This morning, my alarm went off shortly after 7. I hit the snooze button. It went off again. I hit the off button and prepared to get out of bed. Catch: PREPARING to get out of bed is not the same as actually GETTING out of bed.
I woke up somewhere around 9:30 after that. Did I mention that I start work at 9? Crap.
So, I haul myself out of bed, head downstairs to shower, and … what? Oh fuck no, not again. Sure enough… no hot water. I report this new development back to Nick, who spends the next 15 minutes head first in the closet with the water heater (since he hadn’t gotten around to getting dressed yet, I had a rather lovely view during all of this. I took it upon myself to guard him so the dog didn’t come along with an inopportune goose.)
The clothes eventually go on, and the dog & I go out for her morning pee. (Unsurprisingly, she barked at the Christmas decorations. Long December indeed.) We head back to the side door to go inside, and … hmm, odd. The lock isn’t usually turned sideways like that. Still, I stick my key in and … wait a sec, it also looks kind of damaged…
Turning the key works, but it won’t turn far enough to unlatch. Hmm. I look closer, and yep, someone definitely tried to break in. It opened well enough from the inside, but evidently the lock mechanism itself is pretty buggered. I go to take my key out, and …
Oh great.
Took me five goddamned minutes of jiggling the stupid key to retrieve it. Argh. Luckily, Justice just sat there and waited the whole time. She’s often sketchy, but when she needs to be she’s a good girl.
We went around to the front door, got inside there, and finally got to leave for work. To reward myself for the annoying morning I’d already had, I took the bus all the way into town with Nick, and skytrained back to my office. This actually only adds an extra 10 minutes or so to my commute, and gives me some good “un-aggravate” time with Nick. It’s appreciated.
But! Now I’ve arrived at work and shockingly, since I was 2 hours late, I have a ton of stuff to do. So, I’ll go do it. I still think I should have stayed in bed, though…