Argghhhh!!!! :wall: This has been one of the longest, worst days I can remember in a very long time. Just one long chain of bad events and mishaps. It's definitely what I would call an "Alexander" day (reference from a children's book).
I woke with a migraine.
Went to the car to take my daughter to school and a bird had shit all over the driver side door.
Had some volunteer tasks I was supposed to complete at daughter's school this morning and had every intention of doing it even with the migraine only to find that the necessary supplies were missing (they were there yesterday, saw them myself). Left a note saying I'd come back later in the morning to finish the task.
Went to chiropractor to take care of migraine. That helped considerably but still felt miserable. Went home.
Called daughter's school to check on the volunteer tasks and somebody else had already taken care of them. You'd think that was a good thing. But they didn't have such good luck with the way it was turning out but they completed the project anyway and distributed them to every kid in the school to take home...they look like crap but it was already done and there was nothing I could do about it.
Picked daughter up from school and took her to her OT appointment. My psychiatrist, who I've been trying to get in touch with for two days finally calls me, as we're in the waiting room just minutes before daughter's appointment...ahh, what timing! I leave her in the lobby and step outside so I can talk without everyone hearing all of my business. Giant lawn mower drives buy, shrink can't hear me and thinks there's some sort of low flying jet or something. I go back inside with phone call, have to take it into bathroom because daughter decides that's when she needs my help...she can't/won't go to the bathroom to take a shit by herself.
After OT appointment take daughter to the chiropractor for her appointment. He gives me an additional adjustment to help with my continued headache. When time to leave I get in car only for it to not start...going to the gas station was on my list of things to do this morning but I'd felt so bad with my migraine I got out of my usual routine and now I had run out of gas. That's something that happens to teenagers, not a 35-year-old grown woman with a child.
Call for roadside assistance, there was a mishap a couple of months ago and apparently my roadside assistance was canceled (they thought at my request). They were very apologetic and immediately worked to reinstate but it will take 72 hours for it to show up and take effect again. They can't send someone on my plan but if I'm really desperate they can try to find someone but they don't know how much it will cost. Forget it, I'm broke and can barely afford the gas that I need to put in the car, forget about paying someone to bring it to me.
Try to call my friend, but can't get in touch with her at home or on her cell. Call friend's husband, he's out of town for the day on business but will be home this evening. Try to call another friend...realize that my new cell phone doesn't have all of my contacts in it and I don't have #s for any other friends. Shit! Call my mom (who lives over 100 miles away) and ask her if she thinks she can convince her roadside assistance to come and help me even though she's not with the car. She doesn't think she can but she will try and call me back. Wait. Wait. Wait. Look at phone and realize somehow I've managed to inadvertently turn it off. Call my mom back, she says she convinced them to come and help me and tells me what the cover story is so that I don't blow it. Go back inside chiropractor's office to sit in A/C until roadside assistance arrives. Doctor and staff try suggesting alternatives but at that point it is taking everything I have not to completely break down in tears. I say I've got it all figured out, I just need to wait for roadside assistance who is already on the way. If I have to think or talk anymore I'm going to have a complete melt down.
Roadside assistance comes and gives me a little gas. I go immediately to gas station only to realize I don't have my debit card with me. I don't typically carry cash...I find $3 in my wallet and buy another gallon of gas.
Go home, still can't find debit card. Scrape together $11 out of change bowl. Get daughter ready for dance class. Make her dinner to eat in the car. Go to gas station and put more gas in car...ahh, at least now I have almost 3/4 of a tank (good thing I have a very little car with very good gas mileage, but it makes it all the more embarrassing that I managed to run out of gas). Take daughter to dance class. Come home and sit down to long list of emails I've missed all day long. Put daughter to bed.
Get myself what I think is a well-deserved beer, put a frozen dinner in the microwave (haven't eaten anything since a bowl of cereal over 12 hours ago). Sit down to the computer. Friend who I couldn't get in touch with earlier calls to see what I needed. I spill my beer all over table, papers, cell phone, laptop. Clean up beer mess while I finish talking to her. Hang up from friend, get another beer, grab my microwave dinner and sit down to vent on the forum.
It has definitely been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Some days are just like that. I know tomorrow has got to be better.
And if you're still reading this, I'm LOL because it is a ginormously long, boring, meaningless post. But there, I laid it all out there and hopefully when I walk away from this computer I can let it all go and not continue to think about it and go over the details of the day in my mind over and over again. Doubtful though, because that's just the kind of person that I am. I sure hope I get more sleep tonight than the two hours that I got last night.
I woke with a migraine.
Went to the car to take my daughter to school and a bird had shit all over the driver side door.
Had some volunteer tasks I was supposed to complete at daughter's school this morning and had every intention of doing it even with the migraine only to find that the necessary supplies were missing (they were there yesterday, saw them myself). Left a note saying I'd come back later in the morning to finish the task.
Went to chiropractor to take care of migraine. That helped considerably but still felt miserable. Went home.
Called daughter's school to check on the volunteer tasks and somebody else had already taken care of them. You'd think that was a good thing. But they didn't have such good luck with the way it was turning out but they completed the project anyway and distributed them to every kid in the school to take home...they look like crap but it was already done and there was nothing I could do about it.
Picked daughter up from school and took her to her OT appointment. My psychiatrist, who I've been trying to get in touch with for two days finally calls me, as we're in the waiting room just minutes before daughter's appointment...ahh, what timing! I leave her in the lobby and step outside so I can talk without everyone hearing all of my business. Giant lawn mower drives buy, shrink can't hear me and thinks there's some sort of low flying jet or something. I go back inside with phone call, have to take it into bathroom because daughter decides that's when she needs my help...she can't/won't go to the bathroom to take a shit by herself.
After OT appointment take daughter to the chiropractor for her appointment. He gives me an additional adjustment to help with my continued headache. When time to leave I get in car only for it to not start...going to the gas station was on my list of things to do this morning but I'd felt so bad with my migraine I got out of my usual routine and now I had run out of gas. That's something that happens to teenagers, not a 35-year-old grown woman with a child.
Call for roadside assistance, there was a mishap a couple of months ago and apparently my roadside assistance was canceled (they thought at my request). They were very apologetic and immediately worked to reinstate but it will take 72 hours for it to show up and take effect again. They can't send someone on my plan but if I'm really desperate they can try to find someone but they don't know how much it will cost. Forget it, I'm broke and can barely afford the gas that I need to put in the car, forget about paying someone to bring it to me.
Try to call my friend, but can't get in touch with her at home or on her cell. Call friend's husband, he's out of town for the day on business but will be home this evening. Try to call another friend...realize that my new cell phone doesn't have all of my contacts in it and I don't have #s for any other friends. Shit! Call my mom (who lives over 100 miles away) and ask her if she thinks she can convince her roadside assistance to come and help me even though she's not with the car. She doesn't think she can but she will try and call me back. Wait. Wait. Wait. Look at phone and realize somehow I've managed to inadvertently turn it off. Call my mom back, she says she convinced them to come and help me and tells me what the cover story is so that I don't blow it. Go back inside chiropractor's office to sit in A/C until roadside assistance arrives. Doctor and staff try suggesting alternatives but at that point it is taking everything I have not to completely break down in tears. I say I've got it all figured out, I just need to wait for roadside assistance who is already on the way. If I have to think or talk anymore I'm going to have a complete melt down.
Roadside assistance comes and gives me a little gas. I go immediately to gas station only to realize I don't have my debit card with me. I don't typically carry cash...I find $3 in my wallet and buy another gallon of gas.
Go home, still can't find debit card. Scrape together $11 out of change bowl. Get daughter ready for dance class. Make her dinner to eat in the car. Go to gas station and put more gas in car...ahh, at least now I have almost 3/4 of a tank (good thing I have a very little car with very good gas mileage, but it makes it all the more embarrassing that I managed to run out of gas). Take daughter to dance class. Come home and sit down to long list of emails I've missed all day long. Put daughter to bed.
Get myself what I think is a well-deserved beer, put a frozen dinner in the microwave (haven't eaten anything since a bowl of cereal over 12 hours ago). Sit down to the computer. Friend who I couldn't get in touch with earlier calls to see what I needed. I spill my beer all over table, papers, cell phone, laptop. Clean up beer mess while I finish talking to her. Hang up from friend, get another beer, grab my microwave dinner and sit down to vent on the forum.
It has definitely been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Some days are just like that. I know tomorrow has got to be better.
And if you're still reading this, I'm LOL because it is a ginormously long, boring, meaningless post. But there, I laid it all out there and hopefully when I walk away from this computer I can let it all go and not continue to think about it and go over the details of the day in my mind over and over again. Doubtful though, because that's just the kind of person that I am. I sure hope I get more sleep tonight than the two hours that I got last night.
