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annoyances
1. My blood sugar has been hovering at 150 all morning. It seems to be ignoring the meds I took last night and this morning, which is really unusual. I've been waiting on a call back from my doctor for an hour and a half.
2. I was sick one morning while my bff and her boyfriend were visiting us a few weeks ago. She's kind of a clean freak, bordering on OCD. Our apartment, while clean, is not necessarily tidy or the best organized. In an attempt to do something nice for us while Will and I were both napping, she and her boyfriend picked up our apartment. (Without asking us...which felt kind of intrusive and annoyed me and Lorne a little just on principle.) While her organization system may have made sense to her, two weeks later, we're still struggling to find things. "Where's that gift certificate from Will's birthday?" An hour later and we found it. On my sewing table. (Why would the gift certificate to the train store go there?) My anti-nausea meds have been missing since the Great Cleanup, and while I haven't needed them, it'd be nice to know where a bottle of pills that Will shouldn't have his hands on ended up. I think that what was intended to be a nice gesture has left us both annoyed and frustrated.
Anyone else have any annoyances they'd like to share, or am I the only one in a crappy mood this morning?
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I still have a black eye from the elephant incident
The landscapers have to stop working at noon every day because it's so damned hot and humid here which means they will still be working on it after we leave for our vacation on Friday
I can't imagine cleaning someone else's house without being asked. Weird.
My son decided yesterday that he was no longer a fan of naps. Now, it's a struggle every time, and by the time I get him down I have 30 minutes to get something done before he's going to wake up to eat.
Yeah, this was my initial reaction. And still the one I have when I can't find something. I've known her for 20 years and get that being organized is something important for her, and I understand that she was trying to help, but I can't ever imagine a situation where I would do that.
agreed. Call her every time you can't find something
I would be seriously annoyed/offended if somebody cleaned my home.
I'm annoyed that I work for a woman that is impossible to please. I can't even really explain my one example from this morning, because it contains too many boring details. But the gist of it is that she is annoyed with me because she spent all day yesterday working on something that isn't due until Friday. I have it on her calendar as being due Friday. Yet, she gave me an e-lecture on how I need to make sure these things are correct on her calendar.
Remember that friend I broke up with after my mom died? She used to do stuff like this. Or you would ask her to do a specific thing and she would have to take it three steps further, in the process usually creating extra work/effort on my part (like what you're describing). She always thought she was being a superhero and that everyone would just ooh and ahh about how amazing she was, but instead it just felt overbearing and irritating.
So. I'm sorry. You're going to have to break up with your friend.
Yeah noisy, I wouldn't be cool with that. So annoying. My mom is the queen of stuff like this. I've had to have the "this is not your house" talk with her every time she visits.
I couldn't sleep last night. When my alarm went off I accidentally said "Oh fvck" and Brett woke up kind of panicky asking if I was okay. I just have so much work stress right now and I'm not handling it well at home. I can now barely keep my eyes open at my desk, which is not helping the work situation (nor is nesting, I know, I know).
The nerve!
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She was there for a couple more days after it happened and while Lorne and I both were too chicken to tell her that we were annoyed, we did stop her from doing more multiple times. If it comes up again we'll say something (and we have called and emailed several times when we can't find something - unfortunately she doesn't know where she put the meds, she guesses she'd have put them in the medicine cabinet, but they're not there).
The nerve!
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I'm likely going to be let go in the next month but no one seems to be in a hurry to do this or let me know. That annoys me.
ruh roh. How do you know and do you have a plan?
My MIL does the cleaning thing to us. Before we got married it got to the point where she'd throw my shoes or bookbag at me like she was saying "get this out of my way, it doesn't belong here." When she wasn't vacuuming our floors or planting flowers in our garden, she'd make comments about the way we did things.
It has gotten better since my H told her to back off but it still is annoying especially since we always clean before she visits anyway.
5 new programs designed and rolled out last year. 4/5 pulled as of 2 weeks ago leaving massive cleanup. People not looking you in the eye. Yeah pretty telling.
My plan involves distribution of resumes everywhere. And if I don't grab something I'll be living a life of leisure until something does pop up.
So her organization doesn't even make sense to her. Double whammy.
I'm annoyed with my wet iPhone.
My MIL did the cleaning thing multiple times. I told her multiple times not to. When I was in the hospital having Jack, she went through our refrigerators, garage, both boys closets and did our laundry. There is no reason for my MIL to see my underwear.
I wouldn't have been as annoyed if I had already asked her not to do those things two weeks earlier when she was watching Adam when H and I went away for a weekend.
I said something to her again about staying away from my laundry. Her solution was to go through the dryer and just fold H's.
Oh no, Lanie. That really sucks. I'm sorry.
Noisy, that would really annoy me. I am not the most organized person, but there's a method to my disorganization, and losing that would piss me off. I get that you're OCD, but don't go spreading your crazy around here.
I'm annoyed that my computer is old. And I'm annoyed that my H doesn't want me to buy a new one because we should save $$ until we buy a house (w/e, Mr. Responsible Adult). I'm also annoyed with myself that I can't seem to buckle down and lose the last 3-4 lbs that I've been battling for the past two months. I just have no motivation whatsoever.
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Gah, Lanie, that sucks. Wasn't your job just making everyone re-interview for their jobs?
We're still waiting for a budget to shake down to our department. Every time we have a staff meeting and the talk of layoffs comes up everyone avoids eye contact with me, as I'm low man on the totem pole (after 3+ years!) and our union requires last in to be first out.
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I'm annoyed with my job search.
I haven't been around here much, but after I finished grad school, I was in a bind and needed a job (the one I had was a student position and ended when I graduated). So, even though it wasn't what I wanted to do, I took a job as a librarian at an elementary school. It was tough at first, but I did really start to feel like I was doing well and started to enjoy it. Well, the school district decided to go to minimum staffing standards, which changed 7 schools from having FT to PT librarian positions. In the shuffling, two of us first years did not have our contracts renewed.
Anyway, I saw this coming in April and have been looking for jobs. My best lead so far was at a university, and I had a second all-day long interview 5 weeks ago. At the end, they said I should hear in 2 weeks. Still nothing. I called 2 weeks ago and they said a decision hadn't been made. An acquaintance who works in advising at the school said they are notoriously slow. It just pisses me off. Don't tell me it will be two weeks if it is going to be 6.
Damn, this is getting long. Oh well. Also, I have been applying for every opening at our public library system. PT, FT, whatever. I've only gotten one interview (out of 5 apps), for a PT job. I didn't get it. Another acquaintance who works in PR for the system called to recommend me. The manager said they loved me in the interview, but they had other applicants with better experience. I JUST got a rejection e-mail for another PT job there that I didn't even land an interview for.
DAMN, this got long. Sorry. I guess I could just say I'm annoyed with nobody realizing how awesome I am and hiring me.
I'm annoyed that my lawn is completely dead.
10 years living in NC heat in direct sun and we never had a lawn look this bad. It looks like hay.
And, hey, sorry you're all annoyed. I'm annoyed that you're annoyed.
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Social services. I"m in a weirdly specific type of job. I design accessible transportation. I fell into this sort of by accident though. It's been neat. But I'm mostly trained in accessibility/advocacy and social services (counseling, education, outreach, crisis intervention) so its sort of a weird group of skills.
There are jobs, but they're hard to grab and lower in pay.