update: vancouver soon to be cold, yet wet. meg to have cold, drink wet things.
This whole snow-turning-to-rain thing?
Laaaame. And they keep updating and changing the forecast every six minutes. CHOOSE SOME WEATHER. STICK WITH IT.
And me? I foresee precipitation from my nose.
That’s right.
That itchy, nasty, drippy, hacky cold I had before?
Back with a vengeance. And a kleenex. And perhaps? A choice cough that makes people weep on the bus.
It pretty much appeared overnight, really. I thought it might be asthma from all the temperature and humidity changes rocking us lately, but noooo… now we’ve officially crossed the line into Advil Cold and Sinus land.
In fact, it got so bad that I ACTUALLY SHUT MY WINDOWS LAST NIGHT.
Whoa. I haven’t done that since I MOVED IN.
I was SHIVERING under a duvet and the blanket my mom knitted me. Shivering really irritates me.
Actually, much is irritating me right now. A quick list:
- people who bash awards
- my finances
- my hair
- Wordpress formatting
- men who are more like teenage boys and don’t seem to care
- the giant cut on my thumb which keeps reopening unexpectedly
- not knowing how to handle a friend thing appropriately
- self-editing
- guilt
- skin that is dry yet oily
- feeling nauseous
- Dreamweaver is crashy
- trying to figure out the audience for something I’m writing
- people who don’t follow through with promises
- the week is passing too quickly
- the weekend isn’t coming soon enough
- my hockey team is being wildly inconsistent right now
- my jaw is clicking
- when people say, “it’s just how I am” without acknowledging they can change
- the fact that this is a fairly vapid list of things that don’t matter and yet I’m posting it anyhow
- my own laziness
Wow. So. Something more pleasant to follow soon.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
down with irritation! p.s. thanks for the snow. it made it to colorado last night and wooboy it is cold and wet and slushy and flaky.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Irritation is irritating.
Also, it chafes.
And rubs me the wrong way.
Which I find irritating.
~Kurt
November 29th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Hey Meg, My sister and I both get those stupid thumb cracks every winter. It’s gotten to where we inform one another when the first thumb crack of the holiday season has arrived.
Here is a haiku totally based on plaigerizing your comments and kurt’s:
Irritation chafes
How it rubs me the wrong way
But shivering? ugh.
and one more…
Thumb cracks irritate
Never healing when its cold
Nose dripping on thumb
(by the way, I changed my comment link to go to my new photo blog, since I can’t get my Salon blog to work
any more. Just FYI.)
November 29th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Skin that is dry yet oily? Hello? Are you me? Am I you? Are we us? What?
Is your skin, like, flaking off, and yet shiny and oily? How does that happen? And: WHY? For the love of all things holy, WHY???
I feel like I have to mop my face and then tweeze the dry skin. Or tweeze the dry skin and then mop my face. Why is the rest of my body not the same? My arms and my legs and my stomach? The rest of me is normal. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE SKIN ON MY FACE?
November 29th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
We are definitely us.
And yes on the dry skin, and yes on the shiny. I don’t understand. I totally exfoliate and moisturize correctly for my skin type. I even try the combination skin stuff. But mine’s because of hormone stuff.
Yours? Not sure. But I don’t mean to pass the curse to you!!
November 30th, 2006 at 8:33 am
“Its just how I am.” ranks right up there with “I tell it like it is.”
In other words, I dont care how my behavior affects those around me. No thanks.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Yes to the oily and yet dry skin! So irritating! Also, a person should not be forced to combat acne and wrinkles at the same time. If there were any justice in the world, one would end solidly before the other began. Life is unfair.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Another lame response is “I didn’t mean it like that; you took it the wrong way.”
Grrr.