Murphy's Law and Holiday Weekends.

OR Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. However you'd like to read it.

It all started way too early yesterday morning. I was up as usual before the sun, and stumbled into work, arms out in front of me, mumbling 'brains...brainssss....' or 'coffeee'. It's hard to say which...

But it was Friday, beautiful, beautiful Friday. Even better a half work day Friday. And one overlooking a three day weekend no less.

Well I downed an obscene amount of coffee, had a poorly planned breakfast of string cheese, a white nectarine, pretzels, and a couple spoon fulls of peanut butter, and dug into the overnight issues.

And that's where it all started to go awry.

To make a long story short, all of the tiny details of my day, the ones that make life livable? Yeah, all that stuff went wrong. Census was maxed out, which meant I would have to work all day Sunday. The system was touch and go for most of the day. The fire marshal showed up. ALL of the elevators broke. The maintenance men were off for the weekend. I dropped a case of surgical soap. There were no paper towels in the dispenser. The list goes on.

I spent some time tottering on the verge of tears as my 4 hour shift morphed into a 9 hour one, paranoid, jittery, trying to figure out what would go wrong next.

In the end, I set aside what I couldn't finish and went home, knowing I would have to get up early today to go back in and finish it all.


Lucky for me Goose is SO wonderful. She had a chocolate bar in her hand when she met me, and ceviche and roasted brussels sprouts waiting for me on the table. She totally salvaged what was left of my day. I don't know what I'd do without her, but I'm pretty sure I'd have wild hair and would spend a lot of time muttering nervously to myself under my breath.


Today hasn't been much better, but I suppose it takes time for the little things to right themselves after going so catastrophically wrong. Goose has been taking very good care of me. We've been lounging on the couch, working on homework, watching FMA, so really I have nothing to complain about.

It was a long day, it was miserable, but it's over. The sun came up. And I survived.



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