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Post by mrsp on May 14, 2020 15:32:50 GMT
My husband leaves a tiny bit of coffee in the carafe but doesn’t turn the coffee burner off so it just evaporates and has to be scrubbed off. It is driving me crazy! His resolution is to just add water and stick it in the sink “to soak”. Coincidentally that is what he does with every other dish or glass he touches all day long so he doesn’t have to load the dishwasher.
And when/if he unloads the dishwasher, he puts everything he doesn’t know where it goes on the island. We have lived here ten years, I don’t move stuff around. All the stuff that is a mystery to him either requires bending down or picking up something to put away.
I’m pretty sure I’m not perfect but I don’t have actual proof... lololol.
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Post by lindas on May 14, 2020 15:56:42 GMT
I'm pretty laid back, it takes a lot to finally set me off but I've reached that limit. Everything irritates me, I even irritate myself!
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Post by RosieKat on May 14, 2020 16:01:42 GMT
Never ever being alone is annoying me. And I love my family and realize there are people quarantining alone who are miserable. So I feel guilty. But gosh a few hours alone would be nice. Me, too. Also, the fact that DS is being a deliberate pain in the ass today. DD can't keep anything straight on her ever-changing schedule. I am not sleeping well at all. I ideally need 9 hours of sleep, got all of about 4 last night. Sports are reopening for both kids. I'm OK with DD doing swimming, but I'm really not sure about DS getting back to the gym (gymnastics). Swimming is inherently safer, and I also know the owners will do what they've said they will do and they are very conscious of cleanliness even at other times. Gymnastics...well, there's really no way to keep a gym truly clean. DH thinks I'm a bit crazy for being hesitant so we're not really in agreement - and I don't know if I'm just being overly paranoid. My kid definitely needs to get some hardcore physical activity, and it's driving all of us crazy while he isn't. I just don't know what the right answer is. Dishes. Always always more dishes. People interrupting me whenever I'm trying to do anything for myself, or go to my room for some alone moments. (My room is, of course, attached to the TV room, dammit.)
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Post by schizo319 on May 14, 2020 16:10:16 GMT
Dear coworker/supervisor. If I do not respond to your email within 2 minutes, please assume that I am researching your question/issue and will reply when I have an answer for you. I am standing at my desk like I do every single day from 5:30am until 2pm and as yet, it hasn't taken me longer than half an hour to respond to any email I have gotten for the past 2 months. It is not necessary for you to send me a text and call my cell phone to ask the same question - I don't have an answer for you yet - when I DO have an answer, I swear on all that is holy you will be the very first person on planet earth to know it.
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Post by paget on May 14, 2020 16:26:56 GMT
Oh boy...
First is logging in here. For the last few days I keep getting an error (my user name and password haven’t stayed in for about 2 years now so I have to log in each time) but now I have to do it multiple times for it to finally work.
Another is seeing people here and on FB in other parts of the country talking about the things they are doing like dog grooming, haircuts- I really need those things and we are still stuck with nothing. I get it, I get all the reasons but my dogs are knotted up and it’s stressful and I’m doing the best I can and it’s hard to see other people doing things I can’t.
Work meetings that literally talk ABOUT NOTHING. My supervisor must be lonely because she will flat out say we don’t really have anything on our agenda and then proceed to encourage chit chat for over an hour. Yesterday was people discussing what they were watching on Netflix. I don’t care. Thank goodness we don’t do video meetings so I could check out and just work on a puzzle I have set up for this very purpose! Lol
I’m tired of grocery shopping and planning meals just to be surprised what random thing you can’t get at the grocery store this week. Ugh.
Shipping. I get that everyone is ordering things blah blah. But everything is taking forever to arrive!!! Weeks and weeks. Except Nordstrom. They send their shit in like two days. 😂
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Post by femalebusiness on May 14, 2020 16:27:13 GMT
My husband doesn't seem to know how to do anything involving water without getting puddles all over the floor. He washes his hands and it looks like there's been a tsunami I told him there was water all over the kitchen floor and he took his sock off to dry it up I didn't even have words for that. And there it is! My morning laugh. 😂🤣😂🤣
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Post by maryland on May 14, 2020 16:32:35 GMT
When my husband turns up his music so loud and you can hear it throughout the house. He has good hearing, I don't understand the need for having it so loud.
Noises are what put me over the edge. My husband taps all the time, fingers and feet. People eating (so Ilove having the tv on when we eat), smacking gum, playing music so loud like you want everyone to have to hear what you are listening to.
It's hard having no escape, to get out of the house when you need a break, or want to give your family a break from yourself!
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Post by tentoes on May 14, 2020 16:34:01 GMT
I don't have anything to complain about. I'm having family time because I live WITH family. I'm enjoying my new area, I'm enjoying being with the kids, and I'm praying they are enjoying it as much as I am. I'm having a good time decorating my rooms with my "stuff." The hardest part is downsizing my "stuff" to fit in the smaller area. Small price to pay for contentment and love of family.
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Post by maryland on May 14, 2020 16:34:23 GMT
It's not a big thing but turns out my husband is noisy! Not eating (thank god!!) but he grunts a lot when generally moving around, sits down with a big "Ahhh", walks heavily upstairs, talks out loud when his laptop is 'misbehaving'...it just seems like all his physical actions are accompanied by a vocal noise. I just think I've never had him in the house non-stop so much before! My husband and my dog sigh all the time!
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Post by momto4kiddos on May 14, 2020 16:45:12 GMT
I'd like to escape the stress of "figuring everything out." By this I mean, I run the show around here and everyone else just lives life. Dh goes to work and comes home, he's self employed so sometimes money can be tight, but this is of no concern to him because I run everything.
So if the bills need to be paid, I pay and/or figure out how to pay them on what we have. Luckily the business has done well so this is more of an example than a stress these days. But current events lend to grocery shopping and finding what we and my parents need cause i'm shopping for them. It leads to finding things that we are running out of when their in short supply everywhere. Making dinner with what we have available. Finding and getting masks since they're now needed.
To get to the irritating part...I've told him a million times past and present that it's stressful to have to be the one who always figures it all out. He'll ask what he can make for dinner and I tell him I might as well make it if I have to figure everything out for him. I've stated i'd be grateful for him to relieve me of something, anytime... And what i'm getting is he'd like to "help" make dinner when i'm making it.
So while not the worst thing in the world, it irritates me that he can't wrap his head around what would be helpful to me or what i'd like and make an adjustment.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 16:48:32 GMT
Perry mason is irritating the hell out of my husband, and I admit that I turn it on just to see what husband will do.
Omg Kelly clarkson. I admit I am the only person who doesn’t like her , but this morning? She was complaining how tough her living conditions are. What the every loving boondock. She escaped her luxurious mansion to go to rural Montana. Btw Montana doesn’t have the best medical facilities and barely adequate for locals. ( her show comes on right after the news and sometimes I am not quick enough to change the channel)
The rooster...good god shut up.
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Post by MichyM on May 14, 2020 17:01:10 GMT
I run a Meetup group of 80 women. There are 5 other organizers, plus all members agree to host at least one event per year when they join the group. Yet I'm the only one coming up with plans for us via Zoom these days. I know online is less than ideal and takes more creativity and thought, but I cannot single handedly keep this up on my own. Everyone is happy to attend and keep in touch, but no one wants to do any work. Not to hijack but if anyone has attended a Zoom get together that was expecially interesting or fun recently would you give a holler? Thanks! Other than that, my little annoyance is SSDD. Day after day after day....
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Post by leeny on May 14, 2020 17:05:11 GMT
-My co-worker on Zoom eating her snacks. She is sitting close to her camera so we see everything. Why didn't she eat before or wait until after our meeting? -Another co-worker who suggested on Zoom that we don't have meetings on Zoom but on another platform. Duh, it is still a useless meeting on a video conferencing site. Let's not meet at all unless necessary! -Dh turns on music and then plays his guitar along with the music. Have I mentioned he cannot play the guitar, nor will he take lessons? -Dh playing the harmonica at random times during the day. Which means the dog has to howl along with it. Sorry Zoom meeting attendees!
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leeny
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Post by leeny on May 14, 2020 17:07:04 GMT
I run a Meetup group of 80 women. There are 5 other organizers, plus all members agree to host at least one event per year when they join the group. Yet I'm the only one coming up with plans for us via Zoom these days. I know online is less than ideal and takes more creativity and thought, but I cannot single handedly keep this up on my own. Everyone is happy to attend and keep in touch, but no one wants to do any work. Not to hijack but if anyone has attended a Zoom get together that was expecially interesting or fun recently would you give a holler? Thanks! Other than that, my little annoyance is SSDD. Day after day after day.... Our extended family played Cards Against Humanity via Zoom and some gaming site. Not sure this would be appropriate for your group!
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Post by kelly316 on May 14, 2020 17:17:48 GMT
It's not a big thing but turns out my husband is noisy! Not eating (thank god!!) but he grunts a lot when generally moving around, sits down with a big "Ahhh", walks heavily upstairs, talks out loud when his laptop is 'misbehaving'...it just seems like all his physical actions are accompanied by a vocal noise. I just think I've never had him in the house non-stop so much before! My husband has house slippers that make a loud irritating shuffling sound. He cannot move things in the kitchen without banging a pot or pan all the time. He randomly coughs throughout the day. He always has. But now I hate it and my spidey senses are heightened to hear any coughs. He used to cough and just barely move his hand to cover his mouth (gross) but still least now he coughs into his elbow. Still irritating AF. Thank you! You just reminded me of two more things I could not stand about my ex. Obviously the mental and physical abuse was worse, I had somehow forgotten the coughing and house slipper shuffling. Probably because of choking on his own BS all the time. The shuffling was the only thing that gave warning to where he was or what he was doing. The rest of the time he was sneaking around. Ugh, thanks for the reminder! It’s the little things that make me happy now!
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Post by gar on May 14, 2020 17:22:08 GMT
And when/if he unloads the dishwasher, he puts everything he doesn’t know where it goes on the island. We have lived here ten years, I don’t move stuff around. All the stuff that is a mystery to him either requires bending down or picking up something to put away. Ditto. It just turns it into 2 jobs whereas if you put everything away where it lives immediately, it's only 1 job. And when he does do it, it's as if he thinks "Right well that's that job done for a few weeks and I did it!"
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Post by MichyM on May 14, 2020 17:32:15 GMT
I run a Meetup group of 80 women. There are 5 other organizers, plus all members agree to host at least one event per year when they join the group. Yet I'm the only one coming up with plans for us via Zoom these days. I know online is less than ideal and takes more creativity and thought, but I cannot single handedly keep this up on my own. Everyone is happy to attend and keep in touch, but no one wants to do any work. Not to hijack but if anyone has attended a Zoom get together that was expecially interesting or fun recently would you give a holler? Thanks! Other than that, my little annoyance is SSDD. Day after day after day.... Our extended family played Cards Against Humanity via Zoom and some gaming site. Not sure this would be appropriate for your group! Thank you! We've been playing some games online. I actually was going to host an in person Cards Against Humanity get together last fall, but ended up changing it to Scattergories cuz some of the women are afraid of CAH
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Post by cmhs on May 14, 2020 17:39:04 GMT
DH is starting to get on my nerves. He's noisy. He breathes loudly, makes weird noises with his mouth because he's a mouth breather. Stomps when he walks, sounds like he's breaking dishes while putting them away and has started the disgusting habit of talking with his mouth full. Gah!
I'm trying to not say anything because he's super stressed and had to furlough three of his people this week and is struggling to keep himself billable. I just retreat to the basement to my sewing area to get away and not snap at him. Problem with that is he's working in the dining room which is directly above my sewing area and I can still hear some of his annoying noises through the ceiling 😂 ETA: I'm annoying myself, too.
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Post by ntsf on May 14, 2020 17:44:18 GMT
my dh has been retired for two years.. irritating: I tell him all the time.. dirty dishes go in the sink, or in dishwasher.. or to the right of sink.. and gee could you unload the dishwasher? or take out recycling or garbage when full? or quit rearranging dishes in the dishwasher after I started loading it in the correct way. or maybe someone other than me can haul the laundry up two floors?
I love him. but I end of doing the housework, mostly, the laundry, the cooking.
at least the dog has been visiting our son.. so that has been great for two weeks.
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Post by krcrafts on May 14, 2020 17:46:36 GMT
The 5yo girl behind us now owns a 4 wheeler. WITH A HORN. I’m tired of hearing her rev the engine (sounds like a gas powered leaf blower that my former next door neighbor used to use every other day), tired of hearing that damn horn and I’m tired of that contraption riling up the dogs of the new next door neighbor on the other side. Just let me have some quiet!!!
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Post by inkedup on May 14, 2020 17:47:40 GMT
My list is small: everything. Everything is really irritating me right now.
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Post by lurker on May 14, 2020 17:49:46 GMT
I typed a whole list of things but upon review decided it might be me who is more irritating to others than they are to me:)
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Post by rickmer on May 14, 2020 17:52:07 GMT
i am annoyed i have to keep taking my kids to their dads. he is working, comes home to his crappy 2 bdrm bsmt apt and bitches that he has to do "everything"
i have not been working, been SIP since end of february, make home made meals, have a 3 bdrm rental house with natural light and everyone has their own room. we go for walks, i can help with homework, we have done crafts and activities, play boardgames and have been cooking and baking.
sometimes he watched a movie with them. but other than that, they sit in a bsmt all day for the entire week they have to go there.
it's annoying that he can't see past his own selfishness - he doesn't want to make any effort to make this easier for them - but will not discuss some type alternative arrangements even til this gets a bit better because then i would somehow be "winning".
i am sick of bitching about my ex. ugh. i annoy myself.
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 14, 2020 17:53:21 GMT
My feet, shoulders and hips are being effers. I have lots of joint pain which is just caused by age. I am not dying but I ache.
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Post by wallyagain on May 14, 2020 17:54:43 GMT
I am irritated that DH has to go to work and people around here think life hasn’t changed at all, social distance WHY? Does his employer do anything, not a chance. Sell, sell, sell.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on May 14, 2020 18:05:53 GMT
The dog. Her nails are long and click, click, click on the hardwood. And she can’t sit still so she’s clicking all day long. The only time I don’t hear it is when she’s pausing her circle through the kitchen and living room to bark at every single little noise.
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Post by Jessica on May 14, 2020 18:12:46 GMT
Dear coworker/supervisor. If I do not respond to your email within 2 minutes, please assume that I am researching your question/issue and will reply when I have an answer for you. I am standing at my desk like I do every single day from 5:30am until 2pm and as yet, it hasn't taken me longer than half an hour to respond to any email I have gotten for the past 2 months. It is not necessary for you to send me a text and call my cell phone to ask the same question - I don't have an answer for you yet - when I DO have an answer, I swear on all that is holy you will be the very first person on planet earth to know it. Will you also let my boss know this? Please and thank you!
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Post by Merge on May 14, 2020 18:22:47 GMT
Today it's having to listen to my husband shout curses from the other room every time he gets off a work phone call. I can't imagine he does this at the office. Nope, this lovely behavior is saved just for us.
Oh, and the kids keep leaving the door open rather than let the dogs in/out and now there's a mosquito buzzing around me.
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Post by padresfan619 on May 14, 2020 18:23:56 GMT
I just want to watch Real Housewives without the added commentary. I watch while you’re working for a reason!
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Post by Lexica on May 14, 2020 18:47:16 GMT
My biggest irritant right now is my asthma. My chest is so tight and I’m light headed from not getting enough oxygen. I booked a phone appointment with my doctor last week to request that he send me a new inhaler prescription because the brand I’ve used for years wasn’t very effective any longer. The new one is better, but I still need to use more than 2 puffs to be able to breathe while just sitting in a chair.
I have all my windows closed and the air conditioner on to limit any outside pollen. I am really struggling and I need to be physically active right now which makes breathing much more difficult. And I’m sure the dust that I’m stirring up while digging into drawers and closets to pack things isn’t helping. My asthma hasn’t been this bad in years.
I am staying home (other than picking up Chipotles the other day) and being extremely careful. I even wearing a mask to get my mail at the street, and I wash my hands a gazillion times a day so I know I am being as careful as humanly possible. But in the back of my mind, I worry a bit about catching COVID-19. Not obsessively worrying, just thinking about it every once in a while. Until I realize I am struggling for air again and I need to hit the inhaler.
As I sit and wait for my lungs to calm down, I start thinking that if I am having so much trouble breathing now, what would it feel like to have COVID and more compromised breathing. I start to become unreasonably worried. Not being able to breathe is my biggest fear. I’ve had pneumonia before and it was torture for me. I’ve heard it said that drowning is a peaceful way to die. Not for me. Just the thought of no air scares me beyond reason. I could really do without this asthma right now.
and I wash my hands a gazillion times a day, but it is in the back of my mind until I struggle to breathe again between inhaler shots.
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