Guilty Pleasures and Irrational Irritations
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For some irrational reason, the term "we're pregnant" really annoys me. I understand why people use it--it takes two to tango after all, and it's a wonderful thing to have both partners so committed. But there is only person pregnant. You both can be having a baby, but the woman gets dibs on the pregnant status.
No offense to anyone who uses that terminology or anything. It is irrational of me, I know.
No offense to anyone who uses that terminology or anything. It is irrational of me, I know.
I used to hate gravity because it would not let me fly. Now I realize it is gravity that lets me stand.
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From my experience, most people who are not pregnant or currently anywhere near being pregnant hate that phrase and find it cutesy. Similar to baby talk!
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The stupid Aleve commercials that make me want to drive a fork in my ears nearly as much as the kit-kat commercials. The ones with the disgusting exaggerated gulping sound they repeat over and over. *shudder*
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There's another life out there...
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This probably belongs in the "Things that remind you of PWebbers" but I think of Kirsten almost daily when the guy in the next cube over eats. HOLY CRAP that dude has lips. I've seen them. He just has no idea how to use them. Most of us eat at our desks, so it's becoming a daily "find the headphones and blast the music so I don't fly off in a blind rage and murder someone" fest between about noon and one every day.
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Irrational Irritation: Going to my bookmarks when I randomly think of something I want to check up on, only to realize I lost my 3 years' worth of bookmarks in the Great Crash of 2012.
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Irrational Irritation: Going to my bookmarks when I randomly think of something I want to check up on, only to realize I lost my 3 years' worth of bookmarks in the Great Crash of 2012.
I use Firefox + XMarks so my bookmarks get synced across all of my computers. I suspect Chrome and Opera have similar features if you want to avoid such a catastrophe in the future.
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Facebook statuses/shares//memes etc. that tell me to like or share if I love Jesus/hate cancer/am not racist/do not torture puppies for.fun. ESPECIALLY when they add something like, "I bet most of you won't." Yup, you guessed it, because I don't believe in emotionally manipulating people into feeling they have to prove something via a f****** FACEBOOK STATUS.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
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There's another life out there...
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There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Yep. Surefire way to ensure I won't share it.Facebook statuses/shares//memes etc. that tell me to like or share if I love Jesus/hate cancer/am not racist/do not torture puppies for.fun. ESPECIALLY when they add something like, "I bet most of you won't." Yup, you guessed it, because I don't believe in emotionally manipulating people into feeling they have to prove something via a f****** FACEBOOK STATUS.
Another irrational irritation: when I see people cycling and they're using the wrong gear. I just want to pull them over, click-click-click, you'll go MUCH faster for the same effort now, good citizen, no need to thank me!
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Facebook statuses/shares//memes etc. that tell me to like or share if I love Jesus/hate cancer/am not racist/do not torture puppies for.fun. ESPECIALLY when they add something like, "I bet most of you won't." Yup, you guessed it, because I don't believe in emotionally manipulating people into feeling they have to prove something via a f****** FACEBOOK STATUS.
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Irrational irritation: Barnes and Noble has Bridge to Terabithia in the children's fantasy section. Imagination is not fantasy!
I used to hate gravity because it would not let me fly. Now I realize it is gravity that lets me stand.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Guilty pleasures: Freihofer's Cinnamon Mini Donuts. Oh my, when they are fresh, I could almost eat the whole box (but I don't). I don't know what I would do if I moved away and didn't have Freihofer's anymore.
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Guilty pleasure: Kyrstal burgers. I'll be getting some for dinner on my way home tomorrow (we don't have one, strangely, in my college town and that is a good thing for my overall health).
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Irritation: My cell phone was acting up, so I took it in and they did a factory reset. Neither of us realized that it would wipe my entire calendar, which I didn't have backed up anywhere in paper form. I now have to call everywhere and find out when my upcoming appointments are. Also, I'm currently annoyed that all the places I need to call (including two whose appts are today) don't open for another two hours.
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Irrational irritation: BIC is refusing to say when Les Mis tickets go on sale and TM is saying they're already on sale. Click on that link and it takes you to the calendar of shows, pick one, and they tell you they're not on sale yet.
I tried calling to talk to a human, to see if they at least had a date for it but all you can do is follow the prompts in circles. Bah.
I tried calling to talk to a human, to see if they at least had a date for it but all you can do is follow the prompts in circles. Bah.
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Hey, solved that irritation. Now on to the next!
I get irritated when I end a response to someone with a "So..."
I feel like I should add more than I have to say, so I start with a "So..." before realizing I said everything that needed to be said and I leave it kind of hanging there, which understandably confuses people into thinking I have more to add. I then get to kind of gesture as if I'm grasping at anything even remotely related, all the while looking kind of dumb.
I get irritated when I end a response to someone with a "So..."
I feel like I should add more than I have to say, so I start with a "So..." before realizing I said everything that needed to be said and I leave it kind of hanging there, which understandably confuses people into thinking I have more to add. I then get to kind of gesture as if I'm grasping at anything even remotely related, all the while looking kind of dumb.
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I don't know how I missed this before, but I am also a "so..."-er. Except mine are generally at the beginning of my responses, not the end. I think I lack alternative story starters.
Today, I am irritated by UPS. Under no circumstances should a cardboard box cost almost $7. Clearly I should have gone to Walmart for that.
Today, I am irritated by UPS. Under no circumstances should a cardboard box cost almost $7. Clearly I should have gone to Walmart for that.
I used to hate gravity because it would not let me fly. Now I realize it is gravity that lets me stand.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Haha this.Facebook statuses/shares//memes etc. that tell me to like or share if I love Jesus/hate cancer/am not racist/do not torture puppies for.fun. ESPECIALLY when they add something like, "I bet most of you won't." Yup, you guessed it, because I don't believe in emotionally manipulating people into feeling they have to prove something via a f****** FACEBOOK STATUS.
Like, what exactly does "liking" it on Facebook actually do? Nothing? Okay then.
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TRULY irrational irritation: That Arizona comes before Arkansas alphabetically. I'm trying to sleep reciting states/capitals in strict alphabetical order instead of the casual order I used to do. I keep wanting to put Arizona last of the.A-group. It has a z,, dammit! Arg.
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It just wouldn't be AZ if it wasn't irritating someone for no good reason.
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Irrational Irritation: The term "tween." Or maybe I just find tweens irritating in general and am channeling it all towards the term.
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I have never met a person who enjoys the term tween. Even when I fit the category I referred to myself as a pre-teen or child.
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I use it all the time at work and have no issues with using it, though I'm not sure if that's the same as enjoying it.
That term, however, didn't exist, to my knowledge, when I was that age. I didn't hear of it until about 4 years ago.
That term, however, didn't exist, to my knowledge, when I was that age. I didn't hear of it until about 4 years ago.
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Irrational Irritation:
Not being able to use the chopsticks eficiently against the last of the rice grains.
Guilty Pleasure:
Sticking the chopsticks into the large meatballs instead of trying to seize them properly.
Not being able to use the chopsticks eficiently against the last of the rice grains.
Guilty Pleasure:
Sticking the chopsticks into the large meatballs instead of trying to seize them properly.
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The term wasn't around when I was a kid, so I HATED "Pre-teen". My mom and I had an ongoing joke where she would call me a pre-teen and I would freak out in horror. I think my hatred of labels began pretty young. I just wanted to be a KID!!I have never met a person who enjoys the term tween. Even when I fit the category I referred to myself as a pre-teen or child.
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I made a tree for zero. It was a love letter, of sorts. At least, the only kind I'm good at.
That tree took 52 hours of work to draw and then paint.
I asked that it be left up for just one year, even if I wasn't there, because the plan was always to get zero back to it in that time.
I was promised it'd go untouched for just one year.
It was taken down a few days ago.
zero is going back with me next week.
One year is still three months away.
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
So.Damn.Annoyed.
That tree took 52 hours of work to draw and then paint.
I asked that it be left up for just one year, even if I wasn't there, because the plan was always to get zero back to it in that time.
I was promised it'd go untouched for just one year.
It was taken down a few days ago.
zero is going back with me next week.
One year is still three months away.
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
So.Damn.Annoyed.
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I'm so sorry! And that is a very rational irritation!
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They took it down for a board meeting? I pose that as a question because I don't see how it was offensive enough to warrant taking down for a board meeting.
In its place is now the massive white, blank spot on the 18+ foot wall with this new display to the right of where it was:
My tree would not have gotten in the way of that display. They just wanted white space so the focus would be on that display, I guess.
I think I pissed a former coworker off when I said, "Boo. Alright. I suppose I don't need to take the boy there, then."
I didn't mean I wouldn't want to see them outside the library but the whole point of his wanting to visit the library -the one thing he said he wanted to do while in my hometown- was to see the tree.
My mom is going to pick it up to make sure it doesn't get thrown away.
Bah. Still so cranky over this.
In its place is now the massive white, blank spot on the 18+ foot wall with this new display to the right of where it was:
My tree would not have gotten in the way of that display. They just wanted white space so the focus would be on that display, I guess.
I think I pissed a former coworker off when I said, "Boo. Alright. I suppose I don't need to take the boy there, then."
I didn't mean I wouldn't want to see them outside the library but the whole point of his wanting to visit the library -the one thing he said he wanted to do while in my hometown- was to see the tree.
My mom is going to pick it up to make sure it doesn't get thrown away.
Bah. Still so cranky over this.
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Rude! I'm with Nomi--a very rational irritation.
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Nom likes me reading Dr Seuss' ABCs book. And it remindS me I'm Canadian every time. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Every single time I read it, I forget and then get to the last page and read "Big Zed, little zed, what begins with zed? A Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz, as you can plainly- DAMMIT!"
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Nom likes me reading Dr Seuss' ABCs book. And it remindS me I'm Canadian every time. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Every single time I read it, I forget and then get to the last page and read "Big Zed, little zed, what begins with zed? A Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz, as you can plainly- DAMMIT!"
Me too!! I say "as I plainly said", but that's kinda lame, I know.
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As much as that instance irks me, I do love how rhyme can tell you about the author's language. It always reminds me of Blake's Tiger, "What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?". I have since seen that same rhyme structure in several other places in the 18th and 19th c., which leads me to believe that it must have rhymed some two hundred years ago.
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I seriously never even considered that it was supposed to rhyme, but I've never read the entire poem. I just assumed it was a non-rhyming one.
Boy do I feel foolish.
Boy do I feel foolish.
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Ok but what was that changed in pronounciation... symmetry?
... or eye?
(i know, i know, it was symmetry lol)
So, what's the canadian thing in that fragment?
... or eye?
(i know, i know, it was symmetry lol)
So, what's the canadian thing in that fragment?
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In the Dr. Seuss?
They mispronounce z as "zed" instead of the proper way "zee."
They mispronounce z as "zed" instead of the proper way "zee."
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That's how i pronounce it... (that's why i didn't see anything wrong with it)In the Dr. Seuss?
They mispronounce z as "zed" instead of the proper way "zee."
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