frustrating
Today was the most frustrating day I've had in a long time.
Woke up, lovely morning time with Brian and Julia. Decided to make a nice family breakfast. Burned the bacon. While airing out the kitchen, Sebastian slipped right past Brian out the back door. With everything over-cooking on the stove, had to dash outside with Brian to trap Sebastian, bastard cat.
Decided to let go of overdone breakfast, had fun family dance party to cheer up. Began hanging curtain rods.
1. I marked a bracket crooked.
2. The curtains are more sheer than I thought (duck cotton but still semi-see-through where there is one layer).
3. Flipped out at the thought of ripping out all the seams to line them.
4. Discovered that JC penny sent me two RUGS instead of two long curtain rods (I thought they had wrapped the rods in a canvas sack when they arrived last week and hadn't bothered to open them till now).
5. Discovered that the third window was longer than the curtain rod I did buy, since I didn't bother to measure it before.
At that point, feeling like the stupidest person on earth and that I couldn't ever successfully complete a project, I called JC Penny, sorted out the curtain rod issue and was told to bring the rugs to the nearest store and they'd ship me the correct item (plus one for the too long window).
Julia napped, my sister arrived to make a yarn store trip with us. At that point I thought the day was looking up, despite a shooting pain in my wrist from carrying Julia one-armed too much. I really thought yarn would cheer us all up.
Yarn stores turn out to be rather over-stimulating for a toddler, and when said toddler's mother has neglected to bring a baby-wearing device, it is bad news. They were kid friendly, and even had a little nook set up with toys! New toys! Julia gave them about two seconds, and then rather understandably felt that racing around the store wielding long knitting needles and yanking yarn off the shelves was far more fun than playing with run of the mill baby toys. Two different saleswomen told me about the toy nook. Apparently all the other children who go to their store happily play in the nook. Not Julia. I wrangled her into submission (barely) and got the needles I needed. After that we needed a cupcake from an amazing cupcake place to recover.
We got home and I took the rugs to JC Penny, where returning them was annoying but successful. Also went to the fabric store and got magic iron-on fabric tape which I hope will solve the curtain problem so I don't have to rip out the hems and re-line. Got about halfway through making my mom's birthday invitations before my sister had to go home, so now I'm going to watch the Battlestar Galactica premiere and fabric paint shirts.
Tomorrow I have no plans. If I don't try to do anything, I can't get frustrating by failing to do it properly. Julia and I will sit in the grass up at the park and play and that's it.
Woke up, lovely morning time with Brian and Julia. Decided to make a nice family breakfast. Burned the bacon. While airing out the kitchen, Sebastian slipped right past Brian out the back door. With everything over-cooking on the stove, had to dash outside with Brian to trap Sebastian, bastard cat.
Decided to let go of overdone breakfast, had fun family dance party to cheer up. Began hanging curtain rods.
1. I marked a bracket crooked.
2. The curtains are more sheer than I thought (duck cotton but still semi-see-through where there is one layer).
3. Flipped out at the thought of ripping out all the seams to line them.
4. Discovered that JC penny sent me two RUGS instead of two long curtain rods (I thought they had wrapped the rods in a canvas sack when they arrived last week and hadn't bothered to open them till now).
5. Discovered that the third window was longer than the curtain rod I did buy, since I didn't bother to measure it before.
At that point, feeling like the stupidest person on earth and that I couldn't ever successfully complete a project, I called JC Penny, sorted out the curtain rod issue and was told to bring the rugs to the nearest store and they'd ship me the correct item (plus one for the too long window).
Julia napped, my sister arrived to make a yarn store trip with us. At that point I thought the day was looking up, despite a shooting pain in my wrist from carrying Julia one-armed too much. I really thought yarn would cheer us all up.
Yarn stores turn out to be rather over-stimulating for a toddler, and when said toddler's mother has neglected to bring a baby-wearing device, it is bad news. They were kid friendly, and even had a little nook set up with toys! New toys! Julia gave them about two seconds, and then rather understandably felt that racing around the store wielding long knitting needles and yanking yarn off the shelves was far more fun than playing with run of the mill baby toys. Two different saleswomen told me about the toy nook. Apparently all the other children who go to their store happily play in the nook. Not Julia. I wrangled her into submission (barely) and got the needles I needed. After that we needed a cupcake from an amazing cupcake place to recover.
We got home and I took the rugs to JC Penny, where returning them was annoying but successful. Also went to the fabric store and got magic iron-on fabric tape which I hope will solve the curtain problem so I don't have to rip out the hems and re-line. Got about halfway through making my mom's birthday invitations before my sister had to go home, so now I'm going to watch the Battlestar Galactica premiere and fabric paint shirts.
Tomorrow I have no plans. If I don't try to do anything, I can't get frustrating by failing to do it properly. Julia and I will sit in the grass up at the park and play and that's it.