Day to Day With Mom

“Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.”

I love that quote! I can totally relate to it in so many ways. Lastnight ended stressful and today began just as stressful with little sleep in between. I’m use to working the hours of midnight thru early morning but with my job picking our big client back up these next few months I have to rearrange my working schedule and work during the day whenever I can get quite time away from my kids. I’m really not finding that to be something that is actually going to happen in the near future.

My body is use to being awake at nights now so this morning I woke up at 5:30am after sleeping for what seemed to be only a few minutes. I got up fixed my fiance’s lunch and got his clothes ready so he wouldn’t be late for work searching for them. After getting him out the door to work I got my son ready for school and out the door at 7:30am. I was thinking this was really going smooth and things would work out perfectly since I had to go to work at 8:00 and everyone was where they needed to be… especially the girls who were asleep.  Low and behold here comes my youngest walking out the door at 7:50! She never wakes up that early! Of course she wasn’t in the mood to hear me tell her to go back to bed so I canceled my 8am and decided to start work at 8:30. Well after trying to get her back to sleep for thirty minutes here comes my other daughter! I was doomed before I even got started good. I chose to go ahead and work because the money is too hard to pass up. I told both girls to watch tv and eat their breakfast while I worked for a little while.

I’m not sure if I even got one order done completely and if my head crew listens to my phone calls I’m sure to get fired on the spot! My girls would not be quite, they wanted to fight at all the wrong times, come in and out of my office, chase the cat. It was awful and that’s putting it very nicely.

Now after my morning shift I was in a total freak out, I really felt like I had done nothing but rushed around all morning and screamed constantly while having my customers on hold on the phone hoping my mute button was working well. I had to then put supper on the stove which ended up boiling over all over the stove since I wasn’t in there to watch it. My phone then got turned off and after making a payment (thanks mom) an hour later they cut off my internet! I was supposed to work again later! I called embarq which for the past year has been nothing but trouble and is a company I really hate with more passion then I have ever felt. I first got a man that I couldnt understand and that’s who I made my payment through… well we see it didn’t go well since I got cut off! I then talk to another person which wasn’t any help at all. Finally after thinking about what they had said and looking at my current bill which came in today I decided to call back. I finally got a guy on the phone which evidentally was actually paying attention when they went through training! He listened to me and looked at my account. I had figured out that I was being charged for long distance when I shouldn’t be and that’s why my bill was crazy. This guy actually took off the wrong charges and made sure my payment posted and cut me back on! I swear he really needs a raise!

So now here it is evening and I’m tired and stressed! My girls are ill and my house is a mess. I don’t know if this new schedule is going to work.