• Get carpet delivery date
• Answer e-mails
• Track down appliance repair shops
• Buy Brooklyn Brew Shop’s Holiday IPA grain
• Beat Assassin’s Creed 2?
• Beers. So very, many beers.

Now, my sleeping habits are… interesting. Sometimes I talk, but that’s not the worst part; see I tend to get on the train about 15 minutes before it leaves the station and just fall right asleep. So now, when Mr. Conductor walks by with his little hole punch I’ve been trained to wake up.

I’m not a peaceful waker-upper. I don’t wake up gradually, it’s ALL AT ONCE. This involves an alarmed gasp, bordering on a scream, and possibly and embarrassing nasal sound. There’s also the occasional clutching of myself, as if there’s some hole-punching rapist out to get me.

This requires that I get one of the only two single seats on the entire train. And one of those seats has a giant piano-hinge on the wall which leaves a particularly AWESOME dent in my skull. That leaves, this.

One seat per car. Maybe the rest of the world is unaware, but I’ve laid claim to it. Seriously, I get on the train and make a fucking b-line straight for it. I throw out the evil eyes to any motherfucker who so much as glances at it. If I had a claymore and war-paint.

Unfortunately, I’m not very fearsome.

In the end, about once a week I’m left with a choice. Sit in the seat with the piano-hinge and have a “funny” line down the side of my head, or with a stranger. A stranger who, oddly enough, most likely will not be sitting next to me anymore when I wake up.

-Matt

• Call appliance-guy
• Call plumber (also the current/former mayor of Pawling, weird?)
• Check on carpet dude
• FINISH NEW BANNER (art skills ftl)
• Find dumpling recipe
• Gym
• *update* don the official Laundry-Hoodie (iew, rain)
• *update* LAUNDRY!!! (iew, rain)
• Make dumplings with the little lady (SHE BAILED ON THE IDEA!)
• GLEE!!!!
• Bed by 10:30 –> FAILURE! Stupid awesome Assassin’s Creed 2

Can I just say, the Brooklyn Brew Shop folks are the absolute cutest people I’ve ever met! More to come.

-Matt

For example.

Last night I wrote my nice little list for today, and settled my sweet bald head down to dream the dreams of a functional alcoholic. (sipping gin on a boat made out of humorously sized/shaped breasts while the father from Independence Day makes humorous off-hand remarks about my drinking and the construction of my apparently sea-worthy boob-boat)

Little did I know I would be treated to the sweet sounds of a car alarm going for two hours in the just-barely-AM. Kept me more-or-less awake the entire night, which prevented me from making it to the gym at 5:00.

Next up, an electrician while cutting a hole in the floor at one of our job sites manages to cut straight through the sprinkler line. The maid’s bedroom was entirely soaked. This drew my attention away from the critical build-a-banner segment of the day.

Finally, a few charges I made cleared JUST at the end of last month, completely negating the little budget surplus I thought I had and throwing me from “economic-adulthood” into “economic-just-barely-cutting-it”.

I’ve decided to write this day off entirely. I’m going to spend my last 50 minutes watching last week’s V and finished up some minor paperwork.

-Matt

coming up : the approximate badassery of Brooklyn Brew Shop’s Eat, Drink, and Learn!

• 5:00 – Wake up, head to gym – didn’t happen
• Gym – didn’t happen either
• Work
• Make a banner for the blog (housing crisis ftw) – STARTED IT!
• Don’t touch that beautiful, seductive temptress – the candy bowl.
• {————} <– Need to fill this time between work and the next item – went home, did dishes!
• Eat, Drink, and Learn with the Brooklyn Brew Shop folk!
• SLEEP!

Later skaters.

-Matt

**update 10:44PM** see below!!!

• Class (we practiced walking up and down stairs, while utilizing the Alexander Technique. It was pretty interesting, but even with only 5 people showing up today there was a lot of standing around and watching.
• Gym (Truly, pitifully out of shape)
• Plan out this week’s meals <– New thing!!

Monday (today) – Turkey leftovers

Tuesday – Whatever I get at the Eat, Drink, and Learn

Wednesday – Making dumplings with the little lady

Thursday – Leftover dumplings, leftover turkey (as long as it’s kept this long..)

Friday – Going out! (in theory)

• Beat Assassin’s Creed 2 <– *could* technically be the new things, since I’ve never actually beaten it before… but the first list shouldn’t be a cheat!

Fingers crossed.

-rwh

Didn’t make it through Assassin’s Creed 2, but considering I got everything done *except* the video game, I’m calling this a win!!!

We’re driving, and she’s telling me all about how I’m wasting my life. Her grand plan for me? Becoming a television news anchor. I told her I didn’t have the hair.

Blah blah blah, I ended up calling her a racist, and the car ride went from awkward to downright argumentative. Guess she didn’t agree.

But that’s beside the point.

The Racist Grandmother is right.  I’m not really doing much other than treading water. In order to change that, I think I’m going to use this blog as a daily to-do list. The goal will be to combine the necessary and the mundane with at least one new thing.

So yes, basically it’s another new thing a day blog. Seems like the internet is cluttered with them.

LOOK FORWARD TO NEW POSTS!!

-rwh