Today is Shaping up to SUCK

Okay, so that�might be slightly over dramatic.� The morning is just having its share of irritations.� Irritation #1 is really bugging me today.� Why can't I get straight answers for things I need?� Why does he always talk over me when I am trying to get to the answer?� Irritation #2 I usually don't see on Wednesdays, but because they are calling for a few inches of snow tonight, this irritation is coming in today.� It's like a double whammy.� And that irritation talks too...A LOT and basically says nothing, especially nothing positive...about anything.� You know the type.



So my motto of the day is:

I don't need anger management; you just need to stop pissing me off!







Then there is the teenager I am currently living with.� These people are difficult!� He thinks I am the most unreasonable person in the world because I parent him.� He has this friend up the road, M.� Now M, from my point of view, pretty much gets to run the neighborhood as he wants to.� My kids do this to a certain extent, but come dark, in the winter, I want them inside.� The teen does not get this.� I try to explain to him that there is a difference with kids being outside at 8:30 or 9:00 in June and kids being outside at 8:30 or 9:00 in February.� Summer months it is daylight longer, plus people are outside and out and about.� Winter, people are in, snuggled in front of their television, wishing to hell spring would get here (or maybe that is just me).



The teen also tends to do some stupid stuff when he is with M, such as having snowball fights across our neighbor's front porch (the neighbor who is elderly and has Parkinson's.) or taking off on their bikes to ride downtown without asking.� So last night when kickboxing time came around, my teen wanted to stay home and play with M, to which I told him no.� Then he asked if he could go back out once we got home and again, I told him no,� because by the time we got home and ate dinner it would be 8:15.� So he sulked and didn't speak to me at Y until the end of kickboxing.� Of course, I told Jack McFarland and my kickboxing buddies the evil I had done and they all agreed that I was being responsible, they would do the same thing, and that he is�a teen and is supposed to be angry with me all the time.� It's just hard when you want to make your kids happy but yet you can't always do that and still be a responsible parent...and the kids don't get that and won't until they have kids of their own.� Oy.



Walmart also pisses me off.� Why is it one week they have plenty of everything I need and the next week they are out of the stuff I buy every freaking week?� I think the people who do the ordering need new jobs or something.� They used to carry my Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax bars and then a year and a half ago, they quit carrying them.� Oh, they still carried Kashi products, but not those and then some silly woman who worked there told me Kashi was no longer sending them out to this part of the country.� Really?� Then why can I get them at Martins, Weis and Target?� They are in the same TOWN.� Oy.



And every few weeks they are out of my Crystal Light Wild Strawberry drink mix.� Always that flavor!� Shouldn't that maybe tell someone they need to be ordering more?� So now today I have to go to a store or twelve to find this stuff and the Kashi bars.� And to get the best price, I have to go to different stores.� Oy.



/vent...I think.



Today I am working out on my new treadmill.� Not sure if i will be running as kickboxing was brutal last night and my legs were still aching from Monday's run.



So what are you all grumpy about today?



And Robyn, thanks for the pep talk. I appreciate it.� I don't think I have completely lost my touch either, though there was a time when I would have thought exactly that, but not anymore.� I do find it funny that at 300+ pounds, I was always cast and that now that I am close to normal, it didn't happen.�� Amuses me greatly!