Murphy's Law

That is a look of chagrin even though you can't see the total effect.

Murphy's Law is gettin' me down.  It is ALL going wrong, not even just select items.  I am home in Boston to do a shower for my friend's daughter who is getting married in August.  
I realized I couldn't do it all from Florida so arranged to have it in a club here.  The major stuff is taken care of, mostly by me simply 'letting go' of any decorations
or entertainment.  
Instead it will be a grown up girls cocktail party with a little gift unwrapping to top it off.  
I am not feeling comfortable with doing it this way, and hope all goes well.  We ordered the flowers yesterday from my favorite shop-  I wanted to stay there forever and just breathe the smell of moss and enjoy the spectacular stuff they do.  Actually this is the very same place that did my wedding flowers thirty five years ago and turned me on to anenomes.  They have managed to stay ahead of the curve all these years and only seem to get better in design and execution and service.

So that's going well (so far).  The cupcakes I ordered are going to be picked up Saturday
and whisked over to the club to arrange.  The food will be served and passed and arrayed and then boxed up with the flowers to come home with me so I can RECYCLE everything into a party to introduce Hazel to polite society on Sunday morning.  

Yup.  I am doing ANOTHER party for 27-30 people in the house, a brunch for family members to meet the baby.  I am hauling out stuff for the table that I haven't opened for the 9 years since I packed up the house.  I am using stuff that was my mom's, old stuff that I had squirreled away, and all of it is cobwebby and dusty and filmy so needs to be washed and polished.  And I have much shopping to do because after 6 months of no one living here the cupboards are bare!  The ice cubes stink so I am making new ones, the candles are all sticky and icky and I have had to start from scratch shopping.

Do I have baking soda?  I dunno, so I buy another one to join the three in the cupboard!

So today was Big Shopping Day and off I went only to find the elevator busted again.  
I hauled the trash down the stairs and around the building and into the garage.  I started my car but it wouldn't turn over, third try I got it going, but every stop I made around town I had the same issue that it wouldn't re-start until I tried it for the third, fourth, fifth time.  I got all my groceries and wine and beat it home before I was stranded.  

Got into the garage and loaded all my stuff onto my dolly to get it upstairs and the friggin elevator still was busted so I had to walk around the whole building again, go up the handicap ramp into the first floor and then make numerous trips back and forth carrying the groceries up to the condo.

When I steered the cart back to the garage,  the car wouldn't start at all so I called AAA and they were here in about 5 minutes.  He tested it and sure enough it is the battery BUT according to his service book, the only thing AAA can do with a BMW
is
TOW to the dealership.  So, upstairs I go to worry this through.  And the bacon had burned that I was precooking for the brunch.  

Remember the days when it was all about multi tasking?  I can barely focus on one thing at a time any more.  Then I remember that I have 6 years of free roadside assistnace with BMW so I call them thinking maybe they can send out a guy and a battery, nope-  instead they will send their own tow truck which will be here to get the car at FIVE F*****G O'CLOCK so they will have it there when they open service at 7.  All this is well and good but I have no way to go to the dealership to fetch the car should it even be done in a timely fashion.

And I need it to pick up the cupcakes and get to the shower I am giving!  

But after a day stuck at home carless I bet I can finish up the quiches and remake the bacon- thankfully I over bought and have 4# of the stuff if I can keep my paws out of it.

Thank for getting through all this, can you feel my pain?