Pet Peeves

No, my dogs are NOT pet peeves. But since they ARE my pets, it was a really good excuse to put their picture on here :) Stretching it, I know. Anyway. We all have pet peeves. Small, annoying things that really get under our skin and BUG us. And we all have the deep-seeded desire to share them with others - and to feel validated that yes, we have every right to be annoyed. But we always end up keeping them to ourselves. So today is Pet Peeves Day. I'm going to start off by sharing a few gems of mine. 

1) jam falling off the knife when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This pretty much makes me want to take the knife AND the jam jar AND the sandwich and throw them across the room. If you knew how many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I have made over the last 20 years you would understand.

2) ice cubes from the freezer slipping out of both sides of your hand and ricocheting all over the kitchen when all you were trying to do was fill up your glass for a nice diet Coke because if you don't have one soon you're going to kick a piece of furniture.

3) trying to get wet clothes out of the washing machine to put into the dryer when they're all tangled up and wrapped around each other and it hurts your back because you are short and then you get even more mad when you can't reach the bottom of the washing machine to get the last sock out. 

4) walking into a room and forgetting completely why you walked into that room, and/or, starting a sentence and not having the capacity to finish one freaking sentence because you've got so much on your mind that it's already borderline "Sensory Overload" but you just keep cramming it with useless information to the point of "MAYDAY" and then your kids are staring at you like you've got goo dripping out of your nose or something and all of the sudden you feel mentally disabled and 90 years old. Which is a good reason to have that diet Coke handy, because you're going to need it.  

But this is no fun unless you share your pet peeves too - so by all means please comment!