So I’m up procrastinating from cleaning up the house, watched 2 middle-of-the-nite episodes of Angel (1 hr each), then I finally showered, applied the lint roller to various surfaces, Windexed other surfaces, and then the big task: vacuuming. I started with the cat area. Immediately the stench of burned rubber permeated the air. Damn it. The rubber band broke inside my Fantom Fury again. It’s a pain to get more bands because the stores don’t carry my model anymore, so I have to order it online. I’m fed up enough to get a new Fantom. Maybe that’ll be my x-mas present to myself. (Yeah, yeah, I spoil myself.) I went to backup handvac. It barely picked up anything and then faded in the next 10 seconds or so. It’d been doing that the last few times I tried to work with it, but I always blamed it on the lack of charge. Now, it’s been charging for at least a week straight, so that’s clearly broken, too. I went to second backup broomvac. It turned on, sniffed, and then died. For some reason the charger plug had been pulled out of the wall, even tho there’s no reason for me to have done it. I don’t get it.

So now the house is unvacuumed, there’s cat residue all over the carpets, and my broomvac is charging downstairs, but I’ve had no sleep all nite. I think I’m gonna try to call in sick tomorrow because, I have a feeling, I will be. Either that or I’m gonna take an hour nap, then get up and vacuum and try to go to work.