The Banana Was More Or Less Unscathed

Today’s Goal:  Don’t dump iced tea all over my desk again  

It's always good to set realistic goals for yourself, everyone.  Take this advice to heart.  

It would seem to be an attainable goal, but sometimes, life just isn't fair.

See, mondays suck.  Nobody likes them, especially a certain cartoon cat who's not a sponsor, so I won't be mentioning his name here.  Anyway, yesterday was a day like just about any other monday.  I came in to a flood of emails at work, a couple voicemail messages on my phone, and a pile of projects to work on this week.  Pretty standard fare.  

Like most other days, I got out my cup and filled it with water to make iced tea.  It's important to note that after the cafeteria implemented their flexible pricing policy on bottles of iced tea, I never bought iced tea there again.  (I call it a policy because after the third or forth time the lemon flavored iced tea rang up as a different price than the peach flavored, I asked about it and was told that the price changed, despite the signs on the cooler remaining the same.)  Anyway, I go to the grocery store and get those little bottles of concentrated iced tea mix which you squirt into water for basically the same effect as getting a bottle of pre-processed iced tea, but at a fraction of the cost.  It's only a little more work combining the two liquids, which is a process involving the large straw included in the aforementioned cup.  This is important.  

Now, on a monday morning, I may not be quite as coordinated as I might like to be.  Sometimes, that manifests itself in stumbling into a door frame, or tripping over the stairs, or dropping a banana in the parking lot (All true stories, by the way).  Other times, the changes are much more subtle, such as my hand being a fraction of an inch too low when inserting a large plastic straw into a cup full of water and iced tea mix.  

The result is catastrophic.  

The straw pushes over the cup of almost iced tea, dumping well over half of the contents onto my desk.  There's no indicator as to the true size of my cup, but I estimate it to be around 20 ounces (~600mL), which means the puddle went just about everywhere.  On my phone, my keys, my ID badge, my hockey puck display case, my coffee maker, my glass candy jar which hasn't held candy in 3-4 years, my laptop's power supply....you get the idea.  I therefore spent some quality monday morning time with a roll of paper towels from the break room and some Lysol wipes that I keep in my desk wiping up iced tea instead of enjoying a banana and a cup of iced tea while reading through my mountain of email.  

Today needed to get off to a better start.