I've had a really, really, reallllly unproductive work week so far. I'm over a full day behind at the moment. My daughter knows this.

She keeps bugging me to take her shopping - RIGHT NOW - in the middle of the work day, when I'm already struggling to get caught up. "You don't have to stay in town, you can come home." Oh, OK, yeah, I can spend TWICE as much in gas to make two round trips. I can take 3 hours out of my work day just doing the driving. I can drop everything when she decides she wants to go and when she wants to come home.

I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!

I've told her so many freakin' times "If I worked in an office, I couldn't just tell them I'm leaving and I'll be back whenever." She also knows we're on a tight auto gas budget. It costs $15 just to make one round trip now, and she wants me to do two in one day.