Dramatic Turn

My poor coffee boss, Mandy, had such a bad day yesterday!

Her day started off so good and then it took a very dramatic turn for the worst.

When I talked to her in the morning things were wonderful!

The coffee shop relocation  was coming along nicely. They were drawing up paperwork for a main street location for a thousand dollars a month (almost unheard of downtown plus it's $1,700 less than what we are paying now).

There was no drama at home (which is a little unusual for her).

And she was getting over her breakup with Juan. She had been talking to this guy online for about a year and they finally decided to meet on Tuesday night.

Mandy was nervous and only wanted to meet him for five minutes, so they decided to meet in the Walmart parking lot over by the liquor store (crazy thing about my town, we have to sell alcohol in it's own establishments, so we are talking the back lot of Walmart) at night.

When she was telling Mona and I this story we made fun of her so much! Who meets a guy they met online, at Walmart, at night? That's safe and so not ghetto at all!

Anyways, they did hit it off and she really likes him. She said they had this big movie moment kiss where he grabbed her face and pulled her in and just kissed her. She said if she hadn't been standing next to her car she might of fallen backwards it was so good.

They liked each other so much they even made plans to go out again last night.

So you could say she was in a pretty good mood yesterday morning.

Then we fast-forward to when I went into work that night. 

She got an email from the property manager saying they "miscalculated" the amount of space in the building and the rent would be going up an extra $500.

When she had gone home to see her son, he pulled her into his bedroom and closed the door and started sobbing uncontrollably.

He told her his missed his grandpa (her dad who passed away a few months ago) and didn't know what to do.

When she got back to work she asked me "how do you help someone with something when you're not even okay with it?" I told her "No thank you have a nice day?" and walked away. (when faced with difficult situations, where I have no idea what to do or say, I try humor to make people feel better...I got her to smile, so mission accomplished).

And the the final blow...the guy stopped responding to all of her messages.

Not a word from him after making the plans to go out again. She sat waiting all night, ready to go out with him, and the jerk never answered her back. Just left her without a word.

She ended up sitting with Juan at the restaurant all night.

At the end of the night I gave her a hug and told her everything was going to be okay, but my heart was breaking for how her good day turned out so very bad and so very heartbreaking.

Rainy Day Blues

Rainy Day Blues 

This has not been a great morning and it's only 7:17 A.M.

First off, I woke up five minutes before my alarm.

Do you know how upsetting it is to wake up five minutes before your alarm?  Especially when you're really tired. I just about wanted to cry. (I also want to cry when my alarm doesn't go off and I'm late for work and I also want to cry when it goes off right on time...the alarm clock just can't win)

Then, I end up throwing my controller across the room (just on my bed, nothing super violent or anything).

Why you may ask?

Well, this whole week I have been watching season one of The Mindy Project on Hulu while I have been getting ready in the morning (I've been talking about it on Twitter). When I went to start an episode, that I was in the middle of, this morning it was gone! All of season one has been replaced by last nights season two episode!

How am I suppose to watch season two before I finish season one? And I was left hanging in the middle of an episode!

So, I threw my control across my room and on to my bed and got ready in silence.

Once I was ready, I grabbed Mona's toothbrush and toothpaste and ran out the door to my car. It was raining and I left my raincoat in my parents minivan last week, so I got wet. (if your wondering about Mona's toothbrush and toothpaste, she forgot to brush her teeth and I go to the coffee shop where she works every morning, so she wanted me to bring it for her)

I get to the coffee shop, drop off the toothbrush, grab my coffee and a muffin, and book it to work so I won't be late.

I pull into the big empty parking lot and drive towards my spot. And out of this whole big and empty parking lot there is only one car in the entire lot.  And do you know where this one car, in this big empty parking lot, is parked?

MY SPOT!!!!

Now, we don't so much have assigned parking spots, it's more of self assignment. Basically I park in the same place every morning and everybody knows it.

I don't want to be the kind of person who does the same thing everyday and gets upset when their lives get disrupted. I really don't want to be that type of person, but I think I am.

That's MY SPOT! 

I had to take a deep breath. I went and parked in a different spot giving the empty car the evil eye and muttered under my breath the whole time.

This is obviously not something that is upsetting to me. I'm writing about this very calmly.

All in all my day hasn't been too terribly terrible, things could be worse. I am very optimistic that it will get....

...my boss just called to tell me my coworker is not coming in and I have to do all of her work.

Also, I have think I eat a muffin like a two year old! How does one get so many crumbs everywhere?