I gave myself a belated Christmas present today. I slept in ‘til about 10:30, I relaxed a lot, I rested, I goofed off, and I made a deliberate point of not leaving the house at any point. I figure if I get another good night’s sleep in, I may even be a tolerable human being tomorrow.
Anything’s possible, right?
Well, I had to do something stupid, didn’t I?
I started my laundry rather late, having filled my basket during daylight hours but spacing out on actually putting clothes into the wash until, oh, close to 10pm. I just hauled the clean, dry clothing out of the dryer and… noticed with considerable chagrin the number of fortune cookie slips in the lint trap.
Yep. I washed my wallet. My license is slightly warped, now. My bus pass is almost completely shot to hell. (And how glad am I now that I didn’t buy January’s pass while I was passing by Safeway this morning!) The money? Oh, it’s designed to take a bath or two, so no worries there. I can only hope that my bank card wasn’t adversely affected, let alone my Social Security card. The wallet itself is a goner, though. Dammit. I liked that wallet. I’ve never washed one before, so why did I start now?
Merry Christmas, everybody. May your holiday start out better than mine…
I love it when R’Bender gets fed up with his local news coverage, ‘cause it tends to result in howlingly funny satire on his blog…
SHARON CHIFFON: Thanks, Rhonda. Still to come on the Channel 42 Action News at 6:00
[pause while tape rolls]
SHARON CHIFFON: [behind assorted images of products on shelves] What are the hottest gifts this season? [cut to image of Xbox 360] You’ll be sure to want to stick around [cut to image of an iPod] after the break to find out [cut to image of Bratz dolls] what the good boys and girls will have on Christmas morning.
TROY MERINGUE: [cut to Troy standing over various important-looking computer monitors wearing the most hideous Christmas tie you’ve ever seen, complete with a blinking light for Rudolph’s nose, that was purchased as a Christmas gift ten years ago by his then five-year-old son, Spence, and Troy still thinks it’s the greatest Christmas tie ever, despite the fact that his now fifteen-year-old, disaffected teenager is utterly and completely embarassed by the fact that not only is his Dad on TV every night, but then he insists on wearing that stupid tie every year and GOD, I can’t WAIT until I’m 18 and then I’m SOOO out of here!] Will we be having a white Christmas this year? We’ll have your seven-day bonus local forecast and maybe we’ll even catch a glimpse of Santa on our radar! More about it coming up.
[Cut to commercial]
Go read the whole thing, won’t you? And tell him the waterfowl sent ya.
Sure, they announced late this morning that we’d be closing shop at 2pm. They needn’t have bothered, really, ‘cause there’s almost nobody here. Going into a three day weekend, arguably the biggest one of the year, is it any surprise that half of the people already have the day off as vacation, another quarter of them are simply playing hooky, and most of the rest are bailing whenever they feel like it?
Mind you, I’m not complaining one bit. I’m enjoying the peace and quiet. I get to listen to music at whatever volume I like, for instance. Nevermind all the webcomics I’m catching up on.
This isn’t to say I’ve accomplished nothing today. I solved a moderately strange email problem for one of our jobshare sales teams, upgraded software at the front desk, and… er, rotated backup tapes. Okay, so that’s all I’ve done today. Your point?
Next week promises to be delightfully dull. Bring it on!
[ Ringtone plays on phone. It’s the MIDI version of the theme song to Manatsu no Eve, the so-called “second Tenchi Muyo movie.” This is the ringtone assigned to unknown incoming callers. ]
“Hello.”
“Hi, is Jennifer there?”
“Jennifer who?”
“I don’t know.”
“Uh, okay. Well, you’ve reached my cellphone.”
“Hmm. It does say ‘cellphone’ by this number. I just wanted to know if she’s working today.”
“Working… where?”
“Safeway.”
“Lady, you definitely have the wrong number. Sorry.”
“Oh, okay.”
[ Phone call ends. ]
The major activities of my day off centered on food. First I took my kids, the ex, and the tadpole out to brunch at The Original Hot Cake House. As a change of pace I even ordered hot cakes!
Later, I trekked out to Mari & Doug’s place for general hanging out and a nice bit o’ stir-fried goodness. Apparently zucchini is no match for teriyaki sauce. Is there anything that can’t be made tastier with teriyaki sauce? I think not!
Sure, I could’ve lazed around the house all day. I feel much better about how things turned out, however. I’m such a people person. Who knew?
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