The Legion, otherwise known as Keeping the voices at bay....

13:56

Ok...so let me just start out by saying how much I hate waking up late. Especially two hours late. I was really hoping to be up and out of the house at least an hour ago. I wanted to be able to get to the bank before the tellers closed at 2pm. Looks like I won't seeing as I've been awake all of 15 minutes and I still need to shower, get dressed and have my coffee.

But you know what's really making me so cranky this morning that the first thing I did was turn the laptop on to bitch about it? I hate having so many people living here. Our house is not big. It's quite small actually and having 4 people living here is just not working. In reality, with my father here the place only should have two people in it. My father is a pack rat. And his office is a disaster area. Looks like something exploded in there. And try as Junior and I do, it's next to impossible to keep this house clean for more than a day or two. But with an extra person here it's impossible.

The only reason our living situation works as well as it does is because there are certain rules that we follow. Don't leave your bags, shoes and coats out in the open scattered throughout the living room. People trip over them, they hide important papers, they just generally get in the way. Don't put dirty dishes in the sink, this makes whoever is making coffee cranky cause they then have to move them out of the way to fill the pot. Don't leave your toiletries all over the bathroom sink, they will get knocked over and possibly broken. Don't stay in the living room all night while Junior is trying to sleep. Makes him extremely cranky.

Why is all this so hard to understand? I really don't get it. It wouldn't be so bad if the house was bigger or there was less stuff in it. But that's not the case. Usually I'm pretty easy to get along with, but little things can annoy me to the breaking point. If I didn't have this diary to vent in I would probably have killed someone these last few days. I can see the headline now: Woman slaughters three family members before being gunned down by police. Naw...I don't think I'd ever go to that extreme. Maybe: Woman keeps three family members chained in basement. A little more like it. Ha, tempting thoughts.

So now that I've gotten that out of my system I feel better. Course now I have this great idea running around in my head. Think I'll expand on that later and post it when I get back from town. Which is another reason I'm cranky. (yup...I'm a raving bitch today) I hate going into town this late. The malls and grocery stores will be crowded, and I hate crowds of people. The bank is closed so I'll have to use the ABM (which is the canadian version of an ATM).

{5 minutes later}
In other news, I'm not such a raving bitch after all. I find that despite the crankiness and all around bad moodiness that I woke with, I'm actually in a good mood. Go figure. I guess it's a good thing I can find humor in so many things. Like my neighbor's constant struggle to keep her dog from running loose all the time and terrorising the neighborhood in search of someone to scratch his ears. And the fact that the band office sent a grater down my street this morning in a vain attempt to make the road somewhat more drivable. Talk about putting a bandaid on a gaping wound. The fact that I'm about to go into town, on probably the busiest day since easter weekend, GST checks came out today. The idea running around in my head is taking a quite funny turn.

So now that my coffee is almost gone and my venting is over I am finally ready to get showered and dressed. Now if only I can find a way to keep from going insane over the next few hours until I can get back to the laptop and sanity.