11/25/2006: "Cheery Day - Not"
Cheery Day - Not
Today just kinda sucked.
It started with a suspicious debit/credit charge when I looked at my bank statement online. I don't generally look at it on the weekends, ut today checked it just for fun. Voila...a charge for some Florida Tile company in Portland. Since I haven't purchased tile or been to Portland, I figure that I didn't do it. I reported it to the bank and also called the business. Hopefully it was an innocent mistake, the case of numbers being transposed or something when someone either spoke or wrote down the numbers, since I still have the card and it hasn't been out of my direct supervision. So of course the bank cancells my card just in case, which means that I have my credit card and about $50 in cash to work with for 3-5 working days. On top of it, my credit card is a Discover card, which many places take, but not all, illustrated by the yarn store that I went to later to get the last skein for Mom's Christmas scarf. Fortunately, I remembered my cash and paid for it. Later, to cheer myself up, I bought a new cell phone. The old one really wasn't in too bad of shape, but I've never liked that it didn't have speakerphone and that the ports for the chargers and earpiece were nearly stripped. So now I have the oh so fun job of getting it back up to my specs. When I got home, although it felt like it was 7 pm, it was only 2:30. So, even though the dining room wasn't quite dry, I put the furniture back anyway. Called a couple friends to see if anyone wanted to hang out but everyone had plans. I have a bunch of laundry and other cleaning to do, but laundry is just such a hassle because it takes to frikking long. Watched a Harry Potter movie and finished knitting the scarf for mom. Put up some Christmas decorations because I thought that would cheer me up. Took a bath even though I had taken a shower this morning. Ordered pizza. All the while feeling quite melancholy. Just went to Safeway and got a fuzzy navel wine cooler because I rarely get fuzzy navels. And also got some Kissables because I am not feeling very kissable these days. I am in general just feeling sad.
How is it on really busy days I long for a day like today when I don't have a lot to do, but then when I get one, all I can focus on is how pathetic I am?