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I was in a meeting in my office last week and the topic of discussion was thongs. Yes, that’s right, thongs: When your coworkers are mostly women, and you work for a magazine that covers fashion, thongs are actually quite a legitimate subject of conversation. And thank God for that! It certainly makes the day more fun. Anyway, one of my coworkers—we’ll call her A—remarked that not only does she not like thongs, but on the rare day that she does wear one, it significantly affects her mood. At some point during the day, she realizes she’s really grumpy, and then a lightbulb goes off and she thinks: “Oh, I’m wearing a thong. No wonder.” Immediately after this meeting the wonderful Julee Wilson from the Real Simple fashion department blogged about it; check it out. This thong conversation got me thinking about the very small things that can ruin your mood on an otherwise fine day. They include: • pants with a tight waistband • flat hair • a dirty kitchen floor • two soccer games on two different fields at the same time • an e-mail with an exclamation point attached that is not at all urgent • an unsatisfying lunch • having to ask your son four times to empty the dishwasher • Magic Markers without their caps • no fruit in the fruit drawer Oh, I could just go on and on. Unfortunately. Luckily, today is not one of those days. At least not yet.
Posted by: Rebecca| Monday, November 02, 2009 at 10:49 AM How about clothes with no pockets? Men get to have pockets in just about every item of clothing. Why should I have to tuck my hankerchief into my sleeve and look like an old biddy? Why should I have to hold my pen in my hand as I go from task to task? Why should I have to go back to my desk when the vending machine calls out to me as I walk by - although that does stop the impulse sometimes. Between the lack of pockets and stupid shoes, men will always rule the world. Women are never ready in an emergency because they can't run in high heels and they have to find their purse before they can leave. Everytime I wear an outfit with no pockets, at some point in the day I see how much easier life is with pockets and get ticked off. Certain slippers (that are suppose to be comfortable) and I end up feeling as though I have to hang on to them by cramping my toes tense, immediate bad mood! the unstoppable dust bunnies that roll out from under the bed... When you wear underwear that isn't meant to be a thong but ends up there anyway! Thanks Kristin! That was a very lively thong conversation and to add to yours...the things that can ruin my mood/day are: forgetting my book at home when I'm taking a long subway ride, super cute but super uncomfortable shoes, frizzy hair (oh the things I would and already do for flat hair), long lines, and lots of unread emails in my inbox. Waiting in long lines with no book or knitting a weak cup of coffee will ruin any start to a day a weak cup of coffee will ruin any start to a day Cleaning up after dinner, getting ready to load the dirty dishes in the dishwasher only to find it is full of CLEAN dishes that must be put away first ... sigh. Coming home the day the housekeeper has been there only to have one of three children spill apple juice all over the newly cleaned kitchen floor ... double sigh. Stepping on chewed up pencils that the puppy has found (only slightly less painful than legos) ... sigh again! I'm cracking up...excuse the pun! Boy short underwear in the way to go :) One better than finding the dishwasher full of clean dishes and needing emptied is finding it full of DIRTY ones when someone, who will remain nameless (my husband) forgot to turn it on before bed. So now I have to wait for it to wash them before I can fill it, which by then needs to be run again! That is a BAD BAD day. My bangs put me in a bad mood. I'm on the threshold of 40 and have suddenly developed what seems to be a cowlick. How? More importantly, why?! Well, at least the acne finally went away! |
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That's an interesting subject... If she always gets grumpy when she's wearing a thong, though, why keep any in the drawer anymore? Problem solved!