It started on Tuesday when, as I was driving home from work with the window down to enjoy the lovely spring day, I heard something and thought to myself, "Whose car is making the terrible noise?"

Oh. It was my car.

So I stayed home from work on Wed morning to take it into the garage. Wherein the moment the mechanic got in it to hear the noise, it ceased and has not made it since. So I missed 3.5 hours of work for nothing. Oh, the mechanic suggested a repair, but it wasn't for the noise, so it can wait.

Then, on Thursday, my craptastic alarm clock failed to go off, so I was unable to shower before work. The same thing happened this morning. I would kill someone for a shower right about now.

I'm going to Target tonight to get a new alarm clock, but I feel like I shouldn't have to since this one is maybe 3 years old. I should never have replaced old reliable. The alarm clock I had all thought jr high, high school, college, and for 7 years after college never failed me even though I had abused it terribly. It was all sticky from the duct tape I had used to secure it to my bunk bed my freshman year of college and there was something that rattled around inside of it, but it never failed to go off when it was set.

::kicks new alarm clock::

Anyhoo, this sucktastic week has led to me taking a mini break from LJ commenting. I was just too annoyed all week long to do more than the briefest comments for the most part. I'm back now, though.