I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and have been pissy all damned day. I am also hot, even though it is only 85 out and my indoor temp is 76 or so. I am at this moment soaking from a cold shower I took and sitting butt ass naked on my chair with a fan on me.
I have no idea why I am in such a mood, either.
lowtechcyclist
Is it just me, or have your moods been less than optimal ever since Joelle headed back to Arizona?
AM in NC
Well you can do like I do and blame it on the menopause.
cain
@lowtechcyclist: More like when he started his diet. :
Cole sitting buck naked with a fan is the new American Gothic.
trollhattan
Butt ass naked sounds like the beginning of the uptick.
Pants are for losers, mazel tov!
lowtechcyclist
@trollhattan:
The Baud 20XX campaign slogan!
schrodingers_cat
Try coloring it can be very relaxing!
MattF
This is the best Musk/Twitter comment Iāve seen, made me larf.
Betsy
Humidity is worse than just heat.Ā Why I hate early September.
KenK
John, envisioning you butt-assed naked under a fan is making me a bit pissy. Thanks for spreading the good cheer ;).
Stay cool.
lowtechcyclist
@MattF: I think it may finally be time to X-it that place.
Elizabelle
@MattF: hilarious. Ā And not wrong!
Brachiator
@MattF:
It was very good. Hit the spot.
Rugosa
Are you getting your period?
Kelly
Hilarious news, Microsoft and Meta have trademarks using X. Musk’s X maybe OK but lawyers are saying if those two want to fight it they could make a lot of trouble.
Mr. Prosser
Don’t forget to febreze your chair when you feel better
MagdaInBlack
Come sit by me, John. I’m so crabby you could make crab-cakes with me. No clue why either. Ok, I have a clue: people. š
laura
That’s been me several non-consecutive days in the last week of way too hot- I just can’t stand myself/crabby/out of sorts and all I could do was endure the day, hydrate and go to bed early. Read some stuff, petted the dog, tried to not harsh on the spouse, smoke a bowl, stare out the back door and find whatever peace could be found in the backyard. Some days are just like that.
A Lurker
PrƔctica tu espaƱol.
Te darĆ” algo constructivo en lo que pensar.
MomSense
Between the daily deluge of stupid and cruelty, the grieving about climate change and democracy in jeopardy-we are all feeling terrible stress.
lowtechcyclist
Join the peasants in their revels. Go to church. Write your memoirs.
Jay
Could be worse.
The place we used to live in the hills, south of Kamloops is under evacuation due to the Ross Moore Lake fire, and the neighbor just south of us, let me know today that he’s evacuated all his cattle, and spot fires are breaking out on his property from wind borne embers.
The fire is still not under control.
Chris T.
@AM in NC:
Man-opause.
Hoppie
wrong thread
dexwood
@lowtechcyclist: Well done.
dexwood
@Rugosa: Can’t you do better than that?
MagdaInBlack
@laura: I’ve found that a bowl on the balcony does wonders on “those kinda days.”
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Did you just skip over the “butt ass naked” part of the post? š
Scout211
@Jay: oh no. Being from California, I have a great deal of empathy for people in fire areas. Are they fighting this fire or letting it burn?
Baud
The Barbie movie is adversely affecting all manly men, Cole. You’re not alone.
FlyingToaster
It could be worse.
My barn* was struck by lightning Friday night during the Hub’s Big Ass Electrical Storm, and sent the power surge up the conduit to the house.Ā Killed a fuckton of connectivity and electrical equipment and ethernet and circuit breakers and on-demand hot water and basement HVAC and….
But the Fire Inspector and the wire inspector cleared us, and the non-barn repairs are complete.Ā The insurance is in progress and we’re replacing the dead electrical equipment (all the fucking TVs) as we go.
* in 1920, it was a carriage barn.Ā By 1950 it had been converted to a very small 1 car garage.Ā In 2022 it was converted to a storage shed holding wire frame shelves full of bins, luggage, and 2 wine fridges plus 1 chest freezer.Ā It took enough damage from the fire, and putting out of same, that it’s probably going to need to be razed and rebuilt.
dr. bloor
@MomSense: Trying to tease apart the existential from the intrapsychic is going to drive untold numbers of therapists to drink over the next few decades.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
True. I can feel my grip on the patriarchy loosening. Unsettling.
Steeplejack
@FlyingToaster:
Light a candle to Reddy Kilowatt.
FlyingToaster
@Steeplejack: Damn Skippy.
mvr
Cole in OP:
Get that completely. For me I think it’s the cumulative effect of lots of things that really have very little to do with my own pretty lucky life. Just worrying about the world I mostly won’t have to live in.
OTOH, it could also be coming home from a too short vacation to a not functioning 1 year old heat pump/air conditioner with our 3 hottest days of the year coming up and heat warnings every which way I turn.
satby
Same John. Except I’m wearing clothes.
Jay
@Scout211:
They are fighting the south east corner, where it could cut off the 5A, which is many peoples escape route.
The Haughton’s property is just next door to the place I built and we lived for 20 years, and right now there is just 20 acres between where we lived and the front of the fire, north of the fire.
Ohio Mom
@cain: I think you might be on to something, the diet-mood correlation needs exploring. Could end up being unrelated but maybe not.
I am not particularly grumpy but I am bored these days.
Honus
Maybe try some naked mopping? Ā Although I guess that was back in your drinking days.
catclub
@Betsy:Ā ā
When the Miami Heat were started my mother said they should name a Miami baseball team the Humidity.
BeautifulPlumage
I think I remember you had an exam with labs recently? If not, having your thyroid levels checked would be advised. Could also be your androgen hormones dropping off?
And you probably just wanted to vent, so never mind my ‘advice’.
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
I figured out how to rewire my Costco air fryer into a Tucker Carlson-endorsed infra-red sack tanner. So I got that goin for me.
Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride
@Baud: As a guy, the whole Barbie phenomenon is beyond my Ken.
Shana
I know why I’m hot as hell. It’s because I’m taking an estrogen blocker after breast cancer surgery and radiation treatment and now all my menopause symptoms are back. Not as bad as when I first hit menopause because that was godawful, putting my head in the freezer awful, but still not great. I even bought a small portable fan to take on a couple of upcoming vacations because I’d be miserable without one.
Ella in New Mexico
I always blame those types of days on bad sleep.
Or alcohol, and since you don’t drink anymore check the sleep part.
Ryan
Molotov!
Ohio Mom
@Shana: I just switched oncologists ā the old one moved out of town ā and the new one canāt believe I want to stay on Arimidex even after my ten years are up in October. I am the odd duck without any bothersome side effects.
Sheās very unenthusiastic about my idea. But as long as my bones and heart hold up, I donāt see why I should go off it, ever. I expect the science to catch up with my approach, eventually.
Manyakitty
@MagdaInBlack: I’ve been a raw nerve for the past few weeks. Can’t get past it. Just aggravated and edgy AF. Glad and sorry to hear I’m not alone in this.
Manyakitty
@Steeplejack: I have a Reddy Kilowatt comic book around here somewhere.
different-church-lady
I’ve been in that mood for a month now.
Manyakitty
@different-church-lady: something needs to give, but I don’t see what. š
The Up and Up
I’m in a shitty mood also. I’d go to the therapist to discuss but that’s one of my problems. The clinic is short staffed, several left on vacation, there is frequent turnover.
The anti-vax brothers, looking for my brother, paid a visit to the parents’ place. They have since come down with COVID-19. I’m staying away from everyone just to be safe. Some fascist city in the state is coming after me, because they can. You might think “But it’s close to Seattle!” It’s MAGA territory. The kind where no one bothers to run against the incumbents other than the gadfly who ALL CAPS his campaign platform in the voters guide. Get on the council, serve until you die thirty years later. Why did I ever volunteer for that burg? Because as a chyron here suggests, “Don’t be the monsters we hate.”
BQuimby
“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her name was grief.”. CS Lewis
Steeplejack
@BQuimby:
Interesting quote. I have been fumbling around in that area.
MomSense
@AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team:
Ha!! Also I read it āso I got that groin for meā .