I am cranky!

I just had a really great weekend which of course must be followed up by a singularly irritating Monday morning.

Friday night Tater and I drove 6 hours north to our nation's capitol, where my Mom is doing some kind of convention / teaching / grant reviewing thing. I'm fuzzy on the details, but I do know that if your mom is anywhere within 12 hours of you and you haven't seen her for 7 months and you have any kind of relationship with her at all, you should probably go see her. So we did, and had a pretty great time in the 14 hours we were there - we saw the White House, the Washington Monument, and a tiny little corner of the Smithsonian.

Sunday we drove around some more and hung out with friends at a friend of a friend's mansion. At first I was completely awe-struck my the sheer magnitude of the house, but then the anal-retentive practical part of my brain kicked in and I decided that I really wouldn't enjoy living in a huge house - but, visiting one sure is fun.

So basically, my weekend pretty much reached the maximum capacity of driving and having fun - victory!

This morning I noticed that the company that I have my old retirement fund with sent me a letter on Saturday - what could it be? Turns out that the forms I sent them almost 3 weeks ago weren't form-y enough or something and they couldn't process my request to send me money. Money that I need... TODAY. I called them up, spent 10 minutes trying to reach a human being (which is normally something I'm quite adept at - but their phone tree was extra specially guarded against human interaction) only to find out that the letter was sent in error. Thank goodness! However, they still hadn't processed my request: in fact, I can just forget about seeing that money until at least Friday. Why? Because apparently "7-10 business days" translates to "12-14 business days plus some more just because" if you're a large financial institution. JOY! Hopefully, it really does come on Friday and I can move in to my new place this weekend.

I really wish I had some tea.