As I get older I find that I can get grumpy easier and then stay grumpy for no real discernible reason.

Case in point, today I went out to my office and it stank. It *really* stank, and that made me grumpy.

The thing is, it stank on friday so I cleaned it all out all the trashcans, sprayed a ton of air freshener, and got rid of the smell - or so I thought. It turns out that someone (don’t worry about who, they will be teased unmercifully on monday) left a styrofoam takeout container on their desk early last week. Apparently it got pushed aside and covered up by some papers and thus forgotten. Let’s just say it’s contents weren’t easily recogizable as “food” today when I found it.

So there’s the thing - I smelled an aweful stink in my office and that made me grumpy. But then I found the source, binned it (outside of course) and frebreeze’d up the office enough to make it livable again. Yet, I didn’t drop the grumpy. I had been happy all day, and then it was BAM grumpy. It actually took me semi-snapping at my wife for me to realize that I was grumpy and then traced it back to the stink.

I have to wonder why this is happening more and more. I mean, I know my dad is this way (or at least was when I was growing up - these days I when I see him he’s playing with my sons so he’s always in a good mood!). Anyway it looks like it’s just something I’ll need to work on.