Hate

Hello everyone! Hopefully you've all had a wonderful holiday. I spent most of Christmas nauseous, so mine hasn't been the best. I did get a new book of poetry, so we all know what that means... more poetry for me to torture you with. Sorry.
Anyway, I'm still recovering so today's post isn't going to be one of those well-written, thoughtfully phrased ones. Then again, most of them aren't, but what the hey.
It's actually about things that drive me nuts.
(Look, I'm sick and irritable and this is just me venting. Go with the flow. Let me just hate on stuff for a while. God knows I'm weird enough to have some unique loathings.)
There are a lot of them, and they vary widely. Most of them are completely irrational hatreds, and I recognize this. Doesn't stop me hating them though.
I even have a whole separate bank of word-related hatreds. Like, everyone has that one word that just makes them cringe whenever they hear it. (For most people it's moist.) In my case, there's a lot more than one, and my grammar nazi brain comes into play fairly often.
I can't stand when people say "ok" instead of "okay". Seriously. It drives me absolutely insane. And you know how teachers always stress the difference between their, there, and they're? They never teach the difference between breath and breathe. And people keep mixing it up, and that bugs me even more than the ok/okay thing.
And, for no reason at all, I cannot stand the word "naked". I don't know why. I prefer the word "nude". "Naked" just seems so coarse.
Like I said, I realize that this is irrational.
Let's see, what else do I hate? Cashews. I really hate cashews. They're like the blandest nut. Well, in point of fact, they're not actually nuts. They're seeds, if I remember correctly. No, seriously. They're the seed of the cashew apple. Or something. Maybe they're the fruit, though I rather doubt that as I remember reading somewhere that the fruity part has a thick skin and tastes like caramel or something. I don't feel like looking it up. If you're curious then go Google it.
I also hate that sick smell. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like when someone's sick, they tend to stay in one room and then that room just smells all sick-ish and germy and... I don't know how to describe it. It's like that slightly fuzzy taste in your mouth after you've just woken up. Not morning breath, it's not nearly that nasty, but that taste before morning breath has had a chance to fully develop. Either way, it's off-putting and eminently dislikable.
And now I'm feeling nauseous again. Please do excuse me.
Happy holidays, everyone!