Bragger! Mean mean bragger!

My half dozen Uncles, several of whom weren't much older than I was, would get very compeditive (mostly with each other but occasionally with us) and rough-house too much sometimes. And sometimes they'd tease (though I don't remember it being personally insulting like that). But eventually they'd get scolded for it by my Parents or my Grandparents and it would stop.

I guess I'm very lucky in that regard.

I just realized that although I have an uncle, and I'm pretty sure I must have met him at some point, I did not meet him for a second time until my grandparents' funeral. (At which, I mean, he looked very much like my father, so it wasn't hard to guess who he was.)

I have aunts, but they're not the teasing kind. The hand-me-down "artistic" clothing kind, yes.

We don't use uncles for teasing. We use cousins and second cousins sometimes once removed. It can get pretty bad, and I despise the "it builds character!" excuse. It's not building good character, though. It's building people to lash out cruelly.

We didn't get it much, and I never minded leaving the room if they started up out of hand on me.

You know I'm trying not to complain today (No Complainin' Friday!) but my coworker is so freaking rude it makes me crazy! Sometimes it's funny but I'm super irritated about it right now. It's like no one ever taught him how to use a phone or, really, any manners at all. grrrrr (he just called me and his greeting was a barked "Who's this?!" and then I called him back to tell him he should maybe say "Hello" first he said sarcastically "I'll work on that and hung up on me.") I know he's probably like a bit autistic or whatever and we basically get along but I am so very annoyed right now I just want to go up and smack his asshole face.

okay..

am done complainin'!

I'm having Thai food with my husband for lunch.

He's not ready to leave work yet.

HUNGRY NAOW.

I'm trying to figure out the logic by which some of the power companies are charging everyone a new (small) fee so as to reimburse retailers for selling "discounted" CFL bulbs, but only at a very few locations. [link]

My head doesn't wrap.

I'm trying to figure out the logic by which some of the power companies are charging everyone a new (small) fee so as to reimburse retailers for selling "discounted" CFL bulbs, but only at a very few locations

Yeah, I didn't get that at all either.

It's a stupidass racket.

"Aimee's face would make a freight train take a dirt road."

I can't even figure out what that means and I still want to stab him.