Bad Day

Today has been a bad day all around. It started off bad this morning at the house and has continued to be bad all day.

Mr. BIL warned me last night that he’d have a big dictation job for me this morning. He wasn’t kidding – there was a 22 minute job and an 8 minute job waiting for me when I got here. But instead of getting started, he had me go with him into a client meeting to act as a notary. What should have only taken a few minutes kept us in there until 11 a.m. So at this point I was 90 minutes behind schedule on getting this thing done.

Add to that, I had forgotten that the admin lunch was today. At 11:30 a.m. one of my coworkers reminded me, and seeing as I was only 5 minutes into the 22 minute dictation, I knew there was no way I would make it. Sure enough, they all left around noon and I finished my dictation around 12:45 p.m.

At that point I decided to drive over to a HUGE fabric store in Gastonia to get some green fleece for three blankets that have been custom ordered. I figure a 40,000 sq ft store would have plenty of fleece to choose from.

Not so.

There were about 15 bolts of patterned fabric, and 10 bolts of colored fabric – only two in green, and not even close to the green I needed. I was super-ticked that this HUGE MASSIVE STORE had only 25 bolts of fleece. So I stormed outta there and drove back to work having accomplished exactly nothing for that hour.

Then I sat back down to do the 8 minute transcription only to discover that the first two minutes of that job were filled with ranting about how I wasn’t cleaning out the dictation fast enough. That made me feel GREAT.

*sigh* Today is not a good morale day. Today is a “crawl in bed and never wake up” day.