Today is one of those days when I should have just smashed the alarm clock with a hammer, pulled the covers up over my head and stay in my nice warm, snuggly bed. Thankfully nothing major happened throughout the day but all the little things that didn't go right have me really wanting to head down to the Frozen Gator right now (new Sports Bar in Steamboat Rock - whoooohoooo - we're moving up in the world!)
After Josie left for school, I headed down to City Hall to start running copies of the monthly newsletter. Well apparently my brain was still in bed because I ran 250 copies of the front side of page one and neglected to put page two in the machine to run it front-back. Taking another 30 minutes of time, I got that straightened out. Then I fired up the older copy machine thinking I would be really smart and get twice as much done in half the time - yeah, right!
The old copier jammed like fifty times in the first 10 copies that it made. Things then smoothed out a bit and I was plugging away making copies and putting stamps on another mailing. Well, then the new copy machine decided to have an attitude - long story short, all the copies still aren't made, the old copy machine is apparently hooked up to the light switch in a different part of City Hall because if the office light isn't on, the copier won't work (if you shut the light off, like I did - the copier goes off and wipes out the number of copies that are left to be made thus forcing me to have to count a stack of 217 pages).
After running home, I checked the bank balance and low and behold, it's only Wednesday and there's like $8 in the account ---- what a happy day! I was supposed to go have lunch with my father-in-law today at the nursing home (it's his birthday today) but I was in such a crappy mood that I bailed out on that (very selfish, I know). I then went back to City Hall to continue making copies and then neither copier would do what I wanted it to do - one kept jamming and one kept shutting off.
Josie gets out early on Wednesday's so I had to hustle up there and pick her and a friend up - I thought Josie asked a lot of questions - this little boy had about three hundred questions in the two blocks from the school to his house. He's a cutie though - wouldn't have it any other way and it makes me feel better knowing Josie isn't the only one that asks a question, takes a breath and then asks another one (completely unrelated to the first) without waiting for your first answer.
When I get home, there's a funny "hot" smell in the house - ok, the washer smells like something has melted in it. I had Mitch's work clothes in there on the heavy duty stain cycle. Apparently my washer doesn't like that cycle because I thought the thing was going to burst into flames.
The lady bugs have decided to make it known that they have every intention of invading my home. The dog was on the deck catching and eating bees and then whining and yelping when they would sting him (stupid dog has been doing that all freakin' summer - you'd think he would learn; besides, who's ever heard of a bee-killing dog??)
My house is in utter chaos - I told Josie we're having a gargantuanly gigantic garage sale soon and she actually agreed that she has way too much stuff (I should have made her sign something so when the time comes, she doesn't go into meltdown mode).
Oh yes, when I went to the school tonight to pick Josie up from dance, I slammed my knee into the edge of the door and now it's all swollen and it hurts to have my pant leg rub against it.
I think that's about it for today - like I said, nothing major but good grief, all those little things add up in a big hurry and turns out to make a really bad day. Reminds me of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
Hopefully my day has brought laugther to yours - it probably will for me in a couple days :)
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