What a day...and it isn't even over yet...

Holy Cow!! What a day this is turning out to be and it is only 7:30!!!

I got up this morning just like every other day. I got ready and went to work and got there early – NOT like every other day.

Today I had an internal audit done at work – the 6th one this year. This is not usual, but just frustrating as the time it takes with the auditor is time that you are not doing your job and the work doesn’t stop coming in...

The auditor finally left (I passed) and I thought phew – I can get some work done now...well, the phone rang again and this time it was my mom. First off, you must know that my mom is on holiday in Las Vegas right now. My mom NEVER calls home on vacation – unless there is a problem…She was not due home until Saturday.

So my heart is beating VERY fast right now when I hear her voice as I KNOW that something must be wrong for her to call me at work while on vacation.

So I say “how are you?”

She says “not good”

My heart drops to my stomach and I feel ill...

I say “what’s wrong?”

She says “can you pick us up at the airport tonight?”

I say “of course – what’s wrong?”

She says “thanks, we come in at 11:00pm”

I say “that is fine – what’s wrong?”

By this time I am FREAKING out as I think she is avoiding the question (she wasn’t) and she finally tells me that she was hiking in the Grand Canyon yesterday (she is almost 70!!) and slipped and broke her ankle in 2 places!!! She had to be airlifted out of there (which she thought was pretty neat) and Phil had to walk out as he wouldn’t fit in the chopper. They went to the hospital, got x-rays etc. and the first flight that they could get home is tonight. So I will be heading to the airport to get them.

So while I am on the phone with my mom, she wants a phone number for the orthopedic surgeon from my sister. I put mom on hold and call Tracey. It goes straight to the machine. I tell mom that she must be on both lines as I got her machine. Tried the cell hpne and it is forwarded to the home phone and again machine. I tell mom to give me her number in Las Vegas and I will get Tracey to call her with the number of the surgeon.

I send Tracey e-mails to every account that she has saying EMERGENCY – call me at work. I am thinking that she is on the computer (she has dial up). Then I think...there is a lady 2 doors down who is home all day. I couldn’t find her name in Canada411 as it is unique. So I call another neighbour (Linda) who would have her number so that I can ask her to go to Tracey’s house to get her to call me. Linda (a teacher) is in class and I leave a message on her cell.

Then Tracey calls me. I said – oh did you get my messages that I left EVERYWHERE for you? She said NO, just thought I would call and say hi and let you know that our phones in the neighbourhood (Tracey and I live about...18 seconds – by foot – away from each other) are out and won’t be back on until Wednesday night!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!? She had tried to make a call and the line was dead and thought she would call me and tell me. So then I fill her in on what is happening with mom and she is worried...she gets the number to the surgeon and calls mom and feels a bit better once she has spoken to her.

So anyway, my day continues and I must admit, that my mind wasn’t really on work for the rest of the day. I leave work and go to meet Jürgen at Costco and get frustrated as you ALWAYS have a LONG wait there. Once I leave there, I MUST vote as that is VERY important (for those who don’t know, there is a Municipal Election today in Ontario). From the voting I need to head to the grocery store to pick up some milk and bread for mom & Phil so they have SOMETHING for the morning and I then finally make my way home. Check the mail (of course there isn’t any as the Post office is closed today) and put the groceries away. Pick up the phone to make a call (yes my memory is short) and realize that there is no phone. Then I am SO HAPPY to realize that I have ROGERS internet and not SYMPATICO!! I know Catherine might think differently as she is having problems with Rogers. For those of you who don’t know, Rogers is cable internet and Sympatico is high speed phone lines.

However, there is no time to revel in this newly realized information, time for me to head to another polling station to bring Mark some supper. He is again working the election all day today. So back in the car and out to the other side of the city to bring him dinner. Well, it took me 1hour 45 minutes to get there and back!!! WOW!!

Finally got home and I thought that I might have some downtime and catch up on my blogging as I missed a whole weekend of it!! Then Tracey calls, she wants to come over and check her e-mail as she is on dial up. She she walks the 18 seconds over and checks her mail and we have a gab. Then she is off for the evening and then Linda (next door) calls (on my cell – from her cell) and asks if she can come over and check her e-mail as she is on Sympatico. So Linda comes over and we have another gab and she checks her mail.

Now it is time for me to do my stuff on the computer and write the INCREDIBLY LONG blog entry.

My day is far from over. I am hoping that Mark will not be too late, as now as I write this, the polls have closed (it is now 8:10). But since he is the Supervisor of the polling station, he needs balance the votes and then head to City Hall with all the ‘stuff’ before he comes home.

I am hoping to see him by 10:00 and then by 11:00, I am out of here to go and get mom and Phil. Mark can’t come with as there won’t be enough room in the car for me, mom, Phil and Mark and all their luggage.

I already let work know that I would be late in the morning. I didn’t want to be thinking about getting up at 6:00 when I was only getting home at 2:00am – I’m not as young as I used to be!!

So that is my day up to now...Now it is time to catch up and read everyone else’s blogs as they have suffered through this GIGANTIC entry of mine tonight....