My Awful, Terrible, Very Bad Monday

So, most of you have heard about my awful, terrible, no good, very bad Monday. Here’s another version to the start of a week that I could have done without!
Monday… usually just another day, the start to yet another endless work week that always leaves one longing for the weekends. This Monday in particular, was quite poopy. The 6:30 am alarm on my phone sings Madonna & Justin Timberlake’s 4 Minutes (to save the world), ”Are you ready to go?” in my ear. I reach my phone and squeeze the side buttons to silence it… and resituate my arms and happily fall back to sleep. What woke me up an hour later, who knows? I slowly push the covers aside and grab my towel and head for the shower. So far, so good… a little late but I should be okay. Getting ready in the morning is never one of my favorite things to do and as I get older, it only seems to get worse! Finally, after much struggling with what clothes felt comfy and deciding I had best make the effort to put my contacts in, I decided I was ready to go! Now to gather the three most important things for work… my keys, my badge and my iPod. I grab my keys off the table in my room and reach in my bag for my badge. After emptying my bag a few times, checking my car and turning my already disastrous room upside down, I still couldn’t find my badge (or iPod). [Just as a side note, I cannot even enter the parking garage or building without my badge.] After driving half way to work being aggravated and grouchy, I slip my hand into the top side pocket and find… MY BADGE. Oh yes, you can image how dumb and annoyed I felt then. But, still no iPod.
I make it into work late, but I have my badge. Walking through the sky bridge and down the halls and riding the elevator to the 5th floor, my right contact is blurry. If you know me, then you know I spend half my life with my fingers in my eyes trying to retrieve whatever is making them itchy, blurry or agitated. So, with many attempts to make my vision clear, I didn’t get anywhere. I tried to work but every time I blinked it got worse! So, I took my contact out to try and clean it. I took a deep breath, (more of a huff at this point), and looked at my contact and it is half gone!!!!!!!! No, I didn’t lose it in my eye and it didn’t break in my eye. But, there I sat at my desk with a broken contact and no iPod!!! I quite didn’t know how to take it as my gas permeable lenses that I’ve had since my junior year in High School were supposed to last a lifetime. Also, they are about $200 a lens to replace. I worked for an hour or so with one eye (squeezing my eye shut at people in the hall to make sure I knew who they were). It was quite awkward and uncomfortable! I was given permission to go home and get my glasses. So, I drove the 3.5 miles home and made the switch and turned my room upside down one more time to search for my iPod. No luck. On my ride back to work I received a text from the girl I work with that we were swamped and I had better hurry back! This only irked me and made me want to drag my heels… Shame on me… I know. So, I get back and head over to Val’s desk only to find out that there has been a macro problem and some 40+ files needed to have the tax form that I take care of pulled and requested from the IRS. Mind you, that doesn’t include the 30+ requests that are already coming in along with my other duties at work. I want to leave, escape from the chaos… But, the day has already sucked so it can’t get any worse right?? WRONG.
I took my snotty, hacking, grouchy self home and decided to finish some laundry I had started the night before. I grabbed some supper and tried to forget about the dumb day. I was still bothered by my missing iPod and discouraged by my filthy room. I turned on some music and started digging through the mess. I was able to get all my summer shoes into one plastic tub and make it so I could actually close my bedroom door! Success at last!! Then, my sister Shelley called and brightened my day as well!! I really thought my day was looking up until I went down to get my laundry out of the dryer and I found…. My iPod and headphones at the bottom of the dryer. Ew. I was so disgusted. I stomped upstairs and fiddled and messed and still couldn’t get it to work. The headphones on the other hand are working wonderfully as I type!
Then, Amali was being so weird and wouldn’t let me hold her. She was stalking herself in the glass and being quite entertaining. While attempting to take a picture of her standing almost upright against the glass I see something out of the corner of my eye streak across the hall. I mentioned something to Emery that I thought I saw something and as the words are leaving my mouth, I look down the hall again to see a mouse race towards Karissa’s room!! I yell, “There’s a mouse in here!!” Emery responds by grabbing a shoe and heading my direction. While this is happening the mouse has turned around and is heading into the living room. By the time I get the light on I have lost sight of it. But, Emery spots it heading under her bed in the far corner of the living room! She heads in that direction and it comes right at her and she puts on a show for me hopping and screaming, hoping and praying the mouse doesn’t run up her leg! After giggle fits and wiping away our tears, we then witness the nasty little mouse run back into its hole in the kitchen. Dumb mice.
That brings my terrible, no good, very bad Monday to an end. I haven’t had an awful day like that in a while and the rest of the days this week have followed suit. Thanks for tuning in and here’s for a better week!!