Recently in Rants Category

As I've mentioned before, I have a new toy and a new obsession...  It keeps me out of trouble more or less, so the family is happy about it (more or less)...

So we played golf yesterday afternoon, and as we were loading STUFF into the car, I considered taking my camera.  I opted not to for a couple of reasons:

1. If you're lucky, golf moves fairly quickly (playing not watching HA!) so I didn't think I'd really have time...
2. Besides flowers and insects (and killer attack geese), I've never really seen anything remotely interesting on any of our local golf courses...

As it turns out... Not only was the course PACKED, and so play was exceedingly (IRRITATINGLY) slow, but while we were there we saw...

Two beautiful cranes...

AND

Not one, not two...

But three...

THREE!!!

Baby coyotes!!!  They sauntered across the fairway right in front of us and sat on the sidelines playing while we waited for the people in front of us and I RANTED about not having my camera!!

DAMN!!!

photo: NOT mine since I SUCK!!!

Do people insist on giving me advice I didn't ask for??

Especially about situations they don't really understand anyway?

Is it just a way to make small talk?

Or do they really think they know my situation better than I do???


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Photo: Dries Buytaert

Ever get one of those??  Haha!! FRIKKEN irritating isn't it??


'Haha honey, you're just gonna have to trust me on this one.  I know what I'm doing...'

'And it's OK...'


sigh...


photo: Google public domain

And things I will never do again...

Sitting next to the Make-Your-Own-Sundae bar at Max & Erma's falls under BOTH categories!!!

I'm not sure I've ever seen more:

Accidents waiting to happen
Sleeves coated in ice cream
Life-threatening disappointments
Food as potential weapons
Badly behaved children
Even more badly behaved parents
-and-
People oblivious to the mess they were leaving for someone else


All I can say is...

Stick with the cookies!! Mmmmmmmmmm


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I just wanna BEAT with a stick!!!

(And not in a GOOD way!!!)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

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I have been on my soapbox a number of times recently...

And to the people who've had to listen to me rant, I apologize...

But selfishness, particularly selfishness involving relationships, has really bothered me lately...

I've seen any number of instances where actions have been justified based on pure selfish need, as though that is any justification at all...  If you are going to be selfish, just do it... suck it up and admit it to yourself, and maybe everyone else... that you are being

Selfish

It especially sets me off when someone selfishly expects another person to be SELFLESS...

To make things easier for them... to continue in their selfishness... without guilt...

To me that is just wrong... and it makes me angry...

ANGRY!!!

but why... why angry?

When I actually scale the icy wall and peer through the frosted window to the past... I see that the selfish person...

Is ME...

And I'm angry... at myself... for having done things that are so blatently wrong that I can't stand when others do them... I'm angry that I didn't learn sooner... and I'm angry that others haven't learned...

At all...

photo: John Thackeray

I'm ready to go HOME!!

To my own house...
And my own bed...
And my own stuff...

Vacation is fun...

Being sick on vacation is NOT!!!
 
 
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So why have I put off my shopping so long?????

motivate... motivate... motivate...

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And I HATE answering my house phone...

So how do you think I feel about telephone surveys???

Especially those designed to lead you down a path...

HAHAHAHA!

(I never answer the way they want me to anyway!!!


photo: Google public domain