Monday May 19, 2008

Wow!  Today has been a long day and I'm not even close to being done yet.  The alarm woke me at 6:15 this morning.  I got out of bed, walked across the room to turn it off, turned on a couple of lights and turned on the morning news.  Then promptly crawled back into bed and went to sleep.  I hate mornings.  It's getting harder and harder to stay awake.  Usually watching (or really listening) to the morning news gets me going because it upsets me so much:  gas prices rising, dow is dropping, murder and rape is on the rise, the dollar sucks, earthquakes, cyclones.  I'm getting upset just thinking about it.  But in the mornings, I'm actually sleeping listening to all that crap.  Do I not care anymore?  I'm not sleeping nearly as bad as I had been.  And I'm going to bed at a relatively early hour.  Eleven pm is NOT late.  Maybe I'm just getting too old, again. 

 

I got out of bed again at 7:00.  Put on some clean underwear, a rose shirt and black pants.  Squeezed my feet into my military looking black shoes.  Brushed the old teeth and popped in the contacts (clear but make my eyes really blue).  Put on mother of pearl dangly earrings.  Grabbed my purse and ran out the door.  Ran back in to check on the cats food and water.  Oops, they need more water.  I filled up the bowl and ran back out of the house after grabbing a banana for breakfast.

 

So I got to work late.  Just 7 minutes.  Every freaking day.  I'm going to be even later tomorrow.  I'm feeling sick....maybe I won't feel any better tomorrow...maybe I'll have to call in sick...yeah yeah maybe that's what I'll have to do.  Hmmmmmm....

 

So I booted up the 'puter, read my emails and felt like nodding off, so off to the break room I go.  Caffeinate me, please!  I did the real Pepsi thing too.  I honestly think that all that sugar just makes me sleepier.  It doesn't help that I can't handle of my issues at work.  One of our imaging systems, the one where we scan every document we have, is down, so I can't do any research.  I'm in insurance.  My department processes applications for Life, Disability, etc, etc.  I have to contact agents/brokers when we have to decline an application or if there's a premium discrepancy.  Fun Fun.  Well I can't very well tell someone their app is declined without researching why, now can I?  So I feel like I'm twiddling my thumbs.  I went to three mind numbing meetings, made a couple of phone calls, and responded to some emails for NINE LONG HOURS.  Life in the fast lane.  Bright spot of the day was lunch (Mexican) then a snack, popcorn and root beer.  By the time 5:30 rolled around, I was flying out of the office, down to my car and on my way home.

 

However, being a miser and hating to part with my money for something so practical as insurance, I let my auto insurance policy lapse.  Kind of ironic, hunh?  I've worked for insurance companies over 20 years, but don't like to pay for it.  It's just a huge ripoff.  Anyway, the police stopped by last week and took my plate.  Said I could go down to the DMV with proof of insurance and they would give me a license plate.  Well I had to get to work, so I've been driving illegally for about six days now.  I did get confirmation today that the insurance company restated my policy, so I'm going to the DMV tomorrow (the reason I will be late yet again for work). 

 

It's taken probably an extra 20 or so minutes to get home...taking the scenic route.  I swear the police were everywhere on my ride home today.  I really daren't take another day without a license plate.  The odds are against me getting by one more day.  However, with the invention of the cell phone, I haven't been pulled over nearly as much as when I was younger.  Everytime I see a cop pass by, they are usually on a cell phone.  Good for me, bad for the state.

 

Finally home and I remember I promised to go to the Home Depot for a gardening class.  I changed into my play clothes, watered the plants, let the cats out and waited for a friend to pick me up, because I'm not driving again except to go to the DMV.  Of course as soon as my friend arrives, one of my cat's decides he's not ready to go back inside so he runs under the shed in the back yard.  He's a beautiful cat, long hair, declawed, lived inside his whole life.  He doesn't have any street cred, so he has to go back inside if he doesn't have any adult supervision.  He was more stubborn today than ever.  I couldn't even bribe him with some canned cat food.  I finally had to crawl under the shed myself and drag him out.  Yuck!  But he is now safely ensconsed in the house.

 

I forgot to eat something before we left, so we stopped at a fast food joint.  I got a chicken sandwich and some tea.  My friend ordered some ice cream.  And off to the Home Depot we go.  I had a lot of fun.  I actually prefer looking at stuff for the house and yard than at clothes.  I could, and have, spend hours at the Home Depot or Lowe's.  I got some great tips for starting a garden.  I'm not going to start one this spring/summer, but am starting to plan one now.  Maybe I'll detail one here.  Boring, but needs to be done.  Why not here?

 

Then we went to Lowe's, walked around, chatted, had fun.  I was dropped back off at home around 9:30 this evening.  I think I missed my weekly installment of Dancing with the Stars.  All that is left on TV is crap.  Time to boot up my home 'puter!  Yippee!  Anything on Ebay? Nope.  Although I did update a grievance on Paypal.  I just hate it when I don't get what I purchased.  Anything new on Myspace? Nope.  Any interesting emails? Nope. 

 

Had to stop writing for a moment.  The Cat wanted a hug.  What a cutie!  I really could add more details on what happened in my day today.  So much of it is boring.  I'm going to have to challenge myself to do something interesting tomorrow and write about it instead of remembering and writing about minutia.

 

OK, almost bedtime.  Logging off.