The idea here is, of course, that everyone is too busy to read blogs this week anyway, so it's a perfect time to let it all out! Now, I may start out with bookish/bloggish complaints, but I can't guarantee that it won't morph into general all round life rants!
So here goes!
I hate it when....
.... I'm in the mood to talk on Twitter and no one will talk back. Twitter crickets... a lonely sound!
....someone tells me to take down all my Markus Zusak videos on YouTube, but other people still have their MZ videos up. (By the way, I can still give you links to mine, they just aren't public!)
....I see a blog post similar to mine, and it has a gazillion comments and but mine has only three.
..... I can't keep up with reading other blog posts. And I hate marking all as read, but I think it's going to have to happen so I can have a fresh start.
.... I am reading along in a book, totally happy, and suddenly I realize that there are 30 pages missing! And I really hate it when I go back to the store where I bought the book and they have no more of that particular one!
.... B and N messes up and releases John Green's book early to many many people!
... I get in a reading slump.
... my kids are in a reading slump too.
... I send a tweet or message or comment and see my typo after the fact.
... my kids stay up until 2, 3, 4, sometimes even 5 in the morning.
... things break.
... people fight.
... kids are in pain.
... I can't sleep.
... anxiety rules the day.
Whew! I think I'll be done now! That's enough airing for one post! How are your grievances doing?
I was just actually thinking last night that I seem to spend more time reading other blog posts than books :/
ReplyDeleteI must get out the Festivus pole. ;) I think I aired enough grievances this week. Now that you've cleared the air you can get onto celebrating!
ReplyDeleteThat twitter-crickets thing CAN be annoying. I always take it as a sign that I should try again later. :)
ReplyDeleteMay you have a reading-full anxiety-less rest of the year! Be merry.
I hear about most of your things, especially Twitter silence, little or no comments, keeping up with umpteen million blog posts.
ReplyDeleteHere are my grievances. I hate it when:
1. People wear skinny jeans. They only look good on a select few people and it's usually not the people who wear them.
2. Parents bring their babies to movies and let them cry. I paid to see that movie and I don't want it disturbed by someone who's too irresponsible to get a babysitter!
3. I have to get up early after a fun filled night of partying. (I was up until 2:00 last night for my family Christmas party and I still had to get up to go to work today.)
4. I have an awesome review written on my blog and just before I click Publish half of it disappears! That happened to me yesterday with my Clockwork Prince review. The original was so much better. *sigh*
5. My co-worker eats at his desk because he doesn't chew with his mouth closed and I can hear him chomping, crunching, slurping, and all other kinds of things with his mouth and his food.
I'm totally with you on the twitter crickets - and the lack of comments. Fun stuff airing grievances!
ReplyDeleteHope that helped - have a good Christmas now! :-)
ReplyDeleteLol, I love reading about peoples grievances. I could go on and on and on about things that tick me off.
ReplyDeleteThis is the second airing of grievances that I've seen today. I love it and they are so true. I often throw things out on twitter and get nothing in response. Very frustrating. I suppose that's part of the reason I haven't been on it as much lately.
ReplyDeleteI also agree about comments. I've wondered what I'm doing wrong...
Have a wonderful Holiday!
blowing off steam, I can get behind that!
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the twitter crickets thing. also, how much later can you reply and it feel relevant. depends, I suppose. I need to organize my tweetdeck.
..keeping up on the blog list is tricky. I hate to leave "stock" sounding comments, but I also hate not chiming in...
yes, reading slumps...and when I want to finish these books before the end of the year.
my attention span has been so short lately. and I'm in a cooking slump. and when I read or watch something, I am adrift when I think about writing about them. I hate writing slumps when they pair with the reading and screen slumps. really, i think i was intended to hibernate through winter...
hope you have a fantastic weekend!
~L
I'm with you on many of these. Especially the missing pages, that really annoys me. Luckily it's only occurred twice to me twice. Thirty pages is an awful lot- was it a printing error, or someone being destructive?
ReplyDeletePeppermint: Sometimes that's what if feels like, I know.
ReplyDeleteChris: Right! Let's celebrate!
Care: A reading-full anxiety-less year... sounds perfect!
Jenni: YES, I hate all those things too! :)
Melissa: Yes, it's very fun. Will you be airing any?
Joanna: It helped a ton! Thanks!
Jenny: I could have gone on longer but it would have gotten really old... and plus my mind went blank too...
Teresa: Yes, Twitter is a strange thing.. either very fun... or sort of depressing.
L: I agree with the attention span thing... what's up with that lately?
Jeane: It was definitely a printing error... 30 missing pages, then a set of duplicate pages after that.
Happy Festivus! Love this post! I tend to get crickets when I go on Twitter, so don't go on very much any more. And totally agree with you about the comments! Like Teresa, it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong...
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