Anyone else having a bad day?

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I woke up to hear DD yelling at 5am with an extremely stinky nappy - no going back to sleep there. So I went downstairs, switched the computer on and received 3 e-mails all containing the Klez virus, fortunately dealt with by Norton's Anti Virus before they did any damage but it took a bit of sorting out and checking. DD was in a foul mood and wouldn't eat breakfast so most of it went on the floor.

Yesterday wasn't much better, I was woken by the neighbour's car alarm going off at 5.30am and managed to get a stone chip in the car windscreen on the way to playgroup, not a bad one but right in the line of vision so the screen will have to be replaced and unfortunately isn't covered on the insurance.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Hope tomorrow is better.

Can you express delivery it for me????

Hope things work out for you Lou33, and hope your kids are feeling better soon. You too Mieow.

Thanks Rhubarb! As well as dd1 with dodgy knee and dd2 with a virus, ds1 is coming down with it now and ds2 has diarrhoea! So I am full to bursting with ailments and sickness. Guess that just about times me to catch something for Christmas then doesn't it?

Just celebrating getting my 2 over pneumonia last month and now ds2 is back on a/biotics in under a month. He's caught what ds1 has given to all of the rest of us. So spent most of last night up with either one or the other, and eventually gave in with ds1 and brought him into our bed, so that he'd be quiet to allow ds2 to go back to sleep after a feed. Then today, ds2 is so poorly that he wants carrying constantly which has resulted in ds1 wanting to beat 7bells out of him because of the unfair level of attention being handed out to ds2. Arrrrgh!

Still at least TLC is on in a minute, I can giggle inanely at that for 30mins!

Lou, hope dd is feeling better.

well i want to moan about parcel force i am soooo cross i poped out on the 19th of december to get some thing and missed them delivering a parcel so you get the note sorry we missed you well you phone to arrange a alternate time for delivery and that is the problem they cant seem to sort this out i first sugested they leave it at my local post office because i was working the next day well i went there and no parcel so i phoned there national rate no and asked where is my parcel i got no joy they said it would be going back to the sorting office and i could collect it on saturday well they are only open untill midday on saturday and i dont have a car and it is the weekend before xmas the traffic is mad and there sorting office is seven miles away so i left it untill monday i phoned them again and asked where my parcel was they said it was at the sorting office so i had to get two trains and take my son with me and guess what when i get to there sodding sorting office yes you guessed it no parcel they were redelivering it to my house well as you can imagine i was hopping mad and when i get home suprise suprise no sodding parcel and it's monday and i am going away for christmas so i phone my sister and i get how rude of me to say i am not going to collect her parcel and how ungrateful after she went to the trouble of posting it oh i am so mad on and by the way when i got back still no parcel where to go from here help

well i want to moan about parcel force i am soooo cross i poped out on the 19th of december to get some thing and missed them delivering a parcel so you get the note sorry we missed you well you phone to arrange a alternate time for delivery and that is the problem they cant seem to sort this out i first sugested they leave it at my local post office because i was working the next day well i went there and no parcel so i phoned there national rate no and asked where is my parcel i got no joy they said it would be going back to the sorting office and i could collect it on saturday well they are only open untill midday on saturday and i dont have a car and it is the weekend before xmas the traffic is mad and there sorting office is seven miles away so i left it untill monday i phoned them again and asked where my parcel was they said it was at the sorting office so i had to get two trains and take my son with me and guess what when i get to there sodding sorting office yes you guessed it no parcel they were redelivering it to my house well as you can imagine i was hopping mad and when i get home suprise suprise no sodding parcel and it's monday and i am going away for christmas so i phone my sister and i get how rude of me to say i am not going to collect her parcel and how ungrateful after she went to the trouble of posting it oh i am so mad on and by the way when i got back still no parcel where to go from here help

Wow Anoushka - I'm not surprised that you're mad - I think I'd have given up before you did even! I certainly woulnd't have embarked on train rides just to pick it up - xmas present or not!
Does your sister really not understand??? It's hard to see why given
a) how incompetent the GPO have been
b) how much hassle you've already had!
I've suffered my fair share of their incompetence myself - at one point I completly stopped buying anything mail order as it was such a nightmare and things were constantly 'lost' for a few weeks and then turned up when dd had practically grown out of them! PAH! And their was an article in the Sunday Times ( so it MUST be true) saying how workers all sit around at the sorting office playing cards and doing nothing and protect their ''rights'' to old working practices that are hopelessly inefficient.
Almost brings out the Tory in me - and believe me that takes some doing!!!!

Well it's New Year's eve and I'm sitting here with a beer, getting away from the family. Ds2 threw up on Christmas night and ds1 threw up on Boxing night. Plenty of vomiting and sleepless nights followed. All visiting plans are cancelled. Took the kids to the emergency doc on Sunday as no improvement to ds1 and ds2 came out in spots. Ds1 has an ear infection and ds2 has chickenpox. A typical festive season for parents, I suppose.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !?

iota, what a double whammy - ear infection and chickenpox. Poor you. I, too, am settling in for the evening - dh due back soon from pub - no exciting plans since babysitting is in short supply on new years eve. Still, I don't have to contend with inflated taxi fares home and all the other hassle of going out on new year's eve. And there's always mumsnet and a glass of wine. Happy new year!

Thanks Tigermoth. At least it's nearly time for bed - the kids I mean, then I'm settling down with a beer/wine, a curry and CSI night on channel 5. And as Scarlett O'Hara would say, tomorrow is another day (or year)

Let's see, where do I start... dh decided to give up smoking this morning, just go cold turkey. He has smoked almost a packet a day for the last 20 years and today he decides to have another crack at giving up (this translates into very uptight and cranky behaviour on dh's part). Not long afterward, SIL phoned me and told me that she and her dh (MY dh's brother) had just had a huge row and he'd left, and she wondered whether we had seen him. She obviously needed to talk so I tried to give her a bit of support, only to be chided by dh for "getting involved". Then this afternoon we went to my aunt's memorial service which went for an hour and a half, and afterwards dh was in a foul mood because he said that the service had gone on too long and he wanted to get home because he had things to do. Due to his mood, we had a fight in the car on the way home and we were still arguing when we pulled into the driveway - only to realise that my father was standing there holding my little ds and he must've known what was going on. And finally, we had a shouting match after my dad had left and poor little ds was just standing there watching. I could have slapped both of us for screaming at each other in front of him.

Sigh.................. dh is acting a bit sheepish now, and even did a pile of ironing (!!) for me so he must be feeling bad. I feel slightly better now...

holly02, it is so hard not to fight in front of your DS, i am the same if somethings is getting to you then out it comes, yes i am having a bad day two, my son slept at his grandparents on friday night and slept from 7pm-9am, but he was back home last night and decided to wake me up 3 times, for no other reason that he woke up and wanted mummy to tuck him in (how can you be mad)why not daddy?, well he woke at 6 and i thought thats it he not going back, so i got up and yes you guess it my DS slept to 10, and now he is vedged out on the settee watching teletubbies, does any one else hate those annoying things.

Had screaming match with ds before school this morning - he threw a big tantrum out of the blue as we were about to leave. Throat hurts as a result. Have raging PMT which doesn't help and hate myself for shouting back. We kissed and made up when we got there but it left me feeling drained, cried all the way home. Teacher was very sweet - I must have looked white and despairing - and told me it stops when they get to 23, aaaagggghhhhhhhhhhhhh. Don't expect replies, just needed to get it off my chest.

Poor you, I do sympathise. I have been there more times than I like to think about.

www, hope you are feeling better - morning shouting matches are not unknown in this house. Dh has threatened to tape me so I can hear how demented I sound!

My son takes ages wake up properly. He's too sleepy to jump to it, even when my mouth is a foot away from his ear. On crisis mornings, I have worked out that it takes less time to dress ds myself than it does to shout at him to do it himself. Mind you I have been known to shout at him and dress him simultaneously.

However bad our morning is, like you, we always make up on the drive to school. Even if we are still a bit short with each other, I have found this has no lasting effect on ds.

I can check how he's behaved at school by looking in his behaviour book - wierdly, the days when he's had a flea in his ear from me are often the days when he's most good at school. And he's always all smiles when I collect him.

Hi folks,

I'm having a right crappy day so far!! Nothng to do with ds or boyf though.... for a change! Just having a crap day at work and I've got PMT.
I'm surrounded by men here and normally I can take the banter, but today I find myself getting upset and tearful!! I mustn't let them see they are getting to me so I thought I'd vent my frustrations on mumsnet.
Some men (especially the ones I work with) are complete prats! They are sexist, arrogant, selfish, insensitive, unreasonable and mostly unpleasant to be around! PIGS!! .....
.....aaah, that's better.

Hope you lot feel a wee bit better this afternoon.

mum2toby, i don't have anything to add other that that i hope your afternoon gets better.

Mum2Toby,
I can sympathise with you ... I work in computing which is very male-dominated and although where I work now is OK, my last place was horrendous - they were just as you describe. Can you get some headphones and listen to a CD or the radio or something to block them out?

mum2toby, that must be very very trying. Well done for not reacting to them. Thanks Tigermoth, you made me feel much better, especially the bit about your DH threatening to tape you Hope everyone has a good day tomorrow, mine got better, thank goodness!

Another one. Oooh and so close to the last time I posted here Looks like our landlord is selling the house so we have to move and I really love it here, it's the nicest house I've ever lived in I think. The thought of searching for somewhere else and all the references and packing and moving etc exhausts me. Also he's inspecting next week and I HATE it! Just the idea that someone can come and have a really good look around what feels like our home. Plus it means a whole weekend cleaning, tidying etc. Work is tiring and thankless some days. And we can't afford to buy, not on our poxy salaries. Not pregnant again but prob just as well given this and forthcoming stress. Dp working late. Lots of boring household admin building up to crisis point. I know it's not really terrible, lots of people have life much worse but....There, it's off my chest. Thanks for listening

www, bummer. i hate household admin and as for moving - which is worse packing or unpacking??? sorry this has happened, especially as you love the house so much. no chance of buying yourselves? when i see house prices where we live i think who on earth can afford these houses! anyway, maybe he won't be able to sell for ages, market slacking off and all and you will be able to find an even nicer place!

my moan of the day is about ds's nursery. he has been there for over a year and we have been really happy with everything so far. however, he moved to a new class after christmas and the staff there just don't seem very on the ball. in the past two weeks he has lost 2 hats. they never put on his wellies when he goes out so he comes home with muddy shoes that have to be cleaned every evening. yeah right like i don't already have enough to do without totally unnecessary like this. his shoes, jacket and top are always distributed in at least three different places when i'm trying to get him ready to leave. they couldn't manage to find his spare outfit the other day. today was just the worst yet though. he got poo on his vest at some point during the day and they didn't change it!!! ooh, i'm going to have words with them tomorrow - oh yes.

www, poor you - just a mischievious thought - you say your landlord is thinking of selling the place and is coming to inspect it next week. How is the plumbing and electricty? any sign of dry rot, subsidence or rising damp? any other hiccups you could elaborate on? anything to complicate a buyer's survey. Could you casually mention there's a damp patch on the wall that seems to be getting bigger - that sort of thing. Anything that might put a brake on these plans to sell?

At least you both have jobs in your lovely part of the world - not an easy place to find employment - a thought that worries me and dh a lot since we would love to move out of London in the next five years. Racking our brains at present to think how we can add to our transferrable skills.

I think ouioui is moving away and wants to rent her house out in highgate. She has a thread up about it.