Oh, The Complaints You'll Complain!

(One of Dr. Seuss' unfinished books)

I really don't want to deal with the thing that I have to deal with this morning, as soon as Kyle comes in. I just want to show up and do my damn job and be done with it and go home, and JUST NOT DEAL WITH IT. 

And where the hell are my reports??? I have a feeling they're in the same place as the thing I don't want to deal with. Grrrrrr.

I so get it now - why people in my family were just bonkers and angry and needed therapy and possibly medication. My temper is on one this morning. 

There's only one solution to the bad mood, which is going and dealing with the thing, and trying to enjoy this tasty caramel iced coffee from McShmonald's, and looking forward to floating on the river after work. Okay, actually, only three solutions.

And planning our Highway 20 trip today because it's the 20th of the month. If only we had an 89th day of the month... we'll have to think about this one. Maybe I'll use the 8th or the 9th of the month for the Highway 89 trip. 

And sighing, a lot of sighing, and a lot of masking and faking being my usual happy funny smiley self, so I don't make anyone feel uncomfortable. Grrrrrrrrr again. 

Okay, off to find my missing reports.

Hubby and I Did Our First Shi*t Multi-Order Bundle - and Our Last

Shi*t is doing some kind of cool stuff recently, making it worth my while to do some grocery shopping and delivering trips again.

However, after today's experience, I will not being doing another multi-order route. Nineteen stops was fine, driving for miles was fine, enjoying the beautiful views of our area was fine - until we ran into the bear (we were deep enough in the woods of Washougal that a young bear literally ran across the road in front of us). 

It wasn't the bear that was the issue, though - it was being so far out of town that neither of us had cell service. And THEN, when we did drive back far enough into town to have service again, Shi*t wanted us to turn around and go back into the woods, another twenty minutes away, in the direction we'd just come from. Like, do the same thing we just did? Encounter more bears? Deal with no GPS and no Internet, have no way to verify that I'd just delivered the package? NOPE! 

I ended up taking that package back to the store. Then Shi*t dinged me for returning a package! 

Fine by me, I guess. Hubby and I were having a swell time making some money until that happened. Hubby said this order-bundling reminded him of D00rdash, trying to make him leave our city and go to Portland for deliveries by bundling two orders together, one from our city and one from Portland, when Hubby was just fine delivering in our city and NOT doing that.

No wonder Shi*t had to bundle these far-out-of-town orders into a multi-order route. Don't get me wrong: I'm totally fine driving for miles. But NO ONE wants to deal with gated properties, delivery boxes placed so far away from the customer's actual house that Shi*t's system won't recognize that we've reached the property, BEARS, along with the gas and time we spent driving all over the hills of eastern Clark County.

But without the benefit of GPS, cell service, or the Internet (necessary for contacting Shi*t headquarters if there's a problem) - it was intolerable. What if I'd been alone that whole time?

So it won't be happening again. "Live and learn." 

I BEG YOUR FINEST DAMN PARDON??

Back in my old Mormon mom life: At girls camp one year, I was coerced into climbing a 12-foot wooden wall. Yes, it's true.

Later that day, during arts and crafts time, I decorated a white tile that said "Someone kicked butt today. IT WAS ME."

I'm dusting off that tile (after I find it) and hanging it back up on my wall because 

I absolutely kicked ass today.

And, amazingly (ironically?), it was HR who helped me, in one shining glorious HR moment. 

Can't get into details but HOLY SHIT I feel amazing and proud. 

LATER: still feeling quite proud but now curious as well. I still can't talk about it but I am really wondering what people thought I would do with the information (which was false) that they chose to give me today.

Also feeling really disappointed in one of the parties, but the other one has proven time and again to be so corrupt that I am once again validated by their behavior.