Bedtime

If you are a regular reader, you know that I consider punctuality to be one of the greatest virtues. However, I do realize it's not as important to everyone else, so I try to exercise another great virtue -- patience. At the moment, I'm struggling with the latter as the mattress delivery people have violated the former. Two hours ago I received a call from them making sure I was at home and saying they would be here with the mattresses in 30-40 minutes. I thought I heard a truck about a half hour ago and put Mazie in the bathroom so she wouldn't get in the way. After twenty minutes, I let her out. Five minutes ago I called the cellphone from which I had received the delivery notification. It went to voicemail, and I left a message asking that they update me on the time they would be arriving.

This whole delivery thing was supposed to make my life easier! I have a million things to do today, including running out to pick up a few items. I can't do that until the mattresses have been delivered. I feel like I can't start on any of my other tasks until after the delivery; many of them involve rearranging furniture and other stuff, and I don't want to have it all pulled out and in the way of placing the mattresses. I'm seriously doing my best to be patient, but with each passing moment I'm fuming a little more.

The sheets I ordered last week won't arrive until the middle of next week, which means I have to stop somewhere and pick up some others. I don't have any sets of single or full (the sizes of the new mattresses for the new bunk bed) sheets, and while it won't hurt to have a spare set, it's one more time-waster I didn't need today. {{deep breath}} I have my car filled with what will be a Goodwill drop-off, and I was planning to steam-clean my upholstery. I'm ready to accept that everything won't get done. I'm trying to keep it all in perspective. This time tomorrow, I'll be enjoying the company of two sons (with the third arriving later in the day) and two granddaughters. None of the waiting or impatience or fuming will matter then.