A bad day....

Not looking for advice here, just need to vent for a minute....I had a bad day.

** Woke up, still sick. Coughing up nasties (eww) trouble breathing, back hurting, head throbbing. It’s a combo sinus / bronchitis thing.

** Debated calling in sick but did not because:
~ I have three reports due this week. My position is support staff to the house manager, and me and the other senior staff share the reports. The other senior staff--her last day was last Thursday.
~ We had a mandatory staff meeting
~ Mandatory staff meeting included the requisite once a month physical restraint techniques training
~ Not a lot of sick time left and too much winter left to gamble it with.

** Arrived late for the meeting due to spilling coffee on my shirt and having to scramble for a clean one.

** Meeting runs late.

** Start feeling worse; my boss is out as well so I have to call her boss to see if I can go home.

** We are understaffed and if I can stay, she "really needs me to."

** Stay, realize I have to pick up the weekly food order. Big job for a healthy person, let alone someone feeling crappy.

** Attempt to call my man for a little commiseration / comfort on my way out to the van. Drop phone on pavement.

** Phone is dead, dead, DEAD! No attempt to revive works.
~ Rent is due
~ Water bill is due
~ Car registration over due.
~ Car died last week, needing repairs that were NOT in the budget!
~ BROKE! CRAP(and stonger words)!! How am I gonna get the phone fixed / replaced?

** Realize I am so dependent on stupid cell phone, which I hated and did not want, that I don’t even know my man’s phone number. Or work number.

** Drop a box on my hand while loading van. A big box, full of canned goods, about 50 lbs. Ring finger swollen, bruised, unable to bend.
~ OWWWWW! How can one finger cause so much pain?
~ (MUCH swearing)!!! BROKEN? Do I need to go to the doctor?

** Kids (residents of home I work at) get home from school; raging hormones + I'm not the only one having a bad day + bad attitudes = one kiddo trying to physically attack the other, swinging a broom at my head, beating the wall, and generally being dangerous.

** Not only am I not leaving early, I now have to stay late. And do another report. On top of the reports I didn't get done due to day being hectic and off schedule.

** Finally, finally on my way home. Stop at the cell phone place on the way, paying for a new (used) phone to replace mine that is toast, lose all my phone numbers as phone is SO toast it won’t even come on for numbers to be downloaded into new phone. Lose a bunch of pictures I had not downloaded off phone yet, including family pictures of a recent visit.

(MUCH LOUD SWEARING)!!!!

A bad day.

Glad it is over.

(yes, I know, there are worse things; others are having a tough time too, worse than this; be grateful for what I have. I know, I know, I agree, I am. But it was either vent or cry, and my sinuses can't take the crying. Thanks for listening / reading.)

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Vent away, dear! Hope you feel better soon. :)

Some days are like that Lara. It sucks but, this is life.

I know you don't need advice neither am I giving you one:tongue2:

Don't know your man's number?:eek::jaw:

Hope you're feeling better and tomorrow will be a better day:yes:

Sorry you had a bad day, baby! (and it sounds like it sucked!) If it makes you feel any better, my roof leaked, my ceiling caved in, my basement flooded and the sink backed up as a result of the weather... Misery loves company, you know?

Oooh, and get that finger checked out, although probably the most they'll do if its broken is to tape the broken finger to the good one!

:) Things will get better!

Thanks, Harrison, appreciate the hugs. :)

Goodchild, I know--sad that I don't have my man's number memorized. To explain--we are on the same cell phone plan. We got the phones at the same time; once his new number was entered in my phone I never actually dialed it. LOL. Or had to look at it, as his name comes up when he calls, so the number is irrelevant. I have an address book at home, but the phone broke at work....sooo....up the creek, no paddle. :) And yes, tomorrow HAS to be better. :) (Rigth? right? :rolleyes: )

zolie--your day sounds worse! :( Hope you get dried out and repairs started soon. Thanks for the kind words even when you're having a rough day, too. The finger is fine---once the initial pain passed mostly, I could bend it. It's just a nasty bruise as far as I can tell. Probably SHOULD get X-rays, but I'm 90% sure it's just a bruise.

Tomorrow has to be a better day for you, too! :)

I'm sorry you had such a bad day yesterday, Larasteele. :bighug:

I hope today was better, and tomorrow even better still. :)

Well? Did you mangle anybody? :D

OK, what the hell is in retrograde now???
Am going to hide.....ack!
Hope you all had a better day today!
Blessings, TD

Lara sorry you had such a horrible day, few days ago, but guess what? You make it sound livable. That is, the way you write and express yourself, I lived every minute with you...

Whenever you have the time, please write, I bet you can easily write a book, I could feel it through the lines you wrote. You are a good writer and make the reader be there with you.

Anyway, hope your days get better.

I'm sorry you had such a bad day yesterday, Larasteele. :bighug:

I hope today was better, and tomorrow even better still. :)

Thank you! It's better now...somewhat. :)

Well? Did you mangle anybody? :D

Ha! No mangling of people took place---just the stupid phone—literally. EEK! I am a bit embarrassed to admit—I had a temper tantrum when I got home. :o Honey greeted me, I went non-verbal and didn’t respond, took the paperweight—err, phone—and tossed it to the ground. I then kicked it several times and swore a blue streak. It was rather like an obscene version of phone-soccer. (But don’t think I wasn’t tempted to mangle something or someone else, lol!) Oh well. Temper tantrum, stress relief…what’s the difference?

OK, what the hell is in retrograde now???
Am going to hide.....ack!
Hope you all had a better day today!
Blessings, TD

Retrograde? Hmmm…could be. However, for me the whole year has been kinda crappy career wise. Plus, it might just be December. This month always sneaks up on me. I’m going a long fine, kids return to school, life is good, Halloween candy, turkey feast, then ACK! Jaysus, December, you scared the crap out of me. Where did you come from?

December…it’s just an awful time of year. It’s like this: I think we over-compensate our children. Since so many of them have no families, or families unable to give them a good holiday, or have had crappy Christmases for years, we pile on the good times. Parties, ballet—Nutcracker tickets donated, yay!—holiday concerts, etc. We literally have so many activities and things to do that when the kids are on winter break, they will beg to stay home and just “chill.” And I will say, “Sounds good to me!”

In the meantime, in spite of the fact that I have been sick all week, I’ve had to keep working, pushing, and going 90 miles and hour with my hair on fire. Weeee! :) My weekend is coming though. ~sigh~

Lara sorry you had such a horrible day, few days ago, but guess what? You make it sound livable. That is, the way you write and express yourself, I lived every minute with you... Oh dear...I feel I should apologize, then! :)


Whenever you have the time, please write, I bet you can easily write a book, I could feel it through the lines you wrote. You are a good writer and make the reader be there with you.

Anyway, hope your days get better.

Thank you for the compliment! I do appreciate that; I have always wanted to write, but it's a second passion to taking care of abused and neglected kids. I used to keep a blog, when that was all the rage. However, no one ever read it. ha!

And--it has been a rough week, but that one day was the worst that it got. My week is almost over, and tomorrow, when I kick off my shoes and grab a cup of cocoa, I will be grateful. ~Looks all innocent.~

(All right, all right, it ain't gonna ba cocoa. Busted! But I still deserve my glass of wine. Or bottle. Or two. Try to stop me, I dare you!)

:)

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Thanks for all the responses to my little rant. I see all the intense discussion we’ve been having in other places here the past few days, and then I see some pretty caring and compassionate responses to me blowing off steam on a bad day….whatever else is going on, let’s not deny that many caring, compassionate people make Ageless a worthwhile place to be.