The coffee machine broke this morning. Apparently, it was Cool Accountant Lady's "worst nightmare." I told her if that was her worst nightmare, she's doing pretty well...still, I can't say it got my week off to a rollicking start.

Another disappointment: My company is taking us on "The Price is Right" next week and I was all excited until I looked at the prize list for that day. Really, what am I going to do with a year's supply of cheesecake and a tropical living room set? My plan was to win a car or something like...good, sell it on Craiglist, pay the taxes (prizes are declared as income...total jip), and put the rest in my Freedom Account...another dream blown to bits like that bag of popcorn I left in the microwave for too long (well, in that case the entire bag turned black...but you get the deal).

OK, so in an effort to move away from the self-pity (which I have to say, provides a lot more creativity that "positivity"...no offense to Oprah, Deepak, and those other humorless successful people), I have spent the day pondering some wannabe profundity [courtesy of my pretentious English-major, wannabe "important" writer days in college (I began my short stories with a quote from MacBeth or Hamlet...hey, at least it wasn't T.S. Elliot...what was that guy talking about?)].

Here goes (ready?): Despite whatever is going on, today, like every moment of my life, is unlike any other that will ever come again. I will only be 35 and 7 months and and 8 days once in my entire life. My emotions, painful and otherwise, combined with my body's current state of sleep deprivation, excessive intake of sugar, caffeine and microwave popcorn (the third bag was edible), will never walk this cloudy overcast corner of the earth in quite the same way...for better or worse.. Tomorrow, we will all be a little bit different people...or maybe a lot...and next year we will all be in different circumstances (I hope), breathing different air (probably more polluted) and wanting different things (though, I have a feeling it will still be coffee and cute dresses).

Just for today, I can be bummed on a Monday.