Pet Peeves
Apr. 30th, 2003 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snowee- Toy companies that don't put volume controls or on off switches on toys. For safety reasons, the battery compartments are held in with screws so if you get sick and tired of a toy, you have to hunt down the tool box to make it stop. Meanwhile, you know it's unrealistic that your child will be entertained if absolutely none of their toys make noise.
- People who ask me a favour, I agree to discuss helping, so they bring over everything and dump it on me (without discussion) Despite popular belief, stay at home mom's do not watch soaps and eat bon-bons all day. Despite my sister's belief, I also don't spend all day on the internet surfing and playing around without purpose. Hell, I barely get back on emails in reasonable amount of time. I promised someone two months ago that I'd help with the HS class reunion webpage so she can lick my monkey if she thinks that commitment doesn't take priority.
- My own kind nature - the one that got me involved in making the HS class reunion webpage and a number of other commitments even though I really wanted nothing to do with the reunion. I piss myself off because I accept all sorts of commitments based on this idea that I am a stay at home mom so I must have all kinds of time - forgetting the fact that my floor gets vacuumed less than once a month because I don't have time beneath all the favours I do for everyone else. Yes, I am my own pet peeve!
- People who take advantage - of my kind nature, of the fact that I'll agree to things without full details and time schedules, of what I have and what I give. People who hear me offer to make them something or give them something so they request big projects. "Sure, I could make you a pair of sleep pants" (a half hour project) becomes a request to make a tailored shirt and a pair of pants - and then the person with request is upset because I say no to a second tailored shirt. This is actually an old example that I'm over, but if I bring up the new example, someone may take it wrong and get hurt.
Ok, I know it's a rant and a whine and as hard as I try to avoid it, I have made several of those. I'm just getting sick and tired of not being able to do what I want, not getting to write or spend alone time with my husband because everyone else assumes I have nothing better to do than things FOR them. Little hint, I am always happy to HELP you, but do not ask me to do things FOR you - to take over entire projects that you got yourself into. I just don't like feeling like I'm taking over something just because someone I know and love has over-committed.
- People who ask me a favour, I agree to discuss helping, so they bring over everything and dump it on me (without discussion) Despite popular belief, stay at home mom's do not watch soaps and eat bon-bons all day. Despite my sister's belief, I also don't spend all day on the internet surfing and playing around without purpose. Hell, I barely get back on emails in reasonable amount of time. I promised someone two months ago that I'd help with the HS class reunion webpage so she can lick my monkey if she thinks that commitment doesn't take priority.
- My own kind nature - the one that got me involved in making the HS class reunion webpage and a number of other commitments even though I really wanted nothing to do with the reunion. I piss myself off because I accept all sorts of commitments based on this idea that I am a stay at home mom so I must have all kinds of time - forgetting the fact that my floor gets vacuumed less than once a month because I don't have time beneath all the favours I do for everyone else. Yes, I am my own pet peeve!
- People who take advantage - of my kind nature, of the fact that I'll agree to things without full details and time schedules, of what I have and what I give. People who hear me offer to make them something or give them something so they request big projects. "Sure, I could make you a pair of sleep pants" (a half hour project) becomes a request to make a tailored shirt and a pair of pants - and then the person with request is upset because I say no to a second tailored shirt. This is actually an old example that I'm over, but if I bring up the new example, someone may take it wrong and get hurt.
Ok, I know it's a rant and a whine and as hard as I try to avoid it, I have made several of those. I'm just getting sick and tired of not being able to do what I want, not getting to write or spend alone time with my husband because everyone else assumes I have nothing better to do than things FOR them. Little hint, I am always happy to HELP you, but do not ask me to do things FOR you - to take over entire projects that you got yourself into. I just don't like feeling like I'm taking over something just because someone I know and love has over-committed.
