Reasons why I am having bad attitude night

[pegkerr]

Another parent meeting at school, this one for Fiona's Robotics Team. I sooooo do not want to go to this. Right in the middle of the dinner hour, dammit, and it'll mean I miss karate.

I am still irritated about all the incredibly stupid (and often bigoted) commentary I've been reading in blogs and news services about the outing of Dumbledore. And then I get mad at myself for even caring what idiots say.

I am gaining weight again. I didn't want to go back over 150, but I did. Dammit.

My check register doesn't match the data input on Quicken, which means I'll have to chase down the subtraction error. I am extremely anal about making sure my paper and computer records correlate, but I can't find where I screwed up. I hate this.

My office is a mess because I have the financial paperwork spread out all over the floor, for making Quicken entries and filing.

I need to start writing that paper for Fantasy Matters and I feel singularly uninspired.

I am excessively irritated with Fiona over something. It's between her and me (and her geography teacher). Best not to ask. Really.

My husband is still unemployed.

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[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't Rob go to the meeting?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

He did. We both went.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

And we drove separately. He stayed for the parents meeting for International Baccalaureate parents, and I drove to pick up Fiona from the dojo. He then went to the dojo to clean it while I went driving all over town, trying to find Halloween pumpkins.

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

And then I get mad at myself for even caring what idiots say.

I hear ya. On so many levels. Fortunately, I haven't been exposed to teh stoopids on the Dumbledore (non)issue. Did they really think that no gay people exist in a story or world as long as they aren't explicitly mentioned? Reminds me of a dumb argument years ago on one of the Tolkien newsgroups, in which someone earnestly asserted that there are NO toilets in Middle Earth--because Tolkien never mentioned them in the books! La la. Logic. Dontcha love it?

I didn't want to go back over 150, but I did. Dammit.

I'll be happy just to get back under 200. Then again, my build's a bit bigger than yours, even if I'm not taller, so I guess that's no comfort to you. Sorry...

I need to start writing that paper for Fantasy Matters and I feel singularly uninspired.

If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance... you know the rest. Just start writing and see what happens. Even if it's crap, they'll love it just because you wrote it.

You're right. I was not destined to work in the helping professions.

Remind us when and where the conference is, and if we need to buy tickets to attend, okay?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Here's the conference website: Fantasy Matters.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Y'know -- it always is the little things that drive you crazy (like the holes in the ceiling of my kitchen from TWO separate pipe leaks, and the resulting plastic sheets that made it almost impossible to get dishes out of the cupboards...)

My reaction to Dumbledore being gay was "Sure. Makes sense." Dunno why there should be this big controversy. The Christian references in HP which you mentioned a few weeks ago were actually more interesting in terms of analyzing the books.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I have drips in my kitchen ceiling, too. The plaster and paint are crumbling. I can't do a thing about it.

Calorie-free stress relief

[aome.livejournal.com]

Re: Calorie-free stress relief

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED.

[aeditimi.livejournal.com]

I too am anal about making the checkbook match the digital figures. And I simply can't work in clutter (which is a problem, because I work by generating it, so then I have to stop and clean before I can think again).

Sorry about your GRR's. Hope tomorrow holds more promise. In reference to the anti-gay!dumbledore people, husband and I have a saying: 20% of all americans think they are fire hydrants. We use this to explain the fact that at any given moment, 20% of the people in the world are just plain batshit crazy. Percentage of people who think the Rapture is biblical, literal, and impending? 20%. Bush's approval rating? 21%. Percentage of Harry Potter readers who thought it was a bad thing for a mian character to be gay in theory? eh, about 20%. But they also think they're fire hydrants. So really, who cares?

On a more serious note, my husband is new to his job after a time of not having one. I know that was particularly stressful for us, both from a financial perspective and from the perspective of him feeling fulfilled (and staying out of my hair). Best wishes for that particularly.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Bleah. Double bleah plus nuts.

Nix the computer for your checkbook, do it by hand

[hardingfele.livejournal.com]

I am one of Hilary's friends and I got to the link thru her friends page, but I have one piece of advice. Balance the checkbook by hand and save some time. You are doing double entry and you increase the chance for transferring errors. I have never figured out why people keep paper and computer registers, that's extra work. I have always kept my paper register and it takes me 5 min max to balance out each month. I have caught subtraction errors in the register, but luckily not any that were crucial. Hope you got your pumpkin. You are not alone, my office is a mess in general at work and at home, I live with a 6 yo tornado who does not understand that the floor is not a repository for various crap. Good luck