom, I remember that. I did home day care for two years when my youngest was born and I realized that after paying child care for three kids, I'd have about 27 bucks left of my weekly check. The season or weather changes do affect them.

sage, what's up w/ the pup?

I think some of those people are on these blogs. (o;)

It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so rude.  Sorry you had such a wierd day ghost.  I'm knocing on wood for you, too

sage ~ GMTA.  I seldom leave the house.   That way people can't pi.. uhmm, make me mad

dreamifucan:  I thought it was today, too!  It's possible there's a full moon and you just can't see it, right?

My husband and I were going to a place we'd never been in a part of town we don't visit often.  He had gotten a map and driving directions from the Internet.  We got to where the place should have been, but it was NOWHERE to be seen.  We finally found a place to park, whereupon I called the place we were going to get directions.  After hanging up, I knew instinctively that whatever she'd said was useless.  And we were still attempting to operate with the printed driving directions from the Internet. 

After driving around a while, we found another parking place and my husband called our destination again.  We knew by then that they were at the point of believing WE were asylum escapees. 

As background, the town has streets where nearly every other one is one-way.  So you can see how circular our little trip was beginning to be. 

After the THIRD call, we FINALLY found the place!  If the driving directions had told us to look on the LEFT instead of the RIGHT, we would have found it somewhat earlier.  In addition to which numbers on buildings apparently meant nothing.  We were looking for a "57"; we were looking on odd-numbered addresses; but SO WHAT???  It wasn't there!!

After all that, we got there five minutes earlier than our appointment.  My husband was nearly in meltdown by then, and I was wondering what to do in case he had a stroke, but we made it!!!  Full moon, go away!!!

It's the full moon residual gamma ray moon beams causing all the problems.  Remember your tin foil hat.  It protects you from the rays AND from the wacko political people.

Nancy:  WHY didn't I remember that?!!  Of COURSE it was the full moon residual gamma ray moon beams!.  I thought for a while there that I could save my foil hat for when I REALLY needed it, but instead I'd better be making a new one -- or two.  And keep one on at all times.  Just in case.

It's funny how all the crazy things happen at once like that.  Back when I used to work at the jail it never failed, usually during the full moon, that we'd get a flood of detainees--and for the craziest charges, too!  They would be arrested for public indecency, vandalism causing $25,000 in damage, tampering with power lines, etc.  It was rare to see charges like that--we usually saw traffic charges like DUI and driving on a suspended license, and the occasional robbery or violation of parole.

Plus, I had a friend who was convinced that the jail had a ghost.  Actually, it was a favorite story among all the people that worked at the jail, but this person really believed it, I think.  Anyway, the jail is really a super-creepy building, with all these winding hallways down in a cavernous, dark basement filled with rotting cafeteria furniture lit by the occasional exposed yellow bulb--creepy.  Some of my co-workers had some pretty terrifying experiences down in those basement hallways--coming across a homeless guy who had snuck in and fallen asleep sitting bolt upright with his eyes half open, etc. And it never failed that the ghost "Misty" would appear during full moons, by banging pipes or throwing files from filing shelves, throwing filing cabinets open or creating havoc in some fashion.  It probably didn't help that we worked the night shift--all alone in that big, empty office, surrounded on all sides by dark, silent offices.

Or maybe we were just paranoid!  LOL!

So it WASN'T just me...

Thursday, I crushed my pinkie, tore a shirt and had to remove a 3/4 inch wooden dagger of a splinter from the web of my right hand, all before noon.

I've been off all day but ran errands today, all the while thinking "there's a lotta traffic for a Saturday". For an entire hour I forgot what day it was, only realizing my error at 4:40pm, on Rosedale Hwy, near Coffee...crap, it's freakin FRIDAY. Not just Friday, its Friday AFTERNOON. I have planned days around avoiding this situation!

What a week, in my "real" life and in the blogosphere. Can we blame it on the last day of winter? Spring has sprung, just today, even if its already 80 degrees! Welcome to March Madness...Bako style!

<edit> Nice post...ghost!

ALICEN ~ Remember the comment I made about two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do? It's even tougher with one-way streets and 18 wheels. As a recent occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave once said, "I feel your pain". I really should have worn my tin foil hat today.

Rickldo:  I'll make you one.  As long as you don't have some problem like your skull being too big for the rest of you.  I don't want to waste foil.  At any rate, I think my husband and I had a walk in the park compared to your day!  Oh, and I hadn't considered that we could have been in an 18-wheeler going along all those one-way (and narrow) streets!  Always look on the bright side.  Look for the silver lining -- but only in your foil hat!  And all that.

And I second the motion:  nice post, ghost.

 Will you guys please elaborate on the "tin foil hat"?  I have seen the reference several times, most recently here and DirtyShirt the other day.  I must know so I may be protected too!!!

Mrsearnhardt 38 ~ This will help a little...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Oh no.  I didn't realized it was this serious!   I have to go for a while.  Have to go get more foil from the store so I will be protected.  Thanks for letting me know what I have been missing!  I just hope there hasn't been too much damage done already!

I made a tin foil liner for my ball cap. I have hopes that it will protect me from those bad political vibes.