I am sitting here in the dark, sitting very low might I add, because things in hotels do not function like anywhere else in the world. This desk lamp has no switch. Not on the lamp or on the cord or on the power strip. It has no switch. Likewise the chair is sitting very low because, while it has a lever, it isn’t pressure activated and I can’t figure out how to raise it up.
I also have no coffee. Which means I also have a headache. My wife left the room without talking to me. Probably because she was annoyed with me. I wanted to cuddle and she wanted to watch thrifting shows on her phone. She much prefers the phone to human interaction.
The first day of vacation is off to a roaring start. I am annoyed, angry, without coffee. I did bring my laptop so I could write in this gratitude journal, but what is there to have gratitude for? I need my morning coffee. The pain in my head is creeping down. Both forwards and backwards. It is yelling at me to get coffee.
My wife has returned with coffee. It is burnt. I paid $200 a night for burnt coffee, a light that doesn’t function, and a chair I can’t raise up. I should delete the negative things I said about my wife with my headache induced anger, but I won’t. That isn’t honest. She did bring me coffee. I did delete that sentence.
Soon I will head down to the hotel breakfast and eat some food. Hopefully it is food worth the price tag, but it probably won’t be. I am starting to think $200 is the new $20 and we’re staying at the equivalent of an early 2000’s Econo Lodge.
Anyway, I am ready for a fun day of sightseeing, visiting family, and eating country cooking.
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