It is the OP here. So i agree that almost everyone here is gloriously happy or close to it.
Why do so many use totv to snivel and whine?
I do not know!
But I remember a linguistics course where the yiddish "kvetch" was introduced in a study
Whose results implied that complaining is the most frequent thing we do!
Some more stuff on the topic...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/ma...re.t.html?_r=0