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August 13, 2007
One Thing After Another
The first thing you should know, dear reader, is that I was up until 4 a.m. last night working on the Big Idea. It was partly a result of the mounting workload I've accumulated, and partly because I took a long nap that afternoon that made it impossible to go to sleep at a normal time. Regardless of the reason, however, the end result was a very grumpy Ms. Write Again Soon at her 9 a.m. meeting this morning.
Adding to my grumpiness is that after a weekend of mulling over a decision to purchase a brand spanking new condo in Silver Spring, I finally decided to go for it--only to discover that someone had put down a reservation on it yesterday. Bah--back to square one.
But even that cannot compare to the distress and panic that I'm feeling at the moment. You see, it appears I have misplaced...oh...$5,000 in Big Idea checks. I know I had them somewhere--I distinctly remember tallying them up in my head, but I can't for the life of me figure out where I might have placed them. And I'm not exactly scatterbrained when it comes to things like this--so that fact that searches of three purses, the trashcan, the recycle bin, and my car have turned up nothing leads me to believe that they could only have been taken by alien miscreants, determined to wreak havoc on our civilization via some sort of complex check-stealing scheme.
Part of my trouble is that trying the "last place I saw them" trick isn't working. I have two checks ready and waiting on my desk, and they keep getting mixed up in my head with the missing two checks. I've basically ransacked my room, giving me nostalgia for the Great Curling Iron Disappearance of 2000--which was resolved after 3 days of non-stop searching (it was in the linen closet, which had been searched approximately 37 times before finally yielding its prize).
Sigh--I think it's going to be a long week.
Update! If you guessed "the checks are mixed in with you mom's refinancing-the-old-house papers", you were right! Let us all now breathe a sigh of relief and immediately go to the bank to cash those babies in. And if there is a quick stop at the salon next door for an eyebrow waxing, so be it.
Update #2! I just bought a condo! It's lovely!! And I feel compelled to end every sentence with exclamation points!!! And now I'm going to cook dinner!!!!
Comments
Nothing beats the old "And then I found $5000 in my pocket!" story.
Posted by: Elizabeth at August 13, 2007 04:26 PM
Where in SS is this new abode? I trust it is convenient to a golf course?
Posted by: CT at August 14, 2007 03:40 PM
Any photos of your new home? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Posted by: kevin at August 16, 2007 07:08 AM
