Boy, was I cranky yesterday!

Lots of grumbling and unhappiness. It was a very stressful day, with people doing and saying stupid stuff. I need my vacation so badly. Yesterday was unusually bad, but even so, I should have been calmer....

...except for the "no downtime this year" thing I have going on. Lots to get done today, but at the end of it, I get a week off; that's good, at least.

Maybe I'll try to get another vacation slot this fall...I've got two weeks blocked out in December, but I'd like a long weekend sooner.

I hopefully leave for vacation in about 1 hour, 15 minutes.

And about a half hour ago, I lost a filling. Do I have to say how thrilling this is?

No, didn't think so. I think I'll find a new dentist. She's replaced this filling twice. I'm tired of losing it. I hope I don't end up losing the tooth over it all (it's on the gum line and, after this many times out, it's pretty deep).

STUPID.

I was just dialing my own number to test that my vacation message was saved when my phone rang on the second line - so I quickly hung up to take the call.

Do I have to mention how stupid I feel? (On the plus side, now that I have called back, the message is good....)

Tomorrow will be the first real vacation day.

I mean, with the knowledge that it all stretches out before me. Have to decide what all I want to do. Hanging out here - and keeping up with abuse, at least thru Tuesday - is definitely on the list.

But so are other things. I might drive to the beach; I might not. I will go to my favored used clothes store (but Monday, please, when it might be less busy than a Saturday) - I need more pants. I might even try the mall, but the selection last time I was in? Stank.

I may or may not go to the Japanese Gardens, I went there already once this week. I probably will go to some other park, someplace new to me maybe.

Might go up to Saturday Market. Not so sure, though. I'm not really in a shopping mood, and goodness knows it's crowded.

Will probably spend some of the time, especially the weekend time, doing housework (and yardwork) that badly needs to be done.

And I'll spend some of it getting the stupid tooth taken care of, I suppose. And I ought to get my car's oil changed. Hopefully I'll get to spend some time roleplaying, depends on my mood meshing with a character - I'm finding most of my characters harder to play and less interesting lately. It happens at times, and I've found nothing can permanently destroy the joy in a character so much as forcing them when it's not there.

I just finished reading a lovely book. Which ends. With a paragraph. Of someone thinking about what they were told by someone with true sight.

It's a Destiny...for what had been a very sympathetic, very minor character. A soft one, who will need to grow strong though not necessarily hard. And who seems not at all poised to take up that Destiny, as there are family who seem more in line for it, and are also sympathetic (and major, thus far) characters.

And it probably won't happen for books and books yet, if we even get to see it in print. Mean author!

Which means I must see if there's more out in the series yet, of course. Love the mean author. Worship the mean author. Tie the mean author in your basement and make her write faste.... Uh, I didn't say that, okay? :)