Alarm never went off! Never mind, I am working for me now - uh huh but what about getting the kids off to school and dealing with the employees who are currently parked outside in their vans and clogging up the garden and driveway - oooooh shit ( or shite in scots)- leap out of bed like a frog jumping from a lilly pad and into the bathroom - the internal voice nags away like jumminy bloody cricket 'hurry up, hurry up' and I try to hurry up but am waylaid by 3 kids already queuing for the bathroom and shouting about breakfast and packed lunches. To top that the gentle knocking on the door has now turned to a furious thump thump. I sprint down the stairs clad in my P.J's and open the door looking like the wreck of the hesperus according to one poetic roofer who passes me in the hallway. I fling open the office door and usher all and sundry inside while I let the dog and the puppy out into the garden. OMG the kitchen looks like there has been a stampede of elephants in the golden wonder factory - crisps everywhere - the pup has gotten into the crisp basket and opened all 40 pks they are everywhere, she mustn't have liked some of the flavours because its obvious she has tried them all. To top that I dont think the crisps agreed with her wee tummy because she has developed a case of the harry squirters which needs cleaned and discenfected urgently. I set to the task amid muted chanting of Sharon put the kettle on from the workforce. So far so good the kitchen is hastily cleaned and the kettle is on, packed lunches are dispatched and eventually I manage to give all of the workers their daily tasks, petty cash, mobile phones and purchase orders. Kids are dressed and ready to go and I am by now completely knackered.
That should have been the end of the days disasters but NOOOOooooooo such luck - I recieve a phone call about an hr later ' Sharon youre naw gonnae believe this but the site has been broken intae during the night' says the voice on the end of the phone, 'oh my god no, whats missing, any damage', 'well all the tools are away and the generator and transformers, the site lights, most of the timber, they have stuff piled up by the door but obviously couldnt fit it in their transport'. I phone the police and the insurance, we are covered and we have to compile a list of all the missing tools and materials. So I set about doing that while waiting for the police. We manage to ascertain that they broke in through a velux window entered the house we are renovating and used one of our crowbars to jenny open the front door, they moved everything they could next to the front door and then used that to exit. They had cut the chain at the site gate with cutters to get a vehicle on to the site and seemingly loaded up their vehicle at leisure. The odd thing is that they also stole high visibility jackets which are covered with our company logo, the police found this amusing and I reckon the theifs shouldnt be difficult to spot if they are wearing these - lets see if Strathclydes finest can catch them. Meanwhile the job has ground to a halt while we get new materials to the site. This will not please the customer.
You would think that lady luck wouldnt deal anymore blows in one day but ...... She did.
My mobile went it was one of the labourers explaining in broad jockanese that he has had a prang in the pick up but that the damage wasnt too bad and he was very very very ( please dont sack me or dock my wages) sorry!
So now we have an overslept followed by a robbery and then a vehicle accident it couldnt get worse or could it? Yip it could.
I went home and turned on my computer (not this one obviously) and there was a message about a certificate I had never seen before and a blank blue screen - I could do nothing - in the middle of the accounts and it was all gone, I couldnt access a thing just a blank blue screen. I rebooted and rebooted and same thing over and over, in desperation I telephoned an IT engineer and out he came like batman to the rescue, looked at it, shook his head and said I will have to reformat the hard drive - urrrgh (i stared blankly) what about all my work? Years of university work not to mention the accounts for my business etc - He said he could retrieve that and true to his word he did. He reformatted the hard drive and set everything up for me again except we couldnt find my disks for my wireless connection to reconnect to the internet. So i telephoned the call centre for my ISP and they said they would send out a new disk -wonderful it could take between 10 and 14 says arrrrrrrrgh.

By now as you can gather my day wasnt going very well at all so it will come as no surprise to learn that the disasters hadnt finished. 6pm the phone rang - I answered it 'hello its the vets' oh no i had forgotten the puppies appointment, but the vet said its ok I will wait just bring her down. I chucked the pup in the car and sped to the vets- the pup was sick everywhere ( she doesnt like travelling), she had her final injection and can go walkies next week ( good news at least).

So with the luck I have had today I have decided not to buy a lottery ticket today - I shall buy one tomorrow, perhaps tomorrow will be my good luck day to balance out the bad luck day I have had today.