Hey let's have a nice chat about bad days!
Ok so today was one of those days where you get all psyched because you think it's going to be awesome and then it all goes horribly horribly wrong. Thus, I shall write about it....in the form of bullets, obviously.
Background first: I was supposed to go shopping on Queen St. with my friend Amanda today. I was pretty damn excited because 1) I love shopping, 2) I've never reeeeally spent a day shopping down there, and 3) I lead a fairly boring existence. So,
- First of all, when I was going to put my bronzer cream type stuff on my face (which is in a glass container) before I left which I bought from Sephora for like $30 because I am weak, I dropped it and it bounced all over the place and though it did not shatter, I'm pretty sure there was about $20 worth of makeup on my bathroom floor. It was one of those things where you see it happen in slow motion but you are powerless to stop it.
- Then, I'm all ready to go and I take my phone out of my purse and would you look at that, it is dead! So I'm alreadly running late because I have to clean up the mess from bullet #1 and then I have to plug my phone in for 15 minutes just so it can get enough juice for like 2 absultely necessary phone calls.
- Oh I almost forgot, yesterday night for some strange reason I lost my ability to hear out of my left ear. Like it was all plugged or something. And it was so uncomfortable because I actually felt like someone shoved something into my skull through my ear. So this morning when I woke up I could hear a little bit better but then when I leaned over to clean up the mess from bullet #1 I lost the ability to hear ONCE AGAIN. So the whole time I was shopping with Amanda I was straining so hard to hear and feeling so unbalanced in the head that by the end of the day I had a massive headache. This will also come into play in a later bullet.
- Also? It rained the entire afternoon so our shopping experience was pretty glum. And the bottom half of my jeans got all wet and my feet got blistered and yeah. The rain and the cold that came with it were not cool.
- Aaaand I saved the best for last. Are you ready? I'm pretty sure I saw Melissa O'-frickin-Neil and I didn't even say anything. Here's the story. So Amanda and I were strolling around the Eaton's Centre engrossed in some conversation and I am, of course, straining to hear what she in saying because I can't hear for the life of me. And then in front of us this girl walks out of a store and after I've been looking at her for like 0.7 of a second I think "Hey that looks like Melissa.................but it's probably not." And then after about 1.8 seconds I think "But maybe it is" (at this point she's almost past me) and then at around the 2.34 second mark (when she is pretty much behind me) I'm thinking "I actually think it is!!!!" So I turn around to run after her and she has dissapeared into the masses. So then I was all angry with myself (all the while trying desperately to listen to Amanda talk to me) and I continued to frantically search. Even more so after Amanda and I went our seperate ways and I scoured the mall alone like some sort of lost half-deaf-soaking-wet-and-blistered puppy dog. But of course, I came up empty. "How did this horrific incident occur?" you may ask yourself. Well, the answer to that is threefold. 1) My biggest mistake was that because I was not alone, but rather in the company of an un-Idol informed friend I was not being fully "Idol Aware". (If you haven't read the playbook please note that this is not to be confused with being "Bear Aware". There is an important distinction. (Although I don't really know what it is). I don't know how I let this happen. I pride myself on being Idol Aware whenever I am anywhere near downtown. I lost my concentration for a mere few hours, if that, and of course that was when my downfall occured. For shame. 2) I like to blame my ear problem because having two working ears would have heightened my senses in general and also I would not have been straining so hard to hear my friend speak. 3) I was thrown off by the unglamourous appearance of said Idol. This ties into being Idol Aware because I should never expect someone to look how the appear to on tv, but I just wasn't perpared! From the 1.6 seconds which I had to look at her she just looked different. And shorter. Definitely shorter. And my eyes just did not adjust dammit! I couldn't make the definite connection. So then in my state of depression I text messaged kissedbythegods .And then my phone proceeded to die. Again. And then I went home. Back to my sad sad Idol-free existence.
So I'm sure there is a lesson in this story somehow. If you find it, let me know. For now, I am going to wallow. Excuse me....