I would like to point out that despite the fact that I got up in the dark this morning, today has been a good day.

1. I finished my first draft of the work project that's been kicking my ass since last Monday.

2. I managed to get insane traffic karma or something and got up to 70 MPH on 80-E on my way home, meaning that I could stop at Michael's to get yarn to make something for the preggers lady I'm going to see in Chicago.

3. Did I mention I'm going to Chicago in two weeks to go to a work conference?

4. I'm standing out on my back deck watching the sun set. Now, this may not seem all that special to those of you who don't live in the Bay Area, but I would like to point out for the record that this is the first sunset I've seen in TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS. So yeah, it's good. (Not as good as real sunshine, but I was driving home during that.)

Things are looking up. (Well, except for the whole "I got home early and gdmusumeci is out of town and even my parents have better plans than hanging out with me" thing. But that's okay -- I'm going to watch girly movies and eat food gdmusumeci hates and knit. It's *all* good.)

What I was supposed to be doing today:

- Cleaning the house
- Working

What I've actually done today:

- Eaten the last of the chili
- Answered LJ comments
- Work
- Picked up the drycleaning
- Tangled with $OLDBANK and their busted internal systems (I'm closing all my accounts because I can't access parts of their website without using Internet Exploiter -- I no longer trust them with my information)
- Got a savings account set up at $NEWBANK, along with enrolling myself in their 2-miles-for-one-dollar AA frequent flyer program and getting all my account numbers to move my direct deposit
- Sent off a package to amyamy and another one to my KSSP
- Paid $11 of my $18 of library fines
- Spent $2 at the library book sale
- Taken a bunch of books out of said library
- Bought more cigarettes, a new wallet, and some drinks
- More work

What I'm planning to do with the rest of my day:

- More work (it's an "every two hour checkin" thing, so it's not that big of a deal)
- Actually move my direct deposit set up
- Eat some ice cream
- Knit on utterlyjaded's Christmas present
- Watch some TV
- Bask in the sunshine
- Read some of my library books
- Snuggle the lilbluekittans

Somehow, I suspect that electrolite37 will find much here to delight her obsessive cleaner's soul. As well as some yarn she can use to practice her knitting, if she only remembers to bring needles...

Did you know that you can *pay* other people to do your laundry? Not even your dry cleaning, no, but regular old bog-standard "throw it in the machine, take it out and shove it in the dryer" laundry? And that it appparently takes a week?

On the other hand, the week of time and the $66 are well balanced out by the fact that I just walked in and handed over 70 lbs. of cat-pee-covered blankets and sleeping bag to the nice lady, and *she*'s going to wash it *for* me.

Life is getting better. (Of the $250 I spent at the grocery store mostly on soup and candy, we shall not speak, yes? Except to mention that I now have pumpkin flavored ice cream for visitors, and my very favorite Dryer's peppermint-that-they-only-make-at-Christmas for me, and eggnog for gdmusumeci as well.)

So... Today I have to go to the dry cleaners, the post office, and probably the grocery store. Not the nice, expensive, full-of-healthy-food grocery store, but the normal-people, cheap grocery store where they will sell me soup in cans. (Yes, of course I can make my own soup, but I'm really too lazy.)

I also have to do the laundry. And the rest of the laundry. And probably then some more laundry, since I have to wash all the towels and *two* sets of sheets (damn kittans, peeing on the bed -- for the first time since we got the brand-new mattress).

Also, I'm planning on knitting, watching Masterpiece Theatre, and maybe going to get some pumpkins for musique174 and gdmusumeci to carve. (I don't do pumpkin carving, I'm *way* too clumsy and am afraid I'd cut my own fingers off...)

Oh, and it's Saturday, so I think musique174 and I are going dancing tonight at Gaskell's. Maybe. If we're not both dying...

So that's my day... How are all of you?

Okay. I know all of you are reasonably capable of imitating adults if you so choose, so please, someone, explain this to me:

WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S HOLY WOULD YOU PUT YOUR USED CHEWING GUM ON THE TRAIN SEAT?

Yes, that's right, ladies and gentlemen. After 16 years of riding New York City subways, with forays into the T and the Metro, after having ridden public transport in THREE different countries in Europe, and after having spent multiple hours arguing about the superiority of public transport on Usenet, I sat on gum today. And didn't realize it until I got up to get off the train an hour later.

My ass smells of mint. And my jeans are in the freezer.

(P.S.: Motherfucker, I will find you. And when I do, I will roll you in gum. It will be multiple flavors. It will be multiple ages. You will never smell of anything but mint and fake fruit again in your life, or if you do, you won't be able to tell, because I will chew this gum and shove it so far up your nose it's going to take surgery to get it back out of your sinuses. Everything you eat will taste of gum, because I will rip your gum-chewing tongue out of your head and replace it with lovingly pre-chewed bubble gum. You will have to suck ice cubes for the rest of your life to keep from choking, you bastard. Those were my last pair of clean jeans without holes in them.)