1. The Water Hammer- this awful banging in the pipes when we flush the toilet. Intermittent. Impossible to diagnose. BANG BANG BANG. AAARGH.
2. Getting paint caked in my hair.
3. Negative people who write posts about things they hate.
4. The Water Hammer when you are asleep and it’s like 2 AM and the little lady gets up to use the bathroom
5. What if the Water Hammer leads to the pipes exploding and then in addition to the general state of ramshackle despair of the house, there will be exploded pipes?
6. Sticking your brushes in oil for 3 weeks instead of washing them so then when you finally do wash them, they are all stained and your art teacher will certainly notice and know you’re an artistic lightweight and bad person but buying new brushes is futile as they will just go the same way so it’s best she knows the awful truth from the get-go so she can make her peace with it and move on, even though she won’t
7. I don’t actually hate this painting but I think it may be whack
8. Pith Helmet- This is more love-hate because I love the fact that there are no hideous flash ads all over my browser, yet I hate the awful performance hit in Safari, and I hate the way Safari crashes when you use it, and most of all I hate that message that says “5 Million Ads Blocked by Pith Helmet. Do you want to spend $10 to register now?” and then it redirects you to some hateful website where for the 5 millionth time you click “No I don’t want to register,” because who wants to register software that makes your browser slow and crash and costs 10 bucks even though you’re actually addicted to it? 10 bucks is not a price point that makes sense to me for software. 10 bucks is the price point where a tacky pink patent leather hat at the Gap becomes a must-have fashion accessory even though it doesn’t fit my gigantic egghead. 10 bucks is the price point where you know it’s going to be a bad haircut. 10 bucks is… I don’t know, about a gallon of gas. 10 bucks is a tube of generic paint in a color that doesn’t contain any heavy metals. 10 bucks for software is the it-really-should-be-free-or-a-voluntary-donation price.