Storytime at the library for small child (for the first and last time this season — we joined late, and though next week is the last session before September we have a doctor’s appointment already scheduled): Success.

Trip to the office supply store for postcards and stickers: Success.

Introducing small child to a half-dozen Smarties: Success. Except then he whined for more all the way home.

Lunch, bathroom, small child down for a nap: Success. Please, gods, let him sleep for a full two hours. Two and a half would be even more awesome. (ETA: So much for that; all I got was an hour and a quarter.)

BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS: SUCCESS. It deserves capital letters, okay? I designed them and printed them out correctly on the first go. I found enough properly-sized envelopes and addressed them after looking up the addresses I didn’t have. I even have enough stamps for the ones being mailed. As a result of all this, I am currently watching for the four motorcycles bearing harbingers of the apocalypse. (I wanted to carry on the style I’d established for the first two birthday invitations, but the MS Publisher CD has mysteriously vanished and therefore I cannot install the program. It’s fine; these are more than acceptable, mainly because I had the brainwave of printing them on blank postcards and using a picture of Totoros and soot sprites on them.)

Obliterating headache: Failure. Unfortunately, this one is really, really dragging me down. I do cheer up every time I think of having done the invites, but they can only take me so far.