My life is a joke sometimes

[cornerofmadness]

It was a good day. I actually slept 6 straight hours without waking up. People were in lab and engaged. I bounced early and thought well it's still sunny, let me do the laundry today (I do it on the weekend) and then go to Jackson for gas/food things I don't have, don't need, but want.

I have big heavy clothes so I need all three washers including the hated front loader. I plug in my quarters and go to turn it on cool water instead of blazing hot and...someone has broken off the temperature control knob. Well that's fun.

Put quarters in the big heavy sheets one and realize...it says out of order in small letters on the screen. Won't give me back my quarters and I REALLY want the sheets clean if the power goes out this weekend. Now I'm yanking stuff from the middle washer before it gets wet and shove the sheets in.

Go to the car to run to Jackson while this washes. My battery dies. I'm praying it's the battery (AGAIN) and not my alternator. Call AAA. It'll be at least an hour (well at least now I can finish laundry before leaving. Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday and tell him I'm stranded in the RV park's back alley (AGAIN. My battery has died back here before). He arrives an hour later and he has the big wrecker that could haul three cars. I feel bad as he has to back it out.

I race my dead-battery to Auto Zone and the guy looks at me we can't replace them in a honda CR-V. What? You have before. What year is it 2015. Oh, yeah we CAN do that. Over 2018 we can't because if you make one mistake which is too easy to do and the computer dies. I have never heard of this and resolve to ask Dad who obsesses over cars and he has a CR-V too (he had never heard of it and is now on a mission to find out) Frick and Frack might just be incompetent because he couldn't even get the housing off my battery and needs to get his coworker. He manages it. The terminal cover snaps off. he drops the battery in sideways, barely gets it back out. I drive off 230$ poorer just happy they didn't destroy my car (try Advanced Auto next time. Also they couldn't find me in the system. I've been there so many times....)

Kroger's of course is a nightmare. And the assholes in Jackson jumped the gas price over 30 cents since the day before (should have got that at work where they haven't) I get all kinds of things I can eat cold if the power goes out. That'll be tomorrow morning's excitement. I go to the library to get the book that was on hold.

I get home and my computer is off. Did I already once?!? Nothing else is blinking but firefox and edge both say thanks for updating so I think an update was forced.

I bought myself Archway Ginger snaps as a treat. They one of the few processed cookies I actually like. I now have a tons of salami, PB&J, and hard boiled eggs plus apples. I will have food.

Saying a little prayer for everyone's power.

But there was one good thing today beside Dad liking the gift I gave him. It's also my book birthday. Check it o ut!!




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Fannish 50 recs. Plenty of them. You can read if you're snowed in.

A Reason For Living Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

How to Train Your Alpha Teen Wolf


An Unacceptable Loss Stargate Atlantis


Defining Love Torchwood


Workaholic FAKE


Honoring Satedan CelebrationsStargate Atlantis


Adaptability Torchwood


Not Restful The Fantastic Journey

JACKASS.OCT.11.19XX87_1.TRANSCRIPT The Murderbot Diaries

Adjacent


An Unexpected Discovery Stargate Atlantis


Awkward Conversations Chainsaw Man


listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss


Alive Again Torchwood


What Cowley Knows. The Professionals


Too Hot for Comfort Stargate Atlantis


I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). The Professionals


Pillow Talk 9-1-1


Reflection At Bedside A Study in Emerald


Winter Wonderland The Sentinel


But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Being Prepared Due South


The Fear of Not Knowing Due South


Premonition Doctor Who


One More Tattoo Teen Wolf

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Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Ooh you recced my fic! Huzzah! 💖🤗

[lucy_roman]

Happy book birthday!

[angelofthenorth]

That's a bad day. I hope it improves

[spikedluv]

Oh man! And your day started out so well!

I would've been so irked about losing my quarters and the knob being broken.

And the battery suddenly dying! And the incompetence at Auto Zone. Sheesh!

I hope you don't lose power, but I'm glad you managed to get stuff to tide you over if you do.

Happy book birthday!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks all around and right back at you with the power and this storm

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[cornerofmadness]

ha. I try to help friends get exposure

[kitarella_imagines]

So very kind of you 💗 I must do that.

But I mostly read motorsport RPF and not many people are into that 😣

[cornerofmadness]

I guess it depends on who's all on you flist but yes I personally don't normally rec RPF in general (though some Kpop bands I might because the bands themselves are super into it)

[dhampyresa]

Happy bookday!

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, RPF is a very specific audience and most people wouldn't know or care who the characters are.

But I should rec some non RPF fics, definitely!

[cornerofmadness]

Yes it is (and for the most part I have no idea who any of the people are)

I just have my friends on subscribe at AO3 so I know what they're doing

[kitarella_imagines]

That's a good idea about reccing the friends we're subscribed to 😊

[cornerofmadness]

I'm not sure anyone really reads what i rec but I know friends appreciate it

[kitarella_imagines]

You never know, maybe people recommend it to their friends who recommend it to their friends etc. Like ripples.

[cornerofmadness]

That's what I hope for at least