Lori and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

And it's only noon!

OK, maybe not as bad as Alexander's (in the book he gets gum in his hair - I DESPISE gum - anywhere - even in my mouth), but it has not started off all that great. Won't go into all the boring details - just tired, a wee bit off (OK, more than a wee bit) and pissed ... not necessarily in that order. Most things making my day not so great don't make the blogable 'cut' but a few do (OK one doesn't but I want to vent so will share anyway - and it is very wrong and childish of me):

1) My facebook account won't work. I am hoping this is a temporary thing - it says they are doing maintenance and that makes me suspicious since it is during the day and that is unusual for a large site like that to 'go down' during the day (unless it is hackers). The last thing I tried to do was make a photo album of the Bone Church (Sedlec Ossuary) in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - just for fun and as I hit 'save album' it said I had NO PHOTO ALBUMS at all - so I am waiting for it to come back up to see if I lost all of my albums ... I will be very sad. So frustrated.

2) Woke up at 4:30am and couldn't go back to sleep and that has me irritable.

3) Since things were a downer I BAKED MUFFINS! I know - me, the woman who does not cook nor bake - but there is no food in the house (my theory is I won't eat it if it isn't here) and they sounded good. Of course it was from a mix (blueberry) and they taste old. Yuck. Could be because the box has been sitting in there for probably two years ... but I wanted some!!!

4) My mental health meter is not in the 'good' range, but I won't go into all the gory details here.

5) My cleaning lady is having a baby this month and so (duh) not cleaning - so no excuse to pick up ... and as I look around - I am in a panic - didn't think I could mess up the house so badly (OK, if you unpack your suitcase in the office and just leave it all on the floor to step over - yeah - I guess it is going to look like this) and with no reason to pick it up, I just stare at it getting more and more depressed. It will be clean before Gary comes next Friday - but I will bet you I clean up, oh, lets say next Thursday. Can you say cesspool?

6) Was walking around a corner and somehow miscalculated and slammed my pinky toe into to wall. Ouch! Cursing! Hopping! I'm sure it's not broken, just feels like it.

7) Took a nap at about 9:30 - ACTUALLY FELL ASLEEP! Was dreaming about my time as yearbook Editor my Senior year of High School - a good dream - usually I have nightmares and the phone woke me up. It was a junk call. Not happy. Lay there, almost got back to sleep, and it rings again - another junk call! Fell asleep - now dreaming about yelling at someone on the phone and, yep the phone rings - junk call - and I decided my dream was prophetic and yelled at them. Man I wish I had one of those phones you can slam down - you just don't get the satisfaction of pushing the 'off' button .... so I threw it against a wall ...

8) After hours of working on a newsletter I make - discovered - quite by accident (thankfully) that my services are no longer required. I didn't do the one last month because someone had offered to do it and I was super busy - should have seen the writing on the wall - but you know me: stupid, stupid, stupid. Frustrated ... sighed and hit the 'delete' button on my pretty November heading and the rest of the work I had done. I just would have been nice to have been told ... you know? (And this is not the place to vent about this, very inappropriate - I just may have to break my 'no delete' rule and pull number 8 - but then - you won't know will you?)

But, no worries! Was catching up on TV series purchases that I did not have and Mr. Amazon kindly dropped them off 10 minutes ago:



Plus the Wicked soundtrack (can you sing 'No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? ...)!

Oh, yeah - I'm gonna be productive today (man ... House isn't going to be here till ... like, Tuesday - I am sure I will be done by then ...) ... you bet ... gonna get right on that list of things to do ....