THIS CHICK'S POSTSCRIPT...

I was NO happy little Easter chick today... especially with a morning that got off to a b-a-d start.

While accepting a job posting through my smart phone app, for a supply teaching position, I made not one, but TWO mistakes.  Why? First of all, it was 6;15 am and secondly, I haven't slept well in weeks. Methinks it is very easy to screw things up, under those conditions.

My F*I*R*S*T mistake was unknowlingly accepting a half-day.  I NEVER do half days, because inevitably, the other school district calls me for a full day.  So I am a gambler! The odds are almost always in my favour. However, this morning I didn't know it was only a half day (any explanation would be w...a...y too long and detailed).  My second mistake was trying to CANCEL that posting, because I THEN inadvertently cancelled a later booking in April instead!  I couldn't reverse it, as another teacher picked up that opening.  While I am trying to make things right, my other employer DOES call, offering me a full day today, which I had to decline.  Consequently, in the space of five minutes, before I was even OUT of bed, I had lost 1.5 days of work.  OMG, I TOTALLY love to HATE the automated booking system for supply teachers.  With a passion, I might add!

By now, I am fully awake, and suddenly full of nervous energy.  In between preparing breakfast and getting ready, I decide to scrub out the bathtub before I go to work.

Later, while doing my daily ablutions,  I grabbed what I thought was my facecloth, lying in the sink, and used it to wash my face.  I only realized upon closer inspection, that what I had in hand, was the old faceloth-cum-rag, with which I had just scoured the TUB!  It is really easy to make such a mistake, when you have so little sense of smell, that you couldn't distinguish between COMET and CORIANDER, even if stuck right up your NOSE! I was still fuming about that when I took off to my HALF DAY of work.

At the stop sign, I saw the mother whom I had blogged about last week in ''I Was No Angel...''.  She had just put her children on the bus. I peeped my horn, scooted across the road, rolled down my window and asked her how she was.  She looked terrible, poor thing. She was so pale; she had red scrapes all over her face. We chattered a few minutes, and she assured me she was fine.

I was SO relieved to know that, as I hadn't seen her since last Friday, that my frustrations about my morning,  dissipated IMMEDIATELY.  It's funny how ONE incident can put OTHERS into such
b-e-t-t-e-r perspective. It was like I had just been given a GOOD, HARD KICK in the ass!!!

JOYEUSES PÂQUES À VOUS TOUS!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!