Friday, March 13, 2009
Things that annoy me......
I'm very irritable lately. Not sure why, maybe its the weather and I have a cabin fever or sorts. Whatever it is, I find myself biting my lip to not scream at people who say/do simple things....and I'm going to list them here as a way to vent.
People that say "vacay" instead of using the full word vacation
People that say "parm" instead of Parmesan
Apparently most shortened versions of words bother me......
Drivers who break in the middle of a curve... you break BEFORE the curve (if you have to) and accelerate through it... don't they know they have almost zero control while breaking through a curve.... get off my street!
Women who are OK with knowing absolutely nothing about cars
Photos of clothing online that look nothing like the item you actually receive after ordering
People getting paid 5 times what I do even though they can't write or spell
People that disable spell-check
When my dog will not sleep in line with us at the foot of the bed... she has to sleep the opposite direction. Its like having a second grader stretched out at your feet! She's not that small anymore
Gracie!
Flossing my teeth... its the same thing... every night... over and over and over....
When you get your car detailed, and 3 days later you can't tell
Red light cameras that take your photo even when the light is green... and you panic to yourself thinking "this is all a conspiracy" and think the city is just out to get you. it usually is.
$100 running shoes that won't stay tied because they have fancy-ass laces
Women who are applying make-up in the gym locker room..... BEFORE they go work out
My job....
Trying to be sarcastic over email.... and realizing that the other person doesn't get it....
Running out of mustard two bites shy of finishing that corndog
Trying to put ketchup on your hotdog in Chicago and having the entire hotdog stand sneer at you in disgust
Fake people.... if you don't genuinely like me, don't talk to me. I won't cry. I promise I'll be fine.
People that can't talk about anything but their kids. No matter how old the kid is.... its ALL they can talk about.
Narrow minds
People that were born in the US, their parents were born in the US, and they still can't speak english to save their lives. ASSIMILATE.... or leave.
Funnions. gross.
People that eat Funnions on public transportation.
When I do the laundry, washing something that is covered in Gracie hair, thinking washing it will get all the hair off, but instead it comes out with high density concentrated little balls of Grace hair stuck all over it. And stuck like they are sewn on... with her fine little hairs woven so tightly into the fabric of said garment that I actually hold it in my hand and talk myself out of throwing it directly down the garbage shoot.
Snow flurries
Below 40 degrees
Going up a pants size
Dog hair ingrained in my bed linens
Our new mattress.... BACK ACHE
When you're talking to someone, and you can tell they are lying or with holding something, and you give and give and give opportunity to come clean, and they keep skirting around and it gets worse and worse and worse until you have written that person off in your head but then they are still talking to you like you're friends..... that never goes well.
People who can't parallel park
The amount of sugar my husband puts in his coffee
The fact that even though there is a coffee spoon next to the coffee pot, he gets a new one each day so that by Friday morning when I get up there are 5 coffee spoons all on the coffee spoon dish... Does he not see them?!
Myself....lately I just annoy myself.
Thanks for listening.
I'm very irritable lately. Not sure why, maybe its the weather and I have a cabin fever or sorts. Whatever it is, I find myself biting my lip to not scream at people who say/do simple things....and I'm going to list them here as a way to vent.
People that say "vacay" instead of using the full word vacation
People that say "parm" instead of Parmesan
Apparently most shortened versions of words bother me......
Drivers who break in the middle of a curve... you break BEFORE the curve (if you have to) and accelerate through it... don't they know they have almost zero control while breaking through a curve.... get off my street!
Women who are OK with knowing absolutely nothing about cars
Photos of clothing online that look nothing like the item you actually receive after ordering
People getting paid 5 times what I do even though they can't write or spell
People that disable spell-check
When my dog will not sleep in line with us at the foot of the bed... she has to sleep the opposite direction. Its like having a second grader stretched out at your feet! She's not that small anymore
Gracie!
Flossing my teeth... its the same thing... every night... over and over and over....
When you get your car detailed, and 3 days later you can't tell
Red light cameras that take your photo even when the light is green... and you panic to yourself thinking "this is all a conspiracy" and think the city is just out to get you. it usually is.
$100 running shoes that won't stay tied because they have fancy-ass laces
Women who are applying make-up in the gym locker room..... BEFORE they go work out
My job....
Trying to be sarcastic over email.... and realizing that the other person doesn't get it....
Running out of mustard two bites shy of finishing that corndog
Trying to put ketchup on your hotdog in Chicago and having the entire hotdog stand sneer at you in disgust
Fake people.... if you don't genuinely like me, don't talk to me. I won't cry. I promise I'll be fine.
People that can't talk about anything but their kids. No matter how old the kid is.... its ALL they can talk about.
Narrow minds
People that were born in the US, their parents were born in the US, and they still can't speak english to save their lives. ASSIMILATE.... or leave.
Funnions. gross.
People that eat Funnions on public transportation.
When I do the laundry, washing something that is covered in Gracie hair, thinking washing it will get all the hair off, but instead it comes out with high density concentrated little balls of Grace hair stuck all over it. And stuck like they are sewn on... with her fine little hairs woven so tightly into the fabric of said garment that I actually hold it in my hand and talk myself out of throwing it directly down the garbage shoot.
Snow flurries
Below 40 degrees
Going up a pants size
Dog hair ingrained in my bed linens
Our new mattress.... BACK ACHE
When you're talking to someone, and you can tell they are lying or with holding something, and you give and give and give opportunity to come clean, and they keep skirting around and it gets worse and worse and worse until you have written that person off in your head but then they are still talking to you like you're friends..... that never goes well.
People who can't parallel park
The amount of sugar my husband puts in his coffee
The fact that even though there is a coffee spoon next to the coffee pot, he gets a new one each day so that by Friday morning when I get up there are 5 coffee spoons all on the coffee spoon dish... Does he not see them?!
Myself....lately I just annoy myself.
Thanks for listening.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Happy Holidays.....I think...
In all honesty, I am not in the spirit this year...... too busy dreaming of a life in the tropics, far from all this limiting snow and unreasonable commerce that both drive the season. At 10.25% sales tax.... its hard to buy milk.....
My thoughts are drifting to another time and place, when snow was fun and only limited getting to school, and that was good news. Where you put on snow-pants and went outside until your mittens were frozen blocks and your mom was yelling to get inside before you got frostbite. That was the life.
Lately I feel overwhelmed by my age, and by the inertia of just getting through the days. It seems as though life isn't really ours to live anymore. But instead completely navigated and controlled by our occupations. My job runs my life, and my husbands job runs his, and my friends.... when did we all convert from working-to-live to living-to-work. Its something I told myself I would never do, and here I am.
So.... as I sit at my desk today looking out on a frozen harbor and snow crippling the city... I have Jimmy Buffett playing ever so quietly on my computer... trying to reason with this hurricane season, and hoping to find a little holiday cheer. After all, December 25th is Jimmy's Birthday, so if for nothing else, happy birthday Mr Buffett.... and thanks for getting me through this day.
Happy Holidays everyone. I hope I am able to travel through the mess and see some of you soon.
Love,
Cyn
In all honesty, I am not in the spirit this year...... too busy dreaming of a life in the tropics, far from all this limiting snow and unreasonable commerce that both drive the season. At 10.25% sales tax.... its hard to buy milk.....
My thoughts are drifting to another time and place, when snow was fun and only limited getting to school, and that was good news. Where you put on snow-pants and went outside until your mittens were frozen blocks and your mom was yelling to get inside before you got frostbite. That was the life.
Lately I feel overwhelmed by my age, and by the inertia of just getting through the days. It seems as though life isn't really ours to live anymore. But instead completely navigated and controlled by our occupations. My job runs my life, and my husbands job runs his, and my friends.... when did we all convert from working-to-live to living-to-work. Its something I told myself I would never do, and here I am.
So.... as I sit at my desk today looking out on a frozen harbor and snow crippling the city... I have Jimmy Buffett playing ever so quietly on my computer... trying to reason with this hurricane season, and hoping to find a little holiday cheer. After all, December 25th is Jimmy's Birthday, so if for nothing else, happy birthday Mr Buffett.... and thanks for getting me through this day.
Happy Holidays everyone. I hope I am able to travel through the mess and see some of you soon.
Love,
Cyn
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