I blame all of this on the tile guys. Surely without them, my house would be perfectly organized.

The tile guys weren't working for a company called something like Tino's Polar Bears, Inc., were they?

I'm going to watch Obama's newscast on MSNBC, even though I didn't watch any of the others. The stupidity is eating my brain and I'm wishing that someone (like the President) could just say "ok, I'm invoking the 14th Amendment because you all are acting like children and we're going to raise the debt ceiling and then we're going to figure the rest of this out. Taking your bat and your ball away from you, kids," so that I can go back to thinking about stuff that doesn't involve this mess.

I may be procrastinating by Congressional proxy.

Just looked at the staff locator spreadsheet and I am the only person here today in my six-person department. Six-hour lunch!

How do I know when Hubby really feels like shit? He lets me help him. It's kind of a universal red alert to all our friends when he asks for/accepts help.

The day that my dad called 911 to go to the hospital (by now, I think this happened at least 6 or 7 years ago), I really thought he was going to die, because before that, he had driven himself to the hospital -- with chest pains -- multiple times.

I'm not advocating driving oneself to the hospital with chest pains; however, since it was his MO, the fact that he felt poorly enough to call 911 made me think that it was The Big One.

So, I feel you. Big time.

OMFG I'm hating United Airlines so much right now.

Got up at 4:30am to drag Emmett out of bed and get him to the airport for a 7am flight to NYC.

Got there at 5:30, waited in line, waited, no agents, going slow...and we didn't make it to a ticket agent until 6:45am who promptly laughed at my face and told me that we wouldn't make the flight.

All the people around us in the line missed their flights as well.

We're rebooked at 1pm (and have already checked his bag and got the boarding pass etc, so just have to face security now).

Even if we'd gotten there at 5am we wouldn't have made the flight.

And EM is pissy at me on the phone about it like she's inconvenienced.

So we had to pay $75 extra for a new ticket, $25 for the checked bag and $12 for wasted parking. Great way to start the day.

he had driven himself to the hospital -- with chest pains -- multiple times.

Yup. That's Hubby.

Hec, that's ridiculous. I congratulate you for not bitchslapping the agent who laughed in your face.

Zen, you're nicer than I am. I just castigated him for not punching her.

You are much closer to the problem than I am, therefore I have the luxury of being nicer!

Wow. That sucks!

I am so annoyed at this debt ceiling thing that I can't even tell you! It seems like some sort of bogeyman made up of whole cloth that is not even a real problem until we started talking about it. Plus if you had to cut government costs, why go after programs for poor people AND a program like social Security where we all have had money taken out of our checks for years specifically for that. Jesus Christ. I also don't see how this could possibly help the economy-- don't we need "demand" for things, which means people need money in order to buy them, before we can create more things, and therefore create jobs. I have never taken an economics class, but I am pretty sure that is the case. Obviously, the strategy of lowering taxes for businesses and the rich didn't work!!! They just kept the money, because the lack of demand means that they can't make even more money!!! WTF?