This post brought to you by cranky Monday-morning Mary Frances. Let us all pray (for the well-being of Preston, Callie, and Ness) that she disappears sooner rather than later.
In no particular order:
1. The colony of fruit flies that have invaded our kitchen. Although this sort of trap met with a pretty disgusting amount of success last week, for some reason the flies are STILL HERE. I have bleached and deep cleaned our countertops, our trash can, and our sink, and the little buggers still fly into my face from time to time. LEAVE.
2. The fact that my café au lait doesn't magically stay hot while I sip it for two hours (I never said that the things I hated were rational).
3. The damn squirrels that are gathering acorns like hoarders and getting ready to hibernate for winter. I don't begrudge the squirrels themselves, per se, but the fact that they are EVERYWHERE I walk the dogs, and that Ness feels the need to lunge at them every time she sees one.
4. Greek.
5. When I realize that the roll of toilet paper is the last one in the bathroom, and that I'm going to have to go all the way to the storage closet in the hall to get more.
6. Emily Deschanel's new bangs on Bones. Also, Seeley Booth's new girlfriend. Ugh.
7. The fact that my hair does not (ever) look like Blair Waldorf's.
8. Waiting for my soup to finish reheating when I'm ready for lunch.
9. The complete lack of parallel structure to this list.
10. When my Google Reader tells me I have "no unread items." Has there ever been a sadder message?
11. Nate's evil new girlfriend (she is CAH-RAZY, people) on Gossip Girl.
12. Waiting.
13. How sometimes I still feel like I have no idea what I want to do with my life. And how I worry that this feeling will never go away.
14. Watering my plants. I love my plants, but lately watering them has become my least favorite chore EVER. As in, I would rather dust than water the plants (and that's saying a lot).
15. The fact that I am unable to control my eyebrows. Seriously, I get them waxed every few months, pledge to keep them neat, and then, even when I try, after a few months they start looking unruly and Bert-ish. The thought of spending $10 five or six times a year for the rest of my life just to maintain my EYEBROWS annoys me to no end. Arg.
16. How my brother-in-law says that he occasionally just "forgets to eat meals." Does he not get hungry? Because I feel like I live in a constant state of hunger (or at least a constant state of just wanting to have a snack). I am genuinely sad when breakfast is over, get excited for my morning snack, count down the minutes until lunch, etc. etc. It's a vicious cycle, internet.
17. That I've reached number seventeen on this list. Mary Frances, why so hateful?! SIGH.
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1) We have fruit flies, too. They suck. So. Much.
ReplyDelete2) If you send me the measurements of the mug you use, I could knit you a cafe au lait cozy. Just a thought.
Also, in the middle of reading this post, I got up to make a cup of tea. I ripped open the tea bag packet, threw away the tea bag, and tried to put the wrapper in my hot water. Just wanted to share.
ReplyDeleteHaha, thank you for that, Mary. I, too, have thrown away the tea bag and steeped the wrapper. So you are not alone.
ReplyDeleteI totally hear you on number 16. Pretty much as soon as I eat lunch, I start counting down the minutes until I can legitimately have a break for tea & biscuits.
ReplyDeleteI had a really hateful day today too - maybe something in the air? It's only our first day of term so if I'm this grouchy already that does not bode well for the next 8 weeks.
OMG number 16-- welcome to my LIFE!!! I have no idea how my husband can forget to eat any freaking meal.
ReplyDeleteI LOATHE squirrels. Passionately. I will let you know how this dog training gig goes.
ReplyDeleteAnd YES to #16. My hubster also FREQUENTLY forgets to eat. Which frustrates the heck out of me because he then comes home and ravages the kitchen, I have never in my life forgot (forgotten?) to eat, plus his mother then thinks I don't feed him. The man is 28, why is he incapable of feeding himself?
Regarding fruit flies, what kind of fruit do (did) you have? If bananas, try washing them with vinegar as soon as you get them home. Fruit fly eggs love banana skins, and then fruit flies hatch.
ReplyDeleteRegarding forgetting to eat, in the people I know (myself included) who do, it's usually more a matter of something else being more important than eating at the highest peak of hunger. The hunger dissipates as you work, and then it's almost time for the next meal. And then--whoops!--you've forgotten to eat again.
rather than forget to eat, Todd likes to alledge that he is "waiting for me" to eat and will instead eat an entire brick of cheese and box of crackers while waiting for me. Fact: I don't get home from work til after 8pm 6 months out of the year.
ReplyDeleteLuke, thanks so much for the tip. We did indeed have bananas, and I'm sure that's what attracted them.
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