Do you ever have one of those days when absolutely everything that any given person says grates on your nerves? I'm having one of those days. It's one of those days when I think, out loud to myself, many times a day "are people always this annoying?? what is WRONG with people?" and then I realize it is, yeah, um, probably just me.

So if you cross paths with me today and I seem, well, bitchy? You probably aren't off target. Sorry.

Which reminds me (don't ask me why) that blogger only sends me 1 in every 15 comments to my email box. Why?!?!? Does anyone else have this problem besides me? It leads me to continually check my junk mail folder for missed comments where I get to sift through goodies like:

Subject: How U doing? [gosh, I think it's my long lost friend, author named
Nicki, just like me!!! How nice of her to check in and see how me doing!!!]

Subject: Make your fat friends envy you [isn't this everyone's
motivation for losing weight?]

Subject: With our Viagra soft tabs you
can screw a horse [wow - another goal of mine just a url click away!]

and this one:
Subject: Lean and Mean is in [now THIS is good news! I
may not be lean but today I am mean so that means I'm not only mean but cool
too? How useful junk mail really is after all!]

So after I sift through my junk mail and find nothing, I plod on over to Blogger where I view my own blog like some sort of narcissist and am always surprised to see comments that I had no idea where left for me. So thanks commenters :-) I'm not ignoring you if you asked a question - I just never got the comment. Because Blogger makes me want to scream. Like everyone else today. Oh yeah - that's how it reminded me!!!!

To cheer myself up, I'm going to drag 2 of my unsuspecting 3 kids along to Best Buy for a Homeschool Lesson on Economics and the importance of having clean floors. Yes, I'm buying another floor cleaner. I won't even admit on this blog how many I already have. But I will say it has been over a year since I've purchased a vacuum. And I'm not purchasing a vacuum. That, right there, gives me carte blanche to buy anything I want, I think. And it is not a carpet cleaner. I have an upright and a spotbot and they keep me happy until the pros come. But the rest of my home - the parts without carpet - are nasty. With dog hair and crumbs and stinky stuff from unknown origin. And I'm pretty sure buying some sort of machine to better handle the mess is just what the doctor ordered to pull me out of my crankiness. Yes, I've thought it through. It sounds like a good plan. A great plan. And for doing such hard work to make the house cleaner I may just reward myself with ice cream, too!