{"id":3816,"date":"2012-09-14T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:26:32","slug":"spending-all-my-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Spending all my Bad Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today Karma has decided I’m going to spend any bad luck I’ve got coming to me, cuz it has been ONE… of… THOSE… days!<\/p>\n

I will admit it must have started yesterday as I squeaked in a Costco shopping trip in between work Thursday since the usual day to do it (Wed) I was at a conference selling all day.\u00a0 Prior to that we had run out of ink and with the boss heading for Kentucky and me at the local conference we didn’t have the time to buy more.\u00a0 So I pick it up at Costco yesterday and rush back to work to try and get shipped the many, many orders that had piled up while I was gone.\u00a0 And the ones that were trickling in every hour because of the conference!<\/p>\n

I get all 4 cartridges of black and those primary color ink installed and as I’m installing the black one the printer says this cartridge ISN’T an HP cartridge and do you want to continue?\u00a0\u00a0 Um…. it’s an HP cartridge according to the BOX, dumbass<\/em>!\u00a0 And I click continue while its prompting me with all these “are you sure???” questions.\u00a0 And then I start printing and its half ass.\u00a0 I’m assuming maybe its been so depleted it takes a bit to get to where its going.\u00a0 But it gets worse!\u00a0 Throwing my hands in the air I give up and haul half my work home to try and print orders from MY printer at home.<\/p>\n

Which I do early this morning cuz Sex God came over last night and well….\u00a0 I didn’t do as much work as I’d hoped.\u00a0 Or at least not as much “office”<\/em> work!\u00a0 Getting to work today I figure I’ll do accounting until 9:30 cuz Costco opens at 9:45.\u00a0 Oh, but the computer was left on last night and that froze it at 12:20pm.\u00a0 I know this cuz that’s what the clock said the time was at 8am!\u00a0 So I force a shut down and boot up and its running thru all these automated programs to try and fix the problem and I’m checking Facebook on my laptop waiting for it to run its paces.<\/p>\n

Needless to say I had to use C-Cleaner and boot up about 4 times before it seemed to take.\u00a0 And by then it was 9:37!!\u00a0 So I’m skating out the door to rush to Costco and back for replacement ink and run straight into heavy traffic!\u00a0 Lucky for me I spotted the “not moving line of cars” on the freeway BEFORE<\/em> I got on it, but the surface streets to the next entrance was almost as bad! As I entered the freeway they were clearing away something huge enough to close 2 lanes on either side of the 8 lane highway!\u00a0 I got to Costco and got my ink and took a chance they’d have it all cleared by the time I hit it on the way back.<\/p>\n

No such luck so I’m off onto the surface streets again.\u00a0 Of course those took me past the library so I dropped off those 2 books & then “Hey, Taco Bell!”\u00a0 and got some lunch.\u00a0 By the time I got back, taking twice as long as I’d hoped the computer was back up and running.\u00a0 And the ink took!\u00a0 Yay!<\/p>\n

I spend the next 2 hours trying to catch up on printing everything while MORE orders come in and I add them to my work load.\u00a0 Bad, compulsive completer that I am this only delays getting OTHER work done.\u00a0 Then I go to pack up the orders and cannot find my shipping tape ANYWHERE!\u00a0 I scrounge around and find the old one and grab a roll of tape to get these orders packed.\u00a0 Takes an hour and I still have to take them to the post office.<\/p>\n

I’m left with 30 minutes to try and wrap up what I can before I have to rush home to pick up the 11 year old for Social Skills class cuz he’s being dumped on me this weekend as the Ex takes the other two on a Boy Scout camping trip.\u00a0 Can’t wait until next year when he goes WITH them!!\u00a0 The Ex should just break the rules and take Conor with them and give me the occasional break!\u00a0 But… well, he’s not ballsy enough.<\/p>\n

I did manage to get some of the accounting done, but not the deposit.\u00a0 And I’ll have to rush back to the post office to ship the packages after dropping Conor off at his class.\u00a0 And as I’m about to do my final piece of work for the day… the stapler is out of staples.<\/p>\n

I keep my sanity by mumbling the mantra… “Using up the bad Karma will help me win the lottery.”\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, I soooo hope its true! lmao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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