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01 June 2009
Is anyone else seeing increased grumpiness today? Maybe it's a first-of-the-month thing, but the customers I've dealt with today are collectively much grumpier than the ones from last week. The blue seems extra-feisty today as well.
I like Afroblanco, but he is often like that. I had bad dreams and woke up in a 58 degree house with the furnace off and landladies on vacation (well at their summer place a few towns over), so yeah, me too.
That said, I got a call from them that they're coming on by to turn on the furnace and they were very sorry. Awwww.
I'm seeing increased grumpiness, but only in myself. It was not my finest day. (Not my most grouchy, either, but not great.)
I am currently self-medicating with caffeine. Later, I will self-medicate with a walk. Still later, I will take my self-prescribed dose of Heath bar crunch ice cream and an episode of "Night Stalker." The prognosis is good: full recovery expected!
Yeah, I've had a fuck you day. My wife damn near melted down after dinner too, and my son didn't nap and pretty much just wanted me to stop cooking dinner so I could hug him non-stop and watch The Muppet Show with him. I had a senior developer almost bite a VP's head off in a meeting and a business analyst with chigger bites on her face (wtf?) and even now I'm not in bed out of spite against I don't know what. So yeah, it's kind of going around here too.
Not today so much as the past several weeks, but more than one of my co-workers have remarked that our callers seem to be unusually belligerent of late, gleefully unloading their vitriol on us because there's so little chance of their having to suffer any sort of consequences (and because we obviously can't scream obscenities back at them). Better us than their kids, I suppose. I'm not sure if people around here just hate spring, or if it's the stupid economy, but it's definitely having an effect on my mood in turn. Four-hour-long naps are helping.
I don't know what's come over me, but I feel like there's a future, and I've had a smile on my face for a couple days, so maybe you suckers are my counterbalance. It helps that I'm not swimming in cough syrup and green phlegm.
I was kidding about the suckers bit, I love you guys and wish happy things for each of you.
Oh my fricking Yes! I'm experiencing wild mood swings which is not something I ever do. I feel like I can handle things, and next, I'll think I just cannot go on.
My boss is the major grump - like a mule eating briars grumpy! And, he's taking it out on everyone. Contractors are calling with despair in their voice and needing immediate attention. Plus, it's terribly hot and muggy.
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE PEOPLE I'M ON HOLIDAY SO EVERYONE IS ESPECIALLY HAPPY SO JUST BLOODY DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!
(yeah; not counting that toerag who pinged me for speeding but, to be fair, I was speeding and I was 'this' close to using the expression 'bang to rights', and no-one needs that...)
Well, I ended up spending the evening lying down in a dark room with an icepick headache and back spasms, so I'm retroactively justifying my crankiness. It was a warning bell.
I found the first trap I set for mice with a turd in the peanut butter,but no victim...and I didn't have enough traps to pave the front of the radiator. I'm being eaten alive by their fleas!
The latest with the elevator is that I'll have to suck it up with being dependent for the next six months, grrrr!
I haven't yet, though a friend has recommended his acupuncturist to me. I have a couple of strategies I'm trying to manage the back trouble, and if they don't do the trick, acupuncture might be next.
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