If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY? Splenda Daddy's Edition

Splenda Daddy demanded his own edition. I guess he has burning questions too....
SD wants to know WHY our conversations about going out to dinner always end up like this:

SD - "Where do you want to go eat?"
Me - "I don't care, you choose. I don't wanna decide. You pick, I'll be fine wherever."
SD - "No really, where do you want to go?"
ME - "I'm NOT choosing. Really, anything you want is fine."
SD - "Well, what do you feel like? Anything special?"
Me - "No, anything would be just great."
SD - "Okay let's go here _________."
Me - "No"
and then we end up going where I have been wanting go to all along. What's to wonder about?

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY?

Okay, today is a very important question. It's a two-parter and I am hoping someone out there will give me SOME idea or clue as to how to handle this sitch.

Here's the low down: WHY are some people just so miserable and unhappy that they can do nothing but bring everyone around them down? They literally SUCK all the goodness and positive energy from EVERY SINGLE PERSON they encounter. You know the kind of person I am talking about. They are constantly complaining, whining, criticizing, finding fault and generally being a total fiend to be around. They go out of their way to find shortcomings in others (real or otherwise), and then proceed to point them out to everyone and anyone around them that they can get to listen to them for half a second. Even to go so far as to write emails or make phone calls to someone that they think can reprimand another person for a perceived fault or error. They delight in bad gossip. They want in "on the know" NOT because they are concerned about a friend, but simply because they delight in the bad fortune in others. They get off on trials in other people's lives. Have I described this type of person well enough? We all have either been the target of someone like this, or have seen this behavior in someone.

Here's the next part. How the crap do you deal with this? I am at a loss. There is such a person, let's just call her crybaby for now, that has chosen a BFF as her target right now. I'm sure said BFF is not her only victim since crybaby seems to just operate this way as a normal function of life. For me, I generally just let this kind of person to drop right off my radar. I let them go. I've no time for such nonsense and won' let myself get brought down. Remember the Happy Bus? But, that being said, you DON'T mess with my BFF's. Plain and simple. I will not stand for it. So how do I handle this? I know how I want to, and it's NOT appropriate. It would NOT be appropriate to confront her and call her a big, fat, ugly pig. And, to call her on the carpet for every mean thing she has said and done for the past several weeks involving my said BFF, tell her how much no likes her and that she is a pain in the a** to be around and could she please just go find a new place to work out at and leave us alone. To threaten her that if she approaches my said BFF ONE.MORE.TIME, I might go all postal on her. NONE of that is appropriate, I know. That would be stooping to the 14 year old mean girl in me. I am better than that. However, I am no where good enough to know the right way to deal with this.

Help? Suggestions? I'm all ears on this one.......

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY?

WHY? WHY? WHY?
Splenda Daddy and I have been married for almost 25 years.(!) We have lived very prudently. We are have gone without, scrimped, saved, and gotten by. We've enjoyed life, and done fun things together and with our family, but have stayed out of debt. We tried hard to build a nice retirement fund. We aren't complete frugal tightwads, but we aren't extravagant. At our current payment plan we only have about 3 years left and our "starter" home (that we are STILL in) will be paid for. We have built up a nice savings account. We have followed the rules, obeyed council from our religious leaders and basically just tried to be fiscally responsible people. Yet, look what has happened. Look at the economics of our country. What is going to happen to people like us? WHY am I going to be forced to help all those people who CHOSE NOT to be fiscally responsible. WHY do I have to help those people who felt greedy and got into homes WAY OVER THEIR HEADS and "bail them out". WHY do I have to be a part of a plan to assist those corporate CEO's who thought of no one but themselves and their greed. While I sit in my tiny, little cracker box house, in a neighborhood that is deteriorating, WHY do others, who I AM NOW FORCED TO HELP, get to stay in their current huge, beautiful homes with lovely landscaped yards, in upscale neighborhoods that they couldn't afford in the first place? WHY, if the country is hurting so bad, are the politicians not taking pay cuts to show their support of fiscal responsibility? WHY are the CEO's who took government money for relief purposes and DIDN'T follow through NOT GOING TO JAIL? For that matter, WHY aren't' the congressmen, senators and other business leaders who are responsible for this mess NOT GOING TO JAIL? I'm really wondering WHEN will this end so I can sell and get a new home? A nicer one in a nicer neighborhood. One that I can afford. Just frustrating.......

And finally even more importantly - WHY does the combination for chocolate and peanut butter need to be so good? Really. It should be a sin!

What are you wondering about?

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY?

A simple question today, no biggie......
WHY can't this dude live here and be in my BFF circle? He freakin rocks! (click on pic to enlarge so you can read) Seriously, the hammer pants are the icing on the cake!

You thought I was exaggerating didn't you.....

My office is on the 9th floor.
Again the question begs, what does the crapper, and two of them at that, need to be doing hovering this high up?Just curious......

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY? The illustrated version

Many important pressing issues today that have me scratching my head and wondering why.......

WHY have I not learned my lesson about wearing my heart rate monitor watch on my wrist during kickboxing? WHY when we were doing backfists and I kept feeling pain, did I not remove the watch and place it somewhere else on my self? WHY do I always have to be such a dork and learn these lessons the hard way and multiple times?

WHY do I find such perverse pleasure in this sight that greets me EVERY time I pull in the driveway? That dang dog has ruined more furniture and the window sill by his desperate need to see outside at all times, but yet, I still find my self singing "How much is that doggie in the window", every time I pull into the driveway and see him perched in his spot watching the world go by. It makes me smile even though I'd like to spank him silly for this terrible need of his!

And WHY is it that I can fall so head over heels in love with this group of 14 and 15 year's so quickly? I don't even like girls, but within weeks, they have completely stolen my heart and I think about them and worry about them all the time. WHY?

Please feel free to share any wise enlightenment that you have for me and what your pressing questions of the day are for you......

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY? and today a RANT!!

Okay, I know that every Wednesday is a wondering why.....and I do have some pressing questions......

If I haven't mentioned it before, I HATE milk. Milk and cheese and the like... but ever since my trainer, The Princess of Pain, informed us that 8oz of chocolate milk was the PERFECT recovery food - the right amount of protein, carbs and sugar to replenish the muscles, WHY can I now suddenly drink it? Really?! Is it because Purdy pretty much walks on water for me? Is it because I believe EVERY word out of her mouth? Is it because my drive for perfection in my body is stronger than my hatred of milk and I can now somehow choke down a quick 8oz?

If Tiburon falls down during yoga whilst in the tree pose, and no one is around, will she still make a noise?

WHY does Tuffy's Physics teacher need to make his grade calculations so complicated? Is it because he is a physics teacher and therefore smarter than the rest of us? WHY? It just confuses us..... really. Simplify dude.

And now, for the biggest question of all. Warning - it's going to proceed a rant the size of which I haven't spewed in quite some time. You may want to just go ahead and quit reading now. You may or may not agree with me and I may nor may not get hate comments. But whatever. This is my blog and I can do whatever I want to. You don't like it? Go rant on your own blog.
WHY WHY WHY the Obama love-fest??? Really!?!?!? Okay, I get it. He is the first African-American president. I get the fact that it is historic for that reason. But really, the way the media is treating him, you'd think he was the long-awaited messiah. ENOUGH ALREADY!! He hasn't DONE anything yet, but talk.
WHY the uber-extreme hype over this particular inauguration? For the very fact that it is historic, shouldn't that mean that we have reached equality in this nation and therefore his inauguration should have been just like every other incoming president? If we are all equal, then why did his merit such extra special treatment? It's like the chicken and the egg I suppose. How does one answer that question? It's historic, but for the very reason it's historic, it should have been equal to every other presidential inauguration.
And don't get me started on the benediction. Taken directly from the text.
"Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen."
What the??!!!? When was white NOT embracing right? As a Caucasian, I just got seriously dissed! And as part "brown", I have always been allowed to stick around. When was I asked to leave? I don't remember that......
I found an interesting commentary on Glenn Beck's site that is worth reading
It does give food for thought.
Now, let me state for the record. There isn't anyone who wants President Obama to succeed more than I. It's in all our best interests for his administration to be successful. And I pray every day for divine assistance for him and those he chooses to surround himself with. That being said though, I am afraid of his known associates, but I am even more afraid of his unknown associates (yes, I do think there is more to his story than we know).
And finally, I am sick and tired of the love-fest! I am tired of hearing nothing on the TV but the Obama's, the O'bama's, the O'bama's. He's in, he's president. Now let's move on and see what he does.

Whew, I feel better. Take it or leave it, I got this off my chest and now, I too am determined to move forward. I'm turning off the news channels and finding a good re-run of Law & Order.......
Happy Wednesday and if anyone has the answers to my burning questions, do please, enlighten me.....

xoxox

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering.....

Now let me preface today's questions with a factual statement or two.
I'm strange. I'm a dork. I'm OCD in a rather BIG way. I frighten even myself.

That said, I LOVE, nay, HAVE to eat foods by color. Specifically say, Skittles. I HAVE to eat them by color. I have anxiety if someone grabs a handful with all of them mixed together. THAT IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY!!! You might think I am kidding, but I am as serious as a heart attack. In fact, my heart will race just watching that and I think I might, could easily, have a heart attack!
First you eat the yellow ones, then green, then orange, followed by red and finish it up with purple. No.other.order. Ever.
My cute BFF sis-in-law one New Years eve was kind enough to separate all the Skittles by color into individual bowls. While that was a very thoughtful gesture, the satisfaction wasn't the same. There is something soothing about dumping them all out on a paper towel, and then picking them out by color. It is actually very calming and satisfying. In fact, if I am having a hard day at work, it has been known that a co-worker will go to the vending matching, buy me a bag of skittles just so I can sort and eat by color to calm down. Again, I AM NOT KIDDING.
If I have some spread out on said paper towel, and someone comes along and asks if they can have one? Only if they take the color that I am currently working on. If they scoop a variety handful, well I might as well just throw the rest away. The whole process is then ruined. Again, NOT KIDDING!

Why is this? No, it's not for flavor, because I do the same thing with M&M's, Fruit Loops, anything that is multi-color regardless of flavor. WHY!?!? I ask you......

Question two of the day -
Why in hades am I running a 5k at 11:30 tonight to ring in the New Year? WHY??
It's all Chad's fault really. If he wasn't such a gym rat BFF, and I already signed up, and already talked Shark Bait into it, I would totally bail. The one redeeming grace? Denny's Grand Slam afterward. Wish me luck and if you have any answers for my craziness, please, by all means, share!

If it's Wednesday, then I'm wondering WHY?

Golly, I need some enlightenment this morning......
WHY did the Today show allow Tom Cruise back on?

Do they NOT remember what happened the last time?

No one should be allowed to offend the ever-so-cute Matt Lauer and then be allowed back on. Even his "apology" yesterday does not redeem him and yet he's back on this morning. I.DON'T.GET.IT - WHY??

WHY must people be so politically correct that all we tend to hear is "Happy Holiday's"?

Face it people. It's CHRISTMAS. Let's say Merry Christmas. I realize that there are other holidays around the same time of year, so on the day of Hanuka, let's say Happy Hanuka. On Kwanza, let's say Happy Kwanza, or any other special day this time of year. But do we really have to lump them all together so as not to offend someone? Really. GROW.UP.
thanks for the pic Tanja

And finally, WHY Eggnog? Please explain. It's eggs (raw?), whipped, with some sort of something or another? It's a thick gooey texture that slides down your throat? Someone please explain the appeal. Personally, I am thinking eggs belong scrambled in butter and served with crumbled bacon. Just. Saying.