Yeah, yeah, I haven't posted in a while. This last week and a half has been...interesting. I've been adjusting to life back home, trying to keep my sanity, looking for a job, etc. But that's not what this post is about. So let me just rant a while about some things that are irritating me at the moment:

1. The Democratic primary. Can it just be over? At this point I don't even care who the nominee is, I don't care who wins in November (life WILL go on, my friends!), and I'm about ready to scream at Rush Limbaugh through the radio if he mentions "Operation Chaos" one more time. I. Will. Scream. For Pete's sake, let the democrats nominate whomever they choose, be it Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama...I don't care. Why don't I care? Because McCain is just "blah" to me, and I don't care if he beats Hillary or Obama, or if either of them beat McCain. Life will go on. It's not a monarchy (thank God!). Every time I turn on the news it's another conversation between professional "political analysts" about democratic super delegates, and I think if there's another newscast on that ridiculous primary again, I'll shoot myself.

2. Ice cream. My family and I have recently discovered that some brands of ice cream are shrinking the size of their "half gallons", formerly at an actual 1.75 quarts down to a stubby 1.50 quarts. And guess what? You're paying the same price (or in some cases, more) for less ice cream. At our local rural mini-mart/gas station, we paid $6.49 per "half gallon". I guess this is the big ice cream corporations' response to high oil prices, which happened to pass $120 per barrel today, which leads me to my next point of irritation...

3. Gas prices. My goodness. I shelled (at a Shell station...haha...punny) out $3.86 a gallon the other day at above mentioned gas station. While I was standing at the pump, about to insert my check card, I asked out loud, "So what's it going to be today? An arm, or a leg?" I honestly hope someone got a secret chuckle out of that, even though gas prices these days are anything but funny.

4. Road construction. Yeah, yeah, I know it'll be great when that one road is all freshly widened, paved, and painted, and traffic will ease up, too...blah, blah, blah. All I know is that it's making me LATE or nearly late to anywhere I go, and it irritates me. Yeah, I know it's my "nickel at work", but hey...maybe I'd rather watch my nickel (or rather half my wallet) work at NIGHT or at non-rush hour periods, thankyouverymuch.

5. Prime-time TV writers. Can they please stop ruining my favorite shows? Despite what television writers may think, most people DON'T want to watch another hour-long show revolving around sex as well as hear half a dozen sex jokes within the span of twenty minutes. It's awkward, and it's irritating. Have they run out of ideas, or what?

Ok. I think I'm done. If you have a rant, feel free to post it in the comments.

-Cydney

Cross-posted on The Celebrity.