What's mildly irritating you today?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

I found out TOOL is coming to NJ in January. Tickets went on sale the 16th. sold out. you can find them for $175 each now.

balls.

Yeah, but you'd have to go to New Jersey.

[zippyt]

OR, they had someone in this position who one day, just ran screaming out the door and never came back.

I bet this

[classicman]

Seeing similar issues with postings I'm looking at as well.

[glatt]

Very mildly irritating me this morning. I placed an order with Eddie Bauer on the 15th. It's listed as in stock. They still haven't sent it out yet. What are they waiting for? I need this for Christmas. I have too few presents to offer already.

[Sundae]

Evening round my sister's.
My brother not there.
Quiz game. Mum announced to all and sundry that I would not have won if my brother was there. OUCH.

My brother is not more intelligent than me - or at least not much more, and in different ways.
My brother is not better at quizzes than me.
Had my brother been there tonight he would have given me a run for my money (the boy is smart!) but he would not have blown me out of the water.

My choice is either Mum said it deliberately to bring me down a peg or two after I won two rounds (I was paired with my niece and she did participate, but never on questions I had trouble with).

Or she really believes Stevo is much smarter than me.

He and I agree that he's not; we are best as a team as we fill in eachother's ignorannt blanks. And we are no longer allowed to be paired as we wipe the floor with the opposition. Please note this is a simple family group, we're not up against Brian Cox and Stephen Fry.

Damn growing up being considered the "clever one", not the pretty one.
Any question of my intelligence panics me. Because if I'm not the clever one I have no place in the family.

[classicman]

Sundae - Would you tell your mum NICELY to STFU for me.
You are smart and wise in ways she is apparently not able to grasp.

[footfootfoot]

Tell her "You wouldn't have won if it were just you here."

[Sundae]

Sorry bout that.
Mum and I were sniping all night and that was the one that got under my skin. In hindsight she was trying to hurt me but the remark that kicked it off was when I told my neice that Mum overcooked meat. Well she does! And pizza and vegetables. But I probably shouldn't have laughed about it with Abs. She was very indignant about it and told me to get my own house and then I could have meat exactly the way I liked it. Should've realised that was a shot across the bows.

Anyway, it was petty and paranoid and I should have just slept on it rather than drag it out on here.
One too many sherberts I think.
I'm over it now and normal relations have resumed.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Sundae

But I probably shouldn't have laughed about it with Abs. She was very indignant about it and told me to get my own house and then I could have meat exactly the way I liked it.

You shouldn't have said it, period. You ungrateful wretch

[Lola Bunny]

Bah!!! HUMBUG!!!! I'm being hounded to meet a deadline for a project that wasn't my responsibility in the first place.

[DucksNuts]

Pretty much everything this afternoon.

Jackson knocked the fence over to get the washing off the line for the 3rd day in a row.

Then I laid down wire because him and the bitch next door (4 legged) were getting friendly under the fence and digging....he then dug UNDER the wire to dig under the fence.

The kids came shopping with me this morning and even though they got a mountain of presents for Xmas - "can we get a toy or something?".

I said No, but when we saw these inflatable beach play things for $10, I told them I would advance their pocket money to buy them .....when I finished refencing the clothes line and the vegies, I saw them throwing the inflatable items up in the air on the road which I said not too because it would pop them. So I deflated them and pretended to throw them in the bin.

After I refused to cook their dinner (told you I was shitty), they had cereal and decided to go to bed early.

Work rang and asked me to come in to cover a sickie for evening shift, I reminded them that I am working all day tomorrow and the EBA would mean that would eff my shift up tomorrow - they couldnt see the issue....no thanks, I'll take the 8 hr shift tomorrow that I have arranged care for, rather than the 3 hour cover shift.

I got new sleeping pills today, so that might help

[Aliantha]

Must be something in the water. I've had the shits all day too. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

[bluecuracao]

I was supposed to got food shopping at the market today, but I'm not going to make it. They'll be closed by the time I get there.

Now I either have to go to the overpriced bodega, or to the chain grocery store with the sketchy meats.

[Pete Zicato]

I've got a thread or something in my underwear that's slightly irritating me today.

TMI?

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by Sundae

My choice is either Mum said it deliberately to bring me down a peg or two after I won two rounds

I bit it's this. My Mom was the same way. She said it was to make sure us kids didn't get swelled heads. But I figured out in my twenties that she had an inferiority complex.

You can either respond in kind. "Well you should be glad he didn't come, Mom, or you'd be another notch down the list." Or you can let it roll off your back knowing that it is her problem, not yours.

I hope this isn't a dup. I must have forgotten to hit submit last time.