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Things That Irritate Me

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 4:19am. complaints | family life | home and family | humor

Things That Irritate Me:

1. Every time I roll over in bed I hit the vertical blinds with my hand, which makes noise and lets in light.
2. I have a headboard to put up that would fix the problem, but I can’t get anyone to help me do it.
3. Morning sickness.
4. Allergies.
5. My son’s latest habit, which is to move everything in the house into piles and call them castles.
6. The fact that it takes World War III to get my son to help clean up said castles.
7. At least 50 % of the time, every television in my house is on.
8. The majority of time no one is watching two of the three televisions that are on.
9. One of my dogs barks or whines pretty much constantly if he’s not sleeping or resting on a couch, which thankfully he does a lot because he’s old.
10. People who don’t do what they say they are going to do, like call you back (thanks, Verizon).
11. Not having enough time to write in my blog.

Want to add to the list? Let’s complain a little!

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Complaining

Submitted by Jeanne Gibson on April 22, 2006 - 9:11am.

doesn't do much good. Nine times out of ten, no one listens anyway.
In your case, I would fix the headboard; pull the plug on a couple of the TV's and make viewing the other one a privilege only to be enjoyed when the house is cleared of "sand castles" and other miscellaneous clutter; refuse to deal with clods who don't keep their word; and move Mr. Whiney Dog to the garage every time he opens his mouth for a few days. He'll soon get the message; and the morning sickness should disappear on its own in a short time. There, 10 out of 11 of your problems are solved. Not having to deal with them anymore should give you more time to write in your blog. You'll have to take up the allergy problem with your doctor, but maybe they are being caused by stressing out over these other things and will disappear when the problems do. Lots of luck.

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Thanks!

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 9:28am.

I wish it was that easy to sweep the problems away. I'm going to try to get my parents to come over to help with the headboard since my husband is working constantly right now. Unfortunately, when he's home he's the one leaving on all the TVs. You are right about the castles though. I was trying to clean up today and my son was being such a horrid, horrid beast that I had to march to his room three times and eventually just put down for a nap. I'll try using the TV as "punishment" per se, as in "you don't get to watch until you help me." He's just in a horrible negative, testing two phase, and with being pregnant and getting very little help from the hubby right now, and working part time and trying to keep up with my writing deadlines, it's just too, too, too much.

We revamped our garage to be a dog room. Sadly, we can hear the whiner through the AC vents. He just has some problems, and he's old and can't hear himself whine. Thank goodness he's quiet on the sofa right now. If he was more trustworthy around my son I could leave him out on the sofa more often, but he's not so I can't.

The allergy problems are being managed, but with pregnancy the treatment is limited. They aren't too bad most of the time, just today. The morning sickness is thankfully slowly improving.

As far as solving anything by writing about it in the blog - I never intended to. I just wanted a quick blog entry and I thought it would hit a nerve and give folks a chance to get an irritation off their chests as well.

Thanks for the read and the comments!

Brenna
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I hope you realize I wasn't totally serious in my reply.

Submitted by Jeanne Gibson on April 22, 2006 - 12:08pm.

I remember morning sickness and the terrible two's only too well. What I really should have said is "Hang in there, girl. This, too, shall pass. (At least most of it will.)" I'll keep my fingers crossed that tomorrow will be better for you.

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thank you!

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 1:01pm.

I actually did think you were being serious, so thanks for the reply! I'm hanging!!

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Life is hard

Submitted by jwensink on April 22, 2006 - 1:46pm.

Hi Brenna,
I know life is hard. At times it can just swallow us up. My kids are now teenagers and are good kids. They are involved in music, drama, and get top grades. But, the work isn't over. Cleaning up is still an issue. I set the timer and everyone cleans up until it goes off. You'd be surprised at how much work can be done in fifteen minutes with everyone pitching in. Hang in there- and really don't sweat the small stuff.

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Thank you!

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 5:37pm.

I appreciate your support!

Brenna
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Things that irritate ME

Submitted by Lisa on April 22, 2006 - 2:46pm.

1. People who whine all the time about the same old thing and always have an excuse why your soluton to the problem won't work. (Hey, Sis, are you listening??)

2. My husband's "collections". (Anyone who's ever lived with a hoarder/collector/packrat knows exactly what I'm talking about.

3. Cats on my kitchen countertops.

4. The neighbor's dog who just dug up my rosemary for the 4th time this week.

5. The neighbor (yes, the same one with the dog) who waits until a heavy rain to set his yard trash on fire so that it sits there and smolders for 2 days instead of burning up cleanly.

You can probably tell I'm not in a great mood. So I'll give you one more and quit.

6. People who fly past you on the freeway only to whip in at the last second and then slow down.

Hmm. . . I actually feel better. :-)

Hey, Brenna, if you're having morning sickness, ask your local health food store and OB about having some raspberry leaf tea. It's generally regarded as safe for pregnant women and might help a little.

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More irritating things

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 5:41pm.

1. People who whine all the time about the same old thing and always have an excuse why your soluton to the problem won't work. (Hey, Sis, are you listening??)

@@@I actually talk about something like that in the comments section of the Breastfeeding blog entry. SO annoying!

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3. Cats on my kitchen countertops.

@@@I've just given up. Fortunately my cat doesn't do it much and knows that if I'm doing something at the counters he better not be.

4. The neighbor's dog who just dug up my rosemary for the 4th time this week.

@@@That's not cool. I hate it when people don't keep pets in their own yards. And I've got four pets, so it isn't like I don't love them.

...

Hmm. . . I actually feel better. :-)

@@@See?!?! Venting can be good!

Hey, Brenna, if you're having morning sickness, ask your local health food store and OB about having some raspberry leaf tea. It's generally regarded as safe for pregnant women and might help a little.

@@@Thanks! I'm on my third day of not puking, so I hope very much that I am coming out of the tunnel. Now if I could just get this nasty taste out of my mouth...

Thanks for the comment and the advice!

Brenna
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My List

Submitted by realitycheck on April 22, 2006 - 4:35pm.

Things that irritate me:

1. Husband Snoring. I complain all the time about this. I beg him to try snore strips or snore spray or something. He always says, "I do not snore!"...how would he know, he's asleep!

2. My neighbor that doesn't have a bathroom shade.

3. Husband leaving every light in the house on.

4. My next door neighbors Christmas decorations. They go over board filling their yard with tacky crap. This past year they had about 60 gigantic candy canes all over the place. These things were at least 12 feet high and ugly. I'm concerned that an airpalne may mistake their yard for a run way and try to land there. So much light-up trash.

5. Bob Sagget. I hate that guy. Every time I see him I get angry inside.
Dude, Full House is no longer airing, Please go away!

6. Why is there never a good amount of cookie dough in my cookie dough ice cream? It's like I get one morsal of dough for every 10 bites of vanilla ice cream. If you're like me you dig all the chunks out then leave the rest sitting in the freezer.

7. People who tell you that "It's not that bad" when they have absolutely no room to talk. Like when I was pregnant, my husband would always tell me that I'll be OK. No, I won't be OK. I have heart burn, I am carrying around an extra 25 pounds and I want a pizza...now. So if you can't make my chest stop burning, remove this weight from my body or pull a pizza out of your ass, then leave me alone!!!!

8. I have to agree w/Lisa on this one: Hubbys collections. He collenct stupid stuff. Actually he collects anything that you can make a collection out of; sports cards, coins, antique bottles, liquor company signs, beanie babies (he'll kill me if he knows I wrote that!), McDonalds toys, knives and so on. So since I'm all ready confessing what he collects, here's my confession; two words: GARAGE SALE.

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even more irritating things

Submitted by Brenna Fender on April 22, 2006 - 5:49pm.

For some reason I can't copy and paste your list, realitycheck, but here are my replies.

1. For snoring, if you put your hand on them when they are snoring, they usually stop. I think it raises them to a lighter level of sleep. At least maybe you'll get to sleep before the snoring starts again that way. If that doesn't work, wake him up and tell him to change positions. My husband talks in his sleep as well as snores. Not as much now, but when we first got married it was crazy. I'll have to write about that sometime.

Big sympathies for 2 and 4 - sounds like stuff you really don't want to see :)

6. The ONLY reason I eat ice cream is for the cookie dough. Do you have a Cold Stone near you, where they make up your ice cream dish? If you get two mix ins of cookie dough you will go insane with all the cookie goodness. Another option is to by a tube or those squares of cookie dough and add it to your ice cream. Yes, I have done this. It is a Good Idea.

8. My husband doesn't collect stuff but he saves weird things. He doesn't want to throw out anything that he got as a gift so we're stuck with a fancy clock that doesn't work, a light-up, in-a-stand globe that still has the Soviet Union on it, and so on. My bigger house is getting too small!

9. Read realitycheck's blog. It's the bomb!

Thanks for the comment!

Brenna
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