One of those days...

Can someone please press the rewind button and just start this day over?

This was my day by 10:00am...

First, our big cat, Marcel, woke up the entire house, and probably the whole neighborhood by screaming for his food at 6:30am. His food dish is always set on timer in the mornings, and I guess it didn't pop open in time. He was screaming, and screaming for a good 20 minutes. Christopher wakes up earlier than us to go to work, and I heard him get up to feed Marcel.

When it rains, I drive Dick to the Caltrain station so he won't have to drive his scooter in the rain. He had an early meeting at work today, so we left the house at 7:50am to get him to the train station by 8:15. Traffic was just ridiculous this morning - worse than we'd ever seen. Dick realized he may not make the meeting on time, so he was going to call in to let someone at work know the situation. That's when he realized that he accidentally left his cell phone at home.

We arrive at the Caltrain station just in time to watch the train pull away. We were going to drive home to get Dick's cell phone, but the next train would arrive in 20 minutes, which wouldn't be enough time for him to go all the way home, and get back in time.

So my poor husband was running late, without a cell phone, and missed his first meeting.

I got home around 8:45am, and saw that the alarm lights on Dick's car were flashing. (I was driving in my MINI). I thought this was odd, so I got the keys for Dick's car, and checked everything out. It seemed fine, and didn't look like anyone had tried to break in. So I reset the alarm and went into the house. Within the next few minutes, I heard the car alarm sound again. I put my shoes back on, went back out to the car, and still didn't find anything wrong with it.

This happened continuously for the next 1/2 hour.

Ugh. By this time, I had pulled out the owner's manual, tried to deactivate the alarm, and figured out that I wasn't able to turn off the towing sensor. I called the car shop, and told them I was coming in, but thought I should eat a quick breakfast first. Then, the alarm started to go off every minute or so....

..and my oatmeal sat in the microwave too long, because I kept having to disarm and check the car. I ended up sitting on the sofa, eating mushy, icky oatmeal, with the car alarm remote in hand, turning the alarm off every few seconds. It was fairly ridiculous.

I just got back from the shop. They think it's probably a short-circuit, but they need to look into it, and will let me know.

I really hope that this day gets better...

update

Okay, it got worse.....

Poor Dick was stuck at the Redwood City train station because there was an accident on the tracks in Palo Alto. Dick didn't make it to work until Noon.

I just heard back from the car shop. Turns out we had a leak from a bad seal around the trunk. We need to replace two fairly substantial parts, which is pretty big $$.

Ugh.