living: with and without things

these are the things i could live without today:

i got my oil changed today and i didnt know some technical detail about my car that they asked me about and then the guy laughed at me. and then they gave me the wrong oil so i had to pay more. so i was irritated and then after i got out of the parking lot i discovered that they didnt even give me a sticker to tell when i should get the oil changed again. and then i went back and told those guys that i needed a sticker please otherwise i would never get my oil changed and since i got charged too much i think i deserve a sticker dont you? and they said they were out and then i just looked at them for a couple of minutes and then they found me a sticker speedy-quick.
i hate going shopping for this reason: i am the wrong size. i wish i was smaller. or bigger. or something. because i am the size 'middle and a half.' and if you know anything, you will realize that companies do not make this size. i kid you not, in every store i am right in between a medium and large. medium is a pinch too small and large is a bit too big. [except department stores, who want to make you feel fat, they really do, so there its like between like an xxl and an xxxl because they just hate you] but to make it worse: sometimes, smalls can fit. or sometimes mediums fit at one store and the next time you are at that store, a medium wont fit. it is absolutely illogical and it makes shopping a trying experience sometimes.
at this point in time, i am told that i need to be 95% packed. let me tell you: i have one box completely finished. o dear. but--its a very nicely done box. very nice, indeed. i do have several others started, though. both my mother and my grandmother fold sheets infinitely better than i do, and i dont know why. when i can fold sheets like them, then i will have arrived. they both have tried to teach me, but to no avail. i think i can count on my hands the worst times in my life, and im pretty sure they all happened when i was supposed to be packing something for something. and i am positively running around in circles. o snap.

these things i can not live without today:

° ibprofun. i dont know how to spell this, but i like it. and if it really is spelled 'fun' at the end, i dont know why. but i like this stuff anyway.
° my daddy bought me my favorite cereal because i needed it. and i ate it and i was really as happy as i could manage to be [under the [packing] circumstances].
° breathing.
° the oldies station. especially the beatles.
° i really wanted some chocolate chip cookies after i ate my cereal. only problem is that i dont have any yet--they will come tomorrow--but i contented myself with rainbow cookies and cold milk, which is almost just as good.
° not getting my hair cut when im distressed. cause i think i am.
° my packed box. i like to look at it. i am a good packer.
° that nifty little head spinny trick that they teach you in ballet, cause otherwise i would be way more dizzy after running in circles so much.
° moments of laughing-very-hard-ness about various things. and critiquing how everyone sings the national anthem. and their christmas pagents. and those nuns on sister act--especially that cheerful one. no, no. im pretty sure you mean the cheerful nun on sister act.
o yeah
p.s. i met a monk once.

Posted 8/28/2004 11:52 PM