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Writer: shabby girl
I am totally annoyed at Wilson, the dog, stealing kleenex out of my pocket! I think he's coming up to me for a kind word and a scratch on the head, and he dives in, grabs it, and runs! He has got it down!
Congratulations, shabby girl! What a great story--I could picture it happening. I may want to use this response in a future TOMW podcast; if you don't mind me donig so, please e-mail me at cbethblog (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a comment here, to give me permission. Thanks!
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I am appalled at the decline of decent customer service. It seems as though store employees are concerned only with their paycheck, and take no pride in what they do. There is no excuse for it in an economy where so many are out of work and would be grateful to do those jobs.
A weekend trip to Sydney. Made an excursion to the suburb of my childhood, looking, hoping to find some remnants to match my memories. All had changed, except for the stately old church of my Sunday School days. Took photos, intending on my return home to create a mixed media collage of past and present.
But no! Life got in the way! Preparations for work, phone calls, a trip out to replenish the bare cupboard.
No art work yet!
Images are in my head, not yet on paper or canvas. Frustration!
I hate it when I take my child to playgroup and other parents go off and chat and leave their children to thump mine. But THEIR child wouldn't have done such a thing!! Noooooooooo.
I'm missing work because my throat is swollen but since so many people there dislike me, I know they probably hate me and are just mad that I'm home rather than worried about me. And that makes me simultaneously mad and sad. :/
I'm annoyed that my 5 year old and I are both sunburned, and it's still technically WINTER! How does that happen? lol
I am annoyed by lack of efficiency in my work place. There are times when I am flooded with work load, and times when I literally have nothing to do, like today. Not being busy is depressing.
I'm ticked that I am supposed to be at the hospital right now being induced to have my baby, but instead I'm typing this. Why? Cuz after I wake up at the butt-crack of dawn and get myself ready to go the hospital calls to inform me that they are full and I now have to wait till some people are discharged. Could be sometime today, but they can't say for sure. My husband had to arrange for his time off from not one, but two full-time jobs, and our two girls are with grandma for only two days before she needs to return to work. And here I sit.....
For once I am not going to try to be funny
I am pissed, i am always pissed. I go to bed at 12/1, can't sleep until 3/4, then have class at 830. I have class and work all day. How is this good for me? How does this work? How the ... can I keep this from happening
and, even worse, I turn 21 on saturday and have my exams the next bloody week... so much for a party
Lemonade, Lemonade, Lemonade
I'm afraid to vent about my job, because I know I'm lucky to still have a job.
I'm afraid to vent about lack of $$money$$, because I know I'm lucky to be able to pay my bills.
I'm afraid to vent about my kids, because I have 3 beautiful, healthy girls.
I'm afraid to vent about my hubby, because he loves me unconditionally.
I'm afraid to vent about the economy, because I know things could be worse.
I'm afraid to vent about the country, because I'll be viewed as anti-American.
I'm afraid to vent about my parents, because I still have both parents.
Lemons into lemonade, lemons into lemonade, lemons into lemonade ...
I am annoyed that I am sitting in my office at work, totally caught up on my duties for the day by 9am. Now I will have a full day of trying to look busy, while my stuck up co-workers ignore me. Joy! At least I have the internet to keep me company. Thank you my dear internet.
The curious thing is... every other day, i vent non stop about anything and everything. Whatever it is, I use it as an excuse to blow off steam. And yet now, when the topic is to VENT, i cannot think of anything that bothers me. Dearest Irony, where would I be without you?
a couple of my friends were doing a duet speech the other day in a competition. they were doing extremely well when a couple of girls came up to them. one of the girls was already knocked out of the competition, the other was almost out. they challenged my friend's piece, claimed it was 'destroying the author's intent', and got my friends disqualified. they were very upset- they were well on their way to the national competition! i wanted to break the two girls' noses...i had to go sit outside for half an hour to cool off!
I am totally annoyed at Wilson, the dog, stealing kleenex out of my pocket! I think he's coming up to me for a kind word and a scratch on the head, and he dives in, grabs it, and runs! He has got it down!
I want to vent, they pay no rent, and have not run away.
i love them dear, but it is clear, for now they have to stay.
This government has stuffed them up, with debt they need to pay.
No stable jobs, no happy folk, it's not a joke i say!
Julie - English mum
Just stop it! Do we need someone to physically come in here and remove your hands, close your eyes and shut the laptop? Seriously, what part about "other things to do" did you not understand? Luckily the dogs and the toddler are a good sport, but this is ridiculous. Real life is beckoning here, and you need to listen. Are you listening? Hello?!
The little "stop blogging" voice in my ear is really annoying today. But luckily it doesn't have teeth.
Beth, thank you for this opportunity!
Each night on the news for years now, I hear of the millions (now billions) of dollars being sent to foreign countries to help wipe out poverty. While a very good cause to aspire to, America is our home. American citizens (taxpayers) are one of the most charitable populations on the planet. We have been so blessed and we want to help the underprivileged.
Please senators and congressmen...look in our own backyard. You spend money as fast as you can...right off the printing press. Direct that money and kindness towards our own. America's poverty ridden needs our help before reaching outside our borders...after that has been addressed, then on to the world.
My gut tells me that "charity" to foreign countries always has an ulterior motive...we help..you reciprocate. Our poverty ranks deserve the funding, raising of awareness, homeland support with no ulterior motive other than...poverty in America needs a light at the end of the tunnel to begin their journey out of the darkness.
Washington, if you need an ulterior motive...look to your constituents...we want to help America, then we can help the rest of the world with a clean conscience.
Four months after I moved across state lines to get emotionally abused. I thought I was getting married and we would be happy.
Four months of starting over. Sleeping on a friends' couch.
Very little privacy. Finally working part-time since Februray.
Applying for positions I'm qualified for and rarely getting responses!! Thank you, Corporate America.
I want my own place..buy new furniture.. dance to music on the barefloor,sleep on a real bed..use my bath cake from LUSH...
What annoyed me was people who don't know what they're taking about, but talk about it anyway like they actually know what they're talking about and state the nonsense that they're throwing into the world that way as gospel truth.
Self Conscience.
After a long time caught up wit friends on orkut.
Dear Virus,
Please pack your bags and LEAVE. I don't want to be your host even one second longer. I haven't exactly celebrated during your previous visitations, but there is something to be said for a guilt-free excuse to lay in bed all day and skip work.
But you? You have the nerve to show up on a SATURDAY, and then proceed to sap me of any energy or peaceful breathing for the next four days!
This time, you have overstayed your welcome. And when you go, be sure to return to me the following: clear nasal passages, pleasant swallowing, restful sleep, and a 98.6 degree body temperature.
Incompetence! It abounds everywhere. Friends. Coworkers. Bosses. General public I see in the world. Am I perfect? No. I know that. But if I have something to do, I'm going to do it the best that I can, think things through. I started a part-time retail job one month ago. I was hired for 20 hours a week, daytime shifts. Every week I'm scheduled no less than 34 hours, and always closing. Never, not even once, have the bosses known what department I was supposed to be in, not once have they figured out the right time for breaks/meals. Not once. I wander the store for hours doing little odd jobs. I was there for four hours last night ... 4!!!! ... before they realized where I was supposed to be. They get paid very, very well. But me, with my Bachelor's Degree and excellent work history, I'm making two cents more than minimum wage. And the incompetent fools just don't get it.
I HATE INCOMPETENCE!!!
Sitting in meetings with twenty people and one person asks a question, but doesn't direct the question to anyone specific - so everyone sits there in an uncomfortable silence. Sometimes, I cannot resist saying something like "Let's consult the Wizard and see what he says!"
This was perfect. Today's prompt gave me just the push I needed to post this morning. I am housebound with a sick child on a beautiful sunny day. I get very annoyed and antsy when the "take a walk" option is removed from my "to do, maybe" list.
I am annoyed at myself for buying loads of pizzas to take to my eldest daughters for tea tonight. Her oven is broken (I was told) and I’m about to start cooking them at my flat, to transport round in my car. Arrrrgggghhhh!!!!!
A so-called friend told me about an "exciting" network marketing business that she's in.
I said no. I told her I wasn't intrerested. I told her no in person. I said no on the phone. I wrote no through an email and texted no via cell. I told her no over green eggs and ham.
And yet, she still calls.
Snarky yuppies in my gentrifying neighborhood.
My neighborhood is in transition and full of diversity. A family on my block is the subject of this neighborhood blog post, and the assumptions are crazy. These are good people, but because they aren't white and college educated, young 20 somethings moving into the area because of its cheap rent feel superior enough to comment away without full information.
These are the same people who scream "save the environment" and "don't be racist", and proclaim to be open minded yet are really snobs.
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/03/dear-pop-some-serious-fencing-edition/#comments
My lack of motivation to actively improve at my job. I know what I have to do, I know how to do it, I just can't seem to bring myself to make the effort. I am happy to have a job. I got a raise this year, although I am not sure I deserved it. I worry already about next year, when I assume money will be tighter and I want to make sure my job is still there for me.
I need to put inmotion my ideas and follow up and I am frustrated at how easy I find it not to do so.
I am so disgusted with myself that I can't get my act together at work. In today's job market, I should be doing my work, not parusing the internet reading my favorite blogs. Once again, I'm going to screw myself with laziness. Sometimes I really, really suck.
I have had some tummy pain in the past, mostly with chinese food and even after conducting tests etc, we came to no conclusion. My theory is there is too much grease or its MSG. So I stay away from Chinese food for the most part.
Now I got this pain with a piece of chicken Marsala from Sbarro! I hate it! Why did this happen! I only feel a pain that goes on for about 8 hrs, (nope, no need to go to the loo, nothing!), and then in 8 hrs it passes. I have to be patient, but I am not in the mood to be!! Grrrrr.
I'm so bloody annoyed with myself. I got a piece of work back from one of my classes today and was given the worst grade I've ever managed to get in the whole three years of being at that university!
I worked so hard but did so badly.
As well as that I'm freezing but Dad won't let me put the heating on, I'm on yet another course of anntibiotics for my idiot of a bladder and my boyfriend ate all of my chocolate buttons. Grrrrrrrr!
I stepped on a wasp cutting through the courtyard at school today. (I had flip flops on.) My big toe has swollen up like a balloon, and I can't bend it.
I'm just glad I'm not allergic.
What's annoying? For me annoying is when you and your ex-boyfriend don't talk to each other for some insane reason.
Yes, we both like each other still. We were perfect but there was no communication. That is easy to fix.
Okay, maybe we won't get back together but he was my bestfriend and I'd like it to stay that way, please? I've tried to talk to him but nooo, he ignores me. And it's like been 3 months?
quit smoking, stupid 240hour patch seemed to work for about 8, overpopulation, stupid breeders eating up the earth like cancer, car registration fee seems to get higher ever year, god, why did I quit doing drugs when reality is just as dangerous, why must the house stay dirty, why do I have take our 17 year old black lab to vet to get put down...
I am seriously annoyed with the Sirius Satellite Radio help line. I have been on hold for 30 minutes, listening to choppy, static filled music, pondering whether I should just hang up and call back later--or give up all together. Do I really need a Sirius Radio in my new car?
That I will be 47 this year and I still break out like a flippin teen ager....(I just looked in the mirror) sigh
I am annoyed about work. I have a college education and still I get paid very little to do a lot of work and have to work a 9 hour day and still have no money to pay bills or have a place of my own. I am over worked and underappreciated. Then they terminated my medical benefits because they lost my paperwork and they are working very slow on solving this. I wish I could find a better job, but there are no jobs out there to be had. I turn 30 this year and I feel like I have accomplished nothing. Grrrrrrrrr....
Nothing comes to mind. Life is pretty good right now, thanks for asking :)
Vent. No.
I work weekly with people diagnosed with cancer, some in metastatic stages. They are the most positive, uplifting, caring women I have ever met.
Vent? No thank you. I have a joyful life to lead instead.
You. are. so. so. so. annoying. Like. no. freaking. joke. i. mean. put. that. away. you. know. very. well. that. i. have. a. boyfriend. twice. your. size. who. could. beat. the. CRAP. out. of. you. in. two. seconds. so. just. leave. me. alone.
and. get. your. feet. out. of. my. face!
I'm fed up with the gloom and doom predictions.
Surely there must be some positives we could hear about.
I hate winter. I mean really hate it. It is almost spring. I am in he middle of a blizzard. Howling winds, blowing snow, 8 inches possibly tonight, -25 wind chill by morning.
I want to see green. No, scratch that. I NEED to see green stuff on trees on the lawn, on the flowers, even green pond scum would be better than the white flakes I have tonight.
I hate winter.
I watched someone dear to me bury her second child - her only remaining child, as her other son died 5 years ago... ironically, of the same thing. She outlived her kids.
My venting is simply for my lack of understanding... I don't understand why such awful things happen to good people... and I don't understand how we all have death in common... and yet there's no clear answer to the question everyone asks: Why.
What is annoying me today is the crazy people that call with their political opinions and go on and on with their conspiracy theories and complaining about the government as they waste their government's time with their self-indulgent ranting!
It took me 22 seconds to get to this box so now, I only have 38 seconds left to vent about how this site needs a little user friendly help.
Why not have the prompt and a comment box pop open as soon as I push the timer button. Would that be too difficult to program?
AND....
I can't even see the timer so I don't even know if I have gone beyond the allotted minute or not.
I think this is a great venue. But I must operate in clear boundaries and not being able to see the timer presents a problem. I don't want to go on and on and on past the 60 seconds, well that would be like cheating. But if I try to view the timer, I will lose this beautiful rant.
I am sure I have written beyond my 38 seconds. I'm going to check.
Oh god just the post I need today. One word...Work...work is annoying me today. Beyond belief. I am so frustrated at the moment I want to scream and yell and throw stuff around.
Ok...I feel a bit better now :)
What bugs me is people that aren't grateful for what they have. Always wanting more.
Forget about the rhinovirus. She won't be here in class today. Maybe never again. My sweet Julie with the scars on her arms that scream aloud the pain she cannot speak.
But he'll be here. And I'll have to pretend like I don't recognize the smirk on his face when people wonder aloud why her seat is empty.
How do I teach the Pythagorean Theorum at a time like this?
Melissa--I'm sorry you're so frustrated with the site! Since I'm using Blogger's program and don't have programming experience myself (or the budget to outsource that), I can't work out the solution you mentioned--though that would be great!
However, in the Q&A section, if you'll scroll about 2/3 of the way down, there is some advice on how to use the timer and the comment window. (If you use a Mac, you'll have to adjust the advice a bit.) I hope it helps. See this link.
Awe C. Beth, don't worry about it- the blog works fine.
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I'm annoyed that I am so prone to feeling guilty. I try so hard to be tough but the moment my husband says something like..."I wish you had discussed that with me first." I can't help but feel like I've gone and committed the unpardonable sin. Yesterday I bought a handbook on potty training online...the price was more than my husband thought feasible, but I think it's worth it. Even though I don't really regret getting it, I feel guilty. Grrr.
I've compiled a list of annoying things. Check out the link if you feel like laughing.
-Paul
http://thecorner33.blogspot.com/2008/09/little-things-that-annoy-me.html
Well, my best friend never tells me anything. I hear from her now boyfriend's best friend that they are "officially" going out. And have been for weeks now. What killed me the most though, was when he says "yeah we're best friends, he tells me everything." So what does that mean I am? And I didnt have enough coffee this morning. And the people I've called my friends are so small minded and boring. I cant have a conversation with my oldest friends anymore. I cant stand being taken for granted. And my mother still hates me and my dad randomly brought home a giant tomato plant. I dont understand geometry. There is no use for it at all in my entire life. I have to write a research paper. My mother took my phone so I have no one to talk to about anything. I cant have a conversation with my parents without an argument that results in me being grounded. my cat threw up this morning while I was trying to get ready for school. I never get enough sleep. I cleaned my dad's whole house today because I was so stressed. My friends boyfriend is going to break her heart, and she doesnt trust me anymore and I dont know why. Everyone I know is so horrible at communicating, including me. I think I'm still grounded. I want to take an art class, but theres no room in my scheduel. I just remembered that I have like 4 tests tomorrow. Alot of people are judging me. My close friends talk about me. I cant find anyone who is honest or even nice. People can be so ignorant. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.
Well that probably did not make any sense at all. obviously i had a really bad day....
I get tired of celebrities who think they are too good too bother with me in cyberspace but then want to charge me an arm and a leg to see them sing 5 songs from a preloaded track in real life. If you are too good to leave me a comment or just say hi......then don't talk my $12.99 the next time your cd drops(LOL)
No one EVER reads my blogs (lol)
I'll be 38 next month and I am still in an A cup
(lol)
Lenscrafters woants to charge me nearly $500 for new glasses and contacts(lol)
I wish I didn't have to wear glasses or contacts(lol)
I got my eyebrows threaded and one looks higher than the other one(lol)
I want a Starbucks card with about $20,000 on it (lol)
Thanks for picking my story! Yes, you may use it in a pod cast.
Good thing Wilson's a mostly good dog, or I'd send him along with my permission!
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