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  1. Daily Rant: Life lessons suck!

    June 7, 2010 by me

    Is doing what you have to do instead of doing what you want to do ever worth doing?

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  2. Daily Rant: Things that annoy me while driving to work

    May 25, 2010 by me

    No matter what time I leave for work, I always end up getting there at 9:15am. If I leave at 8:45, I get there at 9:15. If I leave at 9:00, I get there at 9:15. I even once left at 8:30, and I swear to the Gods, I hit every freaking red light and didn’t get there until 9:15. And it’s never a smooth ride. So here are some annoyances I have gathered from the road.

    Drivers on cell phones who spend the whole time in the left hand lane gabbing on their phone instead of pulling out so that when I beep them and they give me a dirty look, they are able to go through the yellow light and I am not because there is a cop on the other side of the street WHO IS ON A CELL PHONE!!

    Also, the woman who is pushing the two-children stroller AND walking a dog AND on her cell phone WHILE trying to cross a busy four-intersection roadway. If you can’t put down the cell phone to CROSS THE FREAKIN’ STREET, THEN DON’T WALK!

    Ugh.

    This got me thinking about all the other things that annoy me about cell phones:

    Cops who pass people obviously on cell phones and/or texting, but manage to pull over people doing 45 in a 35 zone.

    Voice-activated texting…really?! It’s called a CELL PHONE, not a TEXTER.

    Texting while at the restaurant table. Ok, this is two-fold. If you’re with your family and/or significant other, who you see every single week/day and have nothing to talk about, ok. If you are looking up something that you are talking about that will aid in the conversation, ok. If you’re a doctor or celebrity, ok. But when I see kids who shouldn’t even have a cell phone to begin with playing a game or texting or whatever, I just want to shake their parents and be like, talk to you kid!!! Then I see their parents are also on cell phones, and…don’t even get me started!

    Bottom line: get a headset or speakerphone, and stop annoying me!

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  3. Daily Rant: Zen-like Annoyances

    May 21, 2010 by me

    We all have a lot of annoyances in our lives. Petty annoyances, none that really are life-affecting, but annoy us all the same. (Hey, life would be boring without annoyance!). But one of my biggest annoyances is not being able to finish a book that I’ve taken out from the library in the amount of time they give me.

    I’m not necessarily a slow reader, but I have to be “in the mood” to read. I usually read right before I go to bed. So I’m in the middle of this book, and I notice that it’s due on Sunday. I go to renew it, and it says I can’t because someone else wants it. So I try and read as much as I can so I can at least partially finish the book. Which leads to frustration because now I’m not enjoying, I’m reading it under a time constraint, and that’s just not cool. I could just go buy the book, use one of the millions of coupons I have from Borders and Barnes, but I promised myself that I wouldn’t buy books this year (nowhere to put them, let alone time to read all them). So, as much as I hate it, I throw the book in the bag and disgustingly head off to the library with Ollie in tow.

    It’s muggy out. I’m in a sweatshirt and Ollie is pulling at the leash. My sinuses are draining into the back of my throat, and I start to sound like one of those people on the bus you avoid because it sounds like their hacking up a lung.

    I’m just a bundle of fun, let me tell ya.

    So I walk to the library, annoyed, hot, and bothered, and throw the book into the slot. There. No late fee for me. No ending to the book either. Ah, well.

    Ollie starts pulling me the opposite way of where I want to go, but I’m so bothered by this point that I don’t care so much. That, and I have two poop bags that I need to unload. We find a garbage and all of a sudden, I hear bagpipes playing. There’s something about bagpipes that are so soothing that you can’t help but feel relaxed and zen-like. It almost sounds like the clouds had parted and the heavens were singing…and no, I was not hallucinating. Turns out, Ollie has steered me towards the church at the end of the block, and bagpipes are playing. I’m assuming wedding (since a photographer was there taking pictures), and Ollie and I stop and listen to the soothing sounds of random bagpipes and as we venture our way back home, I can’t help but think…only in Chicago could I walk to return a book, annoyed as hell, and end up running into bagpipes that zen me out, all on a hot, muggy Friday.

    Here’s hoping that petty annoyances bring out the zen in all of us.

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