Ah yes, Monday - again. I'm not entirely sure why, but there is no other day like a Monday. They almost always seem, well, out of whack.
I was woke from a pleasant sleep 5 minutes prior to the alarm going off by a rumble and the old house shacking. An earth quake, a very large truck getting stuck in my yard... perhaps the 'secret, not so secret' forces guys were practicing again.
As it turned out, it was thunder. Yep last week was -15 at night, this week we have a thunder storm. Stupid weather. It gets stranger though. I was sitting at my computer, which resides with my multi function fax/printer/scanner, a halogen lamp (responsible for melting the corner of my flat screen monitor) numerous piles of paper, a water bottle and my 'D-Link' broadband router. I'm sorting papers when there is a 'electrical snap', I look up to see the flash jump from my multi function and I feel a burn in my finger. It was one of those 'wtf' moments.
A the very same time as all this happens, my broadband connection goes dead. Shit I think... we've been hit. (by lightening, it happens once a year) I start by checking all pieces of equipment, everything seems to be working, even though there is a faint smell of melting plastic.
Well, as it turns out, the only victim of the lightening strike was my 'D-link' router. I haven't done anything about it. Seems these days I am the only o
ne in the house that needs an Internet connection and I can run direct. I'll get to replacing the hardware, one of these days.Daughter.... she picks Monday nights as the time she comes home to do laundry. Last Monday she had agreed to clean up the room she has occupied and called her own for many years..... (I believe there are critters living in there) Well, that is not happening. She did bring home a backpack full of dirty clothes to take care of though. I have to say, I do sort of admire that she can go an entire week with a backpack of clothes... that wouldn't last me three days.
She also is complaining about being tiered... its hard to work from 4pm to 8pm and still feel fresh. Yeah, I did say 4pm. Hubby says it is 'a good learning experience for her', I wonder what she is learning - btw, there are laundry services where she is living - why dirty clothes come home I just don't understand. (yeah, so what's your point..... we all brought laundry home... but I at least stayed and ate for the weekend.)
I guess I'll get past the 'I'm going to ignore you' attitude - and yes, the laundry too. i just wish she had a bit more personality or at least be a gracious enough guest to sit down and say hello when she walks in and raids the refrigerator.
I've decided I hate Mondays for other reasons too. Monday are my fat days. It sucks. I guess if I didn't manage to over due the weekend as much, then I wouldn't be facing 'my ass looks like the back end of my truck' realization when I look into the Monday morning mirror.
Mondays are also the worst day for meetings. I had one pulled off my agenda that had been scheduled for a week - changed over to Tuesday. The fellow I was meeting with had to go see about some x-rays. Reasonable excuse.
My second appointment of the day was a no show. I sat for almost an hour sipping on a cup of exotic tea at a cute little shop down in the Byward Market. My appointment used the excuse that she was waiting for me at a Japanese Noodle shop in the same building. Well, not really, first it was in the same building, then it was in another building - apparently the one that I was in housed a Chinese noodle house. Yep, another 'wtf'. Especially
seeing as we were not to meet in a noodle house at all, instead a 'tea shop'. Noodles - tea...... pretty hard to get mixed up wouldn' t you say.I think really what happened is that she forgot and then made up the excuse. I would have been much happier had she just said... 'hey, listen, I forgot, I screwed up, you weren't that important'. I am her career coach - hummmm.... should I take this as a sign?
So I'm looking forward to a much better Tuesday. I have two meetings, one for lunch. Both with senior professionals who I am sure put me in their agenda's last week. As for 'daughter'... I get to drive her back into the city. Oh lucky me. I'll let you know how that goes.
Have a wonderful Hot Cherry Day - I'll try to keep my cool today and root up some more interesting stories.
