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minor things that make you fume

bluerobert said:
Lumen alarm clocks.

Mrs Bluerob got one off her family for Christmas because she has trouble getting up of a morning. She thought it would help her wake up naturally and refreshed. It hasn’t don’t a thing for her, she still sleeps through it. What it has done though is make my life hell.

I have no problem getting up of a morning, I usually wake up naturally between 7 and half past. This devil box that’s come into my fortress of solitude has ruined it. It starts at about 5 in the morning with a red glow, supposedly replicating the light at sunrise. It’s gets lighter and lighter till it becomes a ball of brilliant white light all while playing bird sounds that get louder and louder till they become ear splitting.

Because it’s disrupting my sleep it’s actually making me more tired and I’m finding it harder to wake up. Mrs Bluerob is refusing to stop using it, no idea why. I wake up feeling like a zombie while it’s making literally no impact to her waking up.

They need banning.
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I’d make her sleep in the shed
 
Rita_Poon said:
This is support, when the boss has made a decision, that's it final. Until she decides it has to go. In the meantime you have to make do, in very old and well worn words... "know your place!". Or stick it on an electric timer on the sly so it switches off about 4am before it starts. And start planning what you can gift back to the family as a thanks, a drum kit perhaps for the kids?
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Wise word Poon, it’s driving me mental. It’s somehow disrupting my sleep rather than doing its job. I’m on the cusp of cutting all the wires to it
 

DavidH said:
Does anyone else's missus follow them into the kitchen every single time? She could avoid the kitchen for days and the second I go to make a glass of water she'd be in there pulling stuff out of cupboards, faffing and getting in my way. We've just had a passive aggressive discussion about it now she's got a cob on with me because apparently I've had a face like thunder all day and she was just waiting for me to moan about something. (which is an outright lie because not only have I not been in the house for half the day but I've been in a particular sprightly mood because I won a few quid on the footy bets last night)

She's on one of those January diets so we're pretty much making our own teas, I'm only putting a pie in the oven and boiling some spuds for mash next thing she schemes in like Nosferatu and starts putting protein shakes on the side where I'm chopping the spuds then asks if we need a new rug for the bedroom. DIE!

I know we usually get a Chinese on a Thursday night so SHE'll have a cob on that she's on a diet that SHE decided to go on that stops US from indulging so it should be ME who has a cob on. Am I brave enough to point that out? You better believe I'm not. In-fact I've worked it out, I bet she's been waiting all day for me to say shallow e just get a Chinese tonight so she can blame her weakness on me after she's stuffed her face so she came in to see if I was making tea, noticed I was and it's sent her the other way.

I wouldn't mind but I don't even like her. I feel like I've offered to babysit someones pet Cassowary and it's just bouncing round the house looking for an excuse to slice my chest and stomach open. New Year New Me. Ram it.
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Kurt's missus tends to follow me into the kitchen.

If this is indicative of your kitchen skills, it's probably why she follows you
 

Peanut Butter. It's getting to the point that most peanut butter is all runny. You have to stir it or even store it upside down.

Sunpat is still "solid" but it's also rather sweet for my taste.

Apart from that everything is fine today.
 

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