alls well that ends well. i guess.

i have had the worst day ever!!! to start out my day my car broke down at 5am on the side of the highway and it was -24 out. luckily i had charged my cell phone and was able to call the tow truck. the tow truck had a 2 hr wait due to very bad road conditions. so i had to walk 4 km to work. it wasn't that far when i was sitting in my still warm car thinking about walking to work, but as soon as i started walking it became very clear just how far 4 km can be in -24 weather.
it was awful. by the time i got to my office my lips and some of my skin was blue.

i arranged for a ride home from work later that day, and as soon as i got home i realized my water pipes were frozen. then the tow truck company called and told me that they were sorry but the tow truck that was towing my car was in an accident. and my car is pretty damaged.

i made a pot of coffee and had a quick hot shower while my kids played. at this point i wanted to just cry. i was having a really bad day, and i was praying that it wouldn't get any worse.

after i got out of the shower and was getting some pj's on i heard my 5 yr old crying in the bedroom. she had been reading a book on her bed when she fell off. she sleeps on the top bunk of her and my 4 yr old's bunk beds. i called my father to come out and take us to the hospital because i thought her wrist was broken.
after 1 mix up of our hospital charts, 2 evil nurses, 1 fantastic (and very cute) male nurse! 1 very funny doctor, 5 x-rays and 3 1/2 hrs later we find out it is sprained very badly. so we brave the cold and the ice and go home.

i fed all the kids a snack and decided i'm NOT cooking dinner, and i ordered a pizza from the pizza place 15 mins away. i placed my order at 5:40 pm. the lady told me it would be 1 hr due to bad road conditions and a very high call volume. i said no problem as long as i am not cooking, i am happy.
6:40 pm rolls around and i start looking out the window expecting to see a car pull up with our hot and very yummy pizzas.
7 pm and i am still looking out the window and i decide it's time to get the girls pj's on and because it's "pajama night friday" i tell them to haul their blankets out to the livingroom. (every friday, with out fail, we watch a movie and have snacks in our pj's on our made up beds in the livingroom, it is so much fun!)

7:20 pm. i'm thinking i should call the pizza place to see what's up with our pizza. it is now 40 mins late NOT including the one hr delay due to road conditions and high calls.

i got thru, finally, to the pizza place and they told me they were very sorry and when my pizza's do arrive it would not be of any charge to me. so i thanked her and told her to have a good night and i sat in front of the window again, drinking my hot cup of coffee.

by now my kids were so hungry i thought that they were going to eat me if i didn't get to them first.

my frickin pizza didn't get here til 8:20 pm!!!!!!!!!! 1 hr and 40 mins late. i met the driver out side so she wouldn't have to get out of her nice warm car ( i was wearing my pj's and i looked like an idiot standing in snow up to my knees shivering my ass off)

she confirmed to me that the pizza was free and she left. and no i didn't tip her. (i thought that she should have tipped me though but she didn't )

guess what? yep. my pizza was cold. just like me.

then my power went out. so the kids and i ate cold pizza and pop by candle light. and we just made the best of it til the power came on. it was not out for too long, just long enough to hear some complaing about eating cold pizza from my kids.
after the power came back on and while i was eating my dinner/bed time snack my phone rang. it was the manager from the pizza place responding to my complaint of our food being so late. he wanted to apologize for that and tell me that i had a $30.00 store credit. i said thank you and good night.

i tucked my girls in to their little make shift friday night beds and sang their favorite song "you are my sunshine", rubbed their little backs for 2 mins each and said good night.

then my phone rang again. when i answered it was the manager calling to tell me i was never allowed to order pizza from their establishment again because i didnt' pay for my pizza tonight. i was competely blind sided by his words. i stood in my hallway studdering to him. i told him that i have never stolen a thing in my life (besides 5 cent candy from the 7/11 when i was like 10yrs old, and i only did that because my older sister made me).

we talked on the phone after i had calmed him down and after i composed myself. i told him about all of my calls to the place and the name of the driver who was not actually a driver but instead a server. and how she confirmed that the food was free because i had to wait so long. i told him to check his records and call me back.

then the phone rang. it was not the manager. it was my boss. she was in the restaurant when the manager called me and she had heard him say i wasn't allowed in the store because i had "stolen" pizza! oh my god!

could my day get any fuckin worse? yes it sure can. i broke down and started crying on the phone to my boss and told her everything, right from the time i got up and got stuck on the side of the highway right up til that second when i was on the phone thinking about how much worse can this get?!

she calmed me down and we talked about the bad service she had recieved in the restaurant. then i thought i should call the place back and find out what the manager had found out, so i said good night to my boss and thanked her for calling, even though i was very embarrassed, and i told her i would tell her all about it when i get to work tomorrow at 5 am. hopefully in one piece and not blue.

at 9:30 pm i got a hold of the manager and sorted everything out. i am not being charged with theft, thank god! and i still have a $30.00 store credit, although i probably will never deal with them again. and i requested a written apology from them which he said he will put it in the mail on monday.

so now i am going to bed. i am shutting all of my phones off and i am going to pray that tomorrow will be better. i dont' think i can handle another day like this one!