Today went from shit...

This is the first part of the day; the second (good) parts will follow in a separate post.

So I woke up in a bad position (figuratively, not literally) around 9:40am. I put on a random alarm labeled "friends" the night before and it ended up waking me at 9am, so I decided to go back to bed for a little while, just to rest and think. My brother knocked and got me out of a daydream and when he came in he handed me the dreaded phone. I answered the call and my Mom told me there was a showing of our house between 12 and 1pm, and that I needed to have the house clean and ready by then. I had already made plans for the day, so that fucked everything up.

After throwing all my clothes in the washer and picking out of the small bit of clothes remaining in my dresser, I grabbed a quick shower and jumped onto my laptop. Made myself a large mug of tea and also had a coke, but never even took a nibble of the poptarts I had open in front of me. Caught up on my Twitter and when I had finally finished the two beverages (in a matter of maybe 5 to 10 minutes) I went upstairs and threw my sheets in the washer as well, as they were due for a cleaning. I had a good chunk of time left by that point, so I didn't think it'd matter.

By this time my puppy had already been out and about and I was frantically trying to make everything spotless and organized. So of course the puppy does no other than piss on the carpet for me. Then after telling her off, she sprints up and hides under the bed in my Mom's room, thinking everything is a game and dashing out of whatever side I wasn't on only to go back in under the bed. I was infuriated with the mutt and stressed with all the pressure of trying to organize the house on my own and finally yanked the dog out from under the bed by her paw and threw her into her crate downstairs. I wasn't too happy by that point. Then, as if things couldn't get any worse, the dryer and washer loads were taking way too long to do their cycles. The loads did partially finish in time, at least what I needed to make the house look normal, but it was annoying nonetheless. The house was cleaned and ready just in time, so without shaving like I needed to, my brother and the dog and I all went over to the park for an hour or so.

While my brother walked the dog around boredly, I was sitting under the playground equipment attempting to see Minecraft Pocket Edition on my phone. And not only did the person show up at 12:49, but they only stayed for ten minutes before heading back out again. I was pretty furious that I had put all that work into the house just for someone to come in and take a quick peek at the latest time they could possibly manage. DURING LUNCH HOUR. Not the greatest start to the day. Surely things would improve later...