RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 6, 2016 21:13:45 GMT
I want to stop having birthdays. How about I just turn a year old and we forget that the day exists? Because the universe wants to be sure I never have a good day on my birthday. I can't remember the last one that went smoothly or well. Yesterday had its good moments, but the evening was awful. I think next year I'll make DH take me on vacation for my birthday just so I can enjoy it without other people screwing it up. Oh, gosh, I get this one. Yes, crap always seems to hit the fan on my birthday. My last one was relatively great at only 3/4 messed up. I'm so sorry you had a crappy day.  |
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 6, 2016 21:20:49 GMT
My best friend (and whole family is friends with my family) is moving half the country away come summer. And one of my good acquaintances is moving to the other end of the country come summer. It just really sucks. I don't have many real friends (by choice - I'm both introverted and picky!) and these are the two people I know who most "get" me. (The one is only "acquaintance" because life just didn't allow us much time together, but we got along really really well when we could.) I'm just really really sad about it all.
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Post by papersilly on Apr 6, 2016 22:02:26 GMT
Drunk drivers suck. Our coworker was riding her bike when she was struck by an impaired driver. Both drugs and alcohol, and they left the scene, naturally. We spent the last two weeks visiting her family at the hospital, waiting and worrying. She died Saturday from her injuries and all week we keep wandering around the office, sad and looking at the empty desk. Wear your helmet (she was, didn't seem to help though) and if you choose to drink walk, Uber or get a cab. stories like this break my heart. I'm sorry for your loss. |
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Post by papersilly on Apr 6, 2016 22:06:21 GMT
I love you. Truly, I do. However, if you bitch about something you can change, but don't one more time, I will seriously lose my shit. :eyeroll: omg---I should have said this exact thing to my friend during lunch when she was bitching and moaning about her SIL. her SIL know exactly how to push her buttons and keeps messing with friend's head just to amuse herself. I tell friend to just walk away and not engage but she falls for it every time and then bitches about later to me. |
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Post by yivit on Apr 6, 2016 22:18:51 GMT
I *was* planning on taking tomorrow off because we were supposed to be broadcasting a benefit fashion show. Instead, I have a videocon with a bunch of folks from around the agency in the morning, an all-hands after lunch, and an "open house" in the afternoon/evening with the group that won the contract that will be taking over the area I work in. Oh, and the folks from said group will be coming in tomorrow morning. They better be on time because I can't miss the videocon.
I'll officially be unemployed after 4/29 (company I work for already said our last day is that Friday). The new contract starts 5/1 but that's a Sunday. Either they figure out that a weekend gap in my contract and the datacenter folks' contract is a risk to the center and change the start dates to before the weekend or after Monday, or hold their breaths and hope nothing happens because if I'm out of a job I'm NOT taking my Blackberry home with me OR answering any work-related calls on my personal cell. We don't even know if the new group will offer us jobs or at what rate yet. It better be a raise (though I'll settle for the same if benefits aren't sucking more and start looking for something else) - if it's less I'm hoping that we can band together and all tell them where to stick the offers. We already are paid below industry standard.
No stress, none at all, nope...
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luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Apr 6, 2016 22:28:13 GMT
Dear 4 siblings...yes, you all kind of suck! I need to do a sibling swap! Anybody game for it? We all fight like a bunch of idiots. 52 year old brother lives with mom and 55 sister lives with me. Nothing is sacred. You tell mom something and brother knows. Sister sees something she doesn't like here and blabs to mom. Whatever. I'm over their crap. Poor mom is caught in the middle. She doesn't deserve any of it.
I say she should've stopped at 1 kid but #1 is the biggest pot stirrer of all of us!
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purplebee
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Post by purplebee on Apr 6, 2016 23:40:09 GMT
My work buddy of 16 years is probably going to retire this year.
We keep each other sane, help each other, keep ourselves out of trouble by venting - a lot- to each other about things we know we can't change.
Dang I'm going to miss her! But I'm happy for her.
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Post by Merge on Apr 7, 2016 0:20:40 GMT
Drunk drivers suck. Our coworker was riding her bike when she was struck by an impaired driver. Both drugs and alcohol, and they left the scene, naturally. We spent the last two weeks visiting her family at the hospital, waiting and worrying. She died Saturday from her injuries and all week we keep wandering around the office, sad and looking at the empty desk. Wear your helmet (she was, didn't seem to help though) and if you choose to drink walk, Uber or get a cab. I'm so sorry for your loss! I agree; drunk drivers suck. |
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 7, 2016 0:59:43 GMT
I went back into the photo department today to reorder my prints that came out with black blotches on them. The regular guy was gone and they didn't have anyone to replace him, but a young guy came over from another department to "help" me. I showed him my picture with black spots. He told me that he would have to see the originals to make sure they weren't on the camera. I ran doubles of every picture. See how the spots are in different places? It wasn't a camera error. He told me I could reorder them eventually, but couldn't pick them up until the regular guy came back. So I spent and hour reordering and photo editing them and then the machine decided after an hour that when I removed my media (like it told me to), it should malfunction. The order was not processed. Ugh. The photos are $0.10 a piece to replace. It will be around $10 to have them replaced. I have spent so much time on this I just want it finished.
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Post by Really Red on Apr 7, 2016 1:31:24 GMT
Drunk drivers suck. Our coworker was riding her bike when she was struck by an impaired driver. Both drugs and alcohol, and they left the scene, naturally. We spent the last two weeks visiting her family at the hospital, waiting and worrying. She died Saturday from her injuries and all week we keep wandering around the office, sad and looking at the empty desk. Wear your helmet (she was, didn't seem to help though) and if you choose to drink walk, Uber or get a cab. This just makes me terribly, terribly sad. I am so sorry utmr . So sorry |
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Post by angie3dpea on Apr 7, 2016 2:20:42 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm about to watch my relationship with my SO completely unravel. I just have this feeling of dread. Lots of things happening outside of "us" and I'm just not sure we will make it. I'm sitting here waffling between a wicked anxiety attack and an ugly cry...
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 7, 2016 2:30:02 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm about to watch my relationship with my SO completely unravel. I just have this feeling of dread. Lots of things happening outside of "us" and I'm just not sure we will make it. I'm sitting here waffling between a wicked anxiety attack and an ugly cry... I'm sorry to hear this. I hope it works out for you. |
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on Apr 7, 2016 2:31:19 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm about to watch my relationship with my SO completely unravel. I just have this feeling of dread. Lots of things happening outside of "us" and I'm just not sure we will make it. I'm sitting here waffling between a wicked anxiety attack and an ugly cry... Sometimes we create our own reality. If you want to keep the relationship, can you discuss, reframe the issues, or at least stop the negative spiral to an end? |
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Post by Drew on Apr 7, 2016 3:07:23 GMT
This divorce doesn't have to be ugly unless you make it so. You're just pissed that I caught you. Again. I don't care what you tell people about me. I've let that go. You and I know what you've done. Also, I know you stalk me here, I know you'll read this. Although you've lost any respect I had left for you, try to be a decent father and remember that these children are made up of the both of us. If you rage at me, curse me, verbally abuse me...our girls will notice and hold you accountable. It's how we have raised them to be.
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Post by chaosisapony on Apr 7, 2016 3:09:08 GMT
Cats: I love you both dearly but if I do not get a full night of uninterrupted sleep tonight you're both going to lose your bedroom privileges.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 7, 2016 3:51:05 GMT
I keep low expectations for my birthday. I don't want to cook and I like getting cards from the family (that I live with). I buy my own gifts, so I get what I want. My boys are notorious for taking a piece of paper, flooding in half, and writing something (usually pretty damn funny) on it that shows that they spent about 2 minutes on me. Thankfully they are much better the other 364 days a year. I'm sorry your birthday suck. I would definitely plan to do something fun with your husband. For my 40th and 50th I planned a vacation and they were the best. Believe me. After years of crappy birthdays, I don't expect much. This wasn't about presents or not getting a party. this is about how crappy things completely unrelated to my birthday happened yesterday. It sucked. The point of the vacation wouldn't be to make a big deal out of my birthday. It would be to escape normal life and hope nice things happened that day. I probably shouldn't though. The airline would lose my luggage and it would rain the whole time. Take carry on and go! It will improve your outlook considerably.  |
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Post by mommaho on Apr 7, 2016 17:53:02 GMT
It's April frickin 6th. I should not be falling down because of ICE!  Or dodging hail on April 7! |
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mallie
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Post by mallie on Apr 7, 2016 18:05:55 GMT
To 2 people in our lives: Please STFU about job hunting. Your "advice" is not only unwelcome, it is based on nothing in our reality.
1. Neither you nor your husband have been on a job interview in 40 years. Your dh got a job while he was sitll in college and is still at that employer. You haven't worked since you were 25 years old nor have you ever looked for a job since you were 20 and "looking" consisted of calling up your aunt and asking for a job. Your arrogance in thinking you have one iota of an idea about job hunting is ridiculous and offensive.
2. You are a DOCTOR. Who is all of 32 years old.Your reality and ours are poles apart. You have no idea what it is like searching for a job in our fields at our age.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 7, 2016 18:52:35 GMT
Today's vent re Instagram:
The new "improved" algorithm based feed has been rolled out to users in small countries including New Zealand and it sucks! My feed is a mess, can't find anything, posts from 1 min, 2 hrs, 1 day, 5 mins are next to each other and it's so hard to see what I've already viewed. Grrrr, hate it.
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Post by Chips on Apr 7, 2016 21:22:44 GMT
My car has been to the dealer twice now and they still have not fixed the air conditioning!!! Ugh, how can they say it's fixed when it is 100% not!!! It's is going in for a third time and I have a Chrysler case manager who is to make sure the dealer gets this done! Maybe your car is Christine (or a relative of) and is just messing with you. Well, I am going to pick up my car for the third time tonight! I'll be sure to tell Christine what a good girl she is and hopefully all will work |
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Post by yodutchess on Apr 7, 2016 22:35:39 GMT
Send back the response cards. You already know if you are going to go. And don't tell me last week you are going to mail it and then not mail it. Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 2:26:56 GMT
My husband broke the toilet, there only one in the house. You have to turn the water on to fill it after flushing and then off after it fills. Guess what our first chore is going to be tomorrow. Good thing it should be an easy fix (replacing the floating thing).
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Apr 8, 2016 2:35:03 GMT
So this evening M and I walked down to the store. We normally do it late morning or early afternoon. We go to one store because it has stop light for the cars and crossing light and walk for us. now the vent Drivers the crosswalk are for people who are Walking. Not extra space for you to pull into, By doing this you make people who are walking go into the street that is not made for us to be walking in. Second our state law requires you to wait until the person in the crosswalk is all the way to the other side of the street. That does not mean the second there is room to rush around the corner. We have the use of the crosswalk until the hand is solid red with no numbers. That mean wait your turn. Because if you hit me or one of my kids you better make dang sure you kill me . Because If I can get up I will beat your ass to bloody. Yes, i will do the jail time . Conversely, pedestrians at controlled intersection need to FOLLOW THE SIGNALS. I know the cross traffic has stopped, but it still says don't walk because there is a green light for traffic turning onto this street. And when I honk at you because you're crossing against the light and I have got a giant truck on my tail, don't get pissy at me. I'm the one with the right of way. |
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Post by Chips on Apr 8, 2016 3:09:18 GMT
Maybe your car is Christine (or a relative of) and is just messing with you. Well, I am going to pick up my car for the third time tonight! I'll be sure to tell Christine what a good girl she is and hopefully all will work Well the girl is being a Queen B - they told me the car was fixed and I asked them to drive it and test it and they said they did. Well I drove it for 3 minutes and turned around and brought it back. She is staying there for fix #4 and I am not happy! |
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