I'm grumpy today and this is why:

1. I still feel like crap and I still don't have time to feel like crap. Being sick makes me grumpy.
2. My house is messy and I'm bugged that there are pieces of TOYS everywhere. I swear to you that my children don't PLAY with toys, they just SCATTER them. Stepping on and picking up toys makes me grumpy!
3. Speaking of messy, Jack's room is perpetually messy. He cleans it and then it's like a switch gets flipped and wa-bam! Messy again. Would it be unreasonable for me to ban toys from his room? We have like 1200 square feet of basement for him to play in. Huge TV, most of his toys...but he doesn't play with them. It's crazy and it's annoying. Especially since Christmas is coming and I know that with that comes more toys. I don't want my children to be deprived, but I am so dang tired of tripping over toys and I'm especially tired of hearing him complain that he's bored. I really want to just box them up and give them away but these were gifts he and Lizzy received from friends and family members, some of whom don't have loads of money to spend on these things. Sigh. Suggestions are welcome because seeing his disaster-zone bedroom makes me grumpy.
4. I'm getting increasingly tired of feeling emotionally connected to a friend who I don't think needs me. I love this person. A lot. But I feel like this person is so surrounded by people who love him/her that I am an accessory. I don't like being an accessory. I like being needed and important. That makes me grumpy.
5. I need to learn to say no. I've been so busy this week that I miss my family. Unfortunately that isn't going to get better until next week. Ish. I want desperately to get together with my Crazy Internet Friends but that involves leaving my family for yet ANOTHER night and I can't do that. I'm feeling a disconnect that I don't like. I know the answer is just saying no and hopefully next week will be better but that doesn't change the fact that this week I feel like I've neglected my family and I feel like I need some extra TLC and it's just not happening. That makes me grumpy.
6. I hate when jobs are half-done. Especially when the job is half-done by a person who isn't a "do a job halfway" kind of friend. I just scratch my head and wonder why it's so hard to just finish the job instead of leaving it for someone else. Having a half-done job left makes me grumpy.
7. As I read this, I realize that I'm guilty of almost every single complaint I've listed here. That also makes me grumpy.

I'm going to go clean my house now. You guessed it. It makes me grumpy.