Crankypants

[cjsmith]

I have my crankypants on today.

Crankypants item number one: One of the kitties threw up on the living room carpet during the night. AGAIN.

Crankypants item number two: I read else-LJ about a person who, when out having a good time with friends and heading toward a party, saw a nasty sign in the window of the party's house. The whole group knew instantly that this person would not be welcome. What happened next? The person's friends didn't go in either.

Have I ever had friends who would do such a thing for me? I know I've had lovers who wouldn't.

Crankypants three: I am sick of comma splices. Comma splices are to me like fingernails on a blackboard are to the simpering fragile contingent in high school. They are awful! I really would prefer never to see one again. But if I pulled journals off my default read list for comma splices, I'd have to get rid of several I would otherwise like to read. Make, for example, is infested, yet it also has interesting content from time to time. How dare they?

Honestly, I know these are all minor. I have a living room, complete with carpet, and I have three cats who purr when I scritch them. I chose to have cats. Similarly, it's up to me to choose my friends and build good friendships, and nobody is forcing me to read posts that weren't worth editing.

I still have a bit of crankypants though. Cranky shorts? :-) Okay, not even those. I'm feeling better already. Sometimes venting DOES help, and remarkably quickly too.

Time to go clean that carpet.

Comments

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

My parents' cat, Betsy, (pictured in the icon) barfs a lot as well. I guess it is something some cats do a lot of and not something to worry too much about (though arguably is very, very annoying). Harlie has only thrown up two or three times in the nearly three years we've had her. It should be noted, however, that if Harlie puked more she would probably be less likely to digest things she shouldn't digest which would make for fewer vet visits and fewer incidents of digestive upset.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It sure is annoying. I keep thinking that if some cats do it and some don't, then there might be a veterinary-medical miracle that will turn one kind of cat into the other. I haven't found it yet though!