I guess the groundhog knows what he’s doing cuz today was unusually mild. I’ve already downgraded my coat to the light fall/spring jacket and tomorrow is supposed to reach low 70s! Mid-Feb! I’ll be getting my nails did and my face did tomorrow. I’ll report back on how it goes. I’ve never had a MAC makeover and this will be the second manicure in my entire life! I should bring a camera, it’s so momentous.

I’m giving up coffee. I should say, actually, I have given up coffee. It’s been 2 months maybe? I can’t recall when I stopped having it but I think I’m shooting for going at least a year. Of all seasons, winter probably wasn’t the best time to start but what can I say? I’m vain. Indeed, I have started whitening the teeth. I don’t know how diligent I will be at doing it but at least I’ve stopped drinking things that will stain them. I’ll miss red wine. My fave – I may have that on occasion. I’ll miss the tea too. I don’t miss the caffeine, surprisingly. I don’t miss the heartburn, which was what initiated all of this. Well that, and I bought this awful awful bag of Dunkin Donuts coffee which made me switch to tea and then to hot water. But I do miss the aroma.

It’s not like I bounce checks all the time. I’m pretty diligent about making sure I can pay my monthly bills. But last week, I screwed up and bounced a check. An online check. So here’s what happened and here’s how I rectified the whole situation:

My credit card bill was due for $100 and being the diligent good debtor that I am, I went online and made a request for a payment on the credit card company’s website, totally forgetting that I already had that automatically set up to pay every month. So last week, the credit card company tried to pull $100 twice. I had only enough money in my bank account to cover $100 so the second attempt to pull the other $100 resulted in Insufficient Funds! Not only did my bank bilk me a $25 bounced check fee, but my credit card company charged me the fee too. That’s fifty smackers! I’ll admit, it was totally my fault for being a bimbo about the whole thing. It’s not like I had recently set up the monthly auto-pay on my credit card. It’s been doing that for months if not a year at least. I don’t know why I forgot. Still, $50!? So I emailed my bank and the credit card company asking them to give me back my $25. I totally admitted to being a dumbass and they kindly refunded the monies.

Moral of the story, be careful if you use automatic payments. Keep track of what’s what. And if you ever screw up like I did, just ask and they’ll forgive you.

Me: I’m suffering from daily-grind blues. Bored, no energy, unmotivated. Is it waking up in the dark every morning again? Not having enough time off? 10 hour days compounded with a 2 hour commute? Stupid bosses? Stupid coworkers?

Sis: I know just what you mean. I have been feeling the same way lately. I don’t know why…

Me: We are spiritually connected. I’ve sensed this similarity in energies between us before. I think we have a connection similar to twins.

Sis: I think now is the time (since you are feeling extra sisterly) to tell you that I have broken my sunglasses. On the bright side, I didn’t lose them.

This time, it’s not like I actively quit coffee so much as July-August isn’t exactly a time for hot beverages. Yesterday, we had an all-day meeting at work. I didn’t want to doze off and someone was kind enough to bring a gigantic supply of Starbucks so I sipped a small cup. Then another. Then another. By the time my heart was racing it was too late. And it’s 3AM and I am still wide awake!

Every time I have to rely on myself to get up and go to work, I invariably oversleep and show up hours late to work.  It’s embarrassing and annoying.  Previous times, I’ve set my cell phone alarm.  Unfortunately, I must’ve done something to the setting where it will only beep once.  That’s it!  That’s the entire alarm.  One teensy wittle beep.  I can sleep through a fire alarm so the beep doesn’t even register.  I oversleep.  So yesterday night, I made a point of figuring out how to set the alarm clock and even setting two separate times so if one doesn’t work for whatever reason, or I don’t hear it, the second one will surely rouse me.  Yeah, this morning, I got to work close to 10AM.  I don’t know what went wrong.  Anyway, I need to learn how to be self-sufficient enough to wake up and go to work.  This is yet another minus on living alone.