Friday, May 26, 2006

Don't you just hate it when...

-It's past your bedtime but you can't stop clicking the mouse and doing a search on anything that pops into your head or re-reading the God of Small Things?
-You cannot for the life of you drag yourself out of bed early enough to not be late for work even though you get 7 hours of sleep per night?
-You have to play the longest waiting game EVER with potentially huge customers?
-You do origami for a living but have a very painful wrist due to tennis playing?
-The only place in the whole country where you get bad cell phone reception is your home and your office, and you have to call all your customers while parked at a meter because you get reception there?
-There's always enough cat hair and girl hair in your apartment to stuff a cushion?
-Your vacuum filters are so expensive, you've been using the same one for 3 years?
-You and your husband's stuff doesn't fit in your closets? We are planning on getting a 2 bedroom + den someday for bedroom, office, and closet.

4 comments:

Justin said...

If you have trouble getting a good night's sleep, I recommend 氣功.

In Boston, I ponyed up the cash for a bagless vacuum. It was great! You have to empty it everytime, but never have to buy a bag (needs a HEPA filter change every 3 years). It also feels very satisfying actually seeing the dirt you sucked up get thrown out.

knockoutgirl said...

My vacuum is a bagless, and the HEPA filter is the thing that is expensive. When we first got it, we could do infomercial demonstrations, sucking up a pile of dirt or something. But now....

ampligenic said...

I am jealous of your friend Tim. Tim, you don't know who I am, but I am jealous of you.

VK... my house has been rife with discussions of whether I should go back to live permanently in HK or not. I don't feel any less conflicted myself. Anyway I could be spending my summer in London/Europe or going back to HK. We'll see.

Justin said...

I didn't know that performance suffered with an old filter. I forgot to change mine after the first three years and it still worked great. Perhaps you're not cleaning it properly? Vacuum needs vacuuming...

I still highly recommend Chi-Gung for shut-eye woes. It worked wonders for my highly stressed banker friends.