Why grumpy you do care

Obviously this isn't the most festive year for me, and I don't have much Christmas spirit. But more than that, if you're unhappy and your life isn't very good Christmas brings that to the front. I haven't had christmas spirit since the year I divorced my wife, but I've learned to just not look forward to it, and to try being happy for those that I do see enjoy it.

Originally Posted by Momofmany Some people set very high expectations for the holiday season, and when things don't go exactly as they want them to, they get grumpy. Yes, people are definitely very stressed out this time of year.

I try to shop at off times - and do a lot of my purchases online. That way the only grumpy person I might encounter is the UPS man! I always try to be very pleasant if I go to the stores at Christmas, I paste a smile on and dive in. The Holidays are actually very hard emotionally for a lot of people and I think lashing out and being grumpy and moody are just unintentional coping methods for some people. Though I am near my parents now, I was always in a deep blue funk around my birthday and the holidays when I had no family near by, worse after my sister passed away.

Cases of clinical depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder are always up this time of year too. The best defense coming from someone who suffers depression is to be nice, and smile. You'd be surprised at just how far a friendly gesture or face can go towards making a depression sufferer feel better.

Joined Jul 12, Messages Purraise 1. Originally Posted by cheylink Welcome to my world That means eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and whole grains and cutting down on junk food and alcohol, and exercising five times a week. Are the kids big enough now to do more chores? Does your partner if you have one do enough to help around the house?

Is there anything you could outsource? Try being fully present in each activity you do, and finding something to love in it — especially the more mundane stuff. Being a mum to 3 kids one of them full time at home with me and trying to juggle everything became pretty crazy. I was told, and I agree, by the Community Nursing staff 40 years ago, that daylight saving had sent the statistics upwards of tired mums since it started.

Might be in this room right now. Can you make dapple lumpkins Apple dumplings! Eh, yes! Crapple dumpkins. Yes, and plum pudding and gooseberry pie Gooseberry pie? She stays! Uh-uh, uh-uh! Just a minute. I knew there was a catch to it. Why wash? What for? Oh, perhaps you have washed.

Perhaps we Perhaps we have. But when? Uh, you said when Why, recently! Yes, recently! Oh, recently! Let me see your hands.

Oh, Bashful, my, my, my! Goodness me, this will never do. March out of the house. Cat got your tongue? Courage, men, courage.

Me too! Her wiles are beginning to work. Come on now, men. How hard do ya scrub? Will or whiskers shrink? Do ya get in the tub? Here we go. Step up to the tub. Just pull up your sleeves and get them in place. Then scoop up the water. And rub it on your face and go Work up a lather and when you got enough. Get your hands full of water. And you snort and you snuff and go You douse and souse.

Rub and you scrub. You sputter and splash all over the tub. You may be cold. But you gotta admit. So splash all you like. Bunch of old nanny goats. Ya, make me sick going A fine bunch of water lilies you turned out to be. Get him! Hey, let go of me! Get him over to the tub. Let me loose you fools! Let me loose! Get him up on the tub. Get him up! Hang on to him! Bang him! Pound him!

Get him up on the tub! On the tub. Get the soap! Hey, steady, men. Never say die. Now, scrub good and hard. He sure is cute!

Magic mirror on the wall, who now is the fairest one of all? Over the seven jewelled hills. Beyond the seventh fall,. In the cottage of the seven dwarfs. Dwells Snow White, the fairest one of all. Snow White lies dead in the forest. The huntsman has brought me proof. Behold her heart!

Snow White still lives,. The fairest in the land. You hold in your hand. The heart of a pig! Blundering fool! Mummy dust to make me old.

To shroud my clothes, the black of night. To whiten my hair, a scream of fright. A blast of wind to fan my hate!

Now, begin thy magic spell. My hands! My voice. What shall it be? A poisoned apple! Let the sleeping death seep through! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. There may be an antidote. Nothing must be overlooked.

Oh, here it is! A harmless old peddler woman! And tap my feet. You see I washed them both today. Ho-hum, the tune is dumb. I chased a polecat up a tree.

Way out upon a limb. And when he got the best of me. Now you do something. Well, what shall I do? This implies that not only do our personalities change as we age, they can change quite a bit! But rather than agreeableness scores going down, they actually rose, which completely invalidates the idea of older people being grumpy!

So where do we get that idea from? Another NIH study looked at these personality trajectories on a global scale, and found that the same stereotypes about youth and impatience and age and inflexibility permeate all cultures across the globe.