Hubby here:

1) Quick fast food update. Ordered >2< sausage mcmuffins on a day I knew I was going to miss lunch at work due to meetings. 2 sausage mcmuffins are 3.50. 

"Would you like to make that a meal?"

"No thanks, just the sandwicheS..." <-- see the capitalized S? See where this is going?

They charge me 2.85. I briefly look up as I drive by and see a meal is like 3.90 (>2< mcmuffins, 1 potato thing, and 1 small drink). The sandwich is just 2.85...ok...

I get the bag and as I drive off, notice it feels light. 

Sure enough...1 mcmuffin.

No time to stop and complain. 

Time I was free to grab lunch? 3:30pm. This occured at 7:am. Sigh...

Work with me people...

2) I keep reminding myself...don't blog when you're angry. 

I'm pretty busy. I have tasks at home that I really want to do. Multiple projects. I leave my supplies out. You know what happens if a task takes me longer than 2 days? My supplies get put away. Out of sight, out of mind. What happens when I want to get back to it? 

"Sweetie, where's my supplies for Project #1???"

  "Oh, I put that away"

"Where is it?"

  "I don't remember...go look around in the closets..."

So now I get to spend my precious rare free time, spending HOURS looking for supplies that cost 20 bucks. So its just easier to >BUY< it again right? Sure. But once I go out, buy the new supplies, and get back, I need to spend quality time with the family. Guess what happens in a couple days when I have a chance to work on the project again? You guessed it. Vanished. Somewhere in this house, I've got 50 copies of the same thing. And a ton of lectures about how "You already have that!". Yeah. Thanks.

3) Now my father-in-law had some sage advice. Don't sweat the small stuff. In a hundred years, this won't matter. This is the enlightened POV. This is the POV of someone on a higher plane than me (if you go with the whole meditation dogma about levels of enlightenment). He's at a higher chakra. Me? I'm a grunt. I'm 1 step away from flinging poo at drivers who cut me off on the freeway. And now that I think of it, this does seem like a satisfactory solution to those drive-in folks who can't get my order right. Hmmm...I think I've found a happy solution. Gotta go. I need to work on a catapult design here...

<Don't worry. It'll never happen. Why? A catapult takes longer than a day for me to draw up and build. So guess what'll happen? That's right. 50 partially built catapults in the damn closet. I just can't catch a break...>

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[Dad]

Father-in-Law here again. Sage advice?? I wish! It's just want I think works for me. I do know that no person or circumstance can make me upset, angry, frustrated, sad, or anything else. I do know that for me, I choose to be whatever I am, I choose what thoughts I will think, and I choose how those thoughts will affect me (most of the time!). And I too despise incompetence and get really frustrated when I see it all around me (ack! they're closing in fast...). Fortunately, I don't mak mistrakes and have reached that higher plane (I think it's a DC-10).

However, I would not mind being part of designing that catapult! I do have a few frustrations that I would not mind launching! But I would also probably be joining you in adding just one more unfinished project to the heap. As Red Green says, "I'm pulling for you...we're all in this togehter"