What Make Me a Raving Lunatic?

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Everyone has them.  Those little things in life that bother you, like people who leave the toilet seat up or talk on their cell phones at the table in a restaurant.  Yes my friends, today we are going to be talking about PET PEEVES.  Specifically, mine. 

Now, I'll be honest.  There are a few things in my life that bug me annoy me drive me stark raving mad  make me look like the monster above mildly bother me.  My family thinks they are all silly things but I'll let you bet the judge of that.

1.  Open cabinet doors.  Why people? Why?  How hard is it to SHUT the cabinet door when you are done getting out your food or plate or what ever you were in there for?  I will be sitting at the kitchen table and look up and see 4 different cabinet doors open.  Really?  Are you afraid if you shut it you will use all of your energy and be unable to consume the snack you just made? 

This is apparently such a joke to my loving family that yesterday Dakota and Colt came up with the plan to open every cabinet door in the kitchen while I was at work and wait to see what my reaction would be.  It is lucky for them that I got home before they implemented this plan.  I doubt they've seen a head spin completely around before and it may have scarred them for life.

2. Being late.  It is not only a pet peeve, it gives me intense anxiety.  Even if it is just a couple minutes late.  I leave 30 minutes early to drive somewhere that I know will only take 15 minutes.  Because things happen you know.  We may have a tornado that suddenly comes up and drops a tree in the middle of the road and I would have to find a detour.  Or maybe I might pass Blake Shelton's tour bus and have to run it down so I can get an autograph.  All of this is possible on the way to my dentist's office, so I'm prepared and leave extra early just in case. 

3.  Others being late.  Especially if it is for a dinner party.  In my (slightly OCD) mind, if I say dinner is at 6, it is on the table and ready to be eaten at 6.  Through strong medication (wine) and therapy (whining to my hubby) I am beginning to move past this pet peeve - but it is a work in process. I've at least managed to implement a cocktail and appetizer hour for dinner parties--whatever works, right?

4.  My dog licking, which he does NON.STOP. He can't even sleep in our room any more because it will wake me from a sound sleep with doggy homicide on my mind. Now I should say that we have a very senior dog.  We rescued him 10 years ago and at the time we were told by the rescue that he was about 4 1/2 years old.  At his first vet checkup we were told that we got lied to and he was much older.  As near as we can figure Jordan is now in the 16-18 year range. With his age comes pain.  I know that the licking is his doggy way of helping relieve the pain.  But I pay good money for hardcore pain meds that he gets twice a day (without fail because my dog is a Tramadol junkie that has taken to lying to get an extra fix, but that is a whole other blog post) so he really should just rely on the meds and give his mommy's nerves a break. 

So there you go - those are my four big ones.  I'm sure that there are others, but those are the ones that tend to crop up over and over and over again.  Maybe someday I'll get my family, human and canine alike, to shape up and quit annoying me but until then... leave me a comment and tell me what are your pet peeves?