The One Where I'm Annoyed...

I'm in a quite annoyed mood this week, so maybe airing my grievances will make me feel less full of annoyance...maybe.   Feel free to skip this post...I'm just venting...

-I know I harp on this a lot, but school bus drivers in my area of town don't have any regard for the other people on the road.  They stop in front of high schools and let the other buses out, for 5 minutes!  I would be ok if they'd just let out one at a time, but blocking traffic for the bus that's a 1/4 mile away...really?!
The worst offense is allowing the kids that ride your bus to get on the bus AFTER the lights have gone off.  I see it all the time in our neighborhood, but the bus driver will turn the lights off and start to move and instantly put them on again because a kid is jumping out of their parents car.  And then another.  And another.  When I was younger and rode the bus, if you weren't there, you weren't getting a ride from the bus to school.  She did not care that she could see you walking to the bus stop, if you were not at the stop, you missed the bus.  We learned responsibility that way.  You didn't miss the bus twice.  I learned that lesson when I was 11.  These kids that are doing this are in high school.  They are rude.  And this gripe makes me sound old.  Whatever.

-I'm annoyed with our wedding photographers.  After a month and a half of promises many times for pictures to come on specific dates, we finally get them over a month after the first promised date.  We have some nice pictures, but a lot of them are not well done.  We honestly have better pictures from friends than our photographers for the most part.  They did not adjust the spacing with the bridal party, they cut people's head's off for 'art's sake', and they freaking read a "Photography For Dummies" book during the photo process are our wedding.

Like whoa.  You can't charge that much and read that book while you're doing our pictures.  They were unorganized, didn't take charge, didn't adjust anything to look better in pictures...they just let it all go.  Oh, and for our beach wedding, they had sunshades, but decided not to bring them out until we were basically done taking pictures, so there's a lot of squinting in there because we had to face the sun. all. the. time.  I don't have one good full on bridal portrait because I'm squinting too much.  Then, when I asked about all the heads being chopped off and if they kept other pictures with people's full faces in them, she looked at me like I was stupid, and said 'No, that's the style of the photograph'.  Who wants their dad and husband's head cut 1/2 off when he's handing you off during your wedding ceremony?  I understand that some can be artsy, but that wasn't the representation we got from the other pictures, nor the moment in a wedding to be artsy. You're artsy with the bridal party pictures, the couple pictures, shoes and rings.  Not the ceremony shots. And when I look, they have better pictures from most of their other weddings.  One of the photographers was even crying at the wedding in a corner after disappearing 15,000 times.  (I understand personal issues and all, but that was really just the icing on the cake)  The worst part is we had dinner and were clear about what we wanted...at least I thought we were after the two hour conversation we had.

-I'm annoyed by people that think their time is more valuable than mine...or that just have expectations from you because they want to do something, so automatically you have to want to do it.  No.  Not true.

-I'm annoyed by people who ask for money...and then are pushy about it.  I'm a Christian and grew up in church but religious groups are the worst.  I can definitely see why people get turned off to church and God when people are trying to shove their ideas down your throat while trying to get your money to fund their organization.  Why not just share with people what you are doing and give them a link if they decide they want to donate.  Do you really want to strong arm people into giving to God?  Because...I'm pretty sure that's not what He wants.

-I'm in a funk with work right now and have to force myself to stay motivated...which is hard sometimes.  I'm working on something that is usually my favorite project of the year right now and I can't seem to get into it.  I think I just have a lot of pressure and the fun stuff seems trivial (although it is necessary to our company's marketing) when we're trying to get more work because construction is still slow and sucks.

-I'm annoyed by mean girls...

You know...the ones in real life.

I could go on, but I think I'll stop here...

If you actually made it through my bitchy little post...thanks for reading.  Some days, the annoyance just gets the best of me.