Boxed Up

Due to my recent unemployment (I'll end up venting about how that went down sooner or later) I now have time to think. When working with kids, thinking is a luxury, like getting to use the bathroom and blinking.

Things that irritate me:
1)Anyone who calls themselves a "fitness celebrity" (I'm including Kirstie Alley here.)

2)When a phone on tv has the same ringer as mine and confuses me (self-explanatory.)

3)People who take reality shows far too seriously (I play devil's advocate once, implying that the people on reality tv are just people too, and I get lectured about being cynical. That's just me, though.)

4)The word "crunk" (Damn you Justin Timberlake.)

5)Spam that implies I'm going to hell or am a bad person for not believing in Jesus (It's like when I get stopped at a bus stop and told that reading a Stephen King book is sinful.)

6)Michael Ian Black, Martha Stewart and Billy Mays (instant MUTE)

7)The fact that extensive cleaning starts a huge cycle of more, neverending cleaning (packing sucks.)

8)When I accidentally burn my hotpocket because my new microwave is 3X as strong as my old one (food is expensive, I don't like to waste it. It makes me have flashbacks to my mother telling me about starving children during dinner.)

9)The pain that lasts for hours after I stub my toe (it's amazing how many curse words I can fit into a minute of hopping around on one foot.)

10)Couture clothing for dogs that costs more than my clothes (Damn you small celebrity mini-dogs that fit in a purse.)

11)The chick at Mobil that told my mom that "ladies don't drink beer." (How odd, I was always taught that ladies minded their own business. It made me want to walk down there and buy a couple 40's of Old English and a porno magazine, just to see what she'd say.)

12)People that ask when I plan to use my degree (apparently telling them that my anthropology degree is best used for sounding pompous at family parties is rude.)

13)How there's a creepy little kid in almost every horror movie lately (kids are kind of scary sometimes.)

14)When I do something stupid (I do something foolish with regularity, but I really don't like it when I do something REALLY stupid (like writing down the wrong week my friend was coming to visit and being totally ready a week early. Or forgetting a pan is hot when it comes out of the oven and grabbing it barehanded.)

15)Public transportation (A nightmare.)


I have to allow for the fact that I'm bored out of my mind. I can only pack so much every day before I start to feel like I'm living in a land of boxes. I spent so much time pitching stuff out and organzing my own belongings, now I have to start on everything else. 29 days. I am really looking forward to moving, it's been a long time coming.