Musings: freaking merc retrograde

How do I know we’re in mercury retrograde?

Because I’m losing my mind due to numerous dumb little details frustrating me on projects I just.cant.finish. When a couple days becomes a never-ending litany of miscommunications, mislaid items, “bad luck,” just weird occurrences, interruptions, and I’m just riled up by the ceaseless annoying details of modern life… And the thought then pops in my head: When does this freaking merc retrograde end?

I’m generally not a woo woo, supernatural, superstitious person. But GOOD LORD, mercury retrograde is a thing. I don’t check my horoscope or pay attention to Merc Retrograde dates — ‘cause I don’t want to be *expecting it* and make it be a thing unconsciously.

Every single time I have this thought — When does this freaking merc retrograde end? — and I look it up, … yep, it’s ending in a few days. I can sense it when the growing snowball of merc retro fuckery is at its worst.

Like right now, we’re in merc retro, and it ends Dec 15. And it cannot come soon enough. I’m trying to get shit done, damnit.

Maybe I’ll just go to bed until Monday.

*deep breaths*

Anyway, the earrings I made a big deal about on FB yesterday? I already lost one yesterday. Looked all around my desk at work. I was so sad. Wasn’t going to post about it since I’d so publicly thanked AnnaMaria for her help. Then today, there’s the earring right at my feet at my desk. WTF? Yay, but also could we have skipped this drama?

And the passport I just posted my long story about? I’ve got the form filled out, printed & signed, the envelope addressed, have the photos that I got at Walgreens last month ready to staple in form… and then I see the detail: no glasses allowed in photo. So I have to go back to Walgreens AGAIN to send off this passport. @%#*@$&

ALSO: got a letter from IRS. Short version: IRS is notoriously inefficient and the Covid years are even worse. Spent a lot of time on nothing to confirm that what they think is a problem, isn’t. 🙄

ALSO: Rescheduled Peter’s eye doc appt to a later week. Then an hour later, his dentist called and they needed to reschedule. It’s like, argh, rescheduling medical appts over and over. Well, thank god they called, ‘cause I’d just scheduled that eye appt at same time as dentist appt! WTH? 😆😆😆

More stories about cable guys breaking our sprinkler pipes, things mistakenly thrown out, photos not working… blah blah blah.

I’ve got other projects to work on. I’m seriously moving everything on my To Do list to Tuesday. Ive got books to read, and a cat and husband to cuddle. Whew. Thank you, universe, for a sign I need a break.