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Post by vspindler on Oct 4, 2015 19:29:38 GMT
I spent most of yesterday at a college football game, which, while fun (though not as much fun as it would have been had we played better) it was primarily for a work purpose. However, the 7000 steps I put in just in game related walking and my fibro didn't get along, and I was pretty sore/weak yesterday evening. I also knew it may take a day or two to recover.
my husband and 15 yr old son were both home all afternoon yesterday. Despite our yard being in dire need of mowing it didn't get done. Of course today is their every other week, all day Sunday, guys thing. So I am ticked that they didn't make good use of the time they had, either if them, to get it done. Plus I hate that I am in a position physically where **I** can't just do it myself like I would normally. I dont like having to rely upon them to do things, because although Dh doesn't want me to mow usually because it means I end up overdoing it, I still have to nag to get the stuff done.
ok, vent over. Hopefully I will be less grumpy when my meds kick in again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 22:51:11 GMT
Do you all talk about weekend plans? We try to do so on either Thursday or Friday since I do most the shopping/errands and he does most of the yardwork. So we try to coordinate and then we each get some "me" time to do what we like.
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 5, 2015 0:17:13 GMT
vspindler I understand your frustration, but how wonderful your guys spend fun time together. Since DH is no longer able to do yard or house work, I've decided things are sometimes good enough. So the grass is long. I bet you can get them to do it one night this week. I am NOT trying to minimize your vent, just saying look at it in a new light. It's just grass. My vent is I "tweaked" my back bending over to pick up the neighbor's dog poop. They are great neighbors, so my vent is about my pulled muscle. We have a 7 hour car ride tomorrow and it hurts to sit.
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Post by jemmls4 on Oct 5, 2015 0:39:57 GMT
My vent is about my dumbass, useless co-worker. He's got a foot out the door already and really, it's only a matter of time. But damnit, I'm the one having to suffer his insubordination, slacking off, and assholiness. I'm documenting it all, and boss is copied on it all, but it means I have to do my work, check his work, and usually re-do what he did wrong, and then document what he did wrong so his ass can be shown the door. I have a crop next week and I REFUSE to work Friday; I have more than earned one day off in over three months to go to my crop. I have put in 50+ hour weeks for the last 5 weeks and I am salary so I get bupkus in recompense. I know in the end that my boss will do right by me, but it doesn't help when I have 9 projects all implementing within 3 weekends of each other. Yeah, another perk. I get to be up three Sundays in a row from 0000-0400.
And somewhere in all this mess I have to coordinate a birthday celebration in another city 100+ miles away for my mom's 80th birthday. Her birthday is two days before Thanksgiving, so coordinating it is not going to be easy and it's DD's birthday the day after hers, but there will be hell to pay if we aren't there. Even though my mom is convinced she's going to die before her birthday comes along.
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Post by nlwilkins on Oct 5, 2015 7:42:34 GMT
vspindler I know how it feels to have to depend on others to get things done and they just don't seem to understand scheduling. Hubby is real bad about "not getting around to it" attitude. Things don't get done if you don't make plans to do them!
My vent is about a hubby in recovery from some serious back surgery. Only he doesn't want to do what it takes to get better. He won't use the walker to minimize the pressure on his back, he won't wear the back brace as he should and he does too many things he should not do. He and I just about have to have a physical fight so I can take out the trash. He feels he should be doing it. It all results in him hurting more and louder and guess who has to bear the brunt of the complaining, groaning and whining? I know it hurts and I really feel for him, but a lot of it he is bringing on himself. He wanted to get in the car and drive 40 minutes to a Mexican resturant today. He is only ten days out of surgery and has not been released yet by the doc, nor does he even have the staples out of his incision. So I have to be the meanie and tell him he can't do it and that furthermore, he is not going to get in the car until his follow exam on Friday.
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Post by mlana on Oct 5, 2015 11:09:58 GMT
We have had rain, heavy rain for the last 10 days at least. There has only been 1 day out of the 10 where we had some time where it wasn't at least drizzling. I am someone whose sleep schedule is haphazard at best and I rely heavily on natural cues, aka morning light, to reset my schedule. I have been so sleepy for the past week it has been almost impossible for me to get anything done. Sleepy, that is, until it's time to go to sleep. Then I'm Little Miss Wide Awake. ARGHHH!!!
Tonight I slept a sum total of 1.5 hours. That's it. Not all in one big lump, mind you, but in scattered dozes. I finally decided to just get up and get moving. I have a lot to do today and i am anxious to get started.
At least the insomnia hasn't triggered any panic attacks over the past couple of days. Maybe that can be my silver lining for the day.
Marcy
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 11:27:38 GMT
I feel your frustration OP. The yard work was an issue DH and I had when we bought this house. Not a huge yard, but big enough neither of us wanted to do it. He used to cut the whole thing, then I started doing it, then we'd split who did the front and then who did the back. Got to the point we just decided to hire a company to cut it. Any possibility you can do this? This way your dh and ds can spend their guy time doing something a little more fun (even if just vegging in front the t.v.), and you'll be happy it's done. As for a vent, I don't have any at the moment. But, the day is early.  |
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Post by yivit on Oct 5, 2015 13:30:05 GMT
My vent is about my middle sister. She's always been more than a handful, but yesterday was the last straw. Our dad's celebration of life was yesterday. It started at 2pm. Everyone knew that for almost 2 weeks. She moved last week from Crosby (far NE Houston area) to Spring-ish (far NW Houston area - the 'ish' is because she hasn't told me exactly where in the area). She had to pick up her son in Crosby before heading to Pasadena (SE Houston area) for the event. I had my youngest sister call her at 12:15 to make sure she was on the road. She was JUST leaving her place to get her son. They didn't arrive until almost 3:30. I said "Dress is come-as-you-are (well, within reason - it's not a church but it's not a beach party either)." Middle sis comes in with her hair pulled up on top of her head, a visor, cut-offs and a t-shirt and looks like she just finished working in the yard. The other siblings and I were standing at the back of the room and she plopped down in a chair at the front and didn't even acknowledge us. We finally get to start the talking part (we had everyone mingling and eating while we were waiting for her) and she is making comments from her chair, then comes up to the podium with us and continues muttering things and interrupting people.
I don't know what she was on, but I'm done with her. It's sad because her soe really wants to be part of the family but he's only 16 (17 in a couple of weeks) and has been stuck basically too far away from everyone to be able to participate in family events unless his sorry excuse for a mom brings him. His dad passed away last year and he was the one who would bring him before (sis and his dad were separated and nephew lived with dad until he passed). He really wants to join the military and become an MP and then LEO once he's out, and we're all for that because honestly the military is pretty much his only way out of his situation. We're planning on having the family graveside services on Oct 31 (yes, Halloween, but it's pretty fitting given our crazy family) and since we can't count on sis making it, my brother is going to get our nephew on a flight from Houston to Dallas (brother works for American) and then bring him to Nolanville with him (between Waco and Austin). We haven't worked out the logistics of him getting back home but I figure I'll bring him back to Houston unless my aunt (my mom's sister) volunteers.
Oh, and the spawn of satan (aka my dad's second wife) gave her eldest daughter such a hard time last week about the event (SoS was NOT invited, but her daughter was) that daughter decided she better not come.
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Post by gar on Oct 5, 2015 13:40:24 GMT
My vent is about porting cell phone numbers, the apparent inability of either company to effect this change and ensuing ineffectual service from of their customer support or tech support teams. I have been unable to receive text messages for 2 weeks!!! My dh receives about half but of course doesn't know which which makes running a business a little tricky to say the least!!
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