Today is Griping Day

I've been a little down in the dumps lately.

• Maybe it's because it's so cold outside.
• Maybe it's because my life is pretty much on hold until after the wedding, which I resent. Forget about the fact that I have a great job or great friends or I still try to go to dance. Everything anyone wants to talk about is wedding wedding wedding. I know that this is supposed to be an exciting time and filled with all kinds of glorious events, but really, I'd love to go back to my life.
• I really dislike unsolicited advice or comments like "You'll see", which everyone seems to want to give in spades once they learn I'm getting married. COMPLETE AND TOTAL STRANGERS are giving me looks like, just wait until the week before the wedding, you'll see, you'll go crazy. Now, I know that I am young and as such probably don't know much about the world, and I try to be respectful of others that have come before me, but I am and always have been the kind of person who needs to figure things out on her own. Also - it's not like these people know me personally or anything. It annoys me that people who have only known me for minutes automatically assume that I'm trying to be a princess for a day, just because I'm a woman and I'm getting married. I try to let unsolicited advice not get to me but I hear it gets much worse once we start trying for kids. Terrific.

I can feel myself starting to turn into a crabby old person and so I'm going to put a stop to it. I am going to take up President-elect Obama's call to community service, mostly because volunteering makes me feel a lot more grateful and appreciative of my life, and also because the only things my current president ever asked of me were to buy duct tape and shop OR ELSE THE TERRORISTS WIN.

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