What Do You Do When Your Day Goes off the Tracks?

That sounds horrible plus knowing you'll have to do it all over again. ugh. Drinking is a good option. Also giving the kids junk food and putting in a movie or two are a good option too.

oh, sweetie!
damn!
i'd love to say how philosophical, mature and accepting i'd be of this circumstance. how i'd learn from it, grow from it, and calmly figure out solutions to it.
but this is the sort of thing that pushes me right over the edge. i'd almost certainly melt down.
enjoy your burger. enjoy your beer. enjoy a couple more.
tell the kids straight up that it's the wrong evening to push your buttons. do it with the tone, and the look. warn them honestly that if you have to lower the boom on them it'll come down with all the weight of your shitty day behind it, and it won't be fair, but they've been forewarned.
then have another beer.
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khairete
S.

I'd finish my evening just like you are doing.

My last few days have been insane.. It's good and I'm thankful for business but I've never done the job my husband always did so this morning I got overwhelmed with data sheets, keeping track of deliveries, my regular job if invoicing then having freight companies and my warehouse be overloaded!!!

I went to Victoria's Secret where my daughter was working and picked up a couple of gifts so she gets commission, then finished my errands which ended with a graveside visit on this beautiful day we have had.

I finished the afternoon with emails I needed to address by 5 and now I'm reheating some leftover lasagna from the after funeral lunch and having a glass of wine. Hmmm. By night end that will more than likely be more than a glass or two!!! No worries... Daughter lives at her condo and I am home alone with my poodle not going anywhere except bed! I'll probably be up working by 2-3 am for a couple hours so no emails, calls or texts come in and I can focus. Now I know why hubby did the detailed stuff during the wee hours of the morning!

You do what you have to do to keep your head straight and when things happen like it did for you , we keep going. We all make mistakes.

Chill out and enjoy your family tonight and you'll get your work done when needed!

Fewer burgers and more beer.

Seriously, I had the same problem with an excel spreadsheet - why it doesn't remind me to save before closing, I don't know. My Word documents won't close and the computer can't be shut down unless I click to save. So I sympathize.

On the plus side, you'll be really much quicker at recreating it because you've done it before. Breathe, get a good night's sleep, and start fresh. You, like most of us, have too many things going on, and stuff gets by us. What happened to you is what happens to all of us when we're overtired, overcommitted, and over distracted.

If drinking made me feel better every time I felt bad, I'd be an alcoholic. So I haven't started that, luckily.

On my really bad days I totally say to hubby and the kids that I had a bad day, don't do anything to make me upset and give me some space. I usually will ask hubby to pick up dinner on the way home so I don't have to cook and I'll either watch a movie I've recorded or more likely I'll go to bed and read until I fall asleep.

My favorite song at church has this line in it: "There may be pain in the night, but joy comes in the morning." No matter how bad today is, tomorrow is always a new day. =0)

order pizza for dinner and eat while watching a good movie with the kids, then kids to bed and a glass (or whole bottle)of wine for me!

Alcohol sounds good to me. I am taking a muscle relaxer for back pain so I'm not supposed to drink now. I'm recovering from leg surgery (12 weeks post op) so all of my days have been pretty miserable. (Since I can't walk normally my back is out of whack.). On a positive note...I started driving again this week.😊

TGIF :) Beer sounds good.

And probably chocolate.

Gee - I could almost have written this back on Monday! Got prompted to do an update - computer has fits coming back up -- then after it finally does, keeps running slow and freezing in my excel page -- it is on autosave and does save, except for the last time when I starting printing out the pages and it decides to freeze again ...hit the "restore" and *poof* - it freaking disappears ....AUGH!!!!

Now autosave it set to happen even more often - and can also save in another place when hopefully it might still be should such happen again. IT folks were so late getitng to me that there was no way to fix anything - redo a day's work just like you.

Burgers and a beer sound like a good plan to me.

I try to be aware when I'm in a bad mood and will warn my family. Trying to pretend to not be irritated can make it worse. I'll tell them that I'm super crabby (and why, if applicable) and that it isn't about them or at them, but I need some peace & quiet.

Martini and something terribly stupid television to laugh at other people's woes, all the better if their woes are imaginary. ;)

With an adult beverage and hot bath :o)

Ice cream. For sure. Perhaps some bourbon eggnog?

Also, marathon watching America's Funniest Home videos!