Hi All!
I changed my Board name to a song title and am going to try and label every post accordingly. I'll put the artist at the end of my post. You guys know how I like to go on whims...so we'll see how long this one lasts.
Today I'm just tired and irritable. The day started o.k. I got up early-ish, showered and went to pick up the postcards I had made. I didn't have many of them made, so some of you will get made and some of you will get Hallmark. When you care enough.... :) :) They turned out GREAT! I was a little worried because they were cheap compared to other places. Put them in the car, ran home to get my address book so I could address cards at work and this is where the day went into the toliet.
Just call me Susan Ross, because I think I was/am allergic to the Christmas Cards. On the 20 or so mintue drive to work I began sneezing uncontrollable and I could feel my eyes swelling shut. I pulled over to actually get out of the car and get some air and hope the allergy attack went away. Oh, did I mention I pulled over at a Starbucks? I went the alternate way to work so I could pass the cheap gas station. Cheap gas went awry (see below) and the allergy attack cuminated RIGHT near the Starbucks! :) Just an added Peppermint Latte bonus! :) I continued my drive to work with no heater ('cuz maybe it was really that, although it hasn't bothered me any other time than today) and the windows open. The only OTHER thing in my car besides the cards was Jill's microwave, but I'd had no problems driving home with it in the car Sunday night.
I tried to stop for gas, but the cheap-gas gas station was packed. The station near my house wasn't bad, but I thought I could do better at the cheap-gas station so I passed the close one by. I kept heading to work but the prices just kept going up. The WaWa gas near work had me paying 10 cents more per gallon than the one near my house, but I was desperate and now annoyed as I pulled in to fill up.
The 3 major concerns in my life presently are 1) That I just barely have enough money to get by each month and this is not putting anything aside for the summer. When I sit down and work out the numbers, I should have enough money to not only eat, but to have the occasional Starbucks and then some. I am totally perplexed over the money and live every minute scared to death of not being able to pay my bills each month. 2) My car is 6000 miles over for the year on the lease and I'm not doing an exorbanant amount of driving. Unless I can find a way to knock miles off my commute each day or driving per year I'm gonna end up paying MASSIVE amounts in overage. (See #1 concern) 3) The heating/electric bill was almost $300 this month and if I did the math right, we are on track for double that next month. (See#1 concern) So I walk around hearing the meter move in my head and HATE turning on the lights every day. This SUCKS because I had a special outlet put in outside when I moved in JUST so I could hang Christmas lights....which I did, but I can't plug them in because (see #1 and #3). These things are what pretty much is occupying my time. Sooo, in an effort to save both gas AND miles, I tried taking the back way from the gas station (3 blocks up and one block over) from my office and ended up getting lost and going 4 or 5 miles out of my way. Pretty scenery. Sucky, tense and irritable me. Oh, and the allergen in the car? STILL THERE!
Got to work, pretty ticked off and feeling just the under-the-surface annoyed that makes one extremembly cranky. Had people pulling me in 6 different directions AS I WAS GOING TO SWIPE IN and realized, today was pretty much gonna suck! The day DID get better, but I didn't. I'm wiped out. For those with allergies or asthma, you get it. You know the wiped out, totally spent feeling I experienced the rest of the day. For those of you who don't, think about a time where you cried and cried - hysterically sobbing (and doing the crying Eddie Murphy talks about in either Raw or Delirious - I always watch them together, so they blend in my head as one big routine). Now, remember how you felt afterward? THAT'S the feeling! I came home and decorated my little tree which should've made me happy, but then I can't turn on the freakin' lights! (Well, I DID turn off all the lights in the house and ate dinner by the light of the Christmas Tree, but I started falling asleep in my Mac and Cheese, so the lights went off and the big ones went back on.)
So, today you pretty much could tell me "look at the fact ___________" (like Christmas is coming or that I have a roof over my head and family and friends who love me) and I could tell you 16 reasons why that fact sucks! :) Good thing I'm alone, sitting here typing this. Not too good a company today. Almost makes me wonder if the 2 days spent at mom and dad's with heat and Dad's cold, plus the weather, plus the no heat in my house have me breaking down and getting a cold. Maybe that's better than just being a miserable grinchy person! :)
I'm off to do what I've wanted to do pretty much al day. I'm gonna put on my warm flannel penguin pjs, crawl into my bed and tell the day to go on without me.
Song by Bing Crosby
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