It's only Tuesday...

...and already this weeks blows. I must've missed the 'dump on Jennifer' memo because it sure seems like everyone else got it!

I'll start with Monday morning. Wake up late and first thing, what happens, our toilet had backed up a little. So I go to stop the water and end up flushing the toilet again and flooding the bathroom. Luckily the water was clear, but still, nothing like standing in icy-cold toilet water. Plus, with the mold issues in September, the last thing our bathroom needs is to have extra water on the floor. Mop that up with a ton of towels and it's already time to be heading out the door, but I haven't gotten ready, packed lunches or gotten Ethan up. Joy. Finally get going and Ethan is screaming at me because he's ready to get up. Get him out of the crib and he's fighting with me because he doesn't want his diaper changed, but wants his toothbrush right that second - he's been obsessed with carrying around a toothbrush lately, but that's another post. Get him changed and we're finally out the door - already 15 minutes late for work and about 25 minutes behind schedule. Call work to let them know of the 'emergency' and that I'll be late. Drop off Ethan and finally get to work - 45 minutes late. Guess I'll be making that up later. To top that all off, I sent Sean a text to whine and he also had not had a great morning. The bus he rides up to work broke down and he had to wait an hour for the back-up to come.

Moving on to today... Start my normal morning work routine: start-up computer and clock in, bring internet up and print daily vendor invoices, check email. Stop. The email is what wrecked my morning. Last night I stayed up perfecting a Christmas gift on Shutterfly.com in order to save 20% and get free shipping via an email promo code from them. I did not want to miss out on the opportunity to save us some cash this holiday season, so I made sure to get the order in - submitted order at about 11:30pm. The time stamp on the shutterfly email I received this morning was for 3:22am - less than four hours after I had finished my order. And of course, it's a WAY better promo and would've saved me $32 and still get free shipping. I was ticked!! (Luckily, this story has a happy ending - I called after work and after much discussion was able to get a $32 credit on my account for future use. Phew!)

Later in the day I got accused of refusing to do computer training yesterday for a new warranty process we're implementing from one of our vendors - too bad I had said I would do it but the lady didn't have the online website/log-in info and didn't ever come back to train me. Nice to take the blame on that one. Then, and here's the clincher, near the end of the day I got RAKED OVER THE COALS for another accounting issue - partially my fault, but I was currently working on balancing that vendor's account and had not been informed that we would be paying them earlier from now on. Nice.

Work days like these make me SO HAPPY that we are focusing on getting to the point where I can quit work and be at home - even if it does mean moving to Salem. I do work Saturday, the trade for getting Friday off with the holiday, but I'm glad I only have one more day til we get to enjoy good company and good food. :)