Not the *best* day

Lando escaped from the Sarlaac Pit in Return of the Jedi but but met his fate when my three-year old flushed him today. Not sure what's worse - being digested slowly over a thousand years or having your watery grave be a toilet.

So I'm not whining, just commenting on the comically awful day I've had. A brief list of things that went wrong today.

• 1. Jaelle woke up at 6:12 a.m. I got up with her.
  
  
• 2. While playing basketball at the gym, I kind of tweaked my knee getting a board. It kind of hurts. I've never had a knee injury and I don't want to start now. They scare me.
  
  
• 3. Justus found one of my Star Wars action figures that I used to have when I was a kid. He then decided to flush Lando Calrissian down the toilet in the guest bathroom. So. I have to call a plumber.
  
  
• 4. Upset with my son (and unsure whether he knew he was doing something wrong) I put him in time out. Only I didn't want him to play with the toys in his room, so I put him in our room. While he was in there, he proceeded to use a ball point pen to draw all over the seat of our brand new La-Z-Boy recliner.
  
  
• 5. We discovered that Justus' shoes were too small, so we took him to the mall to Stride Rite to get a new pair of shoes. It cost $35 dollars for a pair of tiny shoes. What?
  
  
• 6. Because it was late in the day, and Justus was tired, he threw a tantrum in the mall because he didn't want to leave the play area.
  
  
• 7. On the way out of the mall, going up the escalator, while kicking and flailing, he kicked me square in the...sensitive man area.
  
  
• 8. Then he bit me on the shoulder. Hard. Like teeth marks hard.

So it's been a tough day filled with lots of discipline.