"I'm looking for a world with more options"

3 things today that make me think "barf."

1. I have a friend who works for a company with an unsightly website. I was recently asked to help them. This has happened twice before from other companies who say that they want me to do their site, and then they renege. So I was optimistically pessimistic about the endeavor.
Existing site one and existing site two.
Now, they are a very good company that do plenty of business and it's all well and good. But those sites, not pretty.
I made landing pages, so that the first thing you see isn't their entire inventory index.
New site one, new site two. Those are just landing pages, but I was giving a feel for the direction I was planning on going with the entire site.

And then the email comes back that all the boss really wants is a new banner.
Now I think to myself, that is not going to cut it. The banner isn't really the problem.
But then I come to this point where I'm at a crossroads. I either tell them the truth, that they are more or less wrong, or I say "what's it to me if they want to go on in Ugly World? Why rock the boat?"
The designer vs. the peacemaker.
Barf.

2. This Easter I had a plan on how I was going to do the live painting this year for our church services. It was from my own brain, and I was pretty proud of myself for thinking of it. I told my boss and I couldn't quite read whether he thought it was a good idea or not. And then I got an email from him asking if I could do this instead.
I'm saddened by it. Because a) that would be a hack on something I feel that alot of people have seen. And b) I felt like he didn't trust my own idea. And c) I'm not going to do it.
Barf.

3. The dogs can't hold their pee anymore. And it isn't just the curtains or a stray plastic bag that gets peed on these days. They leave puddles in the bathroom 2/3 of the time. And I step in the puddle right in front of the door almost every time. Do dogs have prostates?
Barf.