It’s Official…



Monday Sucks…


I stumble out of bed at zero dark 30, paw my way to the kitchen, find the light switch and pour the first cup of coffee…


As I stagger back toward the shower, I glance over at the remote temp unit in passing… Stop… Backup…


‘Tink, Tink… This thing CAN’T be right…” NINE !@#&* degrees… This is Virginia, not Maine!


Turn on the TV, the bright cheerful and bubbly announcer/weather guesser is prattling on about how it’s a ‘bit’ chilly out there this morning.


Well DOH…


Sigh…


Revise what I’m wearing to add enough layers to stay warm, trot out to the truck, and off I go…


3/4 of the way to work, the truck FINALLY starts warming up.


Get to work, I’m the first one in, so NO COFFEE dammit… make coffee… Wait for coffee, tap… tap… tap…


Get a cup and get started with the day, only to have a co-worker come in still bundled up an say, “Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, we moved the meeting to XYZ location, so you ready to head over?”


Grumbling, I get re-dressed to go back out, slurp down some coffee and off we trudge…


I idly ask, you DID add me to the access, right? Only to be met with a blank stare. This is NOT good, as I really don’t want to sit in the lobby all morning.


Get to the meeting, low and behold, they actually FIND my access, and I’m allowed in (which is nice since I CALLED the meeting)…


Three hours and no coffee (their coffee machine is broke) later, meeting is done and back we go. Now I’m only three and a half hours behind in the work due.


I get back to find a note from my travel folks, I need to redo a one time training package, since ‘management’ decided we should redo it every two years; and OBTW, you’re now expired, so you can’t travel until you complete it…


Now this training package is online, and supposed to take SEVEN hours to complete, but I have to finish it today. And it’s noon…


Well, I was trying to lose weight anyway. MORE COFFEE…


Finally get the @#&( thing to load, and start in.


Next, next, next, lather, rinse, repeat… first of 12 modules complete at 1300 (This is gonna take FOREVER, unless….)


Next, next, next, next, next, next, next, next, next, next, next, Ohh… questions… got em right, 2 down, 11 to go… Coffee…


Four hours later, print completion and leave it on the travel person’s desk (who apparently left at 1530)… Must be nice.


Now eight hours behind on work, but I’m done… Out the door to go play in traffic, and as usual there is a backup from hell… sigh…

Finally get home, starving, go rummaging the fridge and find a fruit cup! Well, it’ll tide me over IF I can get the thing ope… damn, all down the front of the jacket I JUST got back from the cleaners…

Now sitting her finishing this post, still hungry, afraid to walk in the kitchen, as I’ll probably spill, knock over, break something, and wired all to hell on the multiple cups of coffee I drank all day…

Yep, Monday SUCKS…

Now back to your regularly scheduled blogging!

Comments

It’s Official… — 19 Comments

  1. Alan- My screwed up day…

    SS- Glad I could cheer up somebody…

    Fuzzy- Hurry up and get better!

  2. Ouch! The true definition of a Monday! Hope tomorrow goes better and I fully understand the “adminisphere” crap at work! (The adminisphere is the rarefied level of management that rides loftily above the people that get stuff actually done. Less oxygen and common sense there.)

  3. Today’s my Saturday, but I feel your pain…Thursdays are usually like that for me!

    Hope you finally managed to get some dinner. Hey, you could order some delivery, won’t even have to step outside!

  4. Yeah, Christina has the right idea…
    I HATE Domino’s pizza. But they deliver and it’s much, much better than nuttin’, and it’s THEM dealing with the wx!

  5. That’s a Monday for the annals of Monday history.

    I’d say that Tuesday can’t be worse, but that would just jinx you.

  6. Keads- Oh so true…

    Supi- Mee toooo ๐Ÿ™‚

    Newbius- Shaddap… You KNOW I burned it ๐Ÿ™‚

    Christina- I’m not a big pizza fan, even when I’m desperate

    GB- Point… I just went to bed

    TOTW- yeah, I’m hoping…

  7. We make a perfect pair.

    I ate lunch standing at my med cart, doing paperwork. Problem is, I don’t remember what I ate. Knocked over a cup of coffee ON my cart & since I like a little coffee in my sugar, it was nice and sticky. Finally sat down at 1500 when I was driving to job #2 and my stomach started growling again. I don’t think it remembered we ate.

    Got to job #2 and there were chair alarms going off left & right & folks screaming. Realized it had been long enough since I worked there, that I had forgotten my time clock code (hopefully, I will get paid anyway). Got to sit down for supper (cold grits & eggs and sausage that snapped when you bit into it) around 1900. Thought I was gonna manage to scramble out of there around 2100, but one of my patients had an allergic response to her medication 2 minutes before I was going to leave…that was fun.

    Got home around 2300, thought I’d check my email before bed…and managed to spill an entire 12 ounce Coke on the keyboard.

    Heading to the store for a new keyboard now, as I have to pound on this one to type e, r, s, a, w, & q. >.< Is it Friday yet?

  8. Sounds like a perfect setup for requiring “Recoil Therapy”. Possibly with aside of Zombie targets. Somehow that can just bring on a smile on the worst of days.

  9. Snigs- damn, between us they’d have to declare a natural disaster area…LOL

    .45- that’s coming this weekend in Texas ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. NFO: Without my morning coffee I can get really โ€œwitcheyโ€, and I needed it to get through meetings, tooโ€”-glad I donโ€™t have to do THOSE anymore!

    I hope the rest of your week is MUCH better. Stay warm!