What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Ufgt]

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I never want kids. This question has never even entered my mind.

[TheGrandMom]

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If I had any more kids, it would be game related names like I did with my grandsons names. I want my son to get going and give me a granddaughter! Freya, Aeirth, Serah are all options I'll be considering. But with as long as he's taking, there could be several other FF releases before then. ><

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As for a pet peeve, doctors that don't call back their patients in a timely fashion! Honestly, its kind of important....you know extremely high blood pressure that can lead to a STROKE. But hey, take your time. So this weekend will be blood pressure watch weekend which means staying in bed a lot. That makes hubby VERY crabby, which stesses me, and that leads to the bp going up. If it gets too high then it means hospital and it seems once they get a hold of you, they don't like to let go! lol

[Aksannyi]

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Well you could play FFXIV and just give yourself a brain aneurysm. You know, just get it over with.

I am, of course, kidding. Not about XIV being the brain aneurysm inducing kind of game, but the part about you just getting things done with. I like you and I would definitely "has a sad" if you were not here.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I hate when I become totally aware of the shunt in my neck. Technically, it goes from the skull to the abdomen, but I really just feel it behind the ear and down to my collarbone. When the weather shifts all willy-nilly like it has this week and the barometric pressure rise and drops, the scar tissue around my shunt tightens up.

More or less, the purpose of the shunt its to drain any spinal fluid that gets around the brain. Without it, I'd just have recurring subdural hemotomas. That's like getting a concussion without the impact.

I mean, I glad I don't have to endure that so much now, but the tightening of the scar tissue makes it so uncomfortable. I just like it more when I don't know its there.

[TheGrandMom]

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Well you could play FFXIV and just give yourself a brain aneurysm. You know, just get it over with.

LOL Avoiding that game like the PLAGUE until this bp thing gets straightened out. I haven't been on in a week at least. Kind of funny you picked aneurysm because people with my disease have a high % of developing them so I wouldn't doubt it could actually happen from playing that damn game! lol

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah I have a feeling my neighbors would hate me if I started playing XIV. The walls aren't very thick around here, and I have a bad habit of yelling at the TV/computer when shit hits the fan.

Which brings me to my current peeve. The neighbors downstairs well, they have a baby. It's a pretty young baby, I'd say under six months old judging by the way it cries. And holy shit, it cries. I mean I know babies cry. I've had them, and I understand. And normal crying I could totally deal with.

This baby though ... holy shit, I've never heard a baby cry like this baby. It sounds horrible. A cross between shrieking and wailing and all wrapped into that repetitive crying ... rhythm. I can't even describe it. It just sounds so horrible and miserable. I don't know what they are doing to that poor kid. If they're just leaving it there to cry it out (which is a valid thing, at a certain age, not knocking it, but when the baby starts to scream the way this one was, it's time to pick him back up and try to soothe him), or if they're trying to feed it and he's just not having it ... I don't know man. I've never heard a baby cry the way this kid cries. And it's horrible. Of course, it's late at night when I'm trying to sleep, and it doesn't even bother me that it's keeping me awake ... it bothers me because I'm seriously wondering if this baby is even all right.

And it's not like I can really do anything ... I can't talk to the parents. What do you say to someone at 1 AM when their kid is screaming bloody fucking murder? A total stranger, no less? And do I call the DCF? (CPS, in other parts of the country.) I just feel awful. And I don't know what exactly I can or should do because I'm really nervous about the way I've heard that child screaming. I seriously just want to go down there, take him in my arms and rock him gently to sleep. I seriously don't understand why this mother and/or father is not doing that.

[Ketaru]

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I think some people are gay, and I think some people, for whatever reason, choose to be gay, and I think that some gay people, also for whatever reason, choose to be straight.

I've met alot of people who were gay, always were gay, and always will be gay. I've also met other people who choose to be gay because they wanted to be "different", or heaven only knows what other reason they had. But in talking to them it was quite obvious that it was a conscious choice on their part. Several of them I suspect choose to be gay for the explicit purpose of annoying or bothering people. Frankly I wouldn't even call those people gay, I just don't know what else to call them. I only suspect that there are gay people out there leading a life of a heterosexual because they don't want to or can't deal with the social stigma of being gay.

Clearly they didn't pick the winning choice. It sours my day, personally, every time I hear people say that they want LGBT people to die of AIDS. More so when I hear popular politicians like Christine o'Donnell openly denounce it. This being the internet, people are also a lot more vitriol in what they say, ranging from all the popular descriptors like "deviants" to "abominations". But the one that pisses me off the most is the accusation that LGBT people want to recruit children.

I can even recall from a very young age going to Chinatown in NYC. And my mother would point at 2 men holding hands as they walk down the street and say, "Look! Kevin, isn't that disgusting?" I never really agreed with her. They're walking down the street holding hands, not knives or guns or, you know, things that can actually hurt people.

The fact I also find women attractive has just kind of allowed me to shrug off the other side or reason that it's just a phase. But like I said, somehow, I've reacted very strongly to all the spotlight on the issue lately in current events and just kind of ended up saying, "Who am I kidding? I'm almost 25 now. It's not something I'm going to just grow out of."

And honestly, these past few weeks, I don't believe I've ever felt better about it. There's something freeing about being able to admit it, even if it's only to myself. Told my linkshell last week and, contrary to my suspicion that they were going to be immature about it, they were actually very nonchalant about it which is what I think the most ideal reaction to telling people should be. Like a lot of people that come out say: I am no different from the person that they played alongside last year.

[Aksannyi]

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Oh, and the following is a bit of womanly TMI, so read at your own risk:

Because I'm nice.

Ever since I've been dealing with this monthly visitor crap, it never fucking fails ... no matter how regularly I get my periods, if there's a holiday or the opening night of a performance that happens to fall reasonably close to when my period was supposed to start, my period makes sure to start just in perfect sync so that my absolutely most crampy, heaviest days are exactly on the holiday/performance.

Every dance show since I was 14, every opening night of the play, every Christmas, every Easter, every Halloween. So yes, I am currently being "visited" and I know that since I am going out for my most favoritest holiday EVAR tomorrow night, my friend decided to stop by and make sure that I'm at my absolute crappiest!

Fuck yes, womanhood!

Though at least the pill does make it lighter and shorter ... it doesn't seem to kick in when there's some big event I'm looking forward to.

Don't say I didn't warn you, but it definitely qualifies as a pet peeve.

[TheGrandMom]

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And do I call the DCF? (CPS, in other parts of the country.) I just feel awful. And I don't know what exactly I can or should do because I'm really nervous about the way I've heard that child screaming. I seriously just want to go down there, take him in my arms and rock him gently to sleep. I seriously don't understand why this mother and/or father is not doing that.

Call. It doesn't hurt anyone. They'll either investigate it or not. If they do and find nothing out of place, then no big deal. If they do find something then you have just helped that child. But if you do nothing and something bad happens, you'll feel like shit.

[Aksannyi]

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I was thinking I would do that for sure TGM. Now that I typed it out, and it's real. I would feel horrible if something happened. I will call anonymously, I'm sure that I can do that.

[TheGrandMom]

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Don't say I didn't warn you, but it definitely qualifies as a pet peeve.

Huge peeve of mine too. At least you can take the pill and regulate it somewhat, I can't take the pill because I get blood clots in my legs. I know for me its nerves and stress that kick it off. I've been totally stressed this week, especially today and guess what!?

[Aksannyi]

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No offense meant here but I'm actually surprised you're still dealing with that. Not with the age thing cause you're a young grandmother but just with all the other shit going on I'm surprised your ovaries haven't like deserted you by now. LOL.

[TheGrandMom]

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HAHAHAHAHA Oh it seems that way at times. When the health meter takes a nose dive, my lonely single egg producer dries up for a while. When things even out then its back to business as usual. I keep thinking "must be menopause" but the gyno keeps telling me I'm no where near that yet. Kind of makes me go SHIT but then again not looking forward to hot flashes! lol

[Raydeus]

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I never want kids. This question has never even entered my mind.

Considering how little faith in marriage I have left it's very surprising I actually think I'd like to have a kid or two someday.

However, I would not under any circunstances bring a kid to this world unless I was absolutely and completely in love with the woman in quiestion. You know, to create something with her we could leave behind, yada yada yada.

And considering my luck with women the chances of that happening are less than those of me winning the mog bonanza 2 times in a row.

[Aksannyi]

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I had a coworker at my last job who used to bitch about menopause all the time. She was always depressed about every little thing in life and she was just generally annoying and generally unattractive so it was always like, "Um, ew, gross, lady ..." when she'd talk about that shit. Like she seriously told me

this is gross

how much she was bleeding and how often she had to change her pads

as though I truly wanted to know all that information in the first fucking place.

In general, there are two people on the planet who need to know when it's my time of the month. Me, and the person I'm sleeping with. I don't know what possesses people to tell their coworkers shit like that. Coworkers. Not even friends, for fuck's sake. This is someone who, if she wanted to jump off a bridge, I would have given her a ride to the highest one in town. Why would she tell me this shit?