August 31, 2007 at 1:21 pm (oh so meta)
I can’t believe I still haven’t gotten around to telling you all about my great dinner in the city over the weekend, or the slumber party with my friends at the cottage, the awesome time we had at the Dutchess County Fair, the marvelous anniversary dinner I had with Birmingham (I still refuse to believe that I’ve been dating someone for four years), or last night’s game of kickball where that huge sucking sound you heard was coming from me.
The reason I’m giving for not writing about any of these things is that I’m totally bored with the way my blog looks. So, I’m hoping to spend a lot of the long weekend and maybe even some of the week after it, revamping and improving. I will let you know if you need to change your bookmarks and RSS feeds, so prepare for that… In the meantime, have a great weekend and labor on my friends!
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August 29, 2007 at 2:00 pm (graceful like a rhino)
I hate the feeling of the pre-work morning rush, because I always have a list of things I want to do, and as I run out of time, they fall off the list one by one. Nope, no time for doing last night’s dishes with the cereal bowl. No time for the cereal bowl, even. I guess I won’t be sweeping up the floor since I took that extra two minutes to try to fluff up my bangs. Oh, and I’ll have to read the paper later since I lingered by the radio listening to the news. (I’d hate to miss the feed of some jerk from Idaho cry, “I’m not gay!!!” as if he had been cornered in the boy’s room by the school bully.) There’s no time to hang up my clothes from yesterday because I took a little too long picking out the ones to wear today.
This morning, it seemed like there was also going to be no time to make the coffee, but it didn’t seem like the kind of day that would work without coffee. So what I did was grind the beans and pour the water and set up the pot to go as soon as I got downstairs. I decided that there was no point in turning on the pot yet since it would just sit there warming for a half hour while I did all my other morning stuff. So I did all my morning stuff and about an hour later I was ready to hit the road. Of course, there was my pot of coffee sitting in pre-coffee parts, water, filter and grinds all separated, waiting for the magic to happen.
I noticed this snafu at exactly the time that I need to leave the house to reach work by 9:00. So, I decided that I would make the coffee and be three minutes late, but make the most of my time while I waited for the brew. The first thing I did was turn off the radio and unplug it like Al Gore told me to do. Then, I emptied the litter box and took out the trash. A walk to the garbage can should take me exactly the time of the brew. On the way to the garbage I dropped off my Netflix rental (Splendor in the Grass) and said hello to the neighbor. While I was out, I had a nagging feeling that there was a large flaw in the plan. Upon entering the kitchen, I realized that the flaw was that in my haste I didn’t just unplug the radio, I unplugged the entire surge protector that also included the coffee pot. So, no coffee is waiting for me, just water, a filter, and grinds. Thanks a lot, Al Gore.
So long story short, I’m a dofus, and I just stood there waiting for the coffee to finish because there was no way I was going to do the dishes. I mean, I was already 10 minutes late for work for goodness’ sake.
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