I need a drink early today because...
1. My back yard is growing leaves.
2. I just checked my checking account balance and had to drive to the bank with twenty dollars in cash, quick!
3. The mail was all bills and election stuffers.
4. I ran out of coffee filters.
5. The laundry baskets are overflowing again.
6. I get almost nothing but 800-number telephone calls. (which I never, ever pick-up!)
7. Mariah turned me down for a lunch date.
8. Gasoline is ten cents lower today than it was Saturday when I bought gas.
9. It was 33 degrees F last night and is not going over 51 today.
and
10. There are still two weeks and one day until this election takes place.