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Post by jumperhop on Jan 3, 2015 0:38:32 GMT
Add yours!
We had our home inspection on Tuesday and still haven't heard anything. Our Realtor said it went well but they do have a list of things they want us to fix. I reminded him that we were just here until Sunday and that if they need us to fix something they need to let us know.
and brrrrrrr it's to cold outside. Jen
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Post by moveablefeast on Jan 3, 2015 0:52:01 GMT
Look - I understand there are 12 days of Christmas and you like to leave your stuff up until Epiphany.
I wanted to put my tree away so I did. I'm not making a statement and I'm not here to tell you what you should do with your decorations.
But for Pete's sake - could you lay off just a little? Because your lecturing about Christmas not being over yet doesn't exactly fill me with holiday cheer.
And kind of makes you look like an asshole.
Which autocorrect really wants to make into "assailant". Sheesh.
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 3, 2015 0:54:20 GMT
I have a strange vent: Last week a coworker of mine murdered his wife from whom he was separated and then killed himself. They lived in my neighborhood. At work we had a big meeting with a chaplain and lots of people attended and talked about what a wonderful man he was, a wonderful employee and how much he loved his children. Except in the neighborhood we know that his wife was a very good mom, trying to get away from him because he was a controlling nut. So I was sitting there listening to one person after another talk about him with such admiration, and no one said, "Hey, I'm angry. He murdered his wife. He didn't love his kids enough not to murder their mom and their dad (him). I wanted to say that so bad. But I didn't. I just said it with my neighbors. Then someone made a Go fund me site to raise money for the kids. They used a photo of the dad with the kids. Nothing about the mom. He freaking shot her in her own home. Ugh! I am so upset about it! How is it that people are empathizing with a murderous sociopath?
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Post by melanell on Jan 3, 2015 0:54:45 GMT
I have had a cough since the Wed. before Christmas Eve. I am very sick of it.
All of my other symptoms have gone, but the cough is just hanging in there for the long haul.
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 3, 2015 0:57:04 GMT
Look - I understand there are 12 days of Christmas and you like to leave your stuff up until Epiphany. I wanted to put my tree away so I did. I'm not making a statement and I'm not here to tell you what you should do with your decorations. But for Pete's sake - could you lay off just a little? Because your lecturing about Christmas not being over yet doesn't exactly fill me with holiday cheer. And kind of makes you look like an asshole. Which autocorrect really wants to make into "assailant". Sheesh. Was that on this board or somewhere else? I'm asking because I'm one of the 12 days folks. I just found out today that the Catholic Christmas season actually goes until the baptism of Jesus on Dec 11th. (oops! typo - Jan 11th! - trying so hard to remember to use 2015 I forgot Jan! ) I didn't realize that
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Post by freecharlie on Jan 3, 2015 1:02:52 GMT
I have a strange vent: Last week a coworker of mine murdered his wife from whom he was separated and then killed himself. They lived in my neighborhood. At work we had a big meeting with a chaplain and lots of people attended and talked about what a wonderful man he was, a wonderful employee and how much he loved his children. Except in the neighborhood we know that his wife was a very good mom, trying to get away from him because he was a controlling nut. So I was sitting there listening to one person after another talk about him with such admiration, and no one said, "Hey, I'm angry. He murdered his wife. He didn't love his kids enough not to murder their mom and their dad (him). I wanted to say that so bad. But I didn't. I just said it with my neighbors. Then someone made a Go fund me site to raise money for the kids. They used a photo of the dad with the kids. Nothing about the mom. He freaking shot her in her own home. Ugh! I am so upset about it! How is it that people are empathizing with a murderous sociopath? I know how you feel. When I was in high school a boy I was friends with shot and killed another one of our friends before shooting at the cops and being killed. Because the shooter had gone to my school they had a kumbaiya meeting and everybody was talking about what a good guy and friend the shooter was. I couldn't handle it. I stood up and screamed that he was a murdering bastard and he wasn't a good guy, he was an asshole. None of those people at that meeting really even hung out with the shooter anymore so they needed to shut their freaking mouths. I wasn't invited back to their healing circle again.
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Post by jumperhop on Jan 3, 2015 1:04:55 GMT
Movablefeast I get it, last year I took my Christmas tree down on Christmas. Merry Christmas to me my house is back in order!
myboysnme vent away, I am so sorry this happened so close to home. I don't get the need to make a saint out of a murderer either. I probably wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut.
Melanell glad you are feeling better. Coughs are awful. I hope it goes away quickly. Jen
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Post by jenjie on Jan 3, 2015 1:08:31 GMT
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Post by Basket1lady on Jan 3, 2015 1:10:42 GMT
Look - I understand there are 12 days of Christmas and you like to leave your stuff up until Epiphany. I wanted to put my tree away so I did. I'm not making a statement and I'm not here to tell you what you should do with your decorations. But for Pete's sake - could you lay off just a little? Because your lecturing about Christmas not being over yet doesn't exactly fill me with holiday cheer. And kind of makes you look like an asshole. Which autocorrect really wants to make into "assailant". Sheesh. Was that on this board or somewhere else? I'm asking because I'm one of the 12 days folks. I just found out today that the Catholic Christmas season actually goes until the baptism of Jesus on Dec 11th. I didn't realize that The Baptism of the Lord is celebrated on January 11, 2015, not December 11. The dates of Easter time, Advent, Lent, etc are all part of the reflection of the season. In our church, the decorations will come down January 12. But they don't go up until December 23. It's really not as long as it seems, because nothing goes up until the end of December. Until then, it's a time of preparation. Some years, we take down our tree early because that's when the city wide pick up of the trees happens. To me, it's more importent that the trees stay out of the landfills.
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Post by tincin on Jan 3, 2015 1:12:00 GMT
I have a strange vent: Last week a coworker of mine murdered his wife from whom he was separated and then killed himself. They lived in my neighborhood. At work we had a big meeting with a chaplain and lots of people attended and talked about what a wonderful man he was, a wonderful employee and how much he loved his children. Except in the neighborhood we know that his wife was a very good mom, trying to get away from him because he was a controlling nut. So I was sitting there listening to one person after another talk about him with such admiration, and no one said, "Hey, I'm angry. He murdered his wife. He didn't love his kids enough not to murder their mom and their dad (him). I wanted to say that so bad. But I didn't. I just said it with my neighbors. Then someone made a Go fund me site to raise money for the kids. They used a photo of the dad with the kids. Nothing about the mom. He freaking shot her in her own home. Ugh! I am so upset about it! How is it that people are empathizing with a murderous sociopath? Edited to rephrase, is there a reason why didn't you speak up? Or minimally walk out to subtly show your distaste with making a murderer a hero of sorts.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 1:15:49 GMT
I have a strange vent: Last week a coworker of mine murdered his wife from whom he was separated and then killed himself. They lived in my neighborhood. At work we had a big meeting with a chaplain and lots of people attended and talked about what a wonderful man he was, a wonderful employee and how much he loved his children. Except in the neighborhood we know that his wife was a very good mom, trying to get away from him because he was a controlling nut. So I was sitting there listening to one person after another talk about him with such admiration, and no one said, "Hey, I'm angry. He murdered his wife. He didn't love his kids enough not to murder their mom and their dad (him). I wanted to say that so bad. But I didn't. I just said it with my neighbors. Then someone made a Go fund me site to raise money for the kids. They used a photo of the dad with the kids. Nothing about the mom. He freaking shot her in her own home. Ugh! I am so upset about it! How is it that people are empathizing with a murderous sociopath? How awful! I would be livid. That poor woman's family and the poor children. I would have a difficult time keeping my mouth shut!
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Post by annabella on Jan 3, 2015 1:18:29 GMT
I've sent 3 people a text/email today and no one has responded. Trying not to take it personally.
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Post by Kerri W on Jan 3, 2015 1:26:49 GMT
myboysnme -I'd have a hard time keeping quiet. I'm sorry. Mine is an extremely petty vent: first, DS didn't tell me until a few days before Christmas that he wanted his santa gift to play on his Kindle. I had already ordered it for him to play on his brothers Xbox. Hurry and order the Kindle version, get it on Christmas eve...wouldn't you know it isn't supported by his Kindle and it wasn't listed on Amazon as not compatible. Yay we have the Xbox version. Next item- a game for his 3DS. Which, you guessed it, doesn't work. Nintendo can't tell us why we get the error message. The super helpful guys at GameStop can't tell us why but way above and beyond trying to help. Nintendo says he needs to send 3DS in for repair, minimum $95. DH has literally spent an entire day messing with it and DS is at the end of his patience. Let's distract him by doing his big Lego set. We have tens of thousands of Legos. Lots. And have never had a missing piece in years of two boys asking for practically nothing but Lego for Christmas and birthdays. Of course TODAY his set is missing four pieces. Wtf?! DH is impatient and bitchy. I'm impatient and bitchy. DS settled on reading the book he got for Christmas. If something goes wrong with that, I'm giving up.
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Post by PEArfect on Jan 3, 2015 1:27:46 GMT
Last night my brother asked me again "what do you do all day?" I'm a sahm. I wanted to say, "everything I've always done, plus everything that my husband did, all while grieving." He's so compassionate.
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Post by mallie on Jan 3, 2015 1:28:18 GMT
I pulled short straw and had to work last Friday and this Friday. As part of short straw, I had to answer the phones.The ONLY reason we were open on those days is because a head of one department had a cow and insisted that since her department had to be open (and yes, I acknowledge THEY did have to be open), the "main" department should have a rep to answer the phones. Because short straw phone duty means you cannot leave the main desk and do your own work , I sat there for 8 hours last Friday and answered 3 calls and today answered.....wait for it... ONE. One freaking phone call in 8 hours. I was about to lose my mind.
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 3, 2015 1:29:37 GMT
Was that on this board or somewhere else? I'm asking because I'm one of the 12 days folks. I just found out today that the Catholic Christmas season actually goes until the baptism of Jesus on Dec 11th. I didn't realize that The Baptism of the Lord is celebrated on January 11, 2015, not December 11. The dates of Easter time, Advent, Lent, etc are all part of the reflection of the season. In our church, the decorations will come down January 12. My error! I definitely MEANT Jan 11th! It will take me until Martin Luther King weekend to get my stuff down just because it takes me so long to get motivated to deal with it...
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 3, 2015 1:33:04 GMT
I have a strange vent: Last week a coworker of mine murdered his wife from whom he was separated and then killed himself. They lived in my neighborhood. At work we had a big meeting with a chaplain and lots of people attended and talked about what a wonderful man he was, a wonderful employee and how much he loved his children. Except in the neighborhood we know that his wife was a very good mom, trying to get away from him because he was a controlling nut. So I was sitting there listening to one person after another talk about him with such admiration, and no one said, "Hey, I'm angry. He murdered his wife. He didn't love his kids enough not to murder their mom and their dad (him). I wanted to say that so bad. But I didn't. I just said it with my neighbors. Then someone made a Go fund me site to raise money for the kids. They used a photo of the dad with the kids. Nothing about the mom. He freaking shot her in her own home. Ugh! I am so upset about it! How is it that people are empathizing with a murderous sociopath? Edited to rephrase, is there a reason why didn't you speak up? Or minimally walk out to subtly show your distaste with making a murderer a hero of sorts. I didn't speak up because I didn't want to have their grief displaced as anger toward me. I imagined them holding it against me for speaking ill of him for years to come. I did leave early; but not early enough. Early enough would have been to have stayed away. I am going to share my opinion one on one with coworkers; instead of in the large group.
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Post by PLurker on Jan 3, 2015 1:33:14 GMT
@myboynme What a horrible thing. I realize coworkers probably only knew him and no one wants to think someone they know or a friend would do that. But wow, who are the victims here? My prayers for the children left behind with out their MOTHER who did not make the choice to leave them behind. PEArfect Wow. Sometimes, brothers are dumb. Hopefully it was a one time stupid thing to say.
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 3, 2015 1:35:29 GMT
Let's distract him by doing his big Lego set. We have tens of thousands of Legos. Lots. And have never had a missing piece in years of two boys asking for practically nothing but Lego for Christmas and birthdays. Of course TODAY his set is missing four pieces. Wtf?! I bought my son a little lego set - it had 54 pieces and he said about 3 were missing. wtf?
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Post by PEArfect on Jan 3, 2015 1:43:23 GMT
@myboynme What a horrible thing. I realize coworkers probably only knew him and no one wants to think someone they know or a friend would do that. But wow, who are the victims here? My prayers for the children left behind with out their MOTHER who did not make the choice to leave them behind. PEArfect Wow. Sometimes, brothers are dumb. Hopefully it was a one time stupid thing to say. No, unfortunately that is the third time he has asked me that question since my husband passed away. I shrugged him off the first few times. This time I responded with "the usual." I think he could tell I was annoyed by his question. If he asks again I'm going with the snarky response.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 1:45:47 GMT
Edited to rephrase, is there a reason why didn't you speak up? Or minimally walk out to subtly show your distaste with making a murderer a hero of sorts. I didn't speak up because I didn't want to have their grief displaced as anger toward me. I imagined them holding it against me for speaking ill of him for years to come. I did leave early; but not early enough. Early enough would have been to have stayed away. I am going to share my opinion one on one with coworkers; instead of in the large group. You were probably partially in shock. I know I would have been. I can see why you weren't comfortable saying anything. That's a tough situation to be put in!
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Post by KelleeM on Jan 3, 2015 1:46:32 GMT
My vent: You made your own problems and I can't (or maybe won't) fix them. I would like to but you're 24 years old and you need to fix them yourself. I'm sad and angry about your situation and angry at myself for being angry at you. I feel like I let you down and that's why you're struggling so much. And, yes, you are so very much like your dad and it's not going to serve you well in life.
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Post by Peal on Jan 3, 2015 1:47:56 GMT
We had a missing Lego piece as well. They must be having packaging problems. I went online and ordered the missing piece at no cost. It should be here next week.
My vent. My dog is very gassy today. And she is insisting on being within 10 feet of me wherever I go. The toxic fumes are killing me.
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Post by marienadine on Jan 3, 2015 2:19:29 GMT
my vent.... I have had this cough / sinus drainage since September... yes I know Dr A you want to refer to gastro Dr B about it being related to my acid reflux, but their office is already making me uncomfortable.... Can't I please see Dr C and be done with it.... nope instead I have to wait for Dr B to come back from vacation and be miserable... I am tired of feeling like I am having a heart attack everyday.... something has to give... oh and why must I be so dumb to grab a hot pan and burn my fingers
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Post by bwife on Jan 3, 2015 2:26:33 GMT
We had a missing Lego piece as well. They must be having packaging problems. I went online and ordered the missing piece at no cost. It should be here next week. My vent. My dog is very gassy today. And she is insisting on being within 10 feet of me wherever I go. The toxic fumes are killing me. I'm sorry, I had to laugh at your vent. We have one dog that farts nearly ever time she sits down next to you, thankfully she does not stink. She ALWAYS looks around after it happened like.... "What was that, Did you hear that, Was that you?" We have 2 others that are gassy occasionally. on those days, DH changes their names to Swamp Butt.
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Post by bwife on Jan 3, 2015 2:31:51 GMT
my vent.... I have had this cough / sinus drainage since September... yes I know Dr A you want to refer to gastro Dr B about it being related to my acid reflux, but their office is already making me uncomfortable.... Can't I please see Dr C and be done with it.... nope instead I have to wait for Dr B to come back from vacation and be miserable... I am tired of feeling like I am having a heart attack everyday.... something has to give... oh and why must I be so dumb to grab a hot pan and burn my fingers yuck on the cough stuff. Sorry. Any chance you have asthma? I do and I had a cough and drainage a few years ago for 6mos +. I kid you not. I FINALLY saw a dr that was covering the weekend shift that thought I had junk in my lungs ( ya think!) And gave me advair. in 3 days, I was a different person. in a week the cough was GONE! I hope you get into the dr that you need too! It is hard to make it through the days / night when you are coughing ALL. OF. THE. TIME. And as for the hot pan. You touched it for the same reasons that I popped a spoon full of HOT rice in my mouth last night to see if it was soft enough. I burned my tongue bad! I hate it when I do something with out fully thinking about it!
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Post by gryroagain on Jan 3, 2015 2:39:16 GMT
My boys, I am so sorry, that is a really frustrating situation, and difficult emotionally.
My vent is lame. DD is going to a ballet competition and the studio has not semt in the music (due today). I am fully capable of making the music an MP3 and emailing it in, but they won't let anyone do it but them. I sent an email asking if the music was in and got bitchy back, and I am annoyed. We have paid $$$ for choreography, entry fees and I sewed costumes myself. This is not something I am fucking around with. I am really tired of dance people making my life a pain, but I can't tell them to go fuck themselves either because DD is so invested in dance.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 2:40:19 GMT
BIL is NOT such a great guy! He is a thief and a user. And a jackass
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Post by jackietex on Jan 3, 2015 2:49:23 GMT
My vent is not with a person, just the situation. In early November my daughter was walking to her apartment from her college classes (she lives 2 hours away) and was followed home by a young dog. She couldn't keep or foster him because her pet deposit is $1500 and rarely is any of it returned. I couldn't keep him because I have 3 dogs, including two seniors. And dh does not like dogs. We took him to the vet and got him vaccinated and de-fleaed. We contacted shelters in her town and mine, and put the word out on Facebook. A message board friend (different board) of mine took him in, pending how he did with her kids and other two dogs. She definitely tried, but she is a single mom of 4, who works full time. She called my daughter today to say it is not working, that he doesn't get along with her other dogs, has been destructive, and maybe that he doesn't do well with her kids (idk). We are all so disappointed! Now one of us needs to drive the 8 hour round trip to get him and find another home. Dd is a bit of a basket case because she is on antibiotics for the third time since Thanksgiving (she probably needs her tonsils out) and needs to work 12 hour days for her (sorority) rush (or pay $100/day) starting tomorrow. I wish I could help, but I can't even go take care of her since my car is in the shop. I know this is small in the scheme of things, but painful nevertheless.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Jan 3, 2015 2:57:42 GMT
My very Catholic grandmother followed this for many years (as in going back to the 1940s). She would stay up so late around the 23rd to decorate the formal living room (you know the one you never go into unless it is a holiday) and it was maxed out in Christmas décor. It would always stay up. Times are so different now for so many people.
Okay my vent is just about myself. I am tired, look tired (glassy eyes, bags under the eyes) and I am not getting good sleep at night. It is annoying and I don't looking and feeling like this.
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