Did you ever have one of those days that starts out bad and just gets worse? I woke up with a completely "dead" right arm after sleeping awkwardly -- no pins and needles, there was nothing. Then, when I stepped out of bed to get some aspirin and turn on the shower (with the hand on my functional arm), I stepped on the cat and, to avoid killing her, threw myself backward but missed the bed, and landed on my butt on the floor. Good thing I'm so padded! I get up off the floor and drag myself to the shower. While in the shower, I dropped the razor, and when I bent down to pick it up, banged my head on the handle. OMG!
After all of the various self-inflicted wounds, I told my daughter to get dressed so we could go out school clothes shopping. She was thrilled, and that made my bruises not so sore, so I thought the day was on the upswing. We spent a long time picking out several cute outfits at that store with the talking manequins and I was excited to check out with my bonus savings as a card holder. Not so fast! As I was trying to use the charge card and bonus savings certificate, the check-out girl told me that the card was denied. What? I have made a habit of using this card and paying it off by electronic bank payment so often that, several time, they have sent me back a check because I had paid more than was due. Figuring that the card was demagnetized or something, I put the bonus savings certi back in my purse to use with one of the other kids and decided to call Customer Service on the way home. In the car = mistake!
Well, the customer service department has been outsourced to a call center in India and I had a terrible time trying to understand the poor guy on the other end of a shakey cellphone connection. When I called back after I got home, the news just got worse. Apparently the electronic payment that my bank sends out monthly did not go out in July! So I'm now a month behind and had to bring the account current using my debit card. Yike! Obviously, my next call was to my bank. Apparently there was a change in their authomatic payment procedure and a letter went out with instructions for setting up the new electronic payments going forward. Did I get the letter? To be honest, I probably did. Did I read the letter? Come on! Do I have to answer this question? Luckily, the rest of the payments went out before the change in procedure, so I didn't miss ALL of my July payments.
Feeling like a heel, it's time to take Jojo to a taekwon do party with the other girls at the dojang. Well, that's gotta be fun, right? Cellphone bomb from the ex puts a hold on my entering the dojang as I send Jojo in ahead of me in order to shield her from the salvo I'm preparing to launch. After Round Seven -Kajillion in the never-ending battle for timely child support payments, I enter the dojang to find a note on Jojo's attendance card stating that tuition is due. I couldn't help it. I began to laugh hysterically and had to walk back out and gather my wits just prior to having a total meltdown right in front of my mortified daughter and all of her TKD friends.
I had to drive her home, so I couldn't "head for the mountains," but I've always been told that exercise helps one clear one's head, so I headed for the walking trail closeby the dojang, rather than the corner bar. Hey, sweating to the Selena Gomez tunes that were on Lilo's MP3 player in the backseat, worked! I felt much calmer (and closer to sane) when I went back to pick Jojo up. Judging by the looks that I got from several of the other moms, dads, and dojang denizens, however, the power-walk with Selena didn't do much for my outward appearance. "I'm no beauty queen, I'm just beautiful me...." LOL!
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