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Re: annoyances
I really, really don't want to. But, I've been thinking about starting to look elsewhere the past few days. Or at least considering applying for jobs in Tulsa. I kind of love OKC too much.
Gotcha. A little tricky then. My employer has a big office in Markham and a lot of stuff open there right now, but its more of the corporate/marketing/project management variety.
Hope it works out for you.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
arrghh the cleaning thing! my MIL did this the whole time she came to visit us this spring. First time she came out to visit us in our new house to see her first grandchild and she spends the whole visit compulsively cleaning our house and finding things that needed to be fixed and making me anxious. i was going bonkers.
i told her multiple times to take a load off, and in that jokey way saying things like "sit down and visit awhile, you're making me nervous" and then she would just kind of passive aggressively baby talk to Alison "oh mommy says i am making her nervous. i had better stop now. but i just can't stop cleaning!"
i am annoyed by the dramz i can anticipate happening this weekend. we are flying home to go to weddings (both of us have first cousins getting married saturday within about an hour of each other so we are going to partially go to both) because D's mom wants to come back with us when we go to my cousin's wedding to spend time with Alison, which i understand. it just feels a little awkward bringing someone back who isn't going to the wedding just to stay at a hotel and watch her. A babysitter isn't entirely necessary, either; everyone in my family is extremely anxious to see her, we were planning on staying at my sister's house, not a hotel, and we have to work out the logisitcs of getting her back to the people she is driving with. and it is all just devolving into a you-want-to-spend-more-time-with-your-family-than-my-family thing.
Frankly, i personally do want to spend more time with my family, in my hometown. i've been looking forward to this weekend for months. my only relatives who have seen my daughter are my sisters and one aunt. i just think someone is going to get butthurt at some point and i feel pretty powerless to avoid it.
MIL needs to back off and come visit another town. that is ridiculous.
Lanie, now would be a good time to go back to school, no? Seems to me the universe is telling you something.
1. I'm not sure if it's the same with the knocked up variety, but when my blood sugar is stubborn, drinking water really helps.
My 'betes gripe is how much the altitude messed with my blood sugar this weekend. The first day was awful. Nothing I did worked.
2. I would be annoyed. I don't like people touching my stuff. Even worse that she moved important stuff and can't remember where she put it. If I were to ever find myself in a position where I was doing that for someone, I'd put everything I wasn't sure what to do with (gift certificates, meds) in a basket or something.
When I was in the hospital a few years ago, my ex-MIL and FIL came to visit and cleaned our apartment. Except for the next 6 months, all I heard about was my inferior choice in cleaners. Dude, I LIKE the flushable bowl cleaner that you attach to a stick. Toilet bowl brushes are NASTY.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Not until I'm ready to give birth in one, Kristen. Just me, the termites, the fecal mist, and my new baby. Bliss.
(Note to turtle: I am not actually expecting. Just wanted to clear that up.)
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I don't like people touching my stuff
That's what every single person on Hoarders says....
I'm okay with people touching my crap. So long as they're not stealing it. but if they want to come and over and clean and organize, I am A-OK with it..
I'm annoyed when I'm surrounded by mess.
I was really annoyed all day that my iPad wasn't working at the office. Couldn't get online, and I couldn't justify calling IT to biitch about the wireless.
I was also really annoyed at how foffing slammed I was because my boss just got back in town from a long trip and my coworkers in my department was out of town and everything was just falling in my lap and I was overwhelmed and felt like crying and blahboo.
Also, I think everything going on with my Dad being sick and just losing my grandparents and whinebitchmoanwhoaisme has really gotten to me. My anxiety symptoms have been kicking into high gear and I think I'm maybe battling a little bit of depression. I just feel tired and all I ever seem to want to do is be at home doing nothing or sleeping. I feel incapable of coping with the littlest thing all of a sudden, and admitting that makes me feel like a big fuuking baby,
So do I win? Or does Lanie or Okla win? I want to win at being most pissy.
You've got (and have had) a lot going on Christin. Are you seeing a therapist still? If not it might be worth it to go again. I'll send you internet hugs even though you would hate my disorganized apartment and want to annoy me by cleaning it.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
If someone comes to my house and cleans it, they will be invited back on a weekly basis. Especially a parent or MIL or a friend of 20 years. I won't be insulted if they think my house is messy when it is.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
I'm annoyed for my poor mother who keeps getting the removal of her cancerous mole put off. She's all
today after they told her it would be 2 weeks before they remove it. It's flucking cancer, just take it out already for the woman's sanity.
I'm also annoyed that this 3 day weekend I just had was completely ruined by selfish, inconsiderate friends who need to grow the hell up.
LOUD NOISES!!!!
I'm not insulted when it's actually messy but when we just cleaned, it's annoying. I've actually tried to get out of cleaning before the MIL visits since she'll just do it again anyway but the H doesn't understand my logic.
I'm annoyed with Grooveshark. I decided to try the radio setting where it makes suggestions based on the songs on my playlist.
My current playlist is Hall and Oates, Michael Buble, Eva Cassidy and a couple of Glee and Rooney songs-- and so far it has suggested Cobra Starship and then five Gym Class Heroes songs in a row. Don't push your chauch crap music on me, Grooveshark!
I'm not Noisy. And I should be, but I didn't love my last one, and the idea of finding a new therapist right now and making time for appoitments just feels overwhelming. Which I guess is indicative of a larger problem. Heh. That's funny. I'M TOO STRESSED OUT TO SEE A THERAPIST!!!
That's the thing - it wasn't. We cleaned before they came. When I woke up from my nap my dishes were in different places in the cupboards and our dish drying rack was in a different place on the counter, my sewing table was reorganized, Will's toys were put away in different places, the clothes on his shelf in his bedroom were all in different places. It wasn't like we needed to vacuum and she ran the vacuum.
I like Grooveshark for finding that one specific song I want to hear at that moment, but I trust Pandora more to know what kind of music to play when I'm in the mood for something specific. Grooveshark has failed in that arena. I think I was listening to Bon Iver and all of a sudden a Ke$ha song came on. Really? Fail Grooveshark, fail.
That's extra weird. I can see putting away a few things that were out and about or even vacuuming, sweeping, etc. Taking organized things out of drawers and cabinets and reorganizing them is insane. My OCD would totally freak out over that. I'd have to hurt someone.
Okay. Biitch is totally fuuking with you.
That's kind of how I was feeling. We're fine with some clutter around when it's just us, but we always clean before family/friends get here. I suspect it started with doing the dishes from breakfast, then got out of hand? I don't know. The sewing table made me feel weird because my sketching book was in a different place and I also use it as a journal sometimes, and as much as I love my bff and her boyfriend, I don't really want them looking through stuff like that. I don't know if they did, but...yeah.
And if I'd been awake I'd have said, "Hey, don't do that, let's sit down and play a game" (which is what Lorne said the morning he took them to the airport when she was going to clean the bathroom or something), or "Oh, we actually like the dishes like that," or whatever. I don't see a situation like this happening in the future, where Lorne isn't home and I'm passed out sick and she does us another favor, but it just seemed so...intrusive.
It is intrusive. And rude.
I mean its one thing to pick up some of Will's books and toys and put them somewhere like a toy box. It's another to reorganize someone's shelves.
I promise not to do this when I come over to take Will, er, clean up.
My cure is for us to plan a GTG. Then you'll be guaranteed to like your the rapist.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton