Today I am a little bit of a complainer.

Today was a crappy day. The beginning of this post is a big complain-fest, so deal with it or don't read it. Just warning you.

One of those days where all you want is to crawl back into bed and start it all over, but you can't. And it makes you even angrier all day long, so you walk around all day with flames shooting out your ears and wishing you could burn everyone in your sight with said flames. That's just me? Oh. Nevermind then...

My alarm didn't go off this morning, so I woke up at 6:04. I had to leave for work at 6:20. Not cool. Fastest shower ever? Yes. Enjoyable start to my day? No. Not so much.

So then I'm at work, doing my thing and trying to go about my day, and I keep getting blamed for stuff I didn't do. Messed up boarding reservation? Stephanie. Clients declining vaccinations they can't decline for boarding/grooming? Stephanie. Euthanasia paperwork not filled out/done correctly? Stephanie. Which by the way, we had 5 of those today and that was hugely depressing in and of itself.

Look, I know how to do my job, and if I don't know what I am doing, I'm not afraid to ask a record breaking amount of questions until I figure it out. But they don't beleive me that I didn't do it, and they still think I am at fault. So this morning I got to spend over an hour calling every phone number ever listed in one clients chart, and looking in the phone book and calling information trying to reach this lady because SOMEONE (read: NOT ME) didn't pay attention and her dog is here for boarding and isn't completely up to date on its vaccinations and that's a big no-no and we can't do anything until we get her consent. Did I get an answer? Nope. Not 1 phone number worked. Out of 16. Sweeeeeet. Did the world end? No. But if you ask my manager? Yes. The world ended at 8:30 this morning and we are all dead.

At this point I am fuming and hugely annoyed that everyone is pinning this on me, (yes everyone, because when one of us (me or my one friend Megan, another receptionist) make a mistake, it spreads like wildfire and everyone makes sure to give us a little lecture in their own words of what we should have done and how we should do it next time. Don't worry. After 8 people telling me how to do something, I GOT IT. Especially when I didn't do it wrong in the first place...but okaythanksbye.) and I over hear my office manager telling our practice manager "Well, I guess we will just make it Stephanie's problem since she is the one who filled out the paperwork and didn't notice." Correction: Stephanie did NOT fill out the paperwork so therefore, she couldn't have noticed. But sure. Make it my problem. And what the heck kind of manager are you if that is how you deal with problems?! Geeze. No wonder we got sued.

So that was my day. Happy Tuesday. I'm just glad it is over and I made it out alive. Because if you remember, the world ended, so I should be dead. But I escaped! Phew.

In other news....besides the constant annoyances at work every day, life is good. I really do mean that. I really cannot beleive that it has almost been a year that Josh and I started on this new journey in our lives (June 4 is when he had his interview!) and how much has changed since then. Wow. Almost too much to think about really. So I will save that post for another day.

It does kind of make me sad though. Well, I guess not really sad...but I just feel really thankful that people haven't forgotten about me. Some have, and that is okay. I knew they would. But other people haven't stopped keeping in touch, and I am so grateful. I do my best to keep in touch as well, but it really means a lot when people ask how it is going here and actually care, and it is not just me reaching out to them and hoping they still want to talk to me and still care about me even though Montgomery feels like a different world sometimes.

Last week Kyle came to stay with us for a week so that was fun! We didn't do too much besides hanging out, but it was nice to have a friend around for a whole week! And I got to have someone to keep me company at Josh's soccer games, which was nice :) Plus Oscar and Sadie both adore Kyle, so they enjoyed our extra house guest too. I'm not kidding when I say they wandered around the house Saturday night when Josh and I got home wondering where Kyle was. They didn't understand why he wasn't here! It was funny. PS Kyle if you are reading this, thank you for understanding how boring we are and not being turned off by that. You said you will still come back to visit, and possibly even soon, so you rock as a friend. Big time.

This Thursday is the AYSO appreciation dinner and my husband scored quite a hot ticket item for the gift giveaway they do. (And no, this is not like the Bruce Springsteen tickets Michael Scott gets for the auction on The Office...haha!) He got 4 tickets to a Chicago Fire game! We've got the hook up with our rep...and she is pretty much awesome so she was able to do this on 3 days notice. So that's pretty cool!

Well I better get to bed...I'm ready to sleep this day off. Hope you all had a better Tuesday than I did, and here's hoping Wednesday is a thousand times better!!

Goodnight! 

PS MOM, since I know you are reading this and dying for a shout-out, can you please send me your recipe for cinnamon bread?? Yum.