Further Proof I Am Not A Morning Person

I think I’m not getting enough sleep. Before arriving at my office at 8:00 a.m. various days this week, I:

  • Woke up late. Twice.
  • Struggled to put a band-aid on my back. (I had a mole removed last week and it won’t stop bleeding.) Do you know how hard it is to strategically place a damn band-aid on your own back?
  • Left my note cards (for birthday thank-you notes) and stuff to mail on my kitchen table. Three times.
  • Forgot to put earrings in. Twice.
  • Forgot to put a necklace on.
  • Grabbed the shoe with the not-broken heel to take to the shoe repair guy.
  • Spilled Diet Coke all over the front of my beige pants in the car.
  • In an attempt to blot the soda and save my beige pants from dark spots, spilled a bottle of water all over the seat and my leg.
  • Tripped, over my own two feet, in front of a cute guy in the parking garage.
  • Brought yogurt (but no spoon) and a salad (but no fork) to work. Twice.
  • Left my card key in my car. Twice.

It’s almost the weekend. It’s almost the weekend. It’s almost the weekend.

10 Comments »

Randi

August 2nd, 2006 | 9:24 am

I got Two Flat Tires yesterday!! That’s right: TWO!! That’s further proof that I am Not An Early Evening/Afternoon Person!! (Unless it is Happy Hour, of course.)

annabel lee

August 2nd, 2006 | 9:35 am

Hang in there, hon! Just a couple more days. But look at it this way: you have an excuse to go shopping for dark pants that won’t show Diet Coke spots, and for shoes with matching unbroken heels.

Tamara

August 2nd, 2006 | 10:05 am

Ugh Hil…hang in there. I know it’s been an off week for me too. I blame global warming. :)

I wish you a better week next week, and a phenomenal weekend to start it off :)

Esther

August 2nd, 2006 | 10:22 am

Uh oh. This sounds very serious indeed. Keep this up for the next twenty years or so, and you could become…me. Everybody’s working for the weekend. Could be worse. Could be a fast day tomorrow. Oh wait…

Lori

August 2nd, 2006 | 1:10 pm

Your Diet Coke situation is exactly why I quit drinking coffee and switched to water two years ago–my dry cleaning bill was getting out of hand.

Good luck getting it together. I’m sure I’ll be in the same situation once the school year starts; I am so not a 5:30 am person.

Nanette

August 2nd, 2006 | 2:54 pm

Sending some good morning karma your way!

Ron

August 2nd, 2006 | 5:49 pm

I would definitely recommend kicking the morning caffeine habit. The dependency is no good for you.

Just how long is your commute, anyway? I get to work at 7 AM, so my heart bleeds for you, in a way. ;) Keep a stash of plastic spoons and forks in your desk.

Do some stretching exercises before you go to sleep at night; that will help.

Oh, and I wanted to start this organization called “Americans FOR Global Warming.” LOL

H

August 2nd, 2006 | 5:55 pm

Ron–my morning commute, while only 5 miles, takes about 30 minutes door to door. And I can’t give up my Diet Coke. I just can’t. I go without it every year on Yom Kippur and wow, is that difficult!

Barbara

August 2nd, 2006 | 8:39 pm

You sound like Lucy and Ethel! Are you sure you didn’t get bowling ball stuck on your finger at some point? Which you had to hide from your boss?

Ron

August 3rd, 2006 | 12:25 pm

Ah, the LA traffic. My commute is something like 25 miles, which takes about 30-40 minutes at 6:20 AM. Well, I have a carpool, which allows me into the carpool (or HOV, as they call them here) lanes.

Oh, about Yom Kippur: Give up the Diet Coke a day or two before. That way you don’t have all the withdrawal symptoms while you are fasting.

Either that or switch to tea. Then make it progressively weaker until you get off the caffeine addiction.

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