Curmudgeon Complaints

1. The older you get, the more people feel the right to ask you about your family planning. It's almost always meant with the best of intentions, but it's a difficult issue for me and not one I like to talk about. But I smile and answer nicely anyway because I know no offense was intended.

1a. Whenever women my age get together, they ALWAYS talk about their kids/pregnancies. Again, no offense meant, and I know that. But it does make people in my situation feel very out of place and useless. I wouldn't expect all talk of children to stop just because I'm around--I get that children are your life, and it's only natural to talk about them. And I do enjoy most of the stories. But does it have to go on for hours and hours?

2. State of the Union speeches are dumb. The president never actually tell you the state of the union. It's just a chance to tell the American people why he (maybe she in the future) is the most awesome president ever. Boring and dumb.

3. Having a husband who is sick for an entire month with no end in sight sucks. You can't cuddle with someone who is hacking up a lung. You can't sleep because the hacking gets worse at night and keeps you up. All the fun parts of his personality disappear because he is miserable and hasn't slept for more than a couple hours a night for a month. When you get sick, you get no sympathy because you got over it in 3 days. (Yes, that is selfish of me. But I want people to feel sorry for me when I don't feel well, gosh darn it!) Not a great start to the New Year.

4. You shouldn't have to beg church leaders for help when you humble yourself and seek it out. I understand you are being unexpectedly deployed and probably have other things on your mind. But when I come to you and ask who my home teachers are so my husband can get a blessing, you should do more than stand there when I tell you I don't know who those people are. You should help me find them! Especially when you haven't even told one of them that he is my home teacher. It's not my responsibility to go find him and tell him and ask him for a blessing all at once. I'm already struggling with feeling welcome in this ward--that is not helping things at all!

5. Why can't the sub office put my stupid info into a computer so I can sub and start making the big bucks? I have done everything I possibly can, and now I am depending on you to do your job. I know there have been massive budget cuts and you are very understaffed, but I have been calling you every week for 2 months now. Not professional at all people. I don't want to be a sub for the fun of it. I have bills to pay, and I NEED to work. At this rate, the school year will be over by the time you get the job done.

5a. Why do I find out about another tutoring position that pays twice as much as my small tutoring job right after I got said job? It's another tutoring position, it's just down the street, and I would get the same amount of hours. So much better than the one I have now. Oh well, I am grateful to have a job at all. Now if I could get that subbing thing worked out (I can easily do both jobs), I would be estatic.

That's probably enough complaining for the day. Funny thing is, I'm not even in that bad of a mood today. I think I just have issues that have been building up for a while and needed to vent. (1 & 1a and 5 & 5a are about the same topics, so I connected them. Yeah, they could get their own number, but I'm weird sometimes.)