Please Forgive Any Mistakes: I Am Not Used To This Keyboard And Also Rather Drunk...

Today has been One Of Those Days.

To start: I had a bad nights sleep.
     No clue why.

THEN: due to people being off sick, my shift was incredibly hard and left me exhausted, filthy and drenched with sweat. Added to that; it was one of those days when no headway could be made no matter how hard you tried.

THEN: I wasn't able to vacuum the living room because the decorator had just finished and all the skirting boards were tacky, and not being able to vacuum always sets my teeth on edge.
     (no insulrt intended toward you, Martin Meese: you are utterly brilliant and rock immensely).

THEN: I wasn't able to have the nap I tend to have to counteract difficult shifts because I was due at SENSE for 3-PM.

THEN: while at SENSE an incredibly difficult and moany customer came in and I had to deal with her for the best part of 40 minutes.
     (for the most part that is. When things began to really descend into sucky choas, I admit I passed the buck and passed her off to make her utterly stupid and unreasonable demands to the Manager. But even then I still had to deal with her at the same time).
     (and although this does not in any degree reduce her suckiness, she DID purchase £68.43 worth of stuff, which in a charity shop isa pretty immense achievement).

THEN: we found out that The Grandmama and Aunt2 had had an argument over The Grandmama's habit of allowing herself to dry slowly post shower rather than rub herself dry vigorously and quickly with a towel. 
     Said row has left Aunt2 cross and The Grandmama miserable.
     .....and me (impotently) furious.

THEN: upon returning home from walking Bingo, our Next Door Neighbour On The Right latched onto us anxiously. Toby - an eight month old and adorable, if slightly hyperactive, Westie puppy - had run away in a fit of excitement and disappeared into the dark.
     .....20 minutes of frantic searching later he was discovered hiding in an impossibly small space in a thicket, frightened and subdued but otherwise unharmed. But it left us frazelled.
     .....and to add; I pity the poor bloke if he is ever forced to confess to his girlfriend - Toby's 'mommy' - what he carelessly very nearly allowed to happen to her beloved baby..... =shudders=

THEN: mother got into an altication with the till assistant working in our local Tesco Garage after a misparking incident (during which no innocent onlookers or petrol pumps were harmed) caused our petrol pumping session to 'time out', which left her paying a £2.40 bill for 1 and a half litres worth of petrol and storming off.l
     It took her 15 minutes to calm down (mother that is, not the till assistant) after that.
     (.....and that was with 'relaxing' breathing exercises).

THEN: our deceptively tiny shop  (admiteddly comprised of expensive-ish things. Including the drink I have just gratefully consumed) came to £40.23.
     .....and that was WITH two money saving coupons.
     .....mother went pale. Our usual 'huge and expensive' shop (which includes really pricey things such as butter and washing tablets) generally comes to no more than £55. We had a basket worth of items.
     .....ouch.

THEN: we found that our Morcambe and Wise Christmas Special DVDs will not work in our semi-broken television set.
     Which is why I am up here now watching QI with my homemade Cherry V's and mother is downstairs with her homemade Cherry V's watching whatever it is she fancied putting on.


So! That was my Friday.

.....Today has been One Of Those Days.....

Alice x