LXXXVI: Wasted Monday

I am not wasted, but today was largely an unscheduled boring holiday. I didn't have any grand plans but I really wanted to:

• Sleep in
• Play the Sims
• Upload my performance on YouTube
• Catch up on Craigy
• Nap (if necessary)
• Spend some time with my cat Chiara

Instead, I got to:

• Get 8 hours of sleep (vs. my goal of 10-12 hours...hey, I'm majorly sleep deprived)
• Stand around in a cold house that my parents are getting remodelled
• Have a yummy lunch at Shanghai River with a good family friend and parents (this was positive and the highlight of my day)
• Go to Costco, where I saw and used up my materialism quota for the month
• Pop into IKEA - a last-minute requested stop by my mom
• Stop again at the aforementioned cold house being remodelled
• Arrive home to a cat requesting to be let outside to satisfy her insatiable grass-craving
• Let cat out with a leash so that she could satisfy said grass-craving
• Witness a cat vomiting for the first time. It sounded very painful and I felt so bad for her!
• Watch tons of funny videos on YouTube by Natalie Tran (because someone posted a link on Facebook)
• Spend a long time thinking of a YouTube username
• Upload my performance on YouTube...in HD! This will take 4.5 hours in total...so it's still uploading as I type (that means I almost accomplished one of my goals for today. Woot woot.)

If one measures the success of a day by the number of actions done, I guess you could say this was a day well-lived. But I prefer quality over quantity (and always have), so I must quote the words of the great Arnold Matthew Perlstein: "I knew I should have stayed home today."