warning: dont read if you dont like a good pity party of one

not in the mood for halloween.
not in the mood for anything really.
mad that i didnt get the garage organized before this so that i could get to the halloween decorations and put them out for my kids. since the construction this summer our garage has been a monster neither of us wants to tackle.
crabby
tired
house is a WRECK
seriously seriously a wreck
the kids rooms, my desk, my room, the laundry
nothing is organized the way i like it to be
its all clean underneath the mess but its making me crazy and i dont want to keep up with it
im hungry but nothing sounds good
i desperately want to go guzzle a 44 ounce coca cola
but i wont
i am afraid i am going to catch jeffs cold
ive had a lingering migraine since sunday
i really wish i could sleep in everyday
probably shouldnt be posting, but
just
bleh

now – you are only allowed to comment if you want to join in with me. vent away. list form is fast and easy. it will help you let go of some of your BLEH-ness. go for it. im going to go hop in the shower and put on some music that will pump me up. maybe some beastie boys, maybe some damien marley, maybe my classic rock playlist. yes, thats the one. some stones and some grateful dead will do the trick.

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  1. Oh man, you saw me coming! I hate Halloween, too. I’m mad that my husband has cancer, I’m mad that he has to have surgery (but I’m REALLY THANKFUL that he’s going to be ok), I’m mad that I have a cold, I’m mad at myself for not wanting to go to a movie tonight with my wonderful husband; I hate movie theaters and it’s not even a movie I want to see. But I will do it for him because I love him. And I’m mad that I can’t seem to find the time or motivation to scrapbook because I know if I could, I’d feel so much better. Thanks for letting me join in your Pity Party. I think I might just feel a little better.

  2. have some chocolate. the dark kind – it’s good for you.

    wear your jammies all day (tell everyone it’s your costume)

    reading home decorating mags always gets me in the mood to sort and purge. ;)

    and my vent: where the heck did my day go? i need a pause button for my life. :p

  3. I have the cold from my husband.
    Feel like creativity needs a HGUE jumpstart.
    Never have gotten into Halloween and I think my child is suffering for it, eventhough he’s the cutest dracula in my world.
    photoshoots stacked up that I need to edit. . .
    turned down a shoot (which instantly puts me in a mood)
    don’t fit into my cute jeans,
    I could go on.
    good to know someone else is having “a day” too.
    ~Meegan

  4. i’ll “bleh” with you. hubby’s gone the next 10 days. i have a major deadline four days after he gets home … and i’m only halfway done. after that is thanksgiving, with all the cooking and people arriving and stress over just WHEN i’ll get around to cleaning … i have shots from last weekend of a mom and her two daughters to weed through, and a wedding reception saturday night that will no doubt result in hundreds of photos to sort. and then there’s always christmas to start thinking about …

    bleh. so very bleh. thanks for giving us the permission to vocalize it.

  5. I have a terrible cold
    I don’t want to trick or treat
    I didn’t even carve one pumpkin with my son this year!
    I never get enough sleep
    I want to quit my job and be a fabulous photographer like you…i seriously hate my day job!
    I’m completely unorganized…and I don’t care!!!!
    most definitely crabby!
    I feel like wearing sweatpants and watching sappy romantic movies!

  6. 1) Cleaned the house top to bottom on Sunday. When he comes home I get “What’s for dinner?”
    2) Monday, house is a frickin’ disaster area.
    3) Boyfriend keeps telling me how wonderful his friend’s wife is.
    4) Don’t even give a crap at this point.
    5) Chiropractor (as much as I love him) three times a week is really bugging into my busy schedule.
    6) My son (age 8) has taken to wetting himself on a fairly regular basis, but the doctor says it’s not his fault, which is great, but does my son have enough pants to support such a problem? No. Laundry on top of laundry on top of laundry.
    7) Speaking of laundry…. my bf couldn’t find pants so he went through two overloaded baskets of dirty laundry and threw them all over the upstairs in search of these pants. This after I just got done cleaning.
    8) He didn’t pick the clothes up that he threw all over the place, I did, and not one word about it either.
    9) I feel like a slave.
    10) The next time he tells me how wonderful his friends wife is I’m going to choke him. His friends wife doesn’t work, she has time to have dinner on every day, she has time to make his lunch every day. I work two jobs and raise a child.
    11) You may be reading headlines with my name in them tomorrow.

    End rant.

  7. Wow… I never let myself complain and you just gave me permission… you may regret this :)

    I have a disease that leaves me in intense pain and sick all the time

    I react to all the meds that could help me most

    The meds I can take leave me nauseous and dizzy

    I used to be a writer for a magazine and now am permanently disabled and unable to work

    I have to walk around with crutches, which ruins any cute outfit

    I HATE STEROIDS

    I just spent the last month and a half switching meds and I haven’t — literally — stepped foot out of my house in that time because I’ve been so weak

    I have absolutely no potential for my life to change and I’m only 34

    I have no money, and will go further in debt buying Christmas presents

    but because I can’t do this negative thing well I have to add that… I have so many friends and blessings in my life that far outweigh the bad. I believe in God, and I trust that he knows better than me, so I’ll do the best I can with what I’m given. But it was fun, for a moment, to say it sucks. Thanks.

  8. i was diagnosed with hypothyroid on monday.

    maybe i won’t be so tired-was i really tired
    maybe i was depressed and just didn’t own up to it all

    maybe i won’t yell at my kids.

    maybe i will go for a run right now and feel better-i ran a half marathon on sunday and i still can’t believe it.

    maybe i have the best husband in the world an didn’t tell him this enough.
    xo

  9. I think I’ve O.D.’d on Halloween candy today. My stomach kills now.

    Just had 3 cavities filled on Monday… I really shouldn’t have eaten that candy today.

    Hope you really have a much better day tomorrow!

    You deserve it!

  10. thanks… this may be just what i need! :-)

    i have a cold sore
    i am exhausted
    i am unhappy with my job
    i don’t know if we’re pregnant, but we really want to be
    im afraid im feeling cramps
    my dear friend IS pregnant, doesn’t know we’re trying, and is whining about how she doesn’t even want to be pregnant anymore, and its really getting me mad!
    i feel a little bad about the above statement
    i want to take a nap
    i don’t want to hang out with anyone but my hubby because im exhausted, but of course we’ve been with people every day this week and have plans for tonight
    we didnt get any trick-or-treaters last year, except our chinese delivery

    haha. yeah. it actually does feel good to say it! hope your day gets better!

  11. I am 6 months pregnant, I am at work on a huge campus. The only food for miles and miles has to come from our nasty cafeteria. All I want is a grilled cheese sandwich – they have a grill, they have bread and cheese, they are grilling burgers, couldn’t they just make me a grilled cheese – NO
    I hate the cafeteria!

  12. ok, I will go..

    not ready for cold weather…our heat sucks.
    My house is a construction zone mess
    I hate it.
    nothing is moving fast enough for me.
    i am ALWAYS that unorganized girl, hate that
    My house is ALWAYS a wreck, no matter what.
    BILLS SUCK. period.
    I have a good case of the “I wants, but can’t affords”
    I am tired, all the time. I need FINISHED bedrooms, a night of sleep without ANY kids in my bed, and some time ALONE. :)

  13. preface: i’m a senior in dental school.
    mock dental exams in 20 hours
    four days of mock clinical exams start on monday
    lots of lab work gone wrong
    i’m really getting super-anal about giving people quality dental work, and am getting depressed that soon people won’t even appreciate the extra time and effort i put in to taking care of them
    kinda short list.. guess i’m doing ok…
    there’s always someone who’s having a rainier day…thanks for the relief

  14. I feel like I am catching a cold which drives me crazy….tying not to let it “stick”

    the vision of what I wanted to do today is not even close to what I have done

    feeling a litle anxious about the coming holiday season begining with today

    frustrated when things are not totally organized and clean like I want it.

    ignoring the HUGE pile of laundry to fold which I know will not get done today or tomorrow.

    frustrated that I dont feel like I am justified in my desire to go to bed and not do ANYTHING sometimes.

    its cold and cloudy today making me want to stay in today and tonight but there are too many things to do.

    Just trying to push through the day and enjoy the fun tonight.

  15. Right there with you:
    house is a mess

    haven’t even pulled out the fall/halloween decorations and I’m usually the “supermom” that decorates the whole house and has a big party for the kids…barely even got candy this year

    husband now officing at home…need I say more?

    grumpy and tired…just want to take a nap, but I have to drive carpool instead

    bad case of the blahs

    thanks for letting me vent
    hope your day gets better!

  16. Ah! I just love a good pity party. Is it today? You’d think not since it’s Halloween, but I just vented in my journal because i feel everyone around me is out to get me and make me crazy! Work…home…ahhhh! Maybe swiping hordes of chocolate from the kitties tonight(i call my girls kitties) will make it all better. :-)
    Oh, and as I was reading your list i thought “hey, she could be talking about me” sans the construction. ppffff – ah, thanks for making it ok to let off a little steam. :-)

  17. -Migraine, on hold with the pharmacist to get a refill which they didn’t bother to refill last time I called
    -Apartment messier than it’s ever been
    -One paper to rewrite, and two more due next week
    -husband out of town until Sunday
    -Going to take a nap

  18. Den is a mess – wall to wall toys

    Desk is a mess – office and home

    FIL has cancer (parent #3 now; the other 2 passed 8 and 6 years ago) and on maintainance (not cure just to buy time)

    DD is just pushing all the wrong buttons but she is almost 3

    Still PO’d about wife’s layoff last year just 6 weeks after we moved into a larger home (I miss my $460-including-escrow-mortgage)

    Not much liking my position at work, but like my company.

    Not liking that I want a Mac and an iPhone so bad after playing with both but cannot have.

    My mother

    Nuff said.

  19. i want to nap so very badly
    but my 3 year old refuses to take a nap
    i’m tired
    and cranky
    and i hate it when i get short with my kids
    and it’s cold and windy
    and i just want to go to bed
    not go trick or treating
    and i want pizza
    and i don’t want to share.
    and i want some rocky road
    and i don’t want to share that either
    did i mention i want to go to sleep?
    i want my house done.
    the house is a wreck because we are fixing it up
    so nothing feels clean even when i clean it

    whew. that felt good.
    thanks.

  20. Hmmm where to begin…

    In No mood for tonight(halloween)!
    I want chinese food but cant have it!
    Im over weight!
    My periods back after only being gone less then a week and being here for 3wks before its short time away!
    We cant find a house to move into!
    BILLS
    Im pretty sure all 4 of us are getting sick.
    My son hasnt slept well for 3 nights which means neither have I!
    I really want chinese food :X
    I now have to drive to get my daughter and wait in a car line for 25mins to get her from school b/c im to embarassed b/c im fat to just get out and walk to get her!
    Living with your mom after your married and have kids, even for a short span of time IS NOT FUN!!!

    ok done for now!

  21. pissed b/c this week i lack total motivation
    going insane planning a wedding
    tired of trying to make everyone
    needing to go to the gym, but finding myself eating Halloween candy instead
    spending more time consumed by pressures of what i need to do than getting stuff done

    thanks for a place to vent. i feel better already and an off to get dressed and try to accomplish a few things.

  22. Sorry you are feeling bleh – Hope the music and shower helped you feel better.

    Here’s mine…
    * I’m tired
    * I feel like i’m getting sick
    * I want to scrapbook – not work – today – actually everyday
    * I have so many projects to do before the holidays – it’s not funny
    * The downstairs needs to be cleaned (the upstairs was on Sunday)
    * I’m hungry but nothing sounds good
    * It’s raining off and on
    * The laundry needs to be done
    * My sb room looks like a tornado hit it
    * I need to lose weight
    That’s all I can think of at the moment.

    Again – hope you are feeling better!

    Happy Halloween! :)
    Hugs!

  23. I’m with you too…
    Not into Halloween this year
    Keeping the house clean is so frustrating
    I clean (pick up) every day but seem to get nowhere
    I am tired of being a single mom (even though I am married)
    Wish hubby didn’t work such long hours
    Doing homework every night with 2 boys who don’t want too is exhausting
    I have nothing ready for dinner
    maybe the kids will have Halloween candy for dinner? (ha!)

  24. I like your post! I envy your photographic skill, and such, and it makes me feel better to see that you are a normal person who feels bitchy just like me!
    I want to sleep in every day
    want the house to be neat and clean and uncluttered
    want the energy to work out and discipline to eat better
    want the energy to do my crafting and still get dinner on the table

  25. I just want to “chuck” everything on the floor ,furniture and tables right out in the front yard…. and I did…threw a few items…they’ll have to walk around it to get to the front door..even if they all just step over it..I feel much better now

  26. I hate packing.
    I too hate Halloween, especially 2 days before we leave for a 10 day trip.
    I hate smoke.

    BUT, I am lucky enough to have a friend drop by “My doula was worth the moola” buttons to me yesterday. That made me happy!

    You’re the best Tara! :)

  27. Today is the “anniversary” of my parents divorce, (which was a good thing) but, I just found out today that my Dad is remarrying. I kind of was having my own pity party, trying to understand my feelings. Then I read your blog.
    Moving on now…

  28. I’ll join your club.

    I think I am going shopping for new socks for my kids because I don’t feel like doing laundry. A few months ago I got them new underwear so thank goodness we are fine there.

    My house is suffering from C.H.A.O.S.
    –Can’t have Anyone Over Syndrome. I would DIE if someone stopped by right now.

    To most people I appear to have it all together, I do a pretty good job of fooling them!!

  29. I am so glad it’s not just me!!!

    I’m 7mo pregnant and HATE my lame Dr! Why did I have to ask her to listen to the baby’s heart?
    My DH just bought me Leopard… now my lame version of Elements doesn’t work. I have like 7 Christmas card orders and 3 shoots to edit… Crap!
    I’m so cranky with my poor kids.
    The car wouldn’t start AGAIN!
    I am not a Halloween fan.
    My house is a wreck!
    Not only do I have not any clean clothes… even if I did they wouldn’t fit!
    We have no money for Christmas.
    Heartburn SUCKS!!!
    I want a glass of Port so bad and I can’t!
    I really could go on and on…
    And on top of all that I my 2.5 year old just announced that she doesn’t want diapers any more! Now I’m potty training!
    It’s not easy being pregnant with #4 on a stressful day!
    And that’s not evening bring the crap I have to deal with regarding my mother!!!

  30. * Today is the 20th anniversary of the day I met my husband. He has to work. Again.
    * I can’t go trick-or-treating with my kids. Because DH is working.
    * This is probably the last year my daughter will go trick-or-treating. Without me.
    * This is the first year I won’t go trick-or-treating with my son. He’s going with friends. :-(
    * I have a deadline and I don’t want to work.
    * My scrap mojo is totally gone.
    * Somehow the photo processor scratched my film and there’s a line through all of my pumpkin patch photos.
    * I’ve eaten too much Halloween candy and my forehead is breaking out.
    * My entire house still smells like smoke.
    * My kids are off school today but not tomorrow. Whose dumb idea was that?
    * I need to go grocery shopping but I hate the grocery store.
    * The plugs in the laundry room aren’t working so I have an ugly orange extension cord snaking through my house so I can do laundry.
    * My pool is full of dirt and ash.

    Oh, I could go on and on! Must be time for loud music (great idea, BTW). I’m thinking Justin Timberlake. I could use some of my sexy back! :-)

  31. Ok..here is my list:

    Upper respitory difficulties- started with the fires in California and all the gunk in the air- segued into a cold and now bronchitus. Breathing is a wonderful thing. Wish I could do it effortlessly.

    House a mess…hard to clean when breathing is a challenge.

    My teensy tinsy office at work has become the repository for all the boxes as we pack up to do a full blown move to another office location. No room whatsoever!!!!

    A thousand and one things to do to organize this move ( I am the office manager- so that’s my job) and not enough time to do them all.

    Did I mention it is hard to breathe?

    I am ready for a nap. Not going to get one, but I am ready for one!!!

    That’s all folks.

  32. was NOT in the mood for Halloween, just decorated yesterday.
    i am tired lately too.
    sick of whiney complaning kids.
    but we have to go trick or treat now….
    hope you feel better!
    t

  33. Just finished the garage
    It has been a mess for 2 YEARS
    Now I have a ton of cupboards and drawers
    I am a slob
    My husband is a slob
    Our two dogs are slobs
    I hate housework
    After being laid off the end of Feb
    Now I NEED to go to work
    Yuck
    I AM drinking a 32 ounce Pepsi, I love it
    My craft/scrap room is clean
    My saving grace
    I love my kids and grandchild
    I am old
    Now I feel a little better
    Thanks

  34. wow. you sound like me ….

    my house is a mess and I don’t have time to clean it
    I’m overweight
    I have no energy because of it
    I have to do Halloween alone this year
    my hubby has school so I have to take the kids out
    and instead of enjoying the day I’m worrying about all the work I could be doing.

    the list could be longer but it’s trick-or-treat time. :P

  35. can’t stop eating Halloween candy –
    even though I feel so sick. don’t want to go out trick-or-treating with the smallies tonight – just want to crawl in bed – with more halloween candy. can’t seem to get any work done – no matter how much I tell myself to focus. just the sound of peoples voices is making me crazy. so needing the universe to cooperate with me and make some things just a little easier to get through this day. phew.

  36. I”m hungry
    I’m tired.
    I’m tired of elderly people picking MY business to have some sort of accident. We know the fire dept. by name now!
    Want construction to be over with. Want me NEW office NOW.
    Tired of employees. Enough said.
    I just want to stay home.
    I am really lucky and dont’ deserve to have a pitty party, but some days, like you, are just BLEH. Thanks for the vent.

  37. I’m broke
    To much art
    I have to buy art supplies
    but I have no money to do so
    I have to take halloween pics for class
    but I don’t really care for halloween
    and I have to use a retro film camera not my nice digital one… :(
    art is wearing me out
    all I want to do is sleep
    I too have a migraine
    art history.
    and I am sick working
    oh, bills too, those stink

    i totally feel yah

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