DH is even more awesome than I realized

a/k/a Today REALLY Sucked

Dropped the kiddos off at school and headed to the hospital.  My mother wasn't there. Nurse said she was taken for a CT scan and should be back any minute.  So I went to buy parking vouchers and coffee.  And she still wasn't there.  And I waited and waited and finally decided I had to go to work.

Got to the office and called and she put me on the phone with her hospital case manager who is helping to find an assisted living center.  Which is just code for Old Folk's Home.  She sent me a list of about 20 places and it was my job to narrow the list.

Then Big Boss went insane and decided that my immediate assistance was required all day to help prepare for an arbitration that we have know about for at least 3 months and for which we are not the primary attorneys (insurance defense counsel is handling, we are general counsel). He gave me about 5 research projects and then buzzed me about every 5 seconds needing some document or other that I was apparently the only person in the office qualified to locate (especially frustrating when said document was literally sitting right in front of him).

In the middle of all that I managed to call 4 places for info.  My plan was to visit this evening or tomorrow morning.

But Big Boss kept buzzing and demanding.

Then, My mother called to tell me they are moving her TOMORROW. (So much for buying those parking vouchers this morning.) Oh holy crap, how was I ever going to find a place by tomorrow?  Believe me, at this point I would have gladly hired someone to research assisted living centers, but I didn't have time to find anybody.

And Big Boss kept buzzing and demanding.

As the afternoon pressed on, it became clear there was no way in heck I was going to be able to find an assisted living center on my own.  So I recruited my brother to check the state's records on medical facilities, and poor DH had to tour the ones I had selected.

Yes, he is the awesomest husband in the entire world.  I hardly had time to even hand off the information. Poor guy had virtually no information but he was a trooper and at least someone has seen the inside of these places..  Every time I picked up the phone Big Boss barged into my office looking irritated.

About 7:30 tonight, Big Boss said, "Do you have that research done yet?"  To which I replied, "No, because you keep needing me to do other things."

And then he said to Partner, "You need to divide this project with LC because she can't get it done."

And I have him the raised eyebrow look I give my kids when they are telling a fib, and he said "I mean because I keep needing her."

OMG, I was ready to strangle him.  I was the angriest and most frustrated I have ever been at this job--although I'm sure the stress from the mom situation contributed. (And no, I wasn't not getting my research done because of her--I spent maybe 30 minutes on the phone with that stuff, shoved what I could onto my brother and husband, worked through lunch and barely took a bathroom break all day and billed 10 hours).

Another day like this and I'm going to have to start keeping a bottle of Jack in my desk.