Our Day So Far...

1. Woke up this morning to discover our cat had vomited on our new bedspread

2. Discovered our coffee maker has a cracked casing, when half of the water actually made it into the pot, while the other half seeped onto the counter

3. Ripped the top casing of our new washing machine's agitator when trying to wash vomit out of new bedspread

4. Ripped the new bedspread during the course of the wash, which still had cat vomit stain

5. Tried to clean stain with a steam cleaner, and later a toothbrush, to no avail

6. Have not heard anything from either our agent or buyer's agent re: the recent, botched, aborted and otherwise idiotic crumbling of our house deal

All this, in a week that saw:

1. The sale of our house go from '100% certain' and 'a one-in-a-million chance' of not closing to
'the deal is dead', when the estranged wife, with no authority to do so whatsoever, swooped in and killed the deal

2. Our landlord firing our property manager and becoming our active landlord. Given that the property manager was a tool, this may not be so bad. However, we may end up with the landlords from hell'

3. Again, paid rent and our mortgage

4. The first tumbling of the inevitable collapse of Wall Street

5. Saw a bill pass to 'shore up' the above, which does nothing to help anyone out, except those who created the mess in the first place

6. Lane Kiffin was fired as head coach of the Oakland Raiders by Al Davis, thus insuring that he will continue his 'Commitment to Excrement'

7. Governor Palin did not entirely fuck up in the VP debate

'And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
T'is that I may not weep.'

- Byron