Grumbling is, surprisingly, a good thing
Zoffiel
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The festive season is guaranteed to make me crankier than ever. So far this month I've had the shits about:
- Christmas carols and tinsel
- The loss of another hub cap
- The elastic in most of my favourite pairs of undies giving out. In concert.
- Why are undies described as pairs? Another source of irritation
- Flies, wasps, buzzy things and Huntsmen spiders that want to live inside
- The idiot child next door who has just got his P plates and goes to work at 4.45 AM
- Ants in the mulch heap--Jumping Jacks? Really?
- Mystery green stuff growing in the cupboard under the sink
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You always make me laugh @Zoffiel But absolutely that is cool. Feels kinda normal huh?
My shits this week. Had a huge birthday party planned for last Saturday night. 30 people coming over dressed as their favourite Harry Potter character.
Leaking toilet first up to fix on Saturday morning. Just finished putting the thing back together and on the first use the Fing thing blocks up. (the leak was fixed mind you) Had to drag it out again, fix that, while I am supposed to be hanging floating candles and dementors.
Walk out to the kitchen, the dishwasher has shat itself and kitchen is now full of water running under the fridge. Pull that out and it appears that a rotten mouse has decided to chew through the inlet hose. Think I could find any plumbers tape?
Mystery green stuff is a regular at my place as are critters trying to invade the house. Baby Eastern Brown the other day.
Biggest annoyance. When my husband raids my tool box and doesn't put anything back !. Aaaaggghhh.!
xoxo
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Plumbing is the devil's work which waits until the most inopportune moment to bugger up.0
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Hehehe. I love parties, especially costume parties. But I am a terrible host. Finger food I can heat up is about all you get unless I am feeling particularly generous then I might make a bacon and chees cob. That best be done before the wine or there is no hope.
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Holy Toledo!2
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Klutz cat on the roof at midnight and incapable of getting down (agile clever cat goes up and down no problem).
Endless endless work related festive 'cheer'.
Kris Kringles
Excruciating budget process.
Staff interviews the night before Christmas.
But I am with @zoffiel, I am here and have time and space to get irritated by small things. Hooray!7 -
Well my dummy spit happened today. I got the all clear to go out unaccompanied by my neurosurgeon last week and was champing at the bit to go and fly solo for a change. The weather has been really hot and muggy for the past few days, but today seemed a bit better. Armed with my shopping list and my Dear Friend Sam (my four wheeled granny walker...thanks taxol...thanks a lot), I decided to hit Westfield. I found Santa's beard (request from 3 year old grandson) at one of the crowded two dollar shops and stood in a very long, slow moving line. As I approached the till, some cheeky bitch fronted the counter from the other side, looked straight at me, and with a cheesy smirk, said "Sorry about that", and plonked some crap on the counter. She obviously saw this rather frazzled old granny with her walker and thought I was a soft target....WRONG.. .!!! I leaned forward and glared at her and responded thus. "Bullshit you're sorry, you with that smirk all over your face...You think you can just shove in ahead of all of us in the queue who have been waiting very patiently, and get away with that fake smile and your pathetic "sorry", well bugger off to the back of the line!!! The poor teller looked from me to her and back again and I then told her that if she served the other woman ahead of me and the others in the line, I would leave the shop and make my purchase elsewhere. Well, the people in the line behind me started clapping and one by one, others made the same threat. Miss Smarty Pants left her stuff and beat a hasty retreat. Gosh...I felt a whole lot better for finding out I haven't lost my touch...12
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True @Zoffiel...I have been eyeing a rather flash, rather loud air horn at Rebel Sports. I believe they use them for swimming festivals, canoe races and the like. Mmmm adds to Santa's list... I would also like either a taser or an electric cattle prod to affix to Sam (along with the air horn). Then again, those spiky wheel thingos like Kernickie had in Grease might also be the go...6
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Bah, Grease was for sooks, let's go for Ben Hur!
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@kezmusc always the way! Our last plumbing disaster happened when the wash8ng mach8ne was also out of order. Normally you’d think this wasn’t a big issue but the plumbing issue was a clogged toilet - now for some strange reason (I think ancient house plumbing we live in an Edwardian) the toilet, bath and shower share the same plumbing. Hubby thinking he is doing the right thing plunges the toilet which sends poo toilet paper and general sewerage back up the plumbing and out the shower drain hole. Being an oblivious male he doesn’t notice and continues to plunge the toilet until sewerage is coming out the shower door and flooding the bathroom. Cue towels going on the floor to slop this up and stop it from running out into the hallway. Now you can see why no washing machine is a problem. I have a vague recollection this was at the time I had the lumpectomy so I was out of action and hubby had to do all the cleanup4
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Can I say it?...Oh, shit!4
