I Could've Done With One Of These Today...

Yep, a magnifying glass - Then it wouldn't have mattered that I was halfway to work (only just on time) in the taxi when I realised that the glasses I've worn for the last 20 years were still sitting by the bed... and I wouldn't have had to move my monitor (thank god it's a TFT) down off its riser and down on to the desk just behind the keyboard (about 12 inches away from my nose), just so that I could see it!

It didn't help that my working day for today was changed about 3 times in the last 24 hours...

First, I was to be coming in at 8am (because the boss was to be off), then go down to the shop at dinnertime, closing where I was... to let the almost ex-shopgirl go and do something to help out the boss' wife, and then stay there.

Then, yesterday, our almost ex-shopgirl texted the boss to say that she wasn't well (hmm... so it's not just us that have to deal with that, then) and she'd "try" to come in today. Boss arranged someone else to do her shift at the shop, and told her she wasn't needed - so I was to be at the office all day, instead of just til dinnertime (Are you keeping up with this?).

And then, last night I got a text from the boss to say he'd got his dates in a mucking fuddle and it's only NEXT Saturday he's away... so, if I wanted, I could come in at half past 9 (my usual time if I'm in the office). What a choice... get up in the dark and shuffle into work for 8am, or have an extra hour and a half in bed... (You can guess what I did).

Managed to get a good lot of catching up done (even having to peer and squint at the monitor) - and had the usual round of the boss' mix-ups to sort out... which took til dinnertime just to get the bank reconciliations sorted - and that was only for about a week! You can imagine what things were like when I came back after a month last December!

Oh - and I actually get 2 days in the office next week! Monday and Tuesday one of our ex-shopgirls (it was her who worked today) is going to help us out coz she's home for a while from college! Woo-hoo!

Well, I think that's me... I'm off for some food, and to find something half decent on telly. Might see you tomorrow if I can be arsed...