Ick, it’s been a day.
The gifts were a tad slow moving this morning. Littlest gift wanted breakfast at home
(instead of daycare) and eldest gift was having trouble getting out of bed. Not too bad, but a little slower than our
usual pace. I hadn’t packed the boys
lunches the night before (I’m a little challenged on room in the fridge at the
moment) so I had to pack their lunches … TOTALLY forgetting the lunchables in
littlest gifts lunch. Shoot, sorry dude.
I finally collect, my apple, coffee, purse, laptop, indoor
shoes, the boys snow-pants, eldest project, bag of gaming stuff to go to their
dad’s, their backpacks and the boys and we head to the garage. It’s been a ridiculous winter, 37’ of snow
and counting, so BBE lets me park in the garage. Everyone is in; car is loaded with stuff …
CONTACT. We open the garage door and …
DAMMIT
There’s my truck.
Shoot, BBE blew out the driveway yesterday and forgot to put the truck
back on the other side. Muttering a few
choice phrases, I go back in the house, grab the truck keys, minimally brush it
off, and move it to the other side of the driveway. Ok, this time for realz … CONTACT.
I get the boys dropped off at daycare, now 40 minutes behind
schedule and I look down and the car is out of windshield wiper fluid. Oh for the love of all things purple … I have
to stop at a gas station, buy fluid, fill it up and hit the road. Apparently people took there “let’s inflict
some RAGE on techy today” pills, as EVERY MORON who wanted to coast in the
passing lane was out. Muther Effer! I finally pull in to work 45 minutes late,
but beat my coworkers and decide ok, it’s done; my day can get better now …
But no, of course not.
I’ve been working on this MASSIVE new product line that has been
evaluated, changed, tweaked, rebranded, resourced, redesigned and basically
screwed with for a year. I’m finally
seeing a light at the end of a tunnel (praying it’s not a train) and I get a
bunch of proofs back on my desk and almost lost it. The R&D manager, who I’ve come to learn,
is incredibly bright but epically lazy.
Changed a bunch of information, and asked questions (to which he should
know the answer) and is sending my program spinning again. I LOST IT.
I fired off an email, reminding him that he’d already proofed and
approved ALL this information. Is he “sure”
this time? Really? UGH. I
have to go back to the drawing board on about 30% of the program. Fortunately I’ve got the time and manpower to
handle it, it’s not one of my “critical timeline” items, but GEZZZ this guy
drives me NUTS. He was told to proof the
info MONTHS ago. He simply shrugged and
said “hey man, everyone makes mistakes”.
*deep breath*
All I can say is that it’s a good thing BBE is home tonight,
that’ll cheer me up. I’ll put this Monday
behind me and try to be grateful that these days are the exception, not the
rule!
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