Bring on the lighting; the odds are in my favor.

Is it just me or has the universe just taken a shit?
Take yesterday for instance:
1). I wake up with crippling cramps. Dear God I’m either going to puke or miscarry some creature.
2). I cannot obtain a truck to transport my new mattress from store to home. The solution is to tie the damn thing to the top of my mom’s car with the aid of flimsy rope and lots of fury.
3). We get the stupid thing upstairs after a lot of sweat and swearing and just then the electric company comes and shuts our power off because my mom got almost $500 behind in payments and didn’t tell anyone.
4). About two minutes later John and I see a guy beating up his wife right on the sidewalk across the street. I go outside and just start screaming at the top of my lungs. Right as I’m inviting the asshole over to come try it with me, the dog gets out and tries to run away. I chase her, catch her, and call her a bitch. As a sidenote I called the cops on the wife-beating asshole on the corner. They showed up a while later but left without doing anything.
5). The electric company demands large amounts of money yet still will not turn power the on. I take money out of my savings to pay their bill, only to sit in the dark on my last day off before a four-day work stretch which includes double shifts and attempt to read “A Swiftly Tilting Planet” by candlelight.

So in other words, if the universe does have a crack in it, it resembles someone’s ass. And believe me, the above story is ruthlessly abridged for dramatic purposes.
Needless to say I had to get the hell out of that fucking house today and I am going to hang out in this library until it’s time to go to work. The only good thing that has come out of these last couple of days is that I have an actual bed to sleep on for the first time since November, and that I’ve learned to recognize a nice day when I see one. Because once you’ve decided that a situational issue isn’t worth hanging yourself over, the only thing left to do is just push on. And that’s about as optimistic as I’m ever going to get.