A day in the life...

My day was destined to be a bad one today, when waking up to discover I had no coffee left... disastrous..
After having a week of full on work, which is something i try at all costs to avoid. This week I have the additional stress of having building work in my house and very impulsively decided to start replacing my en suite bathroom (this was a walk in wardrobe) which ended up with half of the garden dug up and needed landscaping and now my kitchen has been ripped out , needing a new one. (note to one self leave things to the professionals and stop destroying your house) Today was a much needed day off to catch up with food shopping (i have had to eat out each night because im too tired to shop or cook) , bit of cleaning (my house represents the local tip at the moment) & I was on the hunt for a new dinner service, cutlery & glasses for my dining room. So my sister & I decided to go to Hanley (stoke on trent) to have a look in Debenhams. This is a place my sister loves & I hate, (stoke that is not debenhams) No matter how many times I have driven there i get lost either on the way or way back or both & end up home 3 hours later.. today was no exception, when arriving at my sister's house we piled in my delightful niece & nephew (delightful is stretching it a bit today)two buggies, nappy bags, toys & then me & my sis squeezed in the car (good job she has invested in a 7 seater )She then tells me she has been up all night and Im driving her car, oh well thats great, I hate driving her car when I have had a least 3 injections of caffeine (today I have had ZERO) i hadnt got my lenses in and so couldnt see... and i was pretty tired myself, so off we go and sure enough i miss the junction (i was talking) and around the houses we go til we get back on track, i have to say my sister used her common sense for once and found our way there, which makes me laugh she cant get out of her rad without a sat nav normally. We parked in some multi story car park and finally came to a stop after me stopping at all the green lights and going through all the red, a few near misses, my niece finally screeched "Mummy im quite scared" Mummy answered "yes i think i am too" Our fun didnt end there, we did our shopping although suddenly realised how are we going to negotiate a dinner service/glasses & two buggies? answer we cant so that defeated whole object of going, we got a few bits and headed for the nearest lift as i was already loosing the will to live and i still hadnt been given any caffeine. Of course you wouldn't expect the lift to be simple, would you ? no , some tart had set off the alarm & so the doors kept opening & shutting, fearing for our lives and not particularly wanting to get trapped in a lift today we got out at the earliest opportunity & headed for the escalators, which I am scared to death of and so my sister had to carry herself and two buggies (one at a time) up the escalator while i stood and watched. We eventually got back to the car and headed to Mcdonalds for a coffee and by the time i got there i decided i wanted a milkshake (my sister nearly throttled me ) She drove us safely home...My next adventure of the day was alone, after sacking my handyman i was on the hunt (literally ( for a new one) i had seen a man & a van a few times at my local pub and driving about and thought next time i see him il get his number , well i saw him on my way home. Few red lights later i was slowly catching him, the chase was on, a few cars got in between us and i managed to catch up with him (bear in mind i still cant see) so needed to be up close and personal to get his number, im causing some chaos on a major roundabout in crewe by this point and managed to get it, quickly rang it whilst stil chasing him and got through to his wife, who nearly wet herself when i told her i was still giving chase behind him, she took my number as i couldn't risk kill ling myself & a few others writing his mobile down... of course by this point I am now heading back towards my sisters so a long way home, with a short stop to M&S to re stock the cupboards & my coffee supply as I dint think i want to go out for the whole weekend. I also managed to find a dinner service, matching cutlery & glasses on the Internet once i got home & 3 clicks later they are on there way to me...