Bad mood beverage

[firecat]

Background: I'm in charge of selling my parents' house now that my Dad has moved to a retirement community.

I thought the real estate agent was going to meet the carpet installers at the house this morning, but she didn't. I ended up having to rush over there to sign a paper saying yes, the carpet they brought was the correct color, and I had shown them where to install it. Then I came home. I have to go back over there in a few hours, and after that I'm taking my Dad to my mother-out-law's birthday dinner.

About half an hour after I got home continuous loud jackhammering started at a house nearby. I had to close the windows. Now it is only annoying and not deafening and stressing the cats to pieces.

Closing the windows made the house humid.

So I decided to make myself some iced coffee. We don't actually have real ice, we have colorful fruit-shaped bits of plastic with water in them that we freeze. So here's my bad mood beverage, served in my bad mood coffee mug.

Comments

[pipisafoat]

(song that came up while i was reading this entry: mix mir einen drink)

I love your ice. We had some of that years ago, but apparently things disappear as three kids move out of the house. Who'd've thunk it?

[trouble]

It's wrong to giggle at your pain, but that iced coffee is so cute.

[firecat]

iTunes doesn't know that song.

Kids stealin' ur stuff. Awful!

[firecat]

My goal is for someone to get some enjoyment out of my paaaaaiiin.

[betonica]

I loved your iced coffee. It is delightfully cute.
Dealing with house sales is a monster. You are holding up very well.

[firecat]

It's the war of the bad mood vs. teh cute!

The house fixup process hasn't been bad so far, all things considered. I'm just a big whiner.

[pipisafoat]

I am so utterly unsurprised by that. YouTube! Though I have to warn you that I haven't checked this particular video for accuracy and whatnot; not at home yet so can't. It's by this 80s German punk band called Feeling B.

Well, no, more of my sister stealing our mom's stuff ;) Still awful! Shame!

[submarine_bells]

Oh yeah, that coffee really says "I'm one bad tempered moody sod"... except, oh wait. :-)))

[evilawyer]

Hope you feel better. Hope the beverage and faux-ice cheered you up. (That faux-ice would just piss me off, but then, that's how I am.)

[wild_irises]

Want Iced Coffee With Pretty Things In It. Want It Now.

[firecat]

"I'm one bad tempered moody sod...and I float!"

[firecat]

The faux-ice isn't ideal, but it's better than no ice or ice that's been dehydrating in the fridge for months.

[firecat]

Maybe a plastic monkey and a paper parasol?

[nitoda]

struggling with the concept of dehydrated ice here ... LOL - say, do they put a sell-by or a use-by date on those huge bags of ice they sell in supermarkets?

[eggcrack]

Iced offee looks pretty. <3 Hope you'll feel better.

[eggcrack]

I mean COFFEE. Sorry, my mind is tired.

[serene]

Awwww. *hugs*

[pulchritude]

Totally random question...to make iced coffee, do you pour ice into hot coffee and then wait for it to cool? Or is there a way of making lukewarm coffee, to which one can then add ice?

[firecat]

At coffee shops I usually see them either pouring hot coffee over ice or using coffee that's been pre-chilled.

What I do at home is let the coffee sit out overnight and then add milk from the fridge, but I'm a coffee heathen.

[bibliofile]

...or a coffee connoisseur! I know at least one coffee shop that advertises cold brewed coffee, which is supposed to be less bitter. Also, it's so easy to make, and then it waits patiently in the fridge for you in the morning.

[firecat]

I used to use a Toddy http://www.toddycafe.com/ to cold-brew coffee, but I found that I used way more ground coffee per cup to get the flavor I wanted, so I went back to hot brewing.

[deirdre]

It worked! I think it's awesome little ice.

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

Hehe...it's so...festive!

Sorry to hear you're having a rough day. I've had a rough last few days as well. My child is starting middle school tomorrow and has been spazzy about it for several days now.

[firecat]

Poor mom and kid! I hope she likes it better than she expects to.

[eeyorerin]

That looks festive even if it is for a bad mood.

[firecat]

Let's all party until we bite each other's heads off!

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

me too...especially given that I've yet to hear of a *good* middle school experience.

[firecat]

It's a miserable time of life. Kids should be able to be put to sleep for three years to skip it.

[pameladean]

Adorable fruit and veggies with bonus cat paw!

I hope things smooth out on the house matters.

P.

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like it. Colorful! And hey, a cat, some iced coffee, some plastic fruit-shaped icy bits...what more could a body want on a humid, noisy, annoying day? (Oh wait. I thought of a few things...)

[tesseract26.livejournal.com]

Jeez, sorry you had such a weasely day! Hope tonight is extra fun.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

My middle school experience did not suck, despite my dad going around announcing that "seventh-graders are the lowest form of human life." (He meant well. Well, he meant funny, at least.)

So it's possible!

[firecat]

I just bet you did :)

[firecat]

Dinner was fun. Driving Dad home after dinner, we encountered a bad accident that had collected six police cars, two fire engines, one fire van, two ambulances, and a partridge in a pear tree. That part wasn't so great. But it's all right now...

[graymalkin13.livejournal.com]

I'm down! That drink looks downright scary! In a very cool way, of course.

[graymalkin13.livejournal.com]

Jesus christ on a crutch. Somebody was having a MUCH worse day than you. (That's what I think of when I see something like that.)

I'm glad dinner was fun and that you weren't in the accident.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre looking! I keep interpreting it as some sort of chowder.

[firecat]

Somebody was having a MUCH worse day than you.

That's for sure. I said to Dad, "some emergency room is going to have its hands full tonight."

And certainly my bad day didn't even amount to "first world problems," maybe "1/4th world problems."

[firecat]

I can see that!

[graymalkin13.livejournal.com]

And certainly my bad day didn't even amount to "first world problems," maybe "1/4th world problems."

Oh dear. I should have labeled that "sarcastic dark humor." I didn't mean that you should compare your problems to those of the rest of the world all the time. (I know you tend to do that.)

When you have problems, they are valid, real problems and you are allowed to feel whatever you feel about them. It's your life we're talking about, not some theoretical construct.

"Somebody is having a worse day than me" is more of a "Jewish dark humor" thing I say to myself. It's not meant to trivialize anybody's problems, including mine.

[firecat]

It's OK! I didn't feel like you were trivializing my problems. "1/4th world problems" is part of my own humor.

[graymalkin13.livejournal.com]

That's good! :)

[lorres.livejournal.com]

I've been on Those Other Social Platforms for just long enough to be looking for a like button. Ahem.

So this is a great idea. I wish I could have dreamed my way through it fer shur.