Today was one of those days. I have them occasionally. The days where no matter what you do or think, eventually you are just going to crash for a few hours. I can't pinpoint where it started but by 1pm everything felt like I was just moving through molasses. Every step took an effort.
Nothing really helped. It was just one foot in front of the other.
So after dropping off the MIL and a long Costco trip (its amazing what they have on the 26th - no vestiges of Christmas, just back to the usual bulk crap they have), we came home and I crashed. For 4 hours. To be woken up to the news that the MIL had disappeared. Sure she had left on the right plane. Everyone knew that. But she wasn't at the other end. People were freaking. No one knew where she was. Panic mode (and that was what I had spent the last few hours escaping from). She did turn up in the end. The airline had marked the plane as "landed". That just meant it was on the ground. It didn't mean something useful like "this plane is at a gate and people can get off and go into the terminal". No, that would be too obvious. It meant "this plane isn't flying. Its at the airport but we aren't going to tell you where it is or when you might be so lucky as to be able to get off the plane and go home". That happened 2 hours later. Is it any wonder then that these big American companies are struggling. Simple mantra really "Say what you mean and mean what you say".
Other than that Boxing Day was quite a non event. No servants to give tips too. Even the mail man didn't rattle his cup through the gate hoping for a few dollars. And the milk man, butcher and baker were nowhere to be seen.
Come to think of it,even the paper person didn't give us a card this year. Normally they include an envelope (pre-stamped) in the hope of a tip (sorry - gratuity). I guess they don't trust the post either. Just have to add it onto the next bill I suppose. Which gets me started on another thing. The paper is 25c/day, $1.25 on the weekend. So how is the bill, for 6 weeks, $13. That's a $22.50 value for $13.00. Of which $14.00 is delivery fee. So by my reckoning that's $23.50 off. Or put another way, the Murky News is paying me a $1 to read it for 6 weeks.
Credit crunch my ass. American industry as just forgotten how to make money and if you can't make money you will never stay in business (ask on of my former employers!).
Ah well, by the time that drugs kicked in things were moving at a better pace. Just in time to go to bed and get some real sleep *yawn*
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