Things Annoying Me Lately

1. When people host a party where they serve wine and snacks, but offer no desserts. It really does drive me nuts. I went to a Stella & Dot/Pampered Chef party last night, and with the wine and appetizers, there was also several homemade cookie options and M&Ms. That is good hosting!
2. Dust, or just the fact that no one has come forward to volunteer to be my live-in maid. Volunteer.
3. Abortion being the only thing people care about when they vote. It's going to take another Supreme Court case; a Republican president can't do it alone. (Says the girl voting for Mitt Romney. I just tend to be more fiscally conservative, and I think that covers more of what I see as a problem right now and who I think would better handle said problem.)
3. My sweet daughter is having a tough, emotional time at school. It's not annoying, but a definite dislike.
4. My car radio has 6 preset buttons with the potential for actually 18 because there is a FM, an FM1, and FM2. For some reason, I hate that, and wish that it were FM1, FM2, and FM3. Wish Volkswagen had consulted me on that, all those many years ago.
5. I am in the throws of a full-out sweet tea addiction, with headaches and all. Help!
6. We went and saw Trampled by Turtles the other night, and a group of people kept yelling out weird, obscene, and/or redneck statements throughout the show. You've heard me say it before, this is my #1 pet peeve in life. THEY HAVE A SET-LIST. SHOUTING OUT REQUESTS DOES NOT WORK. And, after Saturday night, I might vomit the next time I hear someone say, "Merica!"
7. Outlet malls. I mean, who has made a good decision there?
8. My gray hairs that are about to fall victim to an at-home color box.

Things That Annoy Me

1. How long it takes iTunes to open
2. People thinking Nutella is a health food- just because the commercial says its made with skim milk and cocoa does not make it healthy
3. How Bravo shows have a fake-out scene at about the 40 minute mark that is just a non-essential scene to squeeze in more commercials
4. When people say someone has "drank the Kool-Aid"
5. Laundry
6. My eye doctor makes me fill out information papers EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO IN. Nothing has changed! I'm going to muster the strength to refuse next time.
7. Neither of my children can blow their nose
8. When I have a great idea on Draw Something, but my non-artistic gorilla fingers can't execute
9. When my showering and running schedule require me to shower more than every other day
10. If my car is dirty (much more than if, as in #9, my body is dirty)
11. I always get the wrong USB cord out when I want to load photos on the computer. Then, when I get the right one, I always try to put it in upside down.
12. The gas station "Kum & Go." I will only frequent the one in Hollister on 65, because they do have good fountain drinks.
13. Bad pens
14. People who don't put their health as a top priority. Especially if they constantly complain about their weight or their poor health.

Some Maybe Controversial And Surprising Things I Don't Like

1. Oprah
2. Time zones
3. Time changes
4. Dr. Seuss books
5. Tim Gunn
6. Coffee
7. Jeans
8. Peanut butter
9. Sufjan Stevens music
10. The NFL
11. Apparently, I have a ton of these, from my "dislikes" tag
12. Pretzels
13. Hot fudge
14. Talking about politics

Things I Don't Like

1. Chocolate chip cookie dough anything

2. Our "G" key doesn't work on the laptop. You have to aggressively press it a few times to get one. Then you get four.

3. Everything I really want to buy is really expensive

4. Gum

5. Wearing a coat

6. Exposed socks. I will only wear socks if they are hidden under boots.

7. The violent opposition my son has to potty training

8. This list blog lately

9. Toffee bits

10. High-fives

11. The white film on my car during the wintertime

12. Our tiled shower is really hard to keep clean

13. The month of February

Dislikes Of The Week

1. Beer can chicken- nothing's as sadly disgusting as seeing them innocently perched on a beer can, looking like a fat little baby on the grill. Top Chef this week scarred me deeply.

2. Having pimple on your forehead that causes your two-year-old son to ask, "You have ladybug on your head?"

3. W being overly-dramatic and her new phrase being, "You're breaking my whole life!" which I assume is a variation of you're breaking my heart. Common phrases just aren't enough for my girl.

4. Losing one tiny itty bity little toy- I just can't let it go. I spent 4 hours trying to find the one-inch tall Chip (of Chip and Dale fame). Success came when I took the cover off of R's carseat and found it deep in the base.

5. Dairy yogurt. It has gone the way of milk, and I find it completely disgusting.

6. Getting a ticket for rolling a stop sign in the residential neighborhood behind W's school

7. Two sad and dead, naked Christmas trees still in my loft

8. Not being able to see my grandparents more

9. Not being able to go to Schnucks and have my children not scream and whine for a free cookie. A perfect example of doing something once and having to do it forever. Should have never went down the free cookie road.

10. Where, oh where, are Mad Men and 30 Rock?

11. TV shows thinking they're in college and taking these long winter breaks

12. No curly-haired Disney princesses- my daughter longs for Sleeping Beauty's long, straight, blond hair and doesn't appreciate how beautiful her hair is.

13. What a picky eater my daughter is

14. Homeless Christmas toys have taken over my loft.

15. W's teacher aide resigned to take on full-time cookie sales. I am so devastated, as I thought she was nothing short of the cat's pajamas.

Smells I Don't Like

1. Damp Cheerios. When I worked in the baby room at a day care, I thought I needed a gas mask during snack time.

2. The car after fast food

3. My clothes after Mexican food or coffee place

4. Coins or my hands after I've touched change...

5. Barbecue sauce

6. Lunch meat

7. My childrens feet when they don't wear socks

8. That plastic-y/chemical smell on some toys that I consequently do not purchase

9. Kentucky Fried Chicken

10. The Disney Store, which is really all of their perfumes and whatnot. It's horrifying.

11. Tires

12. Winter-believe me, it does have a smell, and I resent it.

13. Books you check out from the library

Things That Are Annoying Me Lately

1. People, in general

2. Things that I view as a waste of time

3. High-pitched squealing. Coming from my toddlers.

4. The high price of school photos

5. My dog keeps peeing in the hallway or the elevator

6. Headaches, that I never had before, but I guess a concussion can leave you prone to them forever

7. My inability to find a great pair of jeans

8. How slowly some people walk across the street when you motion them to from your car

9. How long it has taken Nordstrom to open at the Galleria. Now that it's just a week away after all these 4 years, the annoyance has surprisingly increased. Open already!

10. My dining room table. Always looks disgusting. With or without a tablecloth. I would throw the whole thing out the window if I knew it wouldn't hurt anyone and if I didn't have to clean up the glassy mess.

11. Finding something that was once delicious but was hidden in the fridge and now is spoiled and has to be thrown away

12. Laundry. I usually actually like to do laundry.

13. I need a night out.

14. Stepping on Brio track

15. My throat has been killing me for days. I just want to swallow properly and pain-free.

16. Bachelor Pad. Thank goodness it's over. It's good enough to watch, but somehow bad enough to not enjoy.

Pinterest Pet Peeves

1. Crafting with paint samples

2. Furniture made from pallets

3. Those mummy dogs- made from hot dogs or viennie wienies and crescent rolls- that just won't seem to go away

4. When someone, instead of repinning one of your original pins, goes to the website and pins it themselves also

5. When the pin's description ends with "GENIUS!" or "Why didn't I think of this?!"

6. While most people think it's a great go-to spot for teacher gifts, I think the opposite. I think teachers don't want your homemade crafts. You might think, "but they did love it!" Well, I was a teacher, and I pretended to like a lot of things, too. At least attach a gift card or something. My favorite gifts were thoughtful letters/notes and a gift card.

7. Maybe #6 has roots in this other pet peeve of mine...crafts that have cheesy taglines, like a bag of Rolos (I mean, your teacher served your family for an entire school year for little pay- give her something nicer than a bag of Rolos!) with a tag that says--YOU ROLO-VER THE REST!

8. I should stop now before I continue to offend people

I Don't Like

1. Cantaloupe

2. Tight spaces

3. Those stick-figure families on the backs of minivans

4. The neon clothing trend

5. Cilantro

6. Water in the morning

7. Stepping on Brio track

8. Dr. Seuss books

9. Hot pie

10. Muscle cars

11. Driving

12. Salad bars

13. Water bottles

14. Dirty car interiors

15. Cold weather

16. Wearing socks

17. Feeling phony or insincere

18. Goat cheese

19. Taking hot showers

20. When people leave their windshield wipers on too long after it's clearly stopped raining

Things I'm Not Down With

1. Saying vacay. Come on, just one more syllable is all! Especially men saying it. There's no better way to sound like a sorority girl heading out for spring break.
2. Having to wear North Face outerwear to an Easter egg hunt. Where am I?
3. Referring to people as "cuz". My cousins an I are all from tiny towns without any fancy schooling and we all manage to refer to each other as "cousin"
4. Those shoes that have toes. I don't even know what they are called. I don't want to know. Because then the nightmares will surely start if they take up any more of my brain space.
5. When I am folding laundry and I think something is inside out, so I fix it, only to realize it was right in the beginning, and then I have to fix it again. Ahh!
6. Ferrets as pets
7. Waking up any less than 1 hour before you have to wake up to go to the bathroom.
8. Lions and tigers as pets. That's just asking for trouble.
9. People stealing copper. My husband especially hates this.
10. This public school in Chicago banning packed lunches from home.
11. My laundry room right now. It's become the mecca for all things crappy and displaced.

12. Clorox "Green Works" line. Just stick to the toxic stuff, please and let the legitimate green companies make cleaners for us. The subpar quality is only giving green cleaners a bad rap for the general population.

13. The gas prices. I hear they're high. I should start paying attention.

What I Don't Enjoy Being Forced Into

1. High fives
2. Pinkie swears
3. When a speaker/pastor/musician asks how everyone is doing, isn't satisfied with the response, so says things like "you can do better than that!" or "I can't hear you!" and makes you shout until they are satisfied.
4. Dancing solo inside a circle at weddings
5. The "wave"
6. Giving "pounds"--I even hate saying that one
7. Side hugs
8. Dressing in costume

I Don't Like...

1. Store-bought baked goods/packaged cookies (one exception- Nutter Butters)
2. Waking up before 8:00
3. Watching poker tournaments on TV
4. Clutter
5. Cords
6. When jeans bunch up behind my knees
7. Female business clothes
8. Walking into the bathroom and finding my one year old shaving his face with a disposable razor
9. Public restrooms
10. Tampons
11. Socks- I rarely wear them
12. Smugness
13. Broken vases
14. Feeling sick
15. Hurry up-ing and waiting
16. When people use full-body paint and go to a sporting event
17. That no one uses cursive handwriting anymore
18. Saying "pork loin"
19. The Duke cheerleading uniforms tonight
20. Clowns
21. Cleaning bathroom tiles
22. Snow
23. Popping knuckles
24. Movie popcorn
25. Coffee
26. Products that come over-packaged



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Qualities I Especially Dislike In People

1. People with chips on their shoulder

2. Overly defensive people

3. People who have a short fuse/quick to anger

4. When people always think their opinion is fact

5. People who flaunt their intelligence as a way to feel important

6. People who always play the victim

7. People who can't take a joke

Things That I Don't Like

1. Buzz words

2. All of these Charlie St. Cloud trailers

3. Well, and Zac Efron

4. T-shirts that are too short

5. 6 hour car drives

6. When people play the victim

7. Car alarms

8. The commercials when you are watching something on the internets

9. When fruits or veggies are secretly rotted in the inside

10. My dog licking me

11. My itchy head. Could I have head lice?

12. R constantly throwing his cup on the ground from his high chair

13. Those sandwich board advertisers for restaurants that take up the whole sidewalk

14. Runny noses
15. Commercials that scream at you
16. Commercials (mostly furniture & car places) that showcase a lady with bad hair and clothes who thinks she's pretty hot
17. Terrible kids menu options
18. Air blowing into my face
19. Dry contacts
20. Thinly-veiled marketing strategies
21. Bad font choices
22. Fake Southern accents
23. Being between sizes
24. Not being able to sleep when you desperately want to
25. Smugness
26. Mealy apples

Things I Don't Care A Lick About

1. Where LeBron James plays basketball

2. Tiger Woods or his sexual escapades

3. Exercise (I'm saving that for 2011)

4. Big Brother (the show)

5. Sun damage

Online Pet Peeves

1. When people's facebook status are in the form of a letter..."Dear so and so,"

2. People who type WooooHooo! all over the place

3. Overusing exclamation marks. People don't talk like that.

4. Those smily faces made out of colons and a parenthesis

5. Overuse of all caps

6. People who don't update their blogs. I mean, I guess it's their business, but I want an update.

Things That Are Annoying Me

1. People who don't update their blogs

2. Feel like everything is waiting on May...farmers markets, zoo exhibits, Eckerts, summer hours, etc.

3. The housing market

4. Whining (mine too, but mostly W's)

5. Disgusting food that is horrible and bad for us is on every corner

6. Kids not appreciating the glory of a nap or nighttime sleep

7. The "news"

8. Spray bottles that refuse to spray, but only stream.

Things I Don't Like

1. Weird neighbors
2. Feeling anxious
3. Not getting any sleep
4. Stressful encounters with Santa
5. Feeling like a bad doggy mommy
6. Breastfeeding
7. Nausea
8. W fighting sleep
9. When I forget about some produce I've bought (apples today) and find them, oh too late
10. Melted ice cream

Things I Don't Like

1. Piles (papers, toys, clothes, etc)
2. Blogs that have music on them. Nothing scares the crap out of me like a sudden, loud, Christian song.
3. Cow milk
4. "Muddy Face" as Kelli from Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders calls it
5. Times Square
6. Anything coffee
7. Cleaning bathrooms
8. Staying up late
9. Lady jeans on guys
10. Manjewelry
11. The following songs: Barbie World, How Bizarre, Who Let The Dogs Out
12. Gooey Butter Cake
13. Tank top sweaters
14. The "Rachel" haircut
15. Orchestra performances
16. Highlighter markers
17. Hair that is crunchy

People On TV I Don't Like

1. Wendy Pepper from Project Runway 1st season
2. Tom's girlfriend on Secret Life of the American Teenager
3. Dale from Top Chef a couple seasons back
4. Oprah (sorry, Anne)
5. Stanley from The Office
6. Grey's Anatomy- Dr. Hahn (so glad she's gone, but Aaron, I know you miss her)
7. The girl from P. Diddy's Starmaker who sang "Because of You" on Sunday
8. Any time Eric Stoltz is on TV...he creeps me out and is always in my nightmares! I'm sure he's nice in real life, though.
9. Vicky from Biggest Loser a couple seasons ago