The Daily Snoop

• 5:45-6:05 ~ Hit snooze.
• 6:06-6:19 ~ Get ready to power walk/run Grand Ave., Downtown, Los Angeles.
• 6:20 ~ Let White out and leave.
• 6:22 ~ While crossing street, drop keys, and hold up four lanes of traffic.
• 6:23 ~ Realize that my iPod Touch is shuffling songs while I walk. I try to stop it.
• 6:23 ~ Realize I am at 20% battery and turn unit off. Realize that the music keeps going. Leave it.
• 6:24 ~ Realize that shuffling of songs has stopped. Realize I don’t know how to turn off my iPod Touch.
• 6:25 ~ Realize that I don’t know how to use my iPod Touch.
• 6:26-6:39 ~ Power walk to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
• 6:40 ~ Feel very faint and sick. Realize I didn’t eat enough last night. Shouldn’t have done this while so hungry.
• 6:41-6:58 ~ Force my legs to move so I can get home. Try not to black out.
• 7:00 ~ At home – Reset Date/Time on my iPod Touch. I have no idea how it got offset.
• 7:01-7:25 ~ Eat banana, avocado, garlic herb pita chips, soy milk and jasmine green tea while watching clips of TODAY on the laptop. Fighting my feelings of nausea.
• 7:26-7:40 ~ Sea Salt Scrub my entire body in a nice hot shower.
• 7:41 ~ Tweet, “Just sea salt scrubbed my whole body! It felt wonderful! And now I am extremely soft!”
• 7:42-8:02 ~ Lotion, make-up and hair.
• 8:03-8:05 ~ Scrub some previously unnoticed mold off White’s water cup.
• 8:06-8:12 ~ Feed the birds.
• 8:13-8:25 ~ Get dressed.
• 8:26-8:30 ~ Pack up my lunch bag.
• 8:31-8:34 ~ Put White away and close down apartment so I can leave.
• 8:35 ~ Leave for work.

Funny thing happened while getting ready for work this morning. M lost his avocado. We spent 20 minutes looking for it. I was late to work.

What happened leading up to that point? (more…)

April 15th was not only tax day, and not only the deadline for my yearly review at work. It was also the day that we would lose TV at the apartment forever. I had been dreading April 15th for over three months. (Well it was first April Ist, but then we still had TV so I thought it was a big April Fools Joke, but I was wrong. Deadline changed to April 15th. Boo-hoo!) We got word that Promenade Towers was cutting the free Direct TV they had been providing, and I was devastated. (more…)