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Does it have to be a recent whine? Because I was a seriously whiny pregnant woman.
I especially like the part where I complain about not getting a full night of sleep in a week. Hah!
Should we just go ahead and nominate Purple_Kangaroo's entire blog? P_K is simply amazing and all that she deals with deserves an award.
Will the nipples have their own category (What It's All About)?
Just checking.
YT beat me to the nipples question...
I believe you've found mine, but I just wanted to remind you again of its existence. As I mentioned in my comments, you can file it under dorktacular or cryptic whining...
Hi Phantom--What an awesome idea--
I think I should just nominate my pathetic PMSing self, because I swear I am the whiniest thing EVER the last couple weeks.
Hey, Dec 21 is my anniversary...I might feel a little bit bad about whining on a day that I'm supposed to be very happy, but at the very least maybe I'll find a whine that isn't about Super G 
(I guess the whine where I failed to get a dinner reservation at Fancy Restaurant because I called at 2pm on the day that reservations started to be taken instead of 10am does not really qualify. Nor would I win for it
I think it is a fabulous idea. I plan on whining up a storm in the weeks preceding the blessed event!
Answers, answers:
Candace: that is a fabulous retro whine! Thanks for the link!
YT and APL: most certainly, the nipples will have their own category. It is all about the nipples, after all.
Excellent idea, CCW, but alas, I think PK presents a somewhat happier face to the readership of her blog than she does here at Wednesday whining. Some of her whines here are classics of the form, however.
Kait: duly noted, and thanks for adding the link for me!
I have a contribution. (It's not my own work, but one my husband found me quite a while ago.) It's not really a whine, per se, but it is hilarious. I'll provide the URL below. I guffawed MANY times while reading this collection of assorted vignettes.
http://www.thingsmygirlfriendand...rguedabout.com/
I add my own whine labeled "Life at the Junction" found at my home page. It is about the utter suckiness of my T-giving holiday.
Brilliant! I love it! And what a perfect day for it, too, in mid-holiday-mania and the darkest day of the year.
I can't wait!
That is very true. P_K's blog is usually more upbeat. Maybe a compilation of her greatest whines from Wednesday Whining? No one can have such great whines so consistently.
Now, will the carnival replace the Wednesday Whines? And is it impolite to nominate someone else's whine without checking ahead of time?
Scrivener: no. I wouldn't deprive people of the opportunity to whine so close to the holiday season. I'll put up two posts that day -- the regular whining thread, and the carnival.
As to question two, well, you tell me, folks. Do you think people would be offended by their surprise inclusion in a whining carnival? The idea is not to hurt people's feelings.
Oh that is sooo Perfect I already whine all the time in my blog.
Yeah a day just for that!
'basking'? You think the blistering heat down here can be basked in? There's no shade to park the car in, and flies all day are replaced by mosquitoes at dusk, the damn birds start squawking at 4am and there's sunBURN and sunSTROKE, and the sand at the beach burns your feet and the flies go to the damn beach TOO! 'bask'is what you do up there in what you call summer.
Excellent, Brownie! You are definitely getting into the spirit of the thing.
How Not to Spend a Valentine's Day Date
Maybe the time I locked myself out of the house in a snowstorm?
How 'bout the parent I said I'd never be?
The thing that made people say I should be blogging: Laundry Daze.
An ode (or whine) to the first week of school: School Daze.
Or the week-of-school-orientation whine: You know what I did last summer?
You rock, Camera Obscura!
I've decided to re-submit my "Cat Who Stole the Anti-Depressant then Scratched My Nipple" whine. Here it is:
Last night, while I was getting ready to have a bath, I spotted my meds on the dresser and thought "Oh, I'll get those out now while I'm thinking of it" -- mostly because in the last few months I have occasionally forgotten to take them. I left the pills on the dresser and had my bath. When I came back, one of them was missing, 75 mg of Effexor XR. I looked everywhere and then determined that Truffle, our little girl cat, had likely eaten it. She came sniffing around for more of these "snacks" while I was looking for the missing pill.
She was still looking and acting completely normal, and we were not entirely sure at this point if she had taken it, but I phoned the pharmacy just in case. A really great pharmacist said that if she had taken the pill, she would have the same symptoms as a human would only more so because she is so small.
Symptoms: insomnia, stomach upset, diarhea, irritability.
We checked on her often throughout the night, and although she was wide awake, she didn't seem uncomfortable or sick. Her eyes were creeping me out though, because she wasn't really blinking and I was concerned about drying. So when morning came I called the veterinary clinic and spoke with an assistant who relayed messages between me and the vet.
The vet (through the nice assistant) said that we should have brought her in immediately so they could have induced vomiting and not allowed the drug to get into her system. I told her that the pharmacist had specifically stated that when humans overdose on this med, it is important NOT to induce vomiting. Then the vet said they couldn't do much for us because we didn't come in right away, and the drug may damage her liver.
Why didn't we take her in? Like I don't feel guilty enough.....honestly, when we went to bed she looked okay, and through the night she didn't worsen any. Also, we can't afford the gazillion dollars they suck out of you when you wake up a vet in the middle of the night. Save yourself the trouble of telling me what a crappy pet owner I am for saying that -- I've already said it to myself.
This afternoon, she's had the runs and has had a bath which was very unpopular. In trying to get out of the bath and away from the water (because you know how much cats love water!), Truffle lodged her claw nicely into my left nipple. That's definitely going to leave a mark.
She's had a bit to eat and is doing normal things like cleaning her paws and perking her ears up when the neighbour's dog barks. She still has not slept, or really done much blinking.
Truffle goes to the vet next Monday for her checkup and immunizations and they will check her then for any lingering overdose problems.
Here's my entry for the carnival:
http://granolacrunchy.blogspot.c...ot-
whining.html
or http://snipurl.com/kxr4
My faithful readers requested that I submit this humble entry to the whining carnival.
Why won't anyone leave me alone? Why do I always have to do these things? How come everyone else gets nominated but I have to nominate myself?
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