Day #22 and holding strong

Today is #22 of the August Blogger Challenge, and I haven't missed a day yet. I have however, been drinking since 2pm today--a joint birthday party for me and a friend whose birthday is tomorrow. When people are out for drinks or dinner in a large group why can't they seem to figure out how much they owe? Even when gratuity is automatically added and everyone swears they tipped or overtipped appropriately, we still come out way under and someone gets screwed. I guess it's just the nature of the beast. Still, why is 20% so hard to figure out?

Well, the week of birthday activities is now officially over. I'm tired and I have to be up at 5am to walk a 5K for the Livestrong Challenge. Hope we don't get soaked. If so, maybe the scene will provide for some entertaining wet t-shirt-like-photos and my post #23 will be a little less lame.

My Glamorous Single Life

I was dining on leftover take out and wanted something refreshing to drink. My only two options were a can of V8 that had been in my fridge for several months or tap water. Went with the V8, which tasted like watered down spaghetti sauce coating my throat. Mmmm. And then I congratulated myself for living the glamorous single life.

There are a lot of great things about being single, but not having company to share the chores, the shopping, and the drudgery is not one of them. I don't have a car and live in the suburbs so grocery shopping is an ordeal. With a backpack in tow, I can only buy what I can carry, which is about two or three bags worth of food.

And if I'm too tired to cook or shop, then the cooking and shopping doesn't get done. I hear I could get groceries delivered. I'll have to see if that works.

Well, I'm going to get back to this V8, which is so thick I can chew it. Tasty.

Big Day Leads to Blogger Fail

In under the wire...just before midnight:

The fates are conspiring me to fail on day one of the blogger challenge. Big news day. I was glued to Twitter feed all day with Obama's nomination for Supreme Court. And then the Proposition 8 ruling. I Twittered and frittered my afternoon away.

And then I went to my volunteer job in the ER. I was planning on leaving but I forgot that the day after a holiday is insane in an ER. People don't get checked out until the long weekend and the bbq's are over. So I stayed late.

And now I am home.

And hammering out this blog post before midnight.

I had better ideas than this simpering post. Really. Check me out tomorrow. I have a great idea.

oxox

P.C.