Diary of an Ex-Employee - Day 29.0

It's hot today.  Very hot.

So I decide I need a drink.  I get a glass out, I get ice out, I get a can of soda water out of the cold cupboard and pour it into the glass, not filling it.  

I think "I need a little flavor" so I open the fridge to get the cranberry juice...

No cranberry juice.

Fluffy Bear shopped at Costco so the juice bottles are big enough to drown an average sized cat, so there's probably another bottle downstairs in the old fridge in the basement.

"But," I think, "if I am going down to the basement I might as well take the washing down and put it on."

So I go to the bedroom and get the washing basket and take it downstairs and put washing liquid in the machine and load the clothes and yell at Puppy Dog for eating something on the basement floor and put the washing machine on.  

Then I go to the old fridge for the cranberry juice...

No cranberry juice.

"OK," I think.  "We're obviously out of cranberry juice.  I'll just have to use orange juice."

So I go back upstairs and I open the fridge and I get out the orange juice and I pour it into the glass which is already two thirds full with sparkling water.  Orange juice is different to cranberry juice.  It's probably some complicated chemical thing.  Point is that orange juice and soda water foams more than cranberry juice and soda water and so next thing I know the drink has bubbled over the side of the glass onto the counter.

I reach for the kitchen roll...

No kitchen roll.

The kitchen roll stock from Costco is in the basement.  I go back downstairs.  

I think: "Well, I might as well get some toilet rolls at the same time.  We're on the last third of the last toilet roll in the loo."

So I get a fresh kitchen roll and look over to where the toilet roll is and the big plastic wrapper from the last big pack of toilet rolls is just lying on the floor.  That irritates me.  I pick it up.  I also pick a fresh pack of toilet rolls up.

I go back up to the kitchen.  I dump the big plastic wrapper and the fresh kitchen roll on the kitchen counter.  I go through to the loo, unwrap the toilet rolls and arrange them nicely in the basket.

I go back to the kitchen.  I unwrap the kitchen roll and put it on it's little stand.  I take the kitchen roll wrapper, the toilet roll wrapper and the big plastic wrapper and squish them into the trash can.

I take some kitchen roll and wipe up the spilled juice.

Now I can have my drink.

And that is an example of how I manage to get through a whole day without doing one constructive job hunting task.  

I think I just heard the washing machine ping.  It must be finished.  I better go get the clothes out...