23 October 2009

You Know When Your Having One of Those Days

Yesterday could best be described as the day from HELL. Not only did I have round 1 and 2 (before and after school) with the mother of girl who for a long time bullied my daughter, but it ended with me knocking the car keys out of my hand and them going down the storm water pipe beside the house.

The bully round happened because my daughter was invited to the girls birthday and my daughter didn't want to go (personally I was very glad of this and had decided I wasn't going to let her go anyway), I was just going to say we had something on but we got the spanish inquisition and it turns out that I am apparently breaking up a 2 year friendship (mind you it was a friendship that was ok with the other party as long as my daughter did as she was told and handed over the food she bought at the canteen but what does that matter). I don't mind being the baddy my daughter is happy has a lovely group of friends now and is a different girl at home and at school.

While all this was going on I was having problems with my Internet service provider who changed hands and decided my account wasn't one that they could migrate to there new system. Which they told me about on Tuesday evening then switched off service on Wednesday afternoon after giving me 30 minutes notice (well actually no notice because all they said was there would be an outage and then I got a screen telling me I need to transfer my internet connection). A big thank you to Adam Internet for picking up the slack and providing fantastic customer service. Big BOOOO to Bigbutton who has treated a customer who has been loyally with the company for over 10 years as just another number.

And then the Car Key saga: The car was in for a service I forgot about it and didn't ring up until 3pm to see if it was ready, which meant that the kids had to walk with me to the garage to pick it up. That was a fun walk NOT. We finally get home I have the car keys in my hand (minus all the house keys thankfully) I hit my hand on the wall as I get out of the car and next thing I hear clunk, and to my horror the keys have slid down the edge of the down pipe that cover pretty much all of the storm water pipe and fall down in the pipe. To retrieve them my husband had to pull the down pipe off the wall to get them and out got sprayed with debris from the gutters (luckily we had ducked out to ballet so we missed out on the swearing).

I will leave you with a picture of my lovely labels because today is a new day with no mistakes in it and I am very glad to be heading to work for some rest and relaxation LOL. I will fill you in tomorrow where you can get yourself these lovely labels which are going to be stitched into my bag's that I am currently working on.

6 comments:

Dawn said...

I do hope you have much better day today.. days like you had are best forgotten...and good on you for protecting your darling daughter from manipulating people... she don't need that and neither do you...
Hugs Dawn x x

Sharon (Stitches on Mars) said...

We can all do with days like that, but it sure makes you appreciate the days when all goes well. It will probably be a funny anecdote one day.

Your daughter has a wonderful Mum, and the Spanish inquisition certainly proves you did the right thing. I think I know when the manipulative bullying comes from.

Its good to hear your daughter is feeling much happier now.

Hugs,
Sharon

Rustic Tarts said...

Amanda, it must have been one of those days generally as I had it too, yesterday.....and it has continued today. I usually joke with Marion that it is because I spend too much time with her and she is always 'doing things' - but she is in Qld so I can't use that line.

Don't suppose you are interested in going to Sydney on 12 November to see Wicked? I bought tickets for the wrong day!!!!! 2 adults and 2 concession tickets going cheap......(haven't told Iain yet about my stuff up)LOL

quiltygal said...

Hope things get better Amanda ...sounds like the girl has learnt from mum!! my eldest was bullied at primary school (wished I had stepped in sooner) so keep it up ...glad you had a great weekend at Hetties the work all looks fantastic...

Tanya said...

Ohh Amanda...Days like that seem to happen to me heaps of late too. Glad you got your keys back. I think i might have sat down and cried if that happened to me...Loooove the tags.....
Big Happy Hugs Tanxxoo

Leanne said...

Love the labels. I often shudder when I see a grate and think how easy it would to drop my keys down it.