i declare the week over. today is a new week, because i used the old week up (and now i’m going to throw it away).
let’s just recap everything that has happened since sunday:
1. $(very close friend) announced that she is moving to the west coast. in like two weeks. i don’t even know when i’ll find time in my schedule to buy her a drink of congratulations for the awesome new job, much less say goodbye.
2. as it turns out, contrary to popular belief, being a manager involves work, and angst, and woe, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. MUCH time down the drain figuring things out. sadly, existing workload including non-work classes and work not totally eliminated as a result of increased work load. feel like poster child for “thinking is hard.”
3. spent many hours working on a new budget, as it had been a while since the old one was reviewed and revised. this resulted in “wow, i just don’t have *any* money, do i. maybe i’ll take a vacation *next* year…”
4. and then as if to underscore the point, checking account balance (on still main original chase account) drops to actually less than $100 for the first time in a long time. wow, i’d forgotten how exciting it is to live life on the edge!
5. …especially when you get suddenly zinged with $1200 in car repairs.
6. …and you can’t even do anything fun (with the car) this weekend because you have to work a lot.
7. …and then your dream car you have wanted since you were three years old, which you are currently spending a lot of time and making yourself sleep-deprived in order to take classes to learn how to repair, burns to flame-broiled hunks of steel due to being hit by lightning, thanks to this crappy weather lately.
so you can see why i declare the week over. i am through with that week! that week is DONE! i am wadding it up and throwing it in the trash where it can get coffee grounds in its eye. it’s petty revenge, but satisfying.
but all is not doom and gloom. there are some decent things to keep in mind.
1. just think of all the money i won’t have to spend on parts and tools for the car!! (i hate that particular bright side. FYI.)
2. after spending tons of time working through something and starting to read up on management theory, have come up with a game plan for something that’s been plaguing me for literally four to five weeks (and before that it had been merely bothering me). so apparently research works after all. who knew? (SHUT UP, RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS.)
3. had a good laugh after i realized that — on the bright side of my dad’s garage burning flat — some personal documents i’d left in the garage for them to throw in with a fire next time they burned brush are now all burned up just like i wanted. oh, fate, you are a whimsical mistress, aren’t you?
4. i totally got my taxes done last weekend. procrastination, you are not the boss of me! i win!
5. some jackass ran into me wednesday night when i was catching the red line home after class — the train had pulled into the station and he and i had been waiting to board in the section of the platform where the second-to-front car pulled in, and then he abruptly decided he didn’t want to be on that car and ran for the next car down, running into me in the process and causing me to drop about a dozen stitches on my current sock-in-progress off the needle by yanking on my yarn as he passed, some of which immediately ran as many as four or five rows down, leaving me with a really big mess to clean up. i got it all under control before the train made it to fullerton, and even got a couple more rows done before i got home, which means i am a badass transit sock knitter for whom no dropped stitch holds fear, even grey yarn on #1 needles in a dim el car. (Indecisive Man is still an idiot, though.)
