--It's too freakin hot outside!
--My car, even with air conditioning, was too freaking hot while running errands.
--I HATE having to pinch pennies!
--I don't look good with my hair pulled back, but it's hot (did I mention that) and thus I want it pulled away from my neck and face.
--My car has been unregistered since last November.
--My computer seems to be running slowly, even though I've been deleting things and ran a program that took 3 hours to defragment the hard drive.
--It takes forever to load pictures into blogger, Smugmug and online sites. What's going on?
--No one is blogging or commenting much this summer, why is that?
--A Paris trip in the fall seems very far out of reach.
--Michelle leaves for Paris in 8 weeks!
--School starts in just over a month.
--Our washing machine is ridiculously loud.
--We now have irrigation water to use in our yard which is good because it's much cheaper, but when filling the kiddie pool today it was brown. Nothing says "refreshing fun" like a pool full of brown water!
--I'm hungry.
--I have no pebble ice at the moment.
--Our recycling container is full and the next pick-up isn't until Tuesday.
There, I feel better just having spewed these things.
Edited to add at 9:00pm: Look what wonderful Hannah dropped off at my door!!!! Suddenly my grievances are gone.
**Will you air your grievances?
Do we share any right now?**
Do we share any right now?**
29 comments:
This is exactly how I was feeling yesterday! I should have done my own airing of grievances post, I'm sure it would have made me feel better.
I'm too hot, even with A/C, indoors or in my car. blah.
I don't look good with my hair pulled back, either, but I've been doing it almost every day anyway.
I feel like our new computer is slow and filling up too fast.
I hate hate hate having a sprinkler system but not being able to use it due to constant expensive repairs!!
I need more time in a day.
I need for Eva to decide that it's okay to play independently!
Wow on the brown pool water!
Oh my! I aired my grievances today at work to a friend. With the poison purged, I felt much better! We share the following:
- too freakin' hot
- too freakin' hot in my car
- didn't have time to stop at Sonic before work this morning so no pebble ice (or diet coke) for me
- my hair wasn't up today and still looked terrible
Ok, that's all! Have a wonderful evening. Thanks for sharing.
Ahhh...the perfect place to air grievances.
It's hot here too...AK isn't meant to go from 50 to 84 degrees overnight.
People who are unhappy with their VT routes should simply buck up instead of refusing to be a Visiting Teacher.
Loosing Glasses in lakes makes for blind husbands, (who's prescription ran out 6 months ago and can't get into an eye doctor for another month.)
Life with a broken DVD player makes for an unhappy Mom
Uggh and Grrr..I think I feel better too.
It's so flipping hot here.
I'm sick of paying to do laundry.
I'm doing twice as much laundry because I can't wear anything more than once and I'm showering at least twice a day.
I hate packing my lunch. The food other people make is much better than anything I can throw together.
I have a little under 40, 4-0, FORTY years until I can retire. Are you fuh-lipping kidding me?!?!
I'm disappointed with my lack of blogging lately, but I just can't pull myself out of my blogging slump.
Airing grievances always clears my head a bit. I would probably be complaining about the heat more if I didn't get to spend most of my time inside with our newly installed air conditioner.
I hate not having a job, and hence not having money.
I, too, hate pinching pennies.
I've been sick a lot this summer, and I hate it.
Again, I hate having no money for anything.
Hey, Festivus isn't until December; it must be "Festivus in July." har har.
I am requesting that tomorrow's post title be, "Feats of Strength." Can't wait!
So, we definitely share the "Paris is out of reach" grievance. Yeah.
We share the pinching pennies & school starts in a month grievance. I have decided to boycott the Aug 17th start date. My kids will be back to school after Labor Day.
My car is registered, but I've been driving around with an unpaid ticket for 4 months. So if I don't get put in jail for THAT, I WILL be put in jail for truant kids who don't show up to school 'til September.
On that note, goodnight.
I am sweat dripping down my neck hot right now. Can we do feats of strength now?
(do you still need Ambian? do i need to make a late-night run to your house for a drug-dealing-delivery???)
Seriously, that Hannah! And I hope you told Crystal YES!!!
Amen, sister. Amen!
I will admit, I have nothing to air. My life is divine...
I'm so lucky to have an empty wallet because it makes it so much lighter to carry.
I feel so blessed to be all sweaty in my car because I'm just sure I'll just burn extra pounds!
And I love my ponytail because it displays my collection of chins just perfectly.
And the best part of all you ask? I am so blessed to have brown pool water because I can just skip the trip into the house to use the bathroom and go in the pool! No one will ever know!
Again, I just don't have anything to air. My life is bliss.
~Back to Reality~
Don't you just love Hannah? Is she not directly from the Gods?
it been cold and rainy here in ct it so it doesn't feel like summer!
we don't have a sonic here so will never know the joys of pebble ice.
sonic does torture us here by running comericals on our tv stations...why!
money what is that!
hope tomorrow is a better day!
Hurray for the edit!
If it makes you feel any better I curled up in a ball and cried when I got home yesterday! Thursday is my rough day - after work Griffin has karate and then Luci has gymnastics so I don't get home until 8:30 pm. Add that to PMS, a summer cold with pink eye, and the stress of saving every penny for IVF and you have one miserable mom!
I sympathize!!
I thought it was just me! I have been grumpy and witchy all week! It is too hot! I've just given up on trying to fix my hair and go with the pony tail look every day and usually no makeup.
I love Sonic but so do my children so I can't stop very often b/c that puts a serious dent in my pocketbook-just for cold drinks. And since I already don't have any extra money, that doesn't help!
School starts here in 3 weeks which means that I have to go back for preplanning in 2 weeks! I so wish school didn't start until after Labor Day. Summer is just not long enough and I don't even want to think about buying back to school clothes, shoes, etc.!
I haven't blogged since my daughter's birthday in March. I just don't feel like the way I write can compare to the blogs I read so I'm uninspired to get back to it. I'll have to tomorrow b/c it's my middle child's birthday but who knows after that?
I tried to download some pics to Smugmug the other night and couldn't even do it. They were having technical difficulties. Some days that seems like the story of my life! And I'm always hungry! :) So, no, you are not alone in your temporary misery! Hopefully this weekend will be better!
It's hard to type with one hand while feeding a bottle to a baby with the other but that's what I'm doing....I'm seriously bugged by my abrupt drop in blog commenters...did they all move to another planet?
I liked this post and wish I could do one like it...I'm having emotional security issues with blogging lately because of some rude e-mails I received last week...I even contemplated not blogging anymore! What's up with people?
Anyway, I am so glad that Hannah dropped by because really, pebble ice makes everything better!
Bless you, girl, you can always put into words some of the things that I am thinking!
hee hee I want to see Feats of Strength, too! :D
I should do a post like this- if nothing else it would make me look back and laugh.
It is so hot in my car and the whiny kids complaining about the heat make my blood boil.
I am in denial about school. Seriously.
Pinching pennies still hurts and it sucks no matter how long you have to do it.
I am glad I could help and sorry I hate to do a speedy drop off!
Crystal makes me laugh...
I guess we have some things in common!
-I HATE pinching pennies too. We just had to get my car repaired, $1200 later, it really hurts!! SO much for those new couches I was supposed to be getting!!!
-My computer runs slow too...and I've even had it restored professionally! Argh!
-I'm still blogging, not as much as you do, but I'm still here. Sorry for not always commenting.
-My washing machine has a leak! Guess that means we have to replace another appliance!
-It is just now starting to get "hot" here in CT. June was what I like to call the return of the month of April...you know "April showers bring May flowers". Because we had non stop rain for the entire month. I think we had two days of sunshine. SOrry it is so hot out there!!
Thank goodness for friends to bring you some Pebble ice. We don't have that here either.
I love this post!
GRieving while blogging AlwayS makes it better-
lack of comments & blogs to read is ruining my non existant life ;)
Yesterday the blogger moms were discussing how WE could get to paris to visit michelle.... too... ya- it ain't gonna work for us.
I really, really hope somehow YOU get to go-
p.s.- hannah is my hero!
I'm sure michelle is sighing a deep sigh of relief after reading this :)
crystal- she is so funny!
How nice of Hannah! I love when people do the things they think about.
I always feel better about spewing a little too... better or destitute... hmmm.
I'm sorry you had a rough day. I think it must be some sort of a gift that you can still have Paris in the possibilities without your car registered or health insurance type things... you know I can't work like that. Practical isn't fun, I'm sure it will work out for you.
It seems that everyone is pinching pennies... I am sick of it but still grateful that they do seem to stretch to meet our needs.... blah blah blah.
I'm so happy that people like Hannah have follow through! Amen to being too hot, internet and picture loading be SO slow and Michelle leaving in just 8 weeks (and I don't even have creative friday)!!
I have my own list too but won't add to the burden. I hope the fresh store of ice helps you to fight today's heat!!
I'm thinking I should try this pebble ice thing since I drive past a Sonic every day on the way to the gym. And I can't believe your kids go back to school so soon, that is crazy! I wish my kids went back that soon.
here's what I wish...that my local friends blogged so that I could hear what is going on in their lives so I would know to bring pebble ice, pick up their children, make dinner, give them a call!
I got in a huge argument with Brian when he got home from work yesterday because I said that it was so horribly hot and humid outside...His reply was "It's a little warm and sticky"
I freaked on him because I consider his response as being contrary. Why couldn't he just agree that it was HOT! DAMN HOT!
But he claims he doesn't like to take the extreme position on anything! WHAT THE?! I proceeded to ask him if he says these kinds of things at work and if so, does he have many friends, because I think not!
I'm grieving over the humidity...and the "extra layers" that are bugging the crap out of me right now...
I'm sick of looking so frumpy all the time and never having time to myself to spruce up...what happened to the days where I actually looked in the mirror to give myself the once over before leaving the house...
I'm over the kids being bored--
I'm sick of pinching pennies, too!
and having to account for everything I purchase...
And I'm miserable in this heat...I think it's extra bad because we've had such unseasonable gorgeous, dry weather lately...it has me spoiled...
I wish I knew where to buy pebble ice...
I wish we lived near one another so I could share some of your pebble ice and we could grieve in person...
Ah--grievances! Sometimes it just feels good to let them all out.
I HATE pinching pennies, along with the feeling that I'll never be able to get a "leg up" on my financial life.
I hate not being able to help my daughters finance their college educations.
I hate not having an air conditioned car large enough for my entire family to ride in at once.
I hate it that the closest thing to a family vacation we'll have this summer is going to see the new Harry Potter movie.
I hate having to think up and cook dinner every night, but I hate feeling like a schmuck when I don't fix anything.
I hate feeling whiney when I know I really have much for which to be grateful.
I hate my hair and wish I were 15 pounds lighter.
There--you asked for it.
i DON'T EVEN HAVE PENNIS TO PINCH!
Oh Jill, I just love your posts!
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