sell the rip?

yesterday:

yesterday started off weird. i took gd to her dermitologist appointment, we left a little later than we should have and arrived almost exactly on time. but we had to wait twenty minutes to see the receptionist even though we had an appointment. then we were informed that we were in the wrong place.

the receptionist could not understand why i was upset.

i thought i'd take the opportunity to take my watch in for repair, and the repair shop only opens at 10am. so we went to my old favourite coffee shop for coffee (i sat and worked a bit while enjoying it, but it was still a good experience and totally reset our vibe). we arrived at the watch repair shop at 10.05, and there was nobody there. and nobody was answering the phone.

i know that they have excellent reviews, but surely people who work with watches could be expected to be vaguely on time...

i worked from home yesterday, which was a mistake because they've started work on one of the apartments upstairs. it was a long day. fortunately, it had a great payoff at the end.

we had a bit of an episode with mr smear yesterday, when we picked him up from school we discovered that they'd watched a theatrical production of lassie in the morning, and his takeaway was somehow "i don't need to listen to anyone". so he was deliberately uncooperative for the rest of the day. not only that, but one of his classmates took me aside to inform me that mr smear had called him and another kid idiots. so we had to deal with that too...

today:

that meeting i was excited for took place this morning, not sure what will come of it yet but it was very positive.

trying to arrange the delivery of our fridge (and ensuring that the old fridge goes where it's needed) is a real ballache.

today was a really long, complicated day at work. but i'm off-call, at least, which is nice.