Caitlin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Fridays Original to-do list:

1. Sleep in

2.Make lunch for Jen and I

3. Go help out in Jens classroom

4. Study at the coffee bean

5. Go for Bike ride

6. catch up on emails & phone calls

7. Go to Nursery and get plants for front yard

8. Concert at Mosaic with the girls

 

Fridays Actual To do list:

1. woke up early from incessant barking dogs

2.made lunch

3. opened my car door to see my glove box open and all it’s contents strewn through my car

4. realized my backpack and every book, binder, note from the semester gone

5.1/2 a second later realized I had stuffed my wallet in my backpack while cleaning my car the night before

6. Told myself I “know better” than to be so careless

7. Cursed the Heavens

8. called bank

9. called credit card company

10. bank again

11. Dad

12 Mom

13. bank again

14. Western Union

15. credit fraud alert agencies

16. police

17. searched email for professors info because lost all that in my notebooks

18. call all professors

19. email professors

20. call bookstore- need books for tests on Monday

21. get reprimanded by angry bookstore lady

23. Realize that my spare set of keys for house and car, of course…were in my car

24. Curse the Heavens again

25. go to bookstore..with credit card #’s, signatures, copies of parents id’s and any other “jump through the hoop-prove that you are you” item that you could dream up

26. reprimanded by bookstore lady again

27 wait 45 minutes while they “see what they can do”

28. again.. a little mercy? I cry “Uncle!”… I am reprimanded

29. fallowed by uncontrollable crying breakdown in middle of bookstore

30. embarrassed

31. allowed to ONLY buy 1 book..because obviously crying girl is trying to pull a fast one on the school by making fake copies of about 1,000 forms of ID so we will allow her to make “one fraudulent” purchase..ya know just to be nice

32. calls are made inferring a call to school president

33. return to bookstore and am magically allowed to buy all new needed $500 of books

34. meanwhile locksmith is changing house locks

35. I get call from someone saying they have found all my credit cards and license in the street in front of their house

36. I beg them to let me kiss their feet, walk their dog and make them cookies for a a year

37. they also return my keys..about 15 minutes after locks on house have been changed

38. hallelujah?

39. Notice that my car key has been pulled off of keys prior to them being chucked

40. creeper

41. of course, gulp…receive terrible news from a friend on unrelated issue

42. thank god for at least having the decency to pour all the crap on me on the same day rather than stringing it over a few days

43. mope home

44. BUT… make it home in time for Girls night- concert, dive bar and a little of this…

And that is the story of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day..with a pretty dang good ending.