A new pet peeve

Well I must rant. In David's shop, everyone is kinda mean. They talk about people behind their backs and are... the only way I can describe it is high school. It is so so so so ridiculous. So my new pet peeve isn't really new but anyway, I really don't like people who pick on others for fun.

Have you ever met the person that just is always "kidding" and joking but in reality it isn't funny. His little "jokes" are jabs and snide comments that make you feel bad about your self. What is up with a person like that? Now I have joked about stuff with my closest friends and maybe have been a little mean but only when they know it is a joke.

For instance, me and David both joke about how we are the outcasts in his family because we aren't doctors or married to one. We like to plan out how we can take the lead in race for best kid, like I win a Pulitzer and David becomes an officer and our kids are chess champions. Well we know that his parents love us and don't care what we do with out lives but it helps ease our insecurities about it to joke with each other about it. But I would never tell people I hardly know that their parents don't love them.

Yet, there are those out there who like to make fun of your house and your pets, clothes, cooking, accent, intelligence and just about anything they can get their hands on. And that is just DUMB. I can't stand it. I really think there is some psychological reason for these people who jokingly bring others down. And I wish that I could just let it roll off my back, but I have a confession to make:

I am tender-headed and tender-hearted (right mom?).

I have always taken stuff to heart more than I should and so my new pet peeve is that I am not thicker skinned. Is there some ointment for it?

Ok. In a totally unrelated subject. My baby kitten Rigby is not a baby anymore. His little feets are not little anymore, they are bigger than Abbey's. Of course he is still cute and smallish, but I miss the itsy bitsy baby. Well he is growing up. :( I know it is hard to tell but my little man is on the right!

Oh and I hope I don't sound pitiful here. I am happy up here. Just life sometimes is a little on the boring side.