Things I do not like, things I hate, and things that annoy me

Maybe you're thinking, "Gee golly, that title sounds so gosh darn negative," but I think these things are way more interesting to read about than lovey dovey stuff. And this is my blog, and in the words of Adam Sandler/Robbie Hart*, I have a microphone (metaphorically), and you don't, so you will listen to every damn word I have to say! Unless you click away, of course.

- the L key on my keyboard. Olive did something to it, and now it's crooked and hard to push. If you read something without an L, that is why, my friends. Please forgive me. Know that I am competely humiiated to make an error ike that. Ok, I did those on purpose.

- when a CD is playing in my car (is that old school yet?) and it gets turned all the way down instead of off. I hate that it keeps playing, unheard.

- when the volume on the TV is too loud.

- when people say/write "needless to say..." followed by whatever it is that is needless. Don't say it then!

- when people write a smiley face this way (: instead of this way :) It just throws me off!

- excessive use of smileys. Some people may hate smileys altogether, but I don't hate 'em. I do hate this one: :P Stick your little cyber tongue back in your cyber mouth or I'll want to punch you in your real life face.

- when bloggers don't tell you what they're talking about and make you click on a link to see. Tell me what it is, and if you pique my interest, I'll click over. Example: "My husband bought me this!"

- when people post Facebook statuses that leave you with questions. Do you know what I'm talking about? The ones that sound kind of juicy, so you want to know what they're talking about, but they tell you basically nothing, just so you'll ask.

- when bloggers say local. "I got it at my local Home Depot." Seriously?! You didn't drive three states over and get it at THAT Home Depot?? GOOD TO KNOW!

- stupid (made up) names and names with stupid spellings. Each time I see a ridiculously spelled name, I post it on my cousin's facebook wall so she can join me in a mutual groan of disgust.

- when people call their baby's room a nursery. "The nursery." I just hate that for some reason! And why doesn't my room get a special name?

- when I don't get a reply. I aksed you something. Respond. (Yeah, I meant to spell it aksed.) Oh, I just remembered something that goes along with this. I called a doctor's office to make an appointment, and the lady said she would get the nurse to call me back. She didn't call me that day, and she didn't call me the next day either. Today I called and explained that I was waiting for a nurse to call. She was busy and needed to call me back. I'm still waiting. Hopefully I don't die waiting for this appointment that I can't schedule!

- when couples have a joint facebook profile. How 'bout you each be your own person?

- soft talkers. I don't want to have to focus really hard to understand what you're saying.

- when I don't hear something, so I say, "What?" only for that person to repeat just the last part of what they said, which does not usually include a subject or verb, and I still have no idea what they're saying. Ok, I'm really struggling with explaining this. I wish I could come up with a good example, but I can't. Do you know what I'm trying to say??

(Perhaps those last two should make me get my ears checked. I think I listened to my music too loudly in my younger days. I have old neighbors that would agree to that. They sure were lame college students. Looosers...ha, just kidding. Kind of. Ok, not really.)

- stupidity. In June, I overpaid a bill (I guess I'm stupid too), so I had an email conversation with the billing department. I told the person, "Go ahead and have the clerk send the whole amount." Recently I was thinking about how I don't remember ever getting the refund. I emailed them, and they said, "She misunderstood and thought you wanted to leave the money on it in case you reopened the account." Hmm yes, I can see how "send the whole amount" could be confusing...

Has this been enough ranting, or are you thirsty for more? I just love that Kevin McCallister. You know, from Home Alone. "You guys give up yet? Or are you thirsty for more?" Crap, I just said that I love something in this post. Consistency fail.

*I also love The Wedding Singer. Double fail. Oh no, love is coming out to counter all the negativity in this post. I'll try to repress it.

Won't you be my neighbor?

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Matt has been living in Georgetown, Texas for about six weeks in an extended stay hotel. Last week he moved into an apartment, so last Saturday Beck and I moved down. We're on the second story, and a lady lives underneath us. Our neighbors to the side told us that she complains about EVERYTHING, so we've tried to be really good about noise and what we let Beck do. Obviously we don't let him throw the basketball on the ground, we don't let him jump up and down, we don't let him play Dashboard Confessional so loud that it shakes things on the walls. You know, normal obnoxious stuff. I do let him be two, though (so playing Barney that loud is ok), as long as it's not too loud or annoying. I had never seen the lady, but she showed up one day as we were outside talking to our side neighbor. As she walked up, Beck waved at her energetically, so I turned around to look at her, thinking it would be interesting to see how she responded to him. Surprisingly she waved back (she seemed a little reluctant, but how can you ignore a kid that's waving at you while everyone's watching?). Then Matt said, "How are you? We're your upstairs neighbors." She kept walking, never looked at Matt, and said, "I know who you are."

Woman, you just earned yourself some relentless toddler jumping.

These people have my heart

My friend Jen sent me a link to The best obnoxious responses to misspellings on Facebook. I'd seen it before, but I guess it gets updated occasionally, so there were many more that made me laugh this time. You can go read the whole thing if you're a nerd like me, or just read my favorites below.

i luv nowing their r people out they're that lov 2 corect othr ppl. I tri nought two doo it to mutch, butt sumtime's eye just halve 2.

I really love when they are so oblivious to the jokes people are making about them.

This one is one of my favey faves.

Bless her heart.

Thoughts by Kari

Sometimes it's ridiculous how many pictures some people take of an object but from different angles. (And some of those angles look exactly the same.) And then they post ALL of those pictures on their blog. Mostly I'm talking about crafty blogs or home remodel blogs.

Knock it off!

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have Jesus Christ in our name, but we're not Christians. That would make too much sense.

I was on this site, looking through the categories of designs you can put on a shirt, and I was on the Religion & Beliefs page and wondered what designs they had for us MoMos (Mormons). I didn't see Mormon or LDS under the Christianity section, so I figured it just wasn't an option. I wasn't too surprised. Then I looked at the other sections and found us. Under Other Beliefs, which included Satanic cults, Scientology, and Wicca. That annoyed me, so I emailed the good people at Cafe Press, asking them to move us over to the Christianity section. I don't wanna be associated with Tom Cruise!