Category: Irritating Things

I was checking out some true crime books on Amazon and noticed a disturbing trend in the reviews…. there are a lot of people out there who rated books lower than they might have because of the use of British slang and terminology. “The language was a little too British for me so I took [...]

Kitti thinks it’s significant that the Ghost Cat walked in unasked and started making himself at home. I really don’t know if I’m ready for another cat, especially one that looks so much like Robin. It is a sweet cat and he does seem pretty insistent on moving in, though. But the vet bills! The [...]

Kitti is going to go back to school in January. He’s filled out the financial aid forms and turned in his college application. You’d think that would do it — well, aside from the placement testing and the picking of classes, at least. Not so if you’re an immigrant. He’s already had to go to [...]

Robin the cat (aged 16) makes his last trip to the vet tomorrow. He’s drinking, but not really eating. Mobility is impaired, and he seems to be unsure of where he is. He’s happy and comfortable but it’s time. I hate this so much. I can’t even put into words how much I hate this.

Someone or something keeps leaving meat in my yard. I don’t mean anonymous bits of meat that may or may not be human. It’s not severed fingers or kidneys or things like that. It’s hot dogs. Chicken legs. Cooked red meat. Pork (don’t point out that if it looks like pork it could be human. [...]

The way this one worked was I asked for up to 4 actors. I then went to my iPod and hit shuffle. The first song that came up was the title of the movie. I was given: “Renee Zellweger, John Cusack, Joan Cusack (because you can’t have one Cusack with other Cusack!), and Alan Rickman.” [...]

The way this one worked was I asked for up to 4 actors. I then went to my iPod and hit shuffle. The first song that came up was the title of the movie. I was given: Johnny Depp, Sally Field, Natalie Portman, Sean Connery The song: The Last Day of Summer (The Cure) The [...]

It started with a post about the two fake-lesbian bloggers, in which a friend of mine said…. Mostly, this paragraph, which feels like the perfect setup for a ‘wacky hijinks’ movie: In the guise of Paula Brooks, Graber corresponded online with Tom MacMaster, thinking he was writing to Amina Arraf. Amina often flirted with Brooks, [...]

Home Delivery is Tuesday through Saturday If Monday is a holiday the Home Delivery staff is off on Tuesday The FedEx driver that covers my neighborhood needs either a GPS or lessons in reading It’s really hard to prove that you didn’t get something On the 25th FedEx delivered an order from Keurig to my [...]