Reasons to be grumpy- a moaning thread. All welcome, no judgement here.

[Bluewavescrashing]

No need to post caveats about feeling grateful for what we have, all being in the same boat etc (or same storm, different boats). If you are pissed off today, you most likely have very good reason to be, so post your moans here, big or small.

I'm a champion moaner so I'll start:

1. Bloody raining all week here so getting outside is even less appealing. Grotty muddy boring walks can do one, I'm staying indoors today.
2. I really miss my parents today having not seen them in 4 months. No vaccines yet and they live too far away to meet for a walk outside. Overnight stay is necessary
3. I'm fat and getting fatter.
4. Sore throat, sore ear and upset stomach. Feel like poop.
5. Bloody news can do one. So fed up of the relentless shite.
6. Bored of everything. DCs don't want to do anything except wind each other up and giggle manically, then hurt each other and cry. Nothing to talk about.
7. Nothing to look forward to. Can't plan days out, weekends away or holidays
8. I want to go to the beach. I miss watching the waves.

That's it, for now.

Can I have a go?

My neighbours have been oddly quiet all day. As soon as I finished work and tried to go for a nap at 4pm, the racket started.

I’m so tired!

I'm glad you replied, was starting to feel lonely in my grumpiness! I hate noisy neighbours.

Fed up of people calling me at work asking for help, then as I start to give them the information they need, they say, oh wait I need a pen 🙄

You can be as grumpy as you like, you have my full sympathy. Lockdown sucks.

Have your parents had their vaccinations yet? That made me feel better, knowing mine were safer even if I can’t see them.

The rain, the bloody relentless pissing rain. ☂️🌧

I'll join!

1. The weather
2. No interview again for yet another job I met and exceeded all the essential and desireable criteria
3. Now over 2 years out of work following redundancy I fought against for nearly a year, which hit when my career was going really well, and then killed it
4. Husband constantly talking, moaning, and stesssing about his job
5. Which is the job I also used to do and loved and miss, literally the same job at the same place
6. Miscarried on Christmas day at just shy of 12 weeks, only just properly stopped bleeding 2 days ago
7. Missed Christmas, New Year's and my birthday to the miscarriage and recovery
8. Nothing to do except household drudgery, nothing to look forward to, fed up of dragging myself up off the ground every single time to try to start again with any degree of enthusiasm

That felt good! Thanks OP

My dad has been vaccinated but not my mum. Really hope I can see them soon - they've missed out on so much time with their grandchildren. Christmas was hard without them.

Ok I love this thread... though sorry you’re all having a crappy time.
I’ve had a migraine all week and period pain so bad I was nearly sick. The kids have been winding each other up and we are soooooo bored. I am completely fed up of lockdown... I am desperate to sit in a mates house and have a natter while the toddlers play. Or book a holiday. Or potter round the shops. Or just send the kids to school! Sigh. (Thanks for listening to the rant!)

Sorry for your loss @DinkBoo 😥

Please can I join the grumpy moaning thread!
1 - I am fat and getting fatter so you have my sympathies @Bluewavescrashing
2 - my period is a couple of days late, so I feel miserable, bloated and have a stomach ache
3 - I am either too cold or too hot - wtf
4 - I want to eat a chocolate cake but I don't have one to eat and I shouldn't even be thinking about it as supposed to be on a clean eating plan
5 - clean eating has gone out of the window as I have just eaten some chilli tortilla chips - as the chilli is a veg - this obviously makes it healthy
6 - too miserable to go for a walk
7 - so bored and isolated - fed up of family video calls where no-one listens to anyone else and we just talk about the same things again and again and again
8 - fed up of fucking job hunting - it can just fuck off!
9 - when is this all going to end?

I’m so sorry for your loss @DinkBoo.

@DinkBoo - job hunting stinks, its so frustrating, applying for jobs where you exceed the requirements and the time to complete applications as well with some bloody career portal - why can't you just upload your CV with a tailored cover letter. No they want details of your inside leg measurement along with your GCSE results - who cares? I was also asked today if I self-identify as an Armed Forces Leaver? WTF? As that means I get a guaranteed interview?

Had surgery recently, not allowed to take certain painkillers and only eat certain soft foods. Just got my period two weeks early, agony, and no chocs for me. Don’t think grumpy covers it. I may kill...

Colleagues who get emailed to do something within their remit, cc me in and say "bonfireheart will do this for you". Who made you the boss of me?!

Thanks @Bluewavescrashing and @Purplepjs

Arsing builder seems to have evaporated.

@Randomfatty absolutely! It's an endless bloody grind searching job sites, repeating the same endless forms with the same info, tailoring everything else to the specific job, and then getting rejected so close to the closing date that you wonder when exactly they found time to read anything you put on the application. in sympathy.

Getting fatter
Angrily stomping through my daily 2 mile walks. So fucking boring. I'm over the shit weather.
JOB is fucking shit but at least it pays
DD stews in a pit of B. O glued to her screen with her mate on WhatsApp. Zero interest in walks, games, TV or her physiotherapy. I've told her she'll struggle to walk to school but no, she knows best. I've had to say no phone until she's brushed her teeth. It's basic self care ffs. She's trans so it's all pretty fucking shit here actually.
That's a mere sample from my smorgasbord of whining.

• Peri-menopause that I can’t take anything for (breast cancer 2 years ago) is getting worse. But my periods have gone back to a 28 day cycle.

• Sodding government not making a decision about the SDLT holiday which means we’re manic at work and I have to squeeze in overtime around homeschooling and all the rest.

• DH talking like a stream of consciousness.

-Any discussion about anything whatsoever ends with someone mentioning You Know What.

Someone doing work for us is being a total dick. So fucking boring and tedious.
13 yo is full of attitude.
4 yo is full of attitude.
Weather is rubbish.
Work, what work...?? So much to catch up with.
Had the start of a migraine yesterday, disco lights, tingling lips etc, managed to catch it in time but it's lingering around the edges.
I'm eating too much and trying to lose a bit of weight. Scales have not shifted 1 iota despite upping the exercise and cutting back on the cake.
Grumpy old toad right here. Grr!

Called to book in for vaccine...yay!
Called back to cancel booking for vaccine as it's Pfizer and I have allergies....boo!

Sick of wet weather and wet dog walks. Bathing muddy dogs twice a day. Every day.

PITA members of staff getting signed off sick with "fatigue". Do they not think that DH and I are fucking fatigued after 10 months of trying to keep their wages paid and borrowing money against our fucking home. I am one step away from murderous rage.

I’ve been grumpy and pissed off all week but no real reason why

1. Weather - we have horses and the fucking mud is doing my head in
2. DD1 is still home from uni. Love her, but by Christ she needs to go back ASAP.
3. My boss who just can’t make a decision and stick to it. I’ve done the same job 3 times today because he keeps changing his mind
4. DD2’s bedroom - we’re in the middle of redecorating it but it’s reached that point of peak mess, with tools on the landing that we still need so no point in putting away in the shed
5. My fucking cat who has worked out how to open the kitchen window and keeps doing it for shits and giggles, meaning every time my arse hits the sofa I have to get up and go and close it again
6. My neighbour’s security light that is angled in such a way that it shines directly in my face when I sit on the couch. There is always a tiny gap in the patio door curtains that it shines through
7. I’m bored. I want to go to the pub, I want to eat out in a restaurant - I’m really fucking sick of cooking and cleaning up the kitchen. I want to mooch round the shops and buy things I don’t need.
8. DH - just constantly talking, all of the time.

I'll join in too:

1. The stupid poxy rainy weather
2. Mum guilt that my kids are constantly on their computers and have no desire to do anything else
3. Hormonal and tired
4. All my friends seem to be having babies getting pregnant when I am still grieving from a miscarriage in October.
5. Feeling very bloated and fat, hate the way I look in clothes yet can't be arsed to do anything about it

Fed up of forcing myself to be chipper when I'm as down as everyone else - nearly f/t job, two young kids, homeschooling etc - because that seems better than wallowing all the time.

But the downside is people seem to think I actually AM relatively ok, and hence they're using me as a dumping ground

I should tell them but I'm being too bloody nice. Friends, DH, colleagues, everyone wants something all the fucking time and I'm grumpy about it.