You know what annoys me?...

stream of annoyance follows...

• People that don't indicate, especially at roundabouts, I'm not a mind reader - bloody signal
• People that stop in a slip road when they don't need to, learn to drive! stop shilly shallying about, get on with it!
• Bum cleavage, on men or women, looks vile, and I bet your kidneys are cold, learn to dress yourself and work out what size you actually are.
• People wearing clothes that are too small, it doesn't make you look skinnier it makes you look fatter, wear the right size, or diet back into the smaller ones.
• Leggings that are actually tights and therefore see through. just *vomit* blergh, wear leggings, or wear a dress/shorts and tights. Don't go out in just tights, hideous
• Uggs. Shuffling horrors that get soggy and worn at the sides in minutes, grubby monstrosities
• Wearing PJs outside the home. No excuse unless you are on your way to A&E. 
• The media creating bandwagons for idiots to leap on, heck we all leap on them. Stop pre-judging crimes. Let the courts do it.
• Facebook.
• People that don't clean up after their dogs - I'd rub their noses in it to teach them a lesson
• Parents that swear at small children
• TV commercials
• Unnecessarily huge cars
• Smart phone battery life (or lack of it - it isn't any use being smart if you are asleep when i need you)
• People that can't leave a public toilet (or any toilet!) clean for the next person.
• Fridges that appear full and yet have NOTHING you fancy eating in them
• Instant coffee, especially when it is called 'coffee' as in "would you like a coffee?" so that you have to ask "is it real or instant?" then you look like a coffee snob (which I am) you wouldn't offer a cup of instant tea without mentioning it was instant! (and yes there is instant tea, and yes it is a nasty as it sounds)
• Luke warm milk. (unless you are getting it direct from the source milk should be ice cold)
• Misleading labels on food like "fresh" or "light" or "low fat" or "green"  most of them are meaningless (what is 'fresh' all about? as opposed to 'stale'?) Low fat is almost always high in sugar, and low salt can have more salt than another brand.
• Wasps
• Stuff women are supposed to do to be 'pretty' or even just 'women'; shaving legs, painting nails, shaving underarms, wearing up thrust bras, make up, false eyelashes, high heels, hair conditioner, hair dye, wearing jewellery... I don't mind doing some of them some of the time but give us a break! It's not essential to life!
• Getting old
• 80's fashions being 'in' again, and remembering them from the first time round and knowing they were dreadful even then
• Not being allowed to be naked when we want to be 
• Intolerance where it doesn't affect you, like racism or homophobic or being anti-gay marriage, or anti religion
• Poor grammar (Sod's law states I have made at least 13 grammatical errors in this blog post - I'm talking about genuinely not having a clue not the odd mistake)
• The loss of innocence as kids grow up - it's all over so quickly

• Vegetarians (just kidding - wanted to see if you were still awake)
• and lastly? judgemental people ...yeah yeah I know - *puts self on naughty step*

Luck

Can you be lucky?

Today I was thinking about luck and randomly asked twitter what they thought about luck. Is there such a thing? Can you be lucky? Or unlucky? Do you ‘make your own luck’? is luck not a thing at all…

Looking at some timelines on twitter was what made me ponder in the first place, some people seemed to have a timeline full of woe and calamity, illness, lost jobs, broken appliances, sick children, lack of sleep, lack of money, depression, - Wow! I thought, they are unlucky people!

But others had timelines of joy and happiness, kids passing exams, kids saying funny things, bargains bought at boot sales, fivers found in pockets, great jobs, lovely husbands, new pregnancies and I thought – Wow! They are lucky people!

But looking further into some timelines it became obvious that actually, the people were the same. The number of illnesses, missed buses, found money, unexpected phone calls, visiting in laws and the like were often very similar but, and this is the crucial bit, the way they were looked at and spoken about varied a huge amount!

I follow people who have cancer that consider they are 'lucky' people, and wealthy people that think they are unlucky'.

While I’m sure I could do a whole PhD on twitter and optimists and pessimists and luck, a very cursory glance leads me to believe what many of my followers also tweeted in answer to the ‘Can you be lucky?’, that while things happen, the way you approach them can determine if you ‘feel’ lucky or unlucky as a result.

So ask yourself, do you feel lucky?