bad day

It's not even lunchtime and already I'm having a bad day.

I had to get up very early, having gone to bed pretty late.  This is because I made a bit of a mess of my time over the Bank Holiday weekend, which I'll talk about tomorrow, but I've basically left myself in a situation where I have some stuff I need to post for e-bay auctions that I've not watched.  But of course the only time I can watch it is before or after work, so I had to get up stupidly early to watch some stuff.

Having done that I discovered that the plug where I plug my kettle in appears to have stopped working.  Certainly the kettle is fine, but I get no power out of that plug.

I actually checked how much power I have in case I'd run out of juice or the circuit breakers had blown and therefore discovered that I have about £2.50 worth of electricity.  In theory this is enough to last me about 2 days, so long as I don't use the oven... except that I have basically run out of food and the only things I've got left need cooking in the oven.  That means I will have to buy some elecy tonight, but I have £20 to my name and I need to post some of those e-bay parcels I just mentioned.

I checked my account and obviously discovered I still haven't been paid.  I'm betting I won't get the money until Friday, which puts me in a real bind.

Having watched some stuff and parcelled it off I was a bit later than usual leaving for work, but it is half-term here, so I was hoping the roads would be quiet.  They were, but unfortunately when I got out to the car I discovered some workman was dropping off one of these mini-digger things, so I had to wait for him to finish before I could go.  Add on to that the fact they've now started some roadworks at the end of the road and I hit every red light possible on the journey and I was not as early as I normally am for work.

This then meant that my morning walk was rather hurried and when I got back to the car I discovered I had forgotten my shoes (I wear trainers for that first walk and to drive to work).  I'm therefore wearing my trainers at work, which are, thankfully, black so it's not too noticeable.

I then logged on and opened a couple of e-mails that were also bad news.  I then went to listen to my MP3 player and discovered one of the ear bud things (I use in-ear headphones) has fallen off again.  This happens fairly often - it will most likely be in my bag in the car, but if not I do have spares.  However, it does mean I have had to switch to my other set of earphones I use for my MP3 player I use when walking and those aren't really very work friendly.

And it's only mid-morning.