Grump.

[truepenny]

I am grumpy today. Because:

1. As of three days ago, I'm not dripping blood from an unmentionable orifice any longer, but I am continuing to have sporadic cramps. (Not, I hasten to add, particularly BAD cramps, although we're definitely past ow and into Ow!.) Considering that the cramps are the REASON I'm putting myself through this varied and exciting hell, I find the irony less than amusing.

2. Laundry. It had to be done before the laundry shoggoth got ambitious and ate a cat, but nobody can make me be gracious about it. On the plus side, I have yet again not killed myself going down the basement stairs with a full laundry basket.

3. I am one of those incredibly annoying people who get all pedantic and fussy about how the decade doesn't end with 2009. It ends with 2010. I realize that I'm being annoying, pedantic, and irredeemably fussy--but that only adds to my grumpiness.

(GUILDENSTERN: Let it go.
ROSENCRANTZ: But it's wrong!
GUILDENSTERN: I know. Believe me. Let. It. Go.
ROSENCRANTZ: But--!
[Guildenstern commences to beat Rosencrantz about the head and ears with a pillow]
ROSENCRANTZ: [muffled but defiant] It's still wrong!)

4. The goblin book is stuck. Yes, with a month to deadline. I'm fairly confident I'll get unstuck quickly, but that doesn't, unfortunately, do much for the part wherein I am stuck and I hate it.

5. The credit card statement came today. 'Nuff said.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

2. My method (which drives the spouse crazy, but he did not grow up in a house with the laundry down a flight of treacherous and sneakily evil stairs and I did) is to fling the laundry down the stairs to the bottom and then descend at some point with the *empty* basket, transfer the laundry to the basket, carry it to the washing machine, and then transfer it to the washing machine. Once it has proceeded through the washing machine and the dryer, then it goes back into the basket.

I am much better at going *upstairs* with a full basket than I am at going *downstairs*.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I was just about to come and say that, except I have a very large zippered canvas bag, so when I fling said laundry it all stays together and I don't have to go and retrieve far-flung socks from odd places...