Thursday, October 14, 2010

Negative by how much?

I think today has been a result of 10 long days of production proceeded by two more days of moving furniture, heavy cleaning, and repainting my room. Then to top that off, I dropped my laptop on the power cord while charging and broke the plug. So now I am using my roomies laptop while I attempt to have mine fixed. That's starts me out at a -100 points.

I had a busy day planned, all very carefully laid out. It started out wrong when I woke up 2 1/2 hours later than planned (-50 points). Apparently I was tired enough to sleep through my incredibly annoying and loud alarm that was sitting right next to my head. I had to jump out of bed and run out the door without showering or eating (-25 points). I was still a half hour late to where I was suppose to be at 10. Where I needed to be sucked too. I had to drive 40 minutes into the city to pick up two patches because they needed to be returned to Universal.


So I pick them up and start the trek back to the valley. I stopped at Goodwill to drop off a bunch of stuff I wanted to get rid of (+50 points). Then I stopped at Target on La Brea and whatever the crossroad is. Then I realized, oh shit... I dropped off my returns at Goodwill (-25 points). Damn. I wasn't about to drive all the way back down La Brea, out of my way, to pick it up. I figure I would just eat the cost.


So I trudge on up to Universal. I was making a turn off La Brea onto Franklin towards the freeway. There were no other cars around. After I rounded the corner, there was a guy on the other side sitting at a stop sign to make a left turn (into my lane). I was watching him because I have been in two major car accidents in which, BOTH times, I was T-boned when I had the straight through and the other person was at a stop.


He pulled forward a little then stopped. I couldn't see his face but his actions suggested that he had seen me coming. Then out of no where he GUNS it straight at my car to beat the traffic that was coming the other way. Thank god for my paranoia because I saw him coming and totally not looking in my direction. I had to lay on my horn and swerve into the next lane. He looked at me like a deer in headlights. Dumbass. (-75 points)


Next I made it to Universal to drop everything off. Thankfully that went without a hitch. I was really craving chicken and so I used Yelp to look up "chicken". The second choice is gave me was Lotus Vegan(-5 points)... only in Los Angeles. So I sucked it up and drove over to the California Chicken whatever that is back by my apartment. Lunch was quite satisfying (+25 points). Thank god.


Next stop was at Buffalo to attempt to sell some shit. I opened my trunk to grab my bags and, lo and behold, there's my Target return. Not sure if that makes me awesome or a failure (my mom agreed on failure) but I'm glad I can do my return (-25 points for failure). Not that I don't love to help out by giving stuff to Goodwill but I don't want to PAY to give them stuff. I can't afford that.


So I get inside and there's only 3 people in front of me (+25 points) but they all have a CRAP ton of stuff (-30 points). I sit on the phone with my mom for the bazillionth time today because I'm bored and ponder over whether I should run across the street and get coffee or wait.  It's pretty slow so I decide to take the chance. I grab my bags and scurry across the street. I got a pumpkin spice latte WITH whipped creme (+25 points) because it's been that kind of day. On my way back, I think I see two more people in line. When I get inside, there's actually about 6 more people in line (-50 points). Awesome. At least I had my latte to keep me company. I finally get up to the counter and they reject a lot of my shit (-20 points). But I did get about 30 bucks to spend (+30 points) but there was nothing I wanted today (-10 points). 

I still need to take my computer in but I feel so gross from running around and not having showered yet today. I came home and figured I would take a little break since I have to work tonight. Plus I have some wrapping to do still for this last project.



Anyway, I haven't been keeping track of my points but as far as I can tell, today is still in the negative. It's just been one of those days.

I leave you with this... the Google search of pit bull puppy pictures. Because they are so cute my heart hurts.

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