Lisa and the Horrible, Awful, No Good, Very Bad Day

Thursday started fine, setting me up for the sucker punch that would be my day.

Noah and I dropped Jesse at work and were off for some serious shopping. After dropping $76 on a swim suit at Macy's, we grabbed a JC Penny's stroller someone had ditched in the store and were off for more shopping. For the same price as the suit I got:

• Jeans
• Snow boots
• Red high heeled shoes (yowza!)
• Airwalk sneakers that look like old school Vans
• A shirt fit for happy hour in Hawaii

We ended the trip at JC Penny, grabbing all of our bags and ditching the stroller. It wasn't until we had stopped at Chipotle and were eating at home that I realized the bag with the swimsuit was missing.

Hadn't The Doodlebops warned me of this very thing? Was their catchy song about taking it slow all for naught? I guess I should pay more attention to Noah's TV shows instead of surfing the net.

We finished eating and drove back to the mall. I checked the nearest checkout as well as every stroller in the store I could find with no luck. So far it hasn't shown up in a lost and found, but the helpful office worker at JC Penny tried to boost my spirit by telling me that someone even turned in a hundred dollar bill once (How stupid is that? I totally would have kept it).

We didn't have time to go home so we went to pick up Jesse early. For some reason his phone didn't ring or register my voice mail messages so we were driving away 40 minutes later when he called me. I circled around to get him and got lost in the U of M labyrinth. He finally spotted me from atop the hill by Coffman and ran down a huge flight of stairs to me.

I was a half an hour late to my hour appointment, but at least I didn't have to pay $120 for a missed one. It took me 20 minutes to decompress, so the last 10 were basically figuring out what we would talk about next time.

Then, I had a client. That, at least, went well.

I hope Joan is right and these type of days come only once every few years. Cause baby? This one sucked.