I tell you what I most sincerely can't stand:

1. People who will NOT quit talking. Especially boring people who will not quit talking.

2. People who take a hard attitude toward children.

3. Dumb movies.

4. Dumb commercials.

5. Dumb anything, for that matter.

6. Those GEICO cavemen.

7. Snow when it falls on Saturday or Sunday. It needs to fall on a weekday so the school where I work can declare a snow day.

8. Men who comb their three strands of hair over their bald head.

9. Women who wear too much jewelry or too much lipstick or too much perfume.

10. Parents who allow their kids to run over them. Weak-willed parents make strong willed children, and a hard head makes a soft behind.
 

Happy birthday to me! Number 40, if you please. Here is what hubby and the kids gave me this morning - they spoiled me:

Some chocolates in a pretty box (you notice what I listed first).

A mug and keychain about being a librarian.

A Webkins giraffe, which I had been wanting. I love giraffes! They are my favorite animal. Now I can have a Webkins page and see what my kids have been talking about.

A musical card that plays Unchained Melody. Oddly enough, it came on the radio a few minutes later. We thought that a remarkable coincidence.

A pin that depicts my family in snowmen - a big fiddle-playing snowman, which is my husband, and three short snowmen, which are my kids.

A Christmas ornament in the shape of a cross.

And the denoument: a watch! It has a button I can push that lights up the face for telling time when it's dark.

So: now I have the big head for getting so many nice presents!