An incomplete list of things that have gone wrong this week

[moominmolly]

• Tried to go to workout and failed because I was shaky on my bike
  
• Went to office, food didn't help, so I decided to go home sick before 9 AM
  
• D pulled over by cops on the way to school with N and got a ticket
  
• Cops towed car for lapsed registration
  
• Found a tick on my body; freaked out
  
• To reinstate registration, I:
  
  • Paid parking tickets at the Somerville traffic office
    
  • Went to the RMV
    
  • Went BACK to Somerville to pay excise tax (from 2009, 2008, and 2007)
    
  • Got lost looking for the wrong address for the Cambridge parking office
    
  • Got the right address and paid Cambridge parking tickets
    
  • Went back to the RMV and got the papers
    
  • Got a ticket AT THE RMV for a lapsed inspection
• Got the car inspected
  
• Went to the doctor and got a prescription for antibiotics (I hate taking antibiotics)
  
• Went to Pat's (I hate Pat's)
  
• Got sent to the Somerville Police Department to get a claim check (I hate claim checks)
  
• Went back to Pat's to get the car (I do not hate the car!)
  
• Went home just in time to receive lovely gamer houseguests
  
• Got a threatening note about my license being revoked if I don't pay a fine I owe, which I'd forgotten about
  
• Ate wheat and had a body rebellion
  
• Got a $100 parking ticket for parking within 10' of a fire hydrant
  

And that was just Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday had similar hijinks (my car insurance is ALSO about to lapse due to inattention on my part; had to call everyone in creation to get someone to pick up N yesterday due to traffic awfulness, etc etc etc). Then I had a lovely evening with aroraborealis last night, but left all of my stuff, including housekeys and car keys, at her place.

Many things have also gone right -- spike loaned me his car and removed the tick and helped me go to Pat's, redheadedmuse was serendipitously able to pick up the kid from school and take her out for donuts, I cleaned the car out and now it looks lovely, my boss has started passing me awesome job listings, dilletante has been super gentle with me - but. But. Today is cordially invited to be better. Also less expensive.

Comments

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

oy, what a mess!

here, have some sympathy. :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks! :)

It was seriously such a self-inflicted shitstorm that it became comical.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

The people at Pat's are crooks.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I hate Pat's so much. I have to admit that they were brusque but no-nonsense and businesslike this time; I barely wanted to punch anyone at all. I still hate them. A lot.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

that SUCKS. I've been there, actually. It sucks, but at least your car was insured at the time. That's pretty important.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Three more things that have gone right: My license has not been suspended YET; my insurance has not lapsed YET; I will in fact be able to sell my second car before I have to pay the insurance company, thereby lowering my payment significantly.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. That's shitty, and frustrating, especially when all you want to do is curl up in a ball from not feeling well =( I'm hoping it gets better, and continues on a lovely upward trend.

[starphire.livejournal.com]

*appends "It was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day" to the end of each line.*

That sucks.
I think I'll go clean up that pile of debris I left in your kitchen now...

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'll move to Australia, but yes. :)

Yay rubble! hee hee! How does it look?

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Ufff.

I thought nursing for 45 minutes followed by screaming for 45 minutes (which is how I spent my Tuesday) was bad. Your list is worse.

Would you like to take pictures of a baby sometime this week to make your week better? (This week I am not so much up to going to your house, in the future I will be. But I have absolutely no schedule restrictions and am more than willing to wake baby up for picture taking.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh hmm! How's... 3 PM today?

And actually, I prefer my Day Of Eternal Self-Inflicted Red Tape Madness to the nursing-screaming contrast treatment. So perhaps we're both better off. :)

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Too much ick! Here, have a baby elephant:

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

i see your cutiepie picture and raise you a video of a baby elephant sneezing!

http://cuteoverload.com/2009/10/26/i-need-a-tissue-nice-laaaaaaady/

[veek.livejournal.com]

*love love love*

[lightfixer.livejournal.com]

damn! never trust the RMV

[jojotbird.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hopefully the rest of the week will be filled with an abundance of awesomeness to help balance out the beginning of the week!

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's quite a list! I did the expired-registration-due-to-unpaid-tickets-and-multiyear-excise-tax catch up dance recently too. It sucked (and sucked my wallet dry!). But I did not also contend with car-towing, kid pick-up crisis, or additional tickets on the same day!!

Here's to today, tomorrow, AND the next day going smoothly.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. It feels so good to hear that another grownup had to do that dance. I was pretty much feeling like I'd failed grownuphood and would have to give up my kid due to being a screwup. It's not that I'm happy you had to go through it, just that it's nice to know I'm not alone. :)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i know this must be cold comfort, but your list made me feel a little less like the biggest nitwit in the world for the # of times i've been similarly neglectful of my paperwork....so thanks.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

That is the suck. I think my crappy last week must have rolled across the continent to you, and I'm sorry!

Hope the weekend is better for both of us :)

[ceo]

Gaah. That would be an extra-crispy bucket of suck with a side of suck sauce, yes indeed. At least you've got a good stock of karma paid up, right? :-)

[spike.livejournal.com]

That was a Very Bad Day. Here's to regressing to the mean, and to having friends and loved ones to keep you company along the way.

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

tomorrow will definitely be better. *hearts*

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, Molly, that *sucks*. That's enough cranky-making shit to be spread out over several months, much less a couple of days. Here, to help make it up to you, I give you video of a totally adorable sleeping newborn:

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

Cute baby, but Dad needs a tripod.

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

I also have had similar car-related paperwork dances. I don't think ever quite as much of a perfect storm as this, but each of the elements, sometimes several at a time, yeah.

This is the main reason I feel good about not having got a car in England -- knowing how much worse banking bureaucracy is there than here, it's worth a lot of other inconveniences to me not to have run afoul of their motor vehicle bureaucracy. (Similarly, because we can get away with irregular car usage right now, I am very glad to have Zipcar take care of car maintenance, insurance, registration, and excise.)

Dear Universe: Molly is owed some very good days.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, the comments on this entry have totally helped me through my no good, very bad day. I no longer long for Australia. ;)

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Wow. That really is a bad day.

I don't know how to feel about saying this, but add me to the list of people who appreciate you posting this. You and David are some of the most outwardly-together-appearing people I know, so it's different from most other people posting about their bad days.

I hate paperwork and navigating bureaucracy, and I get behind on stuff all the time. I just don't usually get forced to deal with everything bad happening all at once in the span of a few hours!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

It was in fact my secret theory that this kind of stuff happens to people all the time, but nobody posts about it because (a) it can feel bad to post bad stuff and (b) they all feel as shameful and secretive and grumpy as I do about it.

I actually do stuff like this constantly. I'd guess that something in my life feels like it's falling apart about a third of the time, though at least it has the good grace to rotate. The only reason I have not failed life entirely is that ceelove helps keep me in line.

[whynotkay.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's a single moment when _something_ or another isn't falling apart, paperwork-wise (and otherwise as well)... and I consider myself a highly organized and anal person about these things. Just spent hours and hours tracking down medical records from eight years ago that I suddenly needed. I didn't even remember the name of the facility that had the records when I started.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

If misery loves company, I offer you my Tuesday. Just as sucky, not as expensive. Included high points like "at least she didn't throw up on me quite as much this time" and "I didn't know 15 month olds could open sealed jam jars."

[artricia.livejournal.com]

And you did not once in that entry take the lord's (any lord's) name in vain.

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

Holy christ, hon!

I have had weeks like that. It's almost over and it will get better :)

[liminal-spaces.livejournal.com]

Wow...major suckitude. Have a hug and a bucket of sympathy, and I'm glad it's settling down and looking a little better.