Monday in Every Sense

People, in general, give Monday a bad rep. Why? Because Monday’s deserve it. Things are bad on Monday. All things. Things go wrong on Monday’s. All things. This morning I woke at 440am and did not fall back asleep. I attempted normalcy in my morning routine in order to regain a little control. Got everything done. Had my breakfast while waiting for the kid to get up so we could work out. After waiting on her and two attempts to move her out of bed she decided to not go. You know, tell me before I’m ten minutes late. I zipped off to the gym. Well, the auto lock on the front door we use for 24/7 access was busted. No access. An employee on site contacted the owners and “only 15 mins” they will be there. 40 mins later, I am rescheduling my workout because it took too long for them to unlock and it ate up my time. What day is it?

I drove home. Why home, don’t I need groceries? Yes. But I forgot my wallet. Nothing goes right.

And, I took a fall where Emily decided to put the rug in the hallway. Right at the steps. Just enough to catch my shoe. I should go back to bed.

Instead of bed I showered, dressed and made my lunch. I have to take Emily’s car to the body shop. The garage door on our Vacaville house came down on the tailgate moments before we vacated. Yay. Finally getting a repair. Marika is driving down with me and gonna give me a ride to the office. Emily will give me a ride home.

There was no traffic at all on the drive. Quite peaceful and very fast. Unfortunately I was driving the Mercedes which I don’t really like. Got to Dixon in an hour. Which is crazy fast. I went to the shop, Marika stopped at Starbucks to use the restroom.

Got to the shop and parked. Made a call and answered som text messages. Went inside and Darren was there. That helps cuz I deal with him direct via text and skip the service manager. And Darren never does any paperwork which screws up the office. But we all managed to get it done. Two days. Done. Then it’s off to the tire shop for new rubber. Car is having a midlife crisis.

Marika showed up about now and we headed out. Had to stop at Starbucks, again to use the facilities. The trip to the office was fast and clean same as earlier. Just a great traffic day.

Marika dropped me at the office around noon. She went off to Sacramento to meet her friend Bella. Bella needs help packing. She is moving to Alaska where her husband is stationed. Gonna be there awhile too. Then they were headed out to test drive cars. Bella needs a Subaru for Alaska. Sure.

Meanwhile, back at the office… I was working. Had a client come by for a consultation at one and he stayed till three. Not ok. After that, just worked on a few things. Did not accomplish much. My three o’clock did not show up. Which was nice. Emily dropped by at about 430. She is my ride home.

Traffic good, but it’s the day. We were texting with Marika on the drive. She had intended on fixing us dinner but is still out with Bella. Also, she does not feel good. So we proceeded on as if no dinner worry. I had Emily stop at the Thai place for dinner. Thai Garden, one place we had never been to. And now we have it is a fine Thai restaurant and perhaps a little on the high price side. Bad news, I was thinking I was going to have Thai ice coffee but realized, right before ordering, I am in the no coffee diet. Crap. The yellow curry I had was very good.

On the way home Emily announced her Rx was ready so we headed that way. I had a couple things to get too.

We are now home. Sitting and watching the usual bad TV. And it’s bad. Some singing competition show. I really don’t care. With luck, we will be in bed soon.