Peeves.
When I am truly, fully annoyed by something, I hate using the term "pet" peeves. It seems so diminishing to reference a legitimately angering thing as a "pet" anything. So here are my Peeves (yes, with a captial "P") for the week.
1) An acquaintance of mine who I had some respect for had a sequence of FB posts that seemed really off to me. One was a post about how we should "bring back the death penalty 100% - like and share", followed IMMEDIATELY with a post about showing kindness and understanding to everyone. She wasn't being ironic or sarcastic, but something definitely felt "ick" because I couldn't wrap my head around someone who would post both of those things back to back and not see the contrast there. Never mind that it costs more to terminate a life in prison than it does to give them a life sentence. So really, it's not about money or justice, but revenge. And none of that translates into kindness. My two cents. And that two cents is landing here instead of on FB because she's a work-related contact that I can't afford to piss off right now, so I'm trying to stay diplomatic about it, but I can't say I won't feel differently about her moving forward. Am I being judgy? Probably. But at least I'm not putting anyone to death over it.
2) It is absolutely near impossible to get decent psychiatric care with an HMO insurance plan in California. I've been trying for weeks now to try and line something up for my youngest, and given their autism and aversion to getting on long phone calls to begin with, the whole process is turning into fuel for their already existing anxieties.
3) People that ask you to do something because THEY don't want to do it, and then complain and/or dictate how you should be doing it, or how they WOULD have done it, if it was them, rather than just saying "Gee, thanks for doing that thing for me that's usually my job but I didn't feel like doing today." I nearly bit someone's head off about it yesterday, I was getting so annoyed.
4) People (particularly those of a male persuasion) who see you getting annoyed, when you are legitimately upset about something that MATTERS, and then ask you if it's your "time of the month". Dude, even if it WAS my time of the month, would that be the right time to ask? No. Because NO time is the right time to ask that! No woman ever calmed down after being asked that question. Not ever.
That concludes my rant for the day. Possibly the week. I don't know, we'll see where the days lead.
1) An acquaintance of mine who I had some respect for had a sequence of FB posts that seemed really off to me. One was a post about how we should "bring back the death penalty 100% - like and share", followed IMMEDIATELY with a post about showing kindness and understanding to everyone. She wasn't being ironic or sarcastic, but something definitely felt "ick" because I couldn't wrap my head around someone who would post both of those things back to back and not see the contrast there. Never mind that it costs more to terminate a life in prison than it does to give them a life sentence. So really, it's not about money or justice, but revenge. And none of that translates into kindness. My two cents. And that two cents is landing here instead of on FB because she's a work-related contact that I can't afford to piss off right now, so I'm trying to stay diplomatic about it, but I can't say I won't feel differently about her moving forward. Am I being judgy? Probably. But at least I'm not putting anyone to death over it.
2) It is absolutely near impossible to get decent psychiatric care with an HMO insurance plan in California. I've been trying for weeks now to try and line something up for my youngest, and given their autism and aversion to getting on long phone calls to begin with, the whole process is turning into fuel for their already existing anxieties.
3) People that ask you to do something because THEY don't want to do it, and then complain and/or dictate how you should be doing it, or how they WOULD have done it, if it was them, rather than just saying "Gee, thanks for doing that thing for me that's usually my job but I didn't feel like doing today." I nearly bit someone's head off about it yesterday, I was getting so annoyed.
4) People (particularly those of a male persuasion) who see you getting annoyed, when you are legitimately upset about something that MATTERS, and then ask you if it's your "time of the month". Dude, even if it WAS my time of the month, would that be the right time to ask? No. Because NO time is the right time to ask that! No woman ever calmed down after being asked that question. Not ever.
That concludes my rant for the day. Possibly the week. I don't know, we'll see where the days lead.