Jul 8, 2002

here's what my day looked like:
7am: woke up
730: got up, got the paper
8am: put on coffee for mom and made her breakfast. showered, ate, read sports page of newspaper.
10am: set up my mom's laptop, printer, and scanner for her to be able to get to while sitting in her chair.
1030: left for errands. first went to Public Storage. Paid bill, forgot key to our room, couldn't get in it. Went to Neat Repeat's to donate clothes. Didn't want them. Went to
other thrift store, donated clothes. Went to Wolf Camer, made duplicates of picture. Went to Walgreens, dropped off mom's script to be filled. Went home.
12:30: once home, am informed that fans I purchased for replacement in the bathroom are the wrong ones, that it will cost an additional $60 to have it done, which won't
happen anyway for a few more days. Left again for more errands.
1pm: go to bank to get money, but ATM's are being worked on and are n/a. go to ACE Hardware to buy things that they don't sell. go back to bank to get money again to
buy lunch with from wendy's as they don't take credit. ATM's still not working. wait 15 minutes in line in bank to get money. go to wendy's, wait 15 minutes inside in
line for 2 salads. go home.
215pm: eat lunch with mom. take dog out. leave for errands.
3:15pm: go to target, buy sweeper wet wipes for sweeper mop thing, cordless phone, and two cordless phone batteries b/c the battery i brought with me to replace has no
markings on it and i don't know the stupid serial number on my GE phone. go to post-office, go home.
420pm: after looking at cordless phone, realize BOTH batteries are incorrect. inside my head, i'm sreaming and breaking many windows at this point. straighten up first
floor for my mom's association meeting. do dishes, dust, vacuum, wash floors, clean bathroom, put everything away.
645: phone rings. association members cancel 7pm meeting. in my head, i'm beating myself in the forehead with the phone.
830pm: go out to eat with brother for dinner. come home at 10pm with dinner for mom, which she hates, tells me she hates, complains about having to eat so late, and
claims no one thinks about her first.
1015pm: start taking apart recepticals (electric plugs) b/c one breaker in our house hasn't worked since they all got replaced. stop at 11pm after consultation with my
mom.
1111pm: go online and blog. realize i didn't call kim back. feel bad about it, but too tired to feel that guilty.

the amazing thing is, EVERY day is like this. from now own, stay at home soccer parents who quit their jobs to raise their kids are my personal freggin heroes. screw sports stars or actors or musicians or even writers. how can one person have this many errands to take care of each day you ask? i respond my telling you that i didn't even mention my long waiting times on the phone today with the IRS and trying to get out of jury duty. oh, and still haven't looked at a car yet to replace the one that was killed in my accident.

so how was your day?

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