So, my kids are back in school, which leaves me lots of free time that I’ve missed over the last 2 months. Time to clean, write, work out (will start soon, surely. Have to…organize socks first). But it’s also left me with too much time to think. So, for my post today, I give you… 10 THINGS THAT DRIVE ME CRAZY
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When a great book ends or a sucky book just won’t.
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Reading a fantastic book. Why, you ask, would this drive me crazy? Well, for one, I’m left with that niggling feeling of, "I’ll never be able to write this well," and second, it’s hard for the next book to measure up, so I spend the next couple of weeks picking up and putting down several books because they just don’t capture me the way the previous one did. It forces me into reading dry-spells.
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Reading a horrible book that I just spent 7/15/25 dollars on and feel obligated to finish because I just spent 7/15/25 dollars on it.
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Dirt around my baseboards. Someone please explain how so much dirt gets pushed into the corners of my rooms?
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Dog cycles. I have an 80 lb golden retriever who could surely benefit from the invention of doggie tampons right now. Did I mention I just got new furniture?
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Fantastic story ideas with too many possibilities. I drive myself nuts thinking "what-if", until the story morphs into something unrecognizable, leaving me, again, with the original story and a new game of "what-if."
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Florida. Sunshine state my a$$. I’m just sayin’….
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Laundry. It grows back over night.
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My ten year old daughter running around the house singing, "Dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" There is something infinitely inappropriate about that.
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Being a night owl.
Why is it that I can’t motivate myself to do jack during the day, but at eleven o’clock at night, I feel like cleaning the whole house from top to bottom and squeezing in a work-out while I’m at it? (Not saying I do it…just feel like it.)
So what drives you to pull your hair out? 
I showed you mine..now you show me yours 
Heather,
OMG! I love your top 10. And I thought I was the only one dirty laundry multiplied on. But you forgot dirty dishes. They reappear faster than the stupid laundry most days. What’s up with that?
Oh, and lets not forget about characters who come to you out of nowhere, impress the socks off you with their brillance, then the second you decide to write their story, they shut up! Can I get a, “That’s just wrong”?
Comment by Laura — August 22, 2006 @ 9:16 am
The fact that I can gain ten pounds in a week, but it takes more than a month to lose it.
Comment by Sasha — August 22, 2006 @ 11:28 am
Dust. I hate to dust. And I really need to do that… And papers that seem to breed no matter how often I file them, there are always more on my desk!
Comment by Tori Lennox — August 22, 2006 @ 11:45 am
Laura - LOL on the dishes. Funny thing is, I don’t use many, and yet, still, the sinks are full always!
Sasha - 10 pounds? Hun, I’m looking to lose 50 that seemed to have popped up overnight!
Tori -I’m such a clutter bug, it drives the hubby insane. There are literally piles of paper everywhere, but I know exactly where everything is until someone tries to clean it
Heather
Comment by Heather — August 22, 2006 @ 12:27 pm
Oh Heather, thanks so much for the chuckles! So many of them are the same for me, too. Universal hair pulling moments
Comment by Saskia Walker — August 23, 2006 @ 3:13 pm
Hahahahahah!!!! Loved you showing me yours, Heather, and it came at just the “write” time. I so feel your pain. Just finished a project and must start the next one. AM SOOOOOO TIRED. Looking at a PILE of junk mail and bills that are screaming “pay me! pay me! pay me now or face the late charge fairies!” Evil Late Charge Fairies!!! AARRRRRRGGGHHH! (I think I need some time off.)
Luv
Cleo
As for me
Comment by Cleo — August 23, 2006 @ 11:50 pm
Here’s mine: the media says Calista Flockhart is a size 6. If she’s a 6, then there’s no hope for the rest of us, especially those of us who are trying to shed pregnancy weight (baby #2 - Eric - is 7 months and yes, he was worth it, but come on, I just missed an entire summer at the beach because I refused to get into a bathing suit!). I was in the store the other day, staring at a pair of jeans that were a size 0. Now what’s up with that?!!
Comment by Mia King — August 24, 2006 @ 1:38 am