I'm crabby.

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'm crabby.

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

I feel like poo too, and school is out and almost everybody's home. I have laryngitis and so I can't even yell at them properly! Oh, and my daughter just called and wants a ride home.
I don't have a song stuck in my head, but my autistic son keeps playing the same CD's over and over.

Plus, I had a really obnoxious dude come to my door today trying to sell me something and got annoyed at me when I kept trying to tell him I wasn't interested. He woke me up from a nap too, ringing the doorbell and and banging on the door.

-- Edited by Poncho29 at 14:42, 2007-09-24

-- Edited by arbilad at 16:22, 2007-09-24

zealia · Profuse Pontificator

Hey Jen! Hey Poncho! I feel fine today, but I heard you both loud and clear. Being sick and being over-tired and having a ton demands on you can leave you feeling pretty low. Remember that you are not alone!

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Replace that Miami Sound Machine with some Billy Ocean. Carribean Queen, now we're sharin the same dream......

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Or some really bad El Debarge Rythm of the Night. Gonna feel the rythm of the night dancin to the morning light....

zealia · Profuse Pontificator

I guess I should answer the question what kinds of things make me crabby though that is not my present state.
1. callers at work who are not only demanding but rude
2. when anybody is overly critical of me
3. sometimes you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed
4. being in any type of physical pain
5. being sick
6. sensory overload and the tv is on too loud at my house
7. being too hungry and not able to get food just then
8. if I am more guilt ridden or anxious than usual

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

When I feel like Poo... I mostly just cry a lot... :)

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'm crabby. My husband is Scoutmaster. There's a campout this weekend. I've had two super super busy weeks. My son's t-ball team had to schedule practices right when hubby has Scouts and I have rehearsals.

Where do we cross from being crabby to being ticked off?

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

That line forms behind me.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

good "line" hiccups!

coolcucumbers · Senior Member

Going to an early morning appt, having to drag my kids with me, only to have the doors locked and no one there to let me in! Going home after waiting 25 min past my appt time and no one there yet. To get a phone call as I walk in the door "where are you?"
GRRRRRRR
also...people who hold onto checks I've sent for three weeks so far. people cash the checks in a timely manner please!!!

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Speaking of checks... I work at a bank, and I see lots and lots of checks, usually about 10,000 a night or more. (I encode checks and fix the teller and customer errors in the process, before it goes to the Federal Reserve- which is unconstitutional, but anyway) Some people like to keep their tithing checks until the end of the year and turn them all in together. I HATE this. No reason, it just bugs me. So, just to be the way I am, I will write really big across some of them -- VOID AFTER 6 MONTHS! -- just to freak them out. They go through and get processed as usual.

-- Edited by Cocobeem at 13:10, 2007-09-25

glumirk · Senior Member

Ive been pretty crabby today as well.

here's my day:

-woke up early to work on homework/studying which I was doing in ALL of my spare time yesterday, minus eating and a short FHE.
-found a bite on my arm which means that all of the spraying, vacuuming, fogging, sleeping on an air mattress on the floor is to no avail, the bugs simply will NOT go away.
-took a shower and couldn't pull the little valve up all the way so I only had half a shower and half a bath.
-made some toast and OJ for breakfast, just to be so excited for my morning OJ to taste it and find it was rancid
-when putting away the butter, I dropped it and the tub broke. Not only that, it's a tub from costco, so we'll probably still be using it a year from now.
-went to school and failed a quiz I had been studying for at least 3 hours for, figuring that since I had a solid grasp on the homework that I'd be ok. WRONG!
-Then I had a teacher get mad at me for having solutions to some of the problems because I had taken the course last year and am re-taking it this year.
-along with that I still have 3 homework assignments due this week, as well as 2 tests.

The good news: I'm going to see if I can drop that class I'm retaking. I retook it from a different department last semester, but I wanted to raise my GPA by retaking it from the same department. But this teacher cares even less about our education than France (he's French), and doesn't care that during the review for the test the class is in mass confusion because we don't understand this "intuition" he is talking about because he is a grad student in engineering and actually cares about the research stuff that we are only going to have to know how to look up in the real job (believe me, I've been told so by the head engineers at my work). Granted, we'll probably lose my grant money for the semester, but due to the blessings of tithing I think we'll be ok. And honestly, I like it when learning can be enjoyable, and I've been struggling and panicking over that same class for over a year now and I'm done with it! Without this, I'll be able to actually put good time into ALL of my classes, instead of just doing everything in the order of which it's due. I was thinking of just dropping out of school right now, but I'd miss my other classes, so hopefully I can just drop this one. I'm talking to my adviser tomorrow.

The even better news: I have a loving husband who listens to me when I irrationally break into tears every 5 seconds during the day, and he made me a quasadilla in a frying pan! mmm...and he makes good brownies and ice cream! I love him!

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

#$%^&*(!@#$

Freakin' gotta go to court today for two freakin' trials' #$%%&*!@#

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

mirkwood wrote:

#$%^&*(!@#$

#$%%&*!@#

I don't have to go to court.....but the above is exactly how I feel today. furious

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

If your name was Patricia, you could be a Crabby Patty!

Mmmm... Crabby Patties!! Must get secret formula!!! MUwahahaha! Cuz I went to college!!!

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

I think the crabbiness in this thread is catching. But you're not going to drag me down into your pit of self-pity!!!!

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I love all of you!! And if you're feeling crabby, just remember...

It's better to have your pants filled with crabs than your pants filled with crap... err... or is it the other way around?

--Ray

nitasmile · Senior Member

coolcucumbers wrote:

Going to an early morning appt, having to drag my kids with me, only to have the doors locked and no one there to let me in! Going home after waiting 25 min past my appt time and no one there yet. To get a phone call as I walk in the door "where are you?"
GRRRRRRR
also...people who hold onto checks I've sent for three weeks so far. people cash the checks in a timely manner please!!!

Hey- I have you beat Cool Cucumbers! :) Last year, I wrote a check at a hair place, they didn't cash it for about 8 Months!

nitasmile · Senior Member

rayb wrote:

I love all of you!! And if you're feeling crabby, just remember...

It's better to have your pants filled with crabs than your pants filled with crap... err... or is it the other way around?

--Ray

Oh my, oh my!! Good question. So Ray, when are you going to write your book of Rayisms????

nitasmile · Senior Member

glumirk wrote:

Ive been pretty crabby today as well.

here's my day:

-woke up early to work on homework/studying which I was doing in ALL of my spare time yesterday, minus eating and a short FHE.
-found a bite on my arm which means that all of the spraying, vacuuming, fogging, sleeping on an air mattress on the floor is to no avail, the bugs simply will NOT go away.
-took a shower and couldn't pull the little valve up all the way so I only had half a shower and half a bath.
-made some toast and OJ for breakfast, just to be so excited for my morning OJ to taste it and find it was rancid
-when putting away the butter, I dropped it and the tub broke. Not only that, it's a tub from costco, so we'll probably still be using it a year from now.
-went to school and failed a quiz I had been studying for at least 3 hours for, figuring that since I had a solid grasp on the homework that I'd be ok. WRONG!
-Then I had a teacher get mad at me for having solutions to some of the problems because I had taken the course last year and am re-taking it this year.
-along with that I still have 3 homework assignments due this week, as well as 2 tests.

The good news: I'm going to see if I can drop that class I'm retaking. I retook it from a different department last semester, but I wanted to raise my GPA by retaking it from the same department. But this teacher cares even less about our education than France (he's French), and doesn't care that during the review for the test the class is in mass confusion because we don't understand this "intuition" he is talking about because he is a grad student in engineering and actually cares about the research stuff that we are only going to have to know how to look up in the real job (believe me, I've been told so by the head engineers at my work). Granted, we'll probably lose my grant money for the semester, but due to the blessings of tithing I think we'll be ok. And honestly, I like it when learning can be enjoyable, and I've been struggling and panicking over that same class for over a year now and I'm done with it! Without this, I'll be able to actually put good time into ALL of my classes, instead of just doing everything in the order of which it's due. I was thinking of just dropping out of school right now, but I'd miss my other classes, so hopefully I can just drop this one. I'm talking to my adviser tomorrow.

The even better news: I have a loving husband who listens to me when I irrationally break into tears every 5 seconds during the day, and he made me a quasadilla in a frying pan! mmm...and he makes good brownies and ice cream! I love him!

Oh Glumrick, I can relate to some aspects!

I recall dropping a physics class, when I was doing prereqs for grad school. I had studied 2 hours and didn't get it. I decided to quit, also the teacher was a foreign grad assistant and I didn't understand his English at all.

So I dropped the class, later retook an easier version of Physics (ie w/less math) and then did very well.

Want to hear my story of my teacher yelling at me?? When I was in grad school, one of my required classes was a cadaver lab. So you can imagine w/6 bodies we had in there, it wasn't that great of a smell. The smell combined w/the bodies in the state of being opened and studied was just not always pleasant, though of course it is sacred to see bodies in that condition. Anyway,it was a miracle I got through that class.

Anyway, one day I was the first to arrive, I arrived about 20 minutes early. The room was locked til the prof arrived. So then he arrived, we all walked in to our seats (in one part of the classroom). As soon as I got in the room, I had to walk right out as the smell got to me and I started to gag. When I walked back in, the teacher yelled at me don't you walk out like that -saying something we need to sit and not just walk out. So I went up to him later and apoligized and said I had been the first student to arrive that day, but that I have a sensitive stomach and the smell got to me, and I had to leave to get fresh air. He was kind and deomonstrated good concern. and just said next time to tell him, instead of just walking out.

-- Edited by nitasmile at 20:22, 2007-09-26

nitasmile · Senior Member

Here is why I was irritated/crabby a couple days ago. In fact, I almost wrote about this back then but at the time was too annoyed to do so. I'll edit it out tomorrow night, for privacy reasons!! But in meantime, I'll share w/my online family in Bountiful!! :)

Basically, at work, one of my male coworkers is having a baby (rather his wife! :) ) Anyway, they are due soon, and so I thought we could have a baby shower for him. My vision was to have a nice lunch, invite his wife and other child and have a fun celebration. Though he works here part-time, as he has another fulltime job, I think he is a great coworker and thought this would be good.

Anyway, I got a couple coworkers in support of the idea before I approached my supervisors.So when I approach my supervisors, they said we don't do showers for second babies (even though this coworker wasn't here when they had the first baby). Well they they wished to think about it, as they didn't wish to be unfair to others w/second babies and that they've never had second baby showers. They said they'd perefer we just bring a gift on the side if we want but not really have a "party"( as to 2nd showers, well yes we have- TWO in fact!!) They said get back to them but when I did they were busy. So one coworker and I decided to do this unofficial thing early this week. (tues) Due to the neg attitude of the supervisors, I decided we'd just have a little dessert, not invite his wife/other child and just have whoever wished to bring a gift do so. (ETA: and we just brought containers so we could send some dessert home for his wife and other child). But the neg attitude really dampened my spirit, I can't say how frustrated I was w/this whole thing.

OK- so Monday I put up a sign reminding folks, and within minutes, my supervisor took it down, turned it over and eventually threw it away!! So a couple people left not knowing about this. Anyway- basically my supervisor was upset w/me for having kind of organized this. She felt it would be unfair to others w/second babies- and had truly wanted time to think of the best approach. Also, she didn't want some staff feeling hurt, etc if they weren't "invited". Well, I did have several that were interested in participating in this, I didn't tell all the coworkers due to some have been there only for a very short time. (again due to the neg attitutude, I didn't advertise this as I would have otherwise. Have you ever felt so discouraged by an attitude that you just sort of lose the positive attitude you had?? Well that was me w/this thing). I felt the sign would inform those who didn't know, etc. But of course since they removed the sign, a couple ended up not knowing. (one of the reasons for the sign removal was I used the word "reminder") I know the whole thing was short notice, but again several of the interested people did know last week. It was just we wanted to do this before the baby arrives. (as they expect it early). Anyway, when my supervisor critizued what I had done, I did have one coworker defend me and others have expressed support. The whole thing was just so frustrating to me.

We did have the dessert and stuff yesterday, the cowoker was appreciative and luckily didn't know. I think he seemed sincerely appreciative. So long as he, his wife and new baby are happy, who cares. My supervisor wasn't happy w/me, I don't think- didn't talk w/me yesterday but today was kinder. And I am thankful the coworkers were supportive of me in this. Again, she says she knows I was trying to do something kind but feels I didn't communicate it well. (basically since some knew and some didn't.) Fair enough, but again, had they just given a go ahead, it would have worked out. Also that whole second shower thing bugged me, as one of my coworkers said, it is all about trying to celebrate the special things in people's lives.

Anyway. So right now hearing the word baby shower makes me feel crabby.

-- Edited by nitasmile at 20:46, 2007-09-26

-- Edited by nitasmile at 20:48, 2007-09-26

zealia · Profuse Pontificator

Glumrick, I am sorry you had such a top ten worst day! When I was in school, I felt weight lifted at my shoulders at times when I dropped classes. Either times, I was glad that I stuck it out. I hope whatever is best for you will work out.

Nita, I think rat lab is the closest I could handle. I couldn't take your class. Oh, the rat was alive and I had to train it. I hated dissecting in high school Biology!

nitasmile · Senior Member

Zeilia- I could never do a rat lab. I am so afraid of them, they give me the creeps. Scary!!

zealia · Profuse Pontificator

Nita, you make me feel so brave lol. This rat was of the domesticated type and was quite docile. I thought he was a genius rat at first and we would finish well ahead of the other rats. But we pretty much finished right on time. Maybe we should have a rat lab reuinion lol.

Am I getting off topic. Sorry that I am not grumpy enough to engage in grumpy discourse at the moment hehehe.

There are some people that did something to upset me at my house yesterday, but I am trying to get past all that. It was not family or anybody invited. I will leave it at that as I don't want to open the flood gates.

nitasmile · Senior Member

zealia wrote:

Nita, you make me feel so brave lol. This rat was of the domesticated type and was quite docile.

Well you are!! As far as I am concerned, the only good rats are those in Cartoons, any other rat fills me w/fear.

Hope your other problem is ok, it is good to be able to just let pain go to keep the flood gates shut. Hang in there! Feel peace and happiness! :)

zealia · Profuse Pontificator

Thanks Nita. I go back and forth and know that I really should let things go a lot better sometimes!

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Ok, I'm more zippy than crabby today, but I have one thing that is driving me NUTS. I have an invisible sliver on one knuckle that gets rubbed by the next finger over. I cannot find the flippin thing.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Grey skies are gonna clear up!
Put on a happy face!!
Wipe up those tears and cheer up!
Put on a happy face!!

Spreeeeeeeaad Sunshine all over the place!!!

...ew...

And PUT ON A HAPPY FACE!!!

--Ray

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'll be sure to do that just as soon as I take my cough syrup with codeine. Then I'll be feeling happy.

MegaMatt · Veteran Member

Glumirk should be taking her crabby solid mechanics test in about a half hour. Keep a prayer in your heart and maybe she won't be so crabby tonight!

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

mirkwood wrote:

#$%^&*(!@#$

Freakin' gotta go to court today for two freakin' trials' #$%%&*!@#

Convictions on both cases, but I still hate going to court. bleh

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Hey! Better than jury duty!

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

I SO want to do jury duty. I've even thought of calling downtown and telling them to please call me! I'll do it willingly. I'd love to experience it just once. I've gotten into the jury box to be questioned by the attorneys, but they never pick me. Dangit. I'll never serve on a civil trial (work in insurance), but I could be chosen for a criminal trial. I think I'm the only person that yells, "Yippee!" when I get a jury summons.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

HA! We're the opposite! I start practicing my "I hate the gubment and if someone's in court, they're probably guilty and we need to bring back Hangings!" Get my disguises out... blacken a tooth, etc....

arbilad · Head Chef

I got called for jury duty when I was on my mission. Needless to say I was able to get out of it. Last year I got called again. Not only was I not able to get out of it, the other jurors elected me foreman.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

How was it, btw? (I only get called to jury duty when I'm lactating and can't go, so I've never got to see what it's like.)

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I got called once before my first was born. I went down, hung around all day... When they finally got my group together, we went up to the courtroom where they told us the case wasn't going to come to trial after all and nevermind, you can go home, but thanks for coming. Nice. Oh well, I got paid time off from work to read and watch old Sidney Pointier movies.

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

I'm not crabby....but I wanna grumble about something.

I absolutely hate (and I don't use that word often) the Christmas song, "Christmas Shoes." There, I've said it. It's a dumb, stupid, sappy, I-wanna-make-you-cry and if-you-don't-cry-you're-heartless song.

arbilad · Head Chef

beefche wrote:

I'm not crabby....but I wanna grumble about something.

I absolutely hate (and I don't use that word often) the Christmas song, "Christmas Shoes." There, I've said it. It's a dumb, stupid, sappy, I-wanna-make-you-cry and if-you-don't-cry-you're-heartless song.

Amen and say hallelujah! I can't stand that song! I want to rip the radio out of the car and throw it (the radio) under a semi whenever that song comes on!

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

It is a dumb, sappy Christmas song that makes no sense whatsoever. Can't stand it either.

Did people mention jury duty on here awhile back? I got called to jury duty once down in Ohio.
But it was shortly after we moved here to Michigan. I had to call them and tell that unless they wanted me to commute from Michigan to Ohio that I no longer lived there. I think I had to send something to prove I no longer resided in Ohio. Can't remember. But it would have been interesting to see what jury duty would have been like.

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

As much as I hate that song, I LOVE the Muppet 12 days of Christmas. They just don't play it enough on the radio....

I got a jury summons while on my mission. Thankfully, I had the foresight to get a temporary POA for my mom who was able to send something in to excuse me.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Today is gonna be a great day... I'm about to go into a classroom and make a complete mess of things... creating art with kids, and i've practiced NOTHING... I can't wait to tell you how badly this goes... :)

--Ray

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

Way to go Ray! That's the spirit! Go create mayhem in a classroom. How fun. Knock yourself out!

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Ooh, maybe a quick reminder to the kids of what to do in an emergency before knocking yourself out, but then go for it!

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

rayb wrote:
When I feel like Poo... I mostly just cry a lot... :)

I had to go back and read the thread, cause I didn't remember it... This was posted before your avatar change ray... and now it is hysterical!!!!

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

I was thinking the same thing. When Ray feels like poo, you know it's gonna hurt.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Here is a link for Dyany to help with "crabby-ness pain"...

I am not touting a cure, but I have been able to take fewer pain meds lately, when I use the hot/cold packs... hubby took a chance on it at Costco a few weeks ago...

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

rayb wrote:
Today is gonna be a great day... I'm about to go into a classroom and make a complete mess of things... creating art with kids, and i've practiced NOTHING... I can't wait to tell you how badly this goes... :)

--Ray

The great thing about art and kids (at least elementary kids) is that you can't mess it up, because they will love it anyway.

BTW, how did it go, really?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The art lesson went really well. I always come away from talking with kids energized... it's so different from my profession. I enjoyed talking about the very bizarre life saying effectively that while his art is in some ways admirable, none of the children should fashion their lives after the man who was the artist, as he lied to people most of his life, and eventually hung himself. :) Then we started making paint. We used egg yolk, and common items like berries, beet juice, carrot juice, all sorts of fun spices... Personally I thought beet juice (we actually "juiced" a beet with a juicer, and the tumeric turned out best. The kids loved the Cocoa, but it made most of their paints brown. :)

Anyhow the kids had a blast MAKING the paint. They infact liked making the paint more than actually PAINTING with the paint. Which was great.

I also explained a bit about the paint, how it has a binder (or fixer), and pigment, and a little about the chemical process... I also explained about Linseed Oil and spontaneous combustion, due to exothermic reactions...

So like most things I do, I combined history, art and science into one fun and very messy activity. The kids liked it and at one point the teacher, almost sounding too surprised said, "This is really fun!"

She saved the paints, which I had the kids each make in their own ziploc baggie, though I wanted to throw them away... It occurs to me, that the next day the teachers had their own conferences, I have to wonder if she shared it with her fellow teachers.

Anyhow it was very fun, I have their artwork and will try displaying them. Each painting has the kid's name, and then the name of the ingredients used in their paint.

--Ray