My Day (Blogging in Excruciating Detail)

04:20 - Wake up suddenly, thinking I've heard someone talking to me. Nothing... go back to sleep.
06:37 - Husband gets out of bed. I move to the center and spread eagle.
07:30 - My alarm goes off. Alison Krauss's Broadway doesn't rouse me. Snooze #1.
07:39 - Un-snooze. Cats realize husband left and their bowls are still empty. Alarm leads them to me. Poster smells my breath and confirms I'm still alive. Gomez leans down to scratch the corner of her mouth on my motionless finger. Snooze #2.
07:48 - Tom Petty now sings at me. Cats circle my pillow and walk on my hair, now griping vociferously. I notice it's raining so I won't be walking. Better get up. Turn off Tom Petty and the alarm and turn on CNN.
07:51 - Open Diet Dr. Pepper #1. Tripped by Poster on the way to the fridge. Take vitamin. Turn on shower. Get clean towel out of the cabinet.
07:53 - Feed cats. I am apparently now invisible.
07:56 - Check email. Check Facebook, completing Jobs and adding rivals to the Hit List on Mob Wars.
08:05 - Having stared blankly at myself in the mirror, realize the shower's been on for fifteen minutes. Decide to get in it.
08:12- Soap, shampoo, conditioner, rinse. Shave places I shaved yesterday and continue to neglect to shave places that have been neglected.
08:14 - Deoderant. A few squirts of Clinique Happy. Lotion lower legs. Comb hair once or twice.
08:17 - Dress except jewelry and shoes.
08:20 - Brush teeth, change shirt. Put on jewelry and shoes. Turn off the TV.
08:21 - Grab yogurt, apple, and Diet Dr. Pepper #2 from the fridge.
08:23 - Gather briefcase, which contains catalogs and the current issue of Mental Floss.
08:24 - Answer blackberried email about past project.
08:25 - Send follow up to answer pointing out that I've answered the question before, and recently. Open door to leave. Cats are ambivalent about my departure.
08: 27 - Start Lexus Rx400h and back slowly out of driveway, heading for work.
08:48 - Arrive at work. Log in to computer. Get Puzzles section from Houston Chronicle and plastic spoon for yogurt.
08:55 - Sit in corner conference room waiting to start project meeting. Eat Activia Light Vanilla yogurt.
08:59 - Finish the Jumble. Answer here: Take a Hike.
09:02 - Finish Wordy Gurdy. 1. Hit Mitt, 2. Face Mace, 3. Glenn's Pens, 4. Pronto Tonto, 5. Larger Charger, 6. Farrow's Arrows, 7. Sterling Curling.
09:03 - Send email to meeting attendees asking where they are.
09:05 - Meeting attendees arrive.
09:12 - Finish telling them that our project is going on indefinite hold.
10:03 - Meeting ends, after we've spent 50 minutes gossiping about bosses and co-workers and discussing how to survive a recession and unemployment.
10:06 - Fix cup of Green Tea #1. Eat small Gala apple.
10:32 - Finish Sudoku.
10:41 - Finish copying recipes from this week's Food section to a Word document for my files.
10:42 - Open Diet A&W Rootbeer #1. Open LOLcats and the full family of LOL sites (including the always entertaining EngrishFunny.com.)
10:48 - Check Facebook. Receive notification from WebMarshal that MobWars is offensive material and is blocked for "Adult & Nudity." My attempt to access this site has been recorded.
10:49 - Reply to husband's email about our home phone. It isn't working and I neglected to follow through checking Interface Device last evening. I hate AT&T for making me feel at fault.
10:50 - Restroom break #1.
10:56 - Begin blogging morning's activities.
11:50 - Finished blogging morning's activities.
11:52 - Declined invitation to lawyer event in Austin. Something about Elvis.
11:53 - Forwarded photo of a 4-year-old's artwork to co-worker, at his request.
11:54 - Thunder foils my plan to go home at lunch and walk. I could hit the treadmill, but that's not holding my attention these days. Maybe it will be dry this afternoon. Wonder where to have lunch then.

12:03 - Check personal email account. Received a Komen donation!

12:06 - Restroom break #2.

12:13 - Fixed Herbal Tea #1.

12:16 - Redeemed Houston Aeros tickets for this Saturday's 3rd Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game. We're playing the San Antonio Rampage. I hope there are lots of lipstick-smeared hockey moms to pal around with.

12:20 - Hey - is the sun coming out? Maybe I'll go home for lunch after all.

12:21 - Checked local radar. Looks clear. I should go home. Can check the phone thing, too. Sent email to husband telling him to check out my blog. Guess he won't have to ask what I did today.

12:41 - Arrived home. Cats ambivalent regarding my arrival.

12:43 - Take out trash. Salmon wrapper from Monday dinner is starting to smell.

12:46 - Change into workout clothes. Gather instructions to check AT&T Interface Device as well as scissors to snip zip tie closing the "device."

12:47 - The Interface Device at our house looks nothing like the one in the diagram. Apparently the previous owners were the first to have a phone in Houston, and AT&T hasn't upgraded our interface device since the 60s. There is not modular plug, no test jack... just a bunch of multicolored wires bunched up under a small metal case that says "Bell Phones" on it (and has to be secured with a zip tie.) I am annoyed.

12:50 - Log on to AT&T to complete the incident report, now that I've confirmed what I knew all along - that it's their system, not my house, that's the problem area. When I log on I get this message: "We are experiencing a service outage in your area. Service will be restored by 7:00 PM Thursday, October 16." Oh really? And this is the first time since September 13th you've acknowledged it? I hate AT&T. I file a trouble report anyway.

13:01 - I email my husband to express my loathing of AT&T.

13:15 - I finish emailing various customer service divisions of my phone company and begin the hunt for a replacement zip tie.

13:23 - Gave up on finding the zip tie and used string.

13:27 - Facebook again. Did some Mob Wars Jobs. 12 friends online!?! I'm not the only one with a slow job.

13:34 - Made lunch: Buddig Chicken, slice of Mild Cheddar, French's yellow mustard on Roman Meal wheat bread. Crust on. Whole. With green grapes on the side.

13:44 - Hacked husband's Facebook account and worked on his Mob Wars mobster. Opened Black Cherry Citrus Fresca #1.

13:51 - Decided to give up on walking. Change back to work clothes and headed back to office.

14:11 - Arrived back at work. Herbal Tea #2.

14:23 - Finished opening and reading personal mail.

14:30- Read Brookstone catalog.

14:34 - Read Restoration Hardware catalog. They have a lot of bed and bath linens for a hardward store.

14:42 - Read Pottery Barn catalog. Lots of drapes for a pottery store.

14:44 - Emailed husband. I like him.

14:50 - Read Title Nine catalog.

15:03 - Reviewed project draw. Requested one revision.

15:09 - Read Gaiam Living catalog. 20% off organic sweaters.

15:17 - Put down Mental Floss briefly to read chat transcript sent by husband.

15:27 - Downloaded brochure for tomorrow's event.

15:31 - Read and ignored anonymous blog comment. Fixed Herbal Tea #3.

15:36 - Ran in to moron SVP on the way to the printer. Should have known not to respond.

15:37 - Restroom break.

15:49 - Discussed employment opportunities in my company's Dubai and Calgary offices.

16:12 - Took a break from reading Mental Floss to shoot the breeze with a colleague from Central. He gave me his condolences on my doing nothing.

16:16 - Opened Diet Dr. Pepper #3.

16:47 - Still reading Mental Floss, stopped briefly to discuss the weather with a co-worker.

16:57 - Check the clock.

16:58 - Check the clock.

16:59 - Check the clock.

17:02 - Out of here!

17:23 - Arrive at home. Disappointing but maybe not surprising - there are 6 McCain Palin signs to 2 Obama Biden signs on our block. And it's not the old people with the McPalin signs.

17:27 - Slip into something more comfortable.

17:45 - Harvest two homegrown jalapenos from our garden, as it pours down rain upon me and my umbrella.

18:01 - Finish making guacamole for dinner. A little too much lime. Diet 7UP #1.

18:03 - Put the chicken on the grill. Medium heat. Black beans on the stove. Low heat.

18:11 - Facebook again. Comment on two friends' stata and add "Napalm Your Mom" to the Mob Wars hitlist for $657M.

18:16 - Turn the chicken. Sample the guacamole. Shoo the cat away from the black beans.

18:23 - Make College Football Pick 'Em picks.

18: 24 - Take chicken off the grill and plate dinner. Mmm. Open Diet 7UP #2.

18:27 - Send email to college friend, directing her to Poster Nutblog when she asks how I could be bored.

18:49 - Stand up from table. Put leftovers in tupperware and into the refrigerator. Admire husband as he prepares the dishwasher for dishwashing.

18:59 - Facebook again. Add Real Estate Tycoon application.

19:25 - Finish reading a few articles on chron.com. John Cornyn's windmill ad makes me want to barf.

19:58 - Finish reading current issue of Mental Floss. About to tune in to debate.

20:57 - This debate is painful.

21:37 - Brush teeth. Set alarm. Goodnight.