Dear Thursday, please do better next time. Thanks, Me.

Here's how my Thursday started:

  • About 5 minutes before I was ready to walk out the door, one of my contacts decided to lodge itself in the far reaches of my eye. After much coaxing and some cursing, and the addition of some eye drops, it returned to its proper place. My eye was bright red at that point so I opted to wear my glasses today.
  • As I walked out the door, one of the buttons on my new winter coat popped off. The one that goes across my chest. So I was left with a button around my neck, and two around the middle, creating a nice gap in an obvious spot.
  • The train ahead of mine malfunctioned, offloaded, and caused a 15 minutes standstill, followed by single-tracking. It took twice as long to get to work as it should have.
The bright spot in my morning? The barista at Firehook put a coffee clutch with a smiley face on it on my latte. The kindness of a stranger brought some redemption to an otherwise hideous start to my day.

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Alison said…
Sorry your day started off a little crummy ~ I'm glad you're blogging again though! Love ya!
January 28, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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