Missed the boat, so to speak

I liken the flower shop to a huge cruise ship the week before Valentine's Day.  It departed port at 8am today and will dock at 7pm on Thursday.  Trouble was I wasn't aboard and am stuck on the pier.  I went to church and had this vague feeling that I was supposed to work at 9am.  But I talked myself out of that, saying only the designers had to work at 8.  So I was happily working around the house--folding clothes, unloading and loading the dishwasher--when I got a call from my son wanting to know if everything was okay.  Long story short...it was 10:30 and I was supposed to be in at 8am!  Now the store itself is only open from 11am-3pm.  So I got to work, irritated as could be  Even more  irritated that the display cooler was a disaster and my boss saying, "I told them to leave it when they asked."  Empty vases, dirty water the whole nine yards.  I priced and lugged buckets of roses and mixed bouquets from the garage to the front.  Had to reprice the rose dozens because I had priced them incorrectly.  One of our helpers was vacuuming and knocked against a round tiered glass display shelf.  The plastic supports broke and candy, candles and bears fell all over.  Repairing the shelves was a job for the owners.  One of the owners said that for a minute she thought I had found an incorrect price because I was running with a price sheet into the office.  And then one of our new people misunderstood an order and we had to hurry-scurry to correct it once the customer came in.  Only  4 more days and V-Day 2013 will be over.