Today was not my day, but tomorrow is already looking better. I think it's the weather. I don't remember the last time I saw the sun, and it seems everyone gets grumpy when there's no sun for an extended period of time. For the umpteenth day in a row it rained (surprise, surprise). We woke up this morning with this story. Fortunately, there hasn't been any flooding out by me, but the lake/pond by my apartment is pretty full. We certainly don't need any more rain, so I hope it stays away for a couple weeks at least, lol.

So today started out bad, before the rain even came. I have two alarms set to get me up in the morning...yes I said TWO alarms. The first one goes off at 5:00 AM, the second is set for 5:30 AM. I don't need to get up at 5:00 AM, it's just to start the process of making me conscious enough to get up by 6:00 AM, LOL. When the 5:30 AM alarm goes off, instead of turning it off, I (usually) hit snooze every 9 minutes until about 6:00. I distinctly remember checking my alarm clock before I went to bed last night. Either I was not awake enough to remember, or it decided to be obstinate and not go off. Either way, I didn't wake up until 7:42 AM. The big problem with that? That's about the time when I need to be leaving for work, not just waking up.

So I scramble out of bed, see the time, cuss a couple times, grab the phone, leave a message for my boss telling him I'm running late, and I should be there by 9:00. HA! The god's were against me today! I get showered, dressed, made my sandwich, and left my apartment by 8:30, which is pretty damn good for me, cause it normally takes almost an hour for me to do all that, lol. I get in my car, head out to the highway, and there's a huge traffic jam. It's all because of a new section of construction they started a couple exits up from me. They shifted lanes over, because they are going to start reconfiguring the off-ramp there. So of course, everyone has to come to a complete stop there instead of just moving over as the lines indicate. That section then sort of blends into the next section that's been shifted over about a half mile up the road for some bridge work being done prior to starting the road widening that is to start up again next year. Usually once we get past all that it opens up more and we can actually go above the posted speed limit instead of 30 mph under.

When I got to the toll booth to pay my $.40 right before I exit off and get on a different tollway, traffic came to a dead stop. All I saw in front of me was break lights. As late as I was, and not knowing what was causing the backup, I changed lanes and exited there to take my back way to another road I use as an alternate. Right after I got on that alternate road, it started pouring rain. Cats and dogs pouring rain. Buckets and buckets of water. So of course, everyone slowed down, cause you couldn't see where you were going. Back to 30mph...grrrr! By that time it was 9:05, and I was still at least 15 minutes away from work. Of course, once the rain started, there was NO WAY I was going to be able to get my cell phone out of my purse, dial my boss' number to tell him that I was going to be later than I thought. The time I finally show up to work? 9:30 AM. Now I have an hour and a half to make up for. Sigh! I figure I'll make up 30 minutes at lunch, stay 30 minutes late, and come in tomorrow (hopefully) 30 minutes early. No way on God's green earth I'm staying at work till 5:30 PM. I leave at 4:30 PM, the tollway I avoided in the morning was moving smoothly, I get just past the toll booth after getting back on the one that caused problems in the morning and traffic comes to a complete stop. WTF? About 10 miles up the road, there apparently was an accident. So we creep and crawl, and we creep and crawl, and we sit and we inch forward, and an hour later I finally get home. All in all, it took me 90 minutes to make a drive that usually takes an hour.

By that time, I was so frustrated and grumpy, the slightest little thing would set me off. I slammed the phone down after a possible collection agency called for the third time in two days, wanting someone who I have never heard of and obviously does not live here. I was starving, so I tried to make a fried egg sandwich. Since I was really really hungry, I wanted to use three eggs. So I plopped them in the same greased pan. Well, apparently, I didn't put enough butter in there, because they stuck like glue, and I mangled them trying to get them out of the pan. So I ate a scrambled egg sandwich instead. I tried to get on the computer when I got home, to surprise Kerry with some exciting news. I logged into msn, clicked it to try to send her a message, nothing happened. I clicked again, nothing. I clicked 30 more times in rapid succession, finally the msn window opened. I saw Kerry was on away, I sent her a message, filled with aggravation and grumblings about how I hate everything, no response. She was on away after all, lol. So after no response in about two minutes, I say "f**k it" and reboot my computer.

Rebooting solves all problems, right Kerry? LMAO While the computer was rebooting, I made my scrambled egg sandwich, fought with the eggs, the pan, the bread, the butter, some spice containers on top of my stove, I was rarin' for a fight with anything in front of me, lmao. After watching DooL, sort of (I ffw through all Hope/Patrick scenes and some Billie/Steve scenes), I was feeling much calmer, so I got back on my newly rebooted computer. It worked like a charm. Of course, by that time, it was 7:45 PM EST, and Bones was going to start at 8. So Kerry and I had about 15 minutes to talk before I went to go watch tv, and she was going to zone out and probably go to bed early. No Chris Young music tonight, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Now it's 9:30 PM CST, about time for me to start getting ready for bed, instead of midnight, and I haven't ripped a cd tonight. I have the hugest stack behind me on the bed, just waiting to be ripped to my computer. I hit the motherload last night at Target. Lionel Richie new cd, John Mayer new cd, Everclear new cd, Barenaked Ladies new cd, Papa Roach new cd, Bob Seger new cd, and Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970-1978. That makes 19 cd's I have to rip to my computer, lmao. OMG! I need to stop, I think I'm addicted! I wonder if there's a CA...Cd Anonymous?