... for some reason, they always seem to follow each other.

Dinner last night was good. Lots of meat on swords ^^; Sarah, Mary, and Jeff already said plenty about it, so I'll leave it at that. ^^;

Yeah, we went to Barnes and Noble afterwards, where I bummed a whole bunch of manga off carpy. ^^; Yeah, I gave him $40 to cover both the manga and the food for the night, since I had forgotten to take out cash beforehand.

Then, the bad set in. My stomach doesn't like taking in large amounts of exotic food, despite how good or bad it may be, so after the group left the store, I had to re-enter to use the restroom. x_x After we all disbanded, I took Josh home, where I ended up using HIS restroom. X_X

When I woke up this afternoon, I made an attempt at mowing the lawn... I got a whole 20 minutes in when one of the blades started making very loud, unwholesome noises - it had run loose and was starting to scrape against some of the adjacent metal. After returning to the garage, I inspected the floor and found that my brother had forgotten to install a certain vital part when reinstalling that blade the previous night. x_x I did not have the expertise to reinstall the blade myself, nor did I have the time, since I had to go to work.

Thinking I'd be able to eat on the way to work, I departed at 4:15 (as it usually only takes 25-30 minutes to get to the mall, or 20 if I'm lucky). On the way, I realized that I was not carrying any cash (as I had given all $40 to carpy the previous night) and thus had to skip a run to Wendy's and go directly to the mall.

Shady Grove Rd. was backed up until next month.

I ended up stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, BEFORE hitting the interstate, for probably 20-30 minutes. So, even though I had left 20 minutes earlier than usual, I arrived late. By one minute.

Calvin gives a damned lecture about calling to work if I think I'm going to be late.

What the hell?! NO ONE leaves the house 20 minutes early when they expect to be late to work. I was already pissed off by the fact that I had lost my chance to eat (as I hadn't eaten since dinner), and he had the sheer nerve to say something like that, for being late by ONE MINUTE. He's lucky I didn't take him up on his offer to let me smack him - they would have had to call security on me if I did.

My mom called around 6:00 to ask why the lawn wasn't mowed. I give the quick explanation - I REALLY wasn't in the mood to talk about that.

I'm pretty much simmered down after I get a chance to eat around 7:40 (yes, I had to wait that long until I could finally EAT something), but Calvin pretty much avoided talking to me, since I must have exuded that "pissed off" presence all night. So the entire night passed without a single conversation, other than the aforementioned lecture.

Heading home, guess what I hit? MORE TRAFFIC.

As retarded as it is repaving the entire 8-lane interstate on a Friday night, they did it anyways - leaving standstill traffic that probably crossed the state line into Virginia. So I end up arriving home much later than usual.

Turns out, my dad fixed the blade and mowed as much as he could before it got too dark to continue, so I have to finish in the morning before working. If the blade had been mounted properly in the first place, it would have been done today and I wouldn't have to deal with it at all.

AND, I have an ADV deadline on Tuesday that I'm not very likely to be able to keep. Life sucks right now.

I need to get AX plans finalized, or else it's just not going to happen. I need some kind of excursion this summer, and AX is probably going to be it.