We have been short staffed like you would not believe this week with 3 staff down with Rota Virus, one down with a severe chest infection and one down due to a death in her family! It's not their fault, they're all legitimate except one, she's never there but not even woth the mention, she's away because she's pregnant and suffers fake pregnancy problems.  I know this because I'll mention a problem, a week later she'll claim to have it, another staff member will mention a problem they had, a week later she'll claim to have it.  So anyway we were short staffed which was putting a huge strain on everyone else there.  It's hot, the air-cons aren't working well, my own child is sick and I'm stressing about leaving her at daycare when she's unwell. 

I ended up saying to another work this afternoon that I'll be back in 5 minutes, left the room and made a coffee in the kitchen and burst into tears! The boss had gone home, leaving me in charge, and I wasn't feeling at all up to it but everyone else seems too incompetent to be left in charge.  Today it all hit at once.  Went to the doc Wednesday with a sick child and did not leave until I had medicine for her and a referral to a paediatrician.  The doctor wasn't willing to give me one but I told him I wasn't leaving until I got one so I got what I wanted!

Today was hectic, I was having dizzy spells, my head literally felt like it was going to explode, implode, or just blow out the top of it.  I felt like I was going to pass out, throw up, scream, but the coffee helped.  It was the whole week catching up with me.

I got to DD's daycare to find she had a sleep for the second day in a row, meaning a late night for the second night in a row! I am also missing a set of clothes from a while back when they had a messy play day at daycare.  They sent home the wrong clothes and told me today that they must have sent hers home with another mum and they haven't been returned so I probably won't get them back.  I'm annoyed with that, just because whle I don't send her in clothes she isn't allowed to get wet/dirty in, I do send her in nice clothes and it was a shirt that was bought only a month ago from the internet.  My mum thought it was a cheap one, but then realised it was from the US meaning it was in US dollars, and postage was a whole lot more than expected too!

I got home after being out of the house for 11 hours to find we had no power.  I didn't realise straight away though because it wasn't until half an hour later when I tried turning on a light and put food in the microwave it didn't work.  So I tried to call someone around here to find out if they had power and the phone didn't work! It was a cordless, duh!  So I rang from the other phone.  By this time DD was cranky, hungry, and getting impatient.  I couldn't get her a meal because even though I'd pre-cooked it, I couldn't heat it so that meant cooking a new meal entirely adding to the time she waited for.  I couldn't do it until I was off the phone as I couldn't use the cordless.  Turns out the power was turned off at the mains by some half-witted local!  By the time I got home the milk was almost at room temperature, luckily there was only other things in the fridge that weren't going to go off like a loaf of bread, eggs, fresh uncooked fruit and veg, that sort of thing.

I tried to send a text message to my mum telling her of it, and the phone wouldn't send text messages!

Exhausted and annoyed, I decided to make a cup of coffee.  No water.  So I went outside and lo and behold, as suspected after the power being turned off, the water was turned off out the front.  I threw a tantrum equivalent to that of a toddler who had a toy taken away from them because it belonged to a sibling.

I turned it on, ran a bath for DD, made a coffee for myself, pulled up a chair in the bathroom to watch DD in the bath and rang Telstra.  After 50 minutes on the phone, being passed through to a number of people, they finally worked out that the problem was that the Centre Number needed to be cleared and re-entered.  THE SAME NUMBER RE-ENTERED!!! It just had to be reset.  So now we have power, water, I can send text messages, but I'm ready for bed and DD had a sleep today so she is NOT ready for bed.

That's my week, hope it gets better next week.  I'm going to have a coffee and a cry now.  And a TIm Tam too, that'll fix everything.