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Final Day of Leisure …
Final Day of Leisure …
Today marked the end of a long period of unemployment for me. My last day of leisure. No more Martha Stewart and her fucking “eggs from my garden” or “be sure to use only homemade Mayonnaise created with only the finest ingredients from your garden”. Um, yeah right.
Anyhow, back to my last day of leisure. Here’s what was on my intinerary for today.
Get a haircut, get wooden hangers, get flourescent bulbs to replace incandescents, get motion sensor for closet, goto laundromat for quarters.
Here’s how things went:
– Get haircut. Figures the day I have to get a haircut, there is some kind of AIDS Bike-a-thon going on. I went to the haircut place and was told that it would be an hour and a half wait. Great. I put my name in and attempted to get into the bank. Of course, MY bank is headquarters for the stupid AIDS Bike-a-thon. [By the way, I harbor no ill feelings for AIDS victims and participate in AIDS walk every year, so just stop writing that nasty ass email to me, right this second.] The reason I’m calling it “the stupid AIDS bike-a-thon” is because I had to dodge 80 million bikes laying the hell all over the place just to get to the ATM machine. Then trying to get back to the haircut place, there is a freeway of bikes coming right at me. Thank god for the bushes. Anyhow, I finally got my haircut and got the hell away from that mess.
– Get wooden hangers. I have this obsession with wooden hangers. The only thing I can think of is that a few years ago my grandmother gave me all my grandfathers old wooden hangers and from that point on, it’s all I’ll use. There isn’t a wire hanger in my apartment to be found. This just smells of a movie about Joan Crawford and her wire hanger thing. So, I headed across the bay to IKEA, where they are selling an 8-pack of wooden hangers for $5. So, I bought four packs for under $20. Sounds like a deal to me, since Target sells one wooden hanger for $7.
– Get flourescent bulbs to replace the regular ones. While at IKEA, I found a great deal on those flourescents I’d been looking for. Says you can replace a 60W regular bulb with a 60W flourescent and save yourself 45W per bulb on your energy bill. The flourescents only use 15W of energy, which is ALL good, since California is in a power crisis now. Argh. Anything to get my bill down.
– Get motion detector for closet. My roommate room, which I’ll be moving into in a week, because its twice as large as mine, has a walk in closet with a light in it. The problem is that in order to turn the light on, you have to pull this rotting little piece of string way the hell up on the ceiling. So, since I’m one hell of a lazy ass, I bought a motion sensor that will turn the light on automatically when you open the closet door. Genius. I’m brilliant.
– Goto laundromat for quarters. Okay, this probably sounds strange, but I ran out of quarters to do laundry, so I was going to go to the laundromat and use their quarter machine to get some, so I could bring them home and do laundry at my apartment. Yeah, I know … strange. I just didnt want to spend an hour sitting in a laundromat watching my clothes wash. I ended up not doing it, because I ran out of time.
Anyhow, that’s how I spent my last day of leisure …
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