"How do you say, umm, pee-emm-ess?"

Gaaah. My family? Unbelievably irritating today. What, did they all get together and say, "What's the best way to drive Mommy crazy?"

And all this on a day when the world is just full of unbearable tragedy and all I can do is cry for all the sorrow and loss out there. Except when I'm crying over my family being so mean to me and trying to annoy me all day long.

All of which was not helped by the stupid State of the Union tonight, which meant that, instead of being able to kick back and watch something mindless and soothing, the husband insisted on being a responsible citizen. As if it makes a difference. Stupid lying politicians, all of them, doesn't matter what party, they are all lying liars and it doesn't matter what they say because it is all LIES.

I do not usually get like this. In fact, this is the first time in my life I have reacted like this. I get grouchy, or I get depressed, but I simply do not do simultaneous weepy and irritable. OK, a little more than irritable. In a mood to rip lips off is more like it. Or faces. Or other body parts.

Definitely other body parts.

Stupid, Stupid, STUPID! The world is full of stupidity today! And Michael lost an important part of an expensive Christmas present and, when I asked him what he'd done with the box it came in, claimed he never opened it, when I WATCHED HIM OPEN IT CHRISTMAS MORNING. But now he is saying he doesn't even remember getting it. And I HALF-KILLED MYSELF getting it for him! Which made me want to both cry and throw something at him, all at once.

Instead of which I went and told the husband how much I wanted to just curl up and cry. Which made him get a panicked look on his face and ask me to please not do that. Which is probably the only time all day that I laughed. And then I cried. And then I got mad at the husband for not understanding.

Stupid men.