I just had an argument (I eventually won) with a plastic trash bag.

The damned thing just wouldn't OPEN and tenaciously clung together. I'm massively stressed out to start with, what with Tom still being away from home seven weeks into the saga of the broken ankle, and I woke up this morning at 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I've got a lot to do today but fortunately none of it (except maybe driving over to see Tom) takes a functional brain.

The Battle of the Trash Bag was just so unnecessarily frustrating at a time when I have the least coping skills available.

I vented my frustration at Facebook (and literally pounded the keyboard doing it) then went back to the bag and SHOOK IT until the opening separated and I could get the trash up to the head of the driveway for pickup.

Arghhhh!

BTW, they make a cute little retractible blade tool for opening CD cello wrap -- I have two of them. I just never seem to have one with me when I need to get the wrapping off a CD. What's far worse, though, is that wraparound label that's supposed to make it harder to steal. Hard to get a fingernail under it and then it tears and one piece refuses to budge -- that's the one that keeps the jewel case closed tight...

Linn