It's been one of those days I wish I could start over and make different.

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It started off OK, but I found out returning the bad charger on my camera was more complicated than I expected. They wanted me to use UPS, which is horribly expensive, even for ground service. I made the phone calls in the morning but waited until after our late lunch to print out the UPS mailing label. That normally takes about five minutes and I had an hour before the UPS store closed. It's been a while, but I've never had a problem before. This afternoon I did. It just wouldn't print. I'd click print and nothing happened. I checked my preferences to make sure the right printer was selected. All the settings looked great. I checked all the help files. No dice. I called the UPS store, since by this time I knew I'd never make it by today's deadline and asked how I could change the shipping date, since the program automatically fills it in according to when you fill out the form. (USPS lets you select the shipping date.) UPS Store says they don't answer this kind of question -- call technical support and when I get the voice menu to keep pressing zero about 15 times to get a person. I finally did. By this time I had voided the shipment so I wouldn't be charged. The tech person had me do everything I'd already done to no avail. Then she found out I was in Chrome and and said the problem was that the label was a pop-up and Chrome was blocking pop-ups so she showed me how to unblock it and print the label. She said it wouldn't matter if it were mailed on Monday -- it would still just take a day to get there. By this time my body must have secreted a lot of stress hormone. I wanted chocolate, but didn't have any. Since I had to go to the other house anyway, I decided to at least drop the package off before the UPS store closed, and I barely made it. The last truck had left, but at least the package is in their hands to go out on Monday. I was still tense, so when I got to the other house, I rested and finished the Lucile Ball biography I'd started a couple of weeks ago. I have company we haven't seen in about 20 years -- he was best man at our wedding -- coming on Monday for dinner to that house on his way up or down the coast. They live in Wisconsin, but are visiting relatives in California. I'm still trying to get some things done over there before they come. While there I noticed the back lawn was getting brown and that shouldn't be happening, so I checked the sprinklers and saw that one popped out and is broken on top. I'll bet the gardener hit it with the mower, and now I have to worry about getting it fixed. As I was cleaning out the frig, I was going to take a bunch of flour to the freezer and the freezer door was sealed shut. There was no way I could get it open. It's never done that before unless someone has just opened it , and no one has opened it for at least a couple of weeks. By then I really wanted some chocolate! I decided to go home. When I got back to my computer I had the dreaded email from linkedIn telling me my password was probably compromised when they were hacked so they have to send me a new one. For some reason, I never seem to get those password reset emails. I've been waiting an hour now for it to show up. It's not in the spam filter, either. Why is it that I get all the notification emails from LinkedIn, but no password reset emails? I think I'm going to hit the shower and washed my stress away? What do you do after one of "those days"?