A somewhat challenging day!

Today has been a little challenging and not at all enjoyable! I went into work at 8:00am, but Sara had been expecting me at 10:00am. However, Nicola had said to me that it was fine for me to do my normal hours, which I was pleased about, otherwise I would have lost my Thursday afternoon off, traditionally when I go to see Mum.

She didn't seem at all happy that I was in at 8:00am, although I'm not sure how it made any difference? The phones are hardly busy at the moment, and she muttered something about having to answer the phone during the week when Jo and Kathy had been training and when they had visited our new gym. She barely managed to ask about Berlin, and then never said another word to me. It was very awkward.

I saw our MD, who had returned from his holidays, and asked about his trip to Vietnam, but he didn't seem to want to talk about it, so I wondered why on earth I'd bothered! 

I worked with Macy today, and when Nicola came in, she could sense there was something wrong with Sara, so they both went off for a chat. As I predicted, the phones weren't busy at all, so I was able to catch up with the emails, and also have a meeting with a woman from our software company who helped me with the playscheme places. By 2pm, the whole of the summer holidays were on the system, waiting to go live on Monday!

Just before I left, one of our finance women came into the office to see Nicola and said, in a scathing tone, that she'd been sent an invoice from customer service which related to one of the sites we no longer run. It had been me who'd sent it, and the work was from January, when we definitely did run the site! I was furious as they made me look like an idiot, and I turned around and told her the work was completed in January. She then made a remark about still receiving cinema invoices, and I said to Nicola that I wasn't in the habit of sending our finance department random invoices! I checked them first!

It was a good job it was 2:00pm as I was seething and would probably have been rude if I'd stayed. I met Keith and ranted at him all the way home, poor thing! It had not been a good shift!

Thankfully, Mum seemed bright and cheerful when I saw her, and I stayed for a good while, and we had a chat. We watched a little of a programme about the border force in Australia, and I was astounded at the things some people tried to bring into the country!

We've had more sunshine and showers today, and it's been more like April than June! When Sophie arrived home, we sat in the kitchen and chatted, and I told her about my day. I was just hoping that tomorrow would be better, and very glad indeed that it was Friday!