Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

okay my day today was SOOOOO incredibly bad that's it's actually pretty comical. So, I figured I'd share and maybe amuse you all. here goes...

4:00am-- I was awoken by the sound of loud hip hop music. yes, at 4am. it was coming from my next door neighbor's and was loud enough for me to know that I heard Usher's new song and some Ashanti on Z104. thought maybe it was an alarm, but half an hour later, it was still on. and there was no big party going on or anything-- JUST the music. WTF.

5:00am-- after not being able to fall asleep in my bed or on the couch thanks to my wonderful little furry brats who think I got up just to feed them, finally got a little shut eye in the living room

6:21am-- my alarm went off for work, and I woke up ALREADY in a bad mood and too awake to snooze

8:15am-- my usually even-tempered star counselor starts my day by telling me how annoyed she was with one of our new people. the worst part is, the new person has been driving me just as crazy and I think my counselor is more patient with her than I am. this is not good.

10:00am-- found out my boss wasn't coming in, which means I have to wait longer to deal with one of the issues for one of my people that is making me MAD. doesn't affect me, but this is a great employee and I want to make sure the good ones are taken care of...

12:20pm-- after cleaning and organizing, still no sign of missing digital camera at work. get pissed off all over again that someone would really steal something right off my desk. people are amazing.

1:00pm-- leave work for the nutritionist that my horrible doctor is making me see. stop at Tropical Smoothie for some healthy lunch addiction, only to get stuck in a line of only 5 people for 20 minutes. was almost late for the doctor.

1:55pm-- get a call from aforementioned star counselor telling me that because I didn't think to call P.F. Chang's for lunch reservations tomorrow, they are now full. And although my team had really wanted to go there, they now have to settle for Friday's because I'm dumb.

2:00-3:00pm-- sit with nutritionist, who gives me some good information, but still makes me pay a lot of money not covered by insurance just to say eat whole grains and don't work out as hard (explained later)

4:00pm-- spend way too much money at Target out of obligation to two other counselors on our shift who are having babies. well, one is a man, but his wife is having it, so close enough. barely know them.

4:45pm-- am loading car outside of Target-- putting bags on passenger side when I notice TWO DENTS (luckily very small) and a large scratch on that side. I have not hit anything and there's some red paint. conclude the asshole with the red Mustang upstairs who steals my parking spot and makes so much noise that my pots shake must be responsible. my poor poor beautiful car! vow to get car fixed and to get to the bottom of this and get even! don't mess with the car, buddy.

5:05pm-- after successfully setting up DirectTV, call Verizon to set up phone and DSL so I never have to deal with Cox again. After getting transferred all over, get very rude woman who tells me that I can't set anything up until I pay the bill from when I cancelled my service before. I say fine no problem I've been waiting for the bill, but then find out they never backdated the cancellation like they told me they would AND they are charging me money for my FREDERICKSBURG number that was cancelled in 9/03 even though I had moved out in March of that year. and my roommate told me she had put the account in her name like she was supposed to. bill is over $200. billing department is closed and is only open when I'm at work. I had never once heard of owing this money ever, so imagine what it did to my credit. and, the crazy vindictive money-stealing bitch I had to room with for 8 months in Fredneck gets the last laugh 2 years later.

7:00pm-- go to gym with Steph and do fat burning workout instead of cardio workout that I normally do, because ms. nutritionist says that in fact I am working TOO hard and should not be training for endurance like I have for sports my whole life. work out for 45 minutes and feel like I have done absolutely nothing. almost punch machine after seeing message: "slow down to reduce heart rate" continually when my heart rate is only 130. no joke.

8:15pm-- get home and heat up mac & cheese for dinner. break fork that has been in my family for as long as I can remember. luckily, is not family Gorham, which is why I have it, but still makes me sad :(

8:20-pm-- eat, type, and get settled in to get ready to go to bed, get up, and start allllll over again

now, as a disclaimer, not everything was bad today... my Tropical Smoothie was wonderful as always, one of our new supes saw my side of an argument and helped me get perfect numbers because he's that cool, I got really cute comfy new gym pants that make me look like a hospital worker, and I found a new article on the Onion that I love, so check it out-- especially the second picture withe the truck, which I think is hilarious. one of these days I need to start posting my funny picture collection...

anyway, hope everyone out there had a much better day that I did. here's to a good day for everyone on Friday!