Step 6: Have an Exhausting Day

So, I feel like I did SO MUCH today, but I really didn't.  Though it seemed like nothing went smoothly.

I did, however, learn several important lessons.  Here's the list:

1. When your mom asks you to sleep upstairs, you agree to do it.  Because she's your mom.  However, be advised that what's really going to happen is you're going to lay on the couch upstairs until 5 am when you finally drift off only to have to get up less than 5 hours later for a day shift at your (normally) night job.

2. If, as a result of not knowing how to just go to sleep already on a couch, you get up late, you will completely forget you promised to shave a co-worker's dog (a co-worker that lives a block from your job) and end up having to go all the way back to your house to get your clippers (about a mile and a half) then go all the way back to co-worker's house to shave said dog.

3. The couches that you ordered that were to be delivered on any one of five possible dates, will be delivered on the one day when you are not home during the day.  The delivery people will leave these couches outside your garage.

4. When you are scheduled for a nice, easy, three-hour shift that usually ends sooner than that, it will go longer.  Most likely because of a display of ghastly sunglasses.  They're camoflage.

5.  When you get home, and decide you want a spoonful of cookie dough, DO NOT READ ANYTHING ON THE PACKAGING.  Especially the part where it says "Do Not Eat Raw Cookie Dough."  And if you do, do not think to yourself, "But it's delicious.  So it's a risk I'm willing to take."  If you do, you will get a severe tickle in your throat that hits your gag reflex causing you to vomit all over yourself.  The unheeded warning will be the first thing that enters your mind, and you will first think "OHMIGOD I'M DY *hurk* ING OF SALMO *hurk* NELLA RIGHT NOW! *hurk*" Then you will think "I didn't realize salmonella was such a fast acting bacteria..."  Then, once you've calmed down, you'll think "So, lesson learned, we do not tempt fate like that anymore.  Also, this is SO going in our blog."  You will also have a sore throat for the rest of the day.

6. When you are hanging a small shelf next to your new couches (which were thankfully easy to assemble) with the help of a laser level, and you have two cats, they will help you in two ways.  First, they will make sure it takes you plenty of time to line up the level by swatting at your hand at least four times (each) even after you've expressly ordered them to shove off.  Two, when you get fed up and physically PUSH them out of the way, then will retaliate by spilling an entire box of nails all over one of your new couches.  Very helpful.  If you're trying to learn about patience and forgiveness, anyway.

7. When you decide to replace the bi-fold doors in your bathroom, just take out the old ones, track and all, and put up the new ones step by step according to the instructions.  If you try to use the old hardware, you will fail, and be mad that you cracked the wood on your new doors.

8.  If your idkbff is going to be here in less than a day and a half, you will realize that you have ten times as many things to get done as you've already gotten done, and about 1/10th as much time to do it.

In short: I have had enough of this day, but I sure wish it could be 10 hours longer.

Current Status: Multi-Hundredaire
Money Earned Today: $26.25 - taxes + $15 for dog grooming
Money Spent Today: $0! 8D