annoyance

It is awesome that the regular season is here.  With the return of the regular seaosn we have the return of 5 questions with the opposing team's blogger.  This week we have Chris, the head blogger over at Big Cat Country:

Today's snail mail brought us our edition of the Nashville English First petition, which Eric Crafton is using as an end-around last year's mayoral veto in order to force Metro employees never to speak any other language to help people out.

1. Show how totally unimpressed you are with the whole world.

Annoytement \An*noyt”ment\, n. [OF. anoiance, anuiance, escitement.]
1. The peculiar mix of annoyance and excitement at being woken up by fireworks at 10:30PM on a Wednesday.

One thing I've never understood is why pediatricians want babies off the bottle at 12 months.

I'm usually a rule follower. Just try to convince me it's OK to give a child just a bit more in that medicine dropper than the 4 ml dose I was instructed to dispense and you will see immediate concern in my face. 4 ml means 4 ml. Not 4.5 ml.

One of my favorite blogs has posts about "Household Truths" from time to time. The posts generally provide pithy insights on the ins and outs of household management.

I've discovered my own household truth this week.

I've been feeling cranky all afternoon.  I think it started with the gas price change between 9:00 and 9:01 this morning.  Or maybe it was the one between 9:02 and 9:03.   It's amazing how those crude oil increases affect gasoline in less than a minute.  Those ships and pipelines must move pretty fast.  Anyway some more of