General Whining & Other Random Thoughts

• O.K. So I took the last Zyrtec I’m allowed to take before next Thursday. I have an appointment with an allergist next Thursday morning and the instructions say no antihistimines for the 7 days prior. I just started feeling like I wasn’t drowning in snot and now I’ve got to suffer for a week with no hope of relief. *sigh*
• The parking lot people are coming again tomorrow. Apparently rain kept them from sealing the lot and painting the lines last week. My neighbor claims they did seal the lot, but the letter from the apartment complex conflicts with his testimony. So, I dont’ know. I’m hoping whatever they do tomorrow while I’m at work will not make my allergic condition worse.
• Last night I realized that the Yarmouth Clam Festival is this weekend. I am now worried that Amazon.com won’t be able to deliver my Harry Potter book on Saturday since the festival is half a mile from my apartment. On top of that, I can’t go to the festival until the book is delivered because Amazon.com has some silly rule about being present and signing for it.
• If I do go to the festival, I won’t be able to stay long anyway since it’s outside and outside has not been kind to me this year. On a related note, my doctor’s nurse tried to explain to me why I wasn’t affected last year after I moved here but am suffering from some allergy this year. Apparently you have to be exposed more than once to initially trigger an allergy. Or something like that.
• The Dyson Animal I ordered two weekends ago still hasn’t shipped. I need to vacuum badly. Really, it’s not pretty and my great-gramma’s vacuum is too broken to do any real work.
• My co-worker, who’s help I need with a project, went out for an hour and a half lunch and has been shooting the breeze in his cubicle with another co-worker for an hour. It’s like two old guys sitting on some small town general store porch chit-chatting like there’s nothing going else on in the world and the other co-worker has started using a cane that he keeps tapping on the floor every 20 or 30 seconds. It’s distracting and annoying and pissing me off. Plus, I know they’ve had this same exact conversation before because I’ve heard it before, but if I go ask for his help while he’s talking to someone, it’ll result in the moody drama queen; I’d rather wait and see if I can get the helpful personality.
• Why was Needy peeing on my dirty laundry this morning?

Tags: discombobulated, Yarmouth Clam Festival, Harry Potter

Disappointed In The American Crowd

Yesterday at the Clam Festival, I stopped to watch the Firemen’s Muster. At the beginning they marched out the American Flag and played the national anthem. I was really disappointed, that in a country that slings around the words “patriot” and “patriotism” like they are compliments, privilleges and duty, very few people removed their hats and just as few people placed their hands over their hearts. In fact, some people who were chattering raised their voices so their mundane conversations could be heard over the music.

Tags: Yarmouth Clam Festival, patriotism