Day Goes Awry

[Florence]

Well, this day has not gone as planned at all and that's not such a bad thing. I had scheduled too many things to begin with and was dreading being on the road going and doing all day. So when things didn't pan out, it was a relief. Such a relief that I went back to bed and took a sound sleep nap.

The first change of the day was a call from my hair salon informing me that my hairdresser, Diane, was ill and wouldn't be in today. Fine, I will reschedule. I look like a shaggy dog but that is one thing I don't have to do today.

Next I got an email stating that the voter registration training that was scheduled for tonight in the previous email will actually be next Tuesday, sorry for the inconvenience. No problem, I would just as soon not go anywhere from 6-7 tonight because we are having a cold front moving through and it is raining, windy, and cold and who on earth has ever heard of a cold front moving through the Texas Gulf Coast in May??

Last, I was supposed to make Cod Chowder for dinner and I called myself and cancelled that too, just because I want to cook even less than usual.

So right now I have a cat and a quilt on my lap, the radio is on and Talk of the Nation is talking, I have a good book on the Kindle (The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult) and I have a banana to eat. It's a good day after all.

[Dhiana]

+1

[Mighty Frugal]

this post made me smile. Thanks for a great image. I had a super busy day at work and you've knocked down my bp by a few points!

[Simpler at Fifty]

"I called myself and cancelled that too"

I think this is good advice for all of us.

[razz]

Funny but nice to read your response to the changes.

[CathyA]

LOL Florence! Glad your day turned out so nicely!

[Rosemary]

My day went awry, too, but it turned out ok - thankfully. DD fainted at school this morning and hit her head, so we spent the day at the ER. I am grateful for our health, our health insurance, a caring school staff, medical staff with a great manner for children, and my DH who thought to grab a favorite stuffed animal and a book for DD on his way out the door after I called.

[Valley]

Great advice for all of us Florence...and I hope that your daughter is ok Rosemary!

[Jilly]

...and I called myself and cancelled that too, just because I want to cook even less than usual.

I over-schedule as well, and I am going to make time to make that call, too!

[Zoebird]

My day went awry in the wrong direction.

Our footpath sign license had some kind of issue that can't be resolved until 1 July, and from there, there are no guarantees that we'll get the license again. This only means that I need to work with the building body corporate to get a sign up on our building wall, and then if i get the license, then we just have double the marketing.

Then, we got a parking ticket. What's weird about it is that we shouldn't. The parking ticket said our meter ticket ran from 1:22 to 3:22 and the parking ticket is marked at 3:28. Except that we had three meter tickets for 3 different parking spaces (how it works here) and they are timed stamped as follows: 10:49 to 12:49; 12:54 to 2:54; and 3:08 to 4:27. This means that I have to write a letter explaining this discrepancy with photocopies of the parking ticket and the three meter tickets that we have from the day, which clearly shows coverage between 1:22 and 3:22, as well as when the ticket was issued at 3:28.

It's a bit of a nuisance, but I'm not taking any sauce from the city council today.

[Blackdog Lin]

Florence, your post made me smile too. Thank you for the smile.

[Florence]

Glad it gave you all a smile too!