{"id":1610,"date":"2009-07-15T09:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2009-07-15T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:26:04","slug":"grumpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/grumpy\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3723764718\/img_6034.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3420\/3723764718_e0e0da1c83_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6034\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, how can I be grumpy when I look at that face??  <\/p>\n<p>But I have had a grumpy week and I am not sure why.  Fighting boys, everyone now feeling better but being lazy and not getting anything done.  I feel like I am constantly reminding them to pick up their trash, their toys, all of their crap.  What happened to the fun carefree days of summer that I was so looking forward to? <\/p>\n<p>I miss the beach- having lots of stuff for the boys to do, lots of hands to help with Eva.  <\/p>\n<p> I am letting little things annoy me WAY too much- you know when you get mad about something or someone and you IM your husband to complain about it and he responds with &#8220;chillax&#8221;  Sigh.  Easy for him to say, I don&#8217;t want to chillax, I want to complain.  I&#8217;m frustrated!  I know it wasn&#8217;t a huge thing (not the &#8220;chillax&#8221;- but the event that made me mad in the first place), but all the little things sometimes add up- ya know?  I could feel the tears spring to the back of my eyes with the frustration of it all.  Why can&#8217;t people give a little, why does it feel like it is always me?  <\/p>\n<p>Ok, pity party over.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am going to make a huge effort to try a little harder.  Snap out of my moodiness, not rely on others- not let them control my mood.<\/p>\n<p>These should help<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3723773888\/img_6037.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6037\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2665\/3723773888_d4f4354b4a_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6037\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3722965849\/img_6146.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/3722965849_c94cc8d6a6_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6146\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3722964519\/img_6126.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3722964519_5588895202_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6126\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3722967055\/img_6147.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2601\/3722967055_4751b8c76f_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6147\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Off to shake it all off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, how can I be grumpy when I look at that face?? But I have had a grumpy week and I am not sure why. Fighting boys, everyone now feeling better but being lazy and not getting anything done. I feel like I am constantly reminding them to pick up their trash, their toys, all of their crap. What happened to the fun carefree days of summer that I was so looking forward to? I miss the beach- having lots of stuff for the boys to do, lots of hands to help with Eva. I am letting little things annoy me WAY too much- you know when you get mad about something or someone and you IM your husband to complain about it and he responds with &#8220;chillax&#8221; Sigh. Easy for him to say, I don&#8217;t want to chillax, I want to complain. I&#8217;m frustrated! I know it wasn&#8217;t a huge thing (not the &#8220;chillax&#8221;- but the event that made me mad in the first place), but all the little things sometimes add up- ya know? I could feel the tears spring to the back of my eyes with the frustration of it all. Why can&#8217;t people give a little, why does it feel like it is always me? Ok, pity party over. Today I am going to make a huge effort to try a little harder. Snap out of my moodiness, not rely on others- not let them control my mood. These should help Off to shake it all off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-frustration-factor-high"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}